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1 AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 673
2 AMENDMENT NO. . Amend Senate Bill 673 by replacing
3 everything after the enacting clause with the following:
4 "Section 5. The Illinois Criminal Justice Information
5 Act is amended by adding Section 7.1 as follows:
6 (20 ILCS 3930/7.1 new)
7 Sec. 7.1. Sexual assault nurse examiner pilot program.
8 (a) Legislative findings and intent. The General
9 Assembly finds that the compassionate treatment of sexual
10 assault victims in hospital emergency rooms is necessary to
11 help alleviate the suffering of sexual assault victims. The
12 General Assembly also finds that the effective collection and
13 presentation of forensic evidence in sexual assault cases is
14 necessary to increase the success rate of prosecutions for
15 sex crimes in Illinois.
16 The General Assembly intends to create a pilot program to
17 establish 4 sexual assault nurse examiner (SANE) projects in
18 the State of Illinois. For each project, specially trained
19 sexual assault nurse examiners or specially trained sexual
20 assault physician examiners will provide health assessments
21 and collect forensic evidence from sexual assault victims in
22 the emergency room. The sexual assault nurse examiners or
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1 sexual assault physician examiners will also testify to
2 victims' injuries during criminal prosecutions.
3 (b) Definitions. In this Section:
4 (1) "Sexual assault nurse examiner" means a
5 registered nurse who has completed a sexual assault nurse
6 examiner (SANE) training program that meets the Forensic
7 Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner Education Guidelines
8 established by the International Association of Forensic
9 Nurses.
10 (2) "Sexual assault physician examiner" means a
11 physician licensed to practice medicine in all its
12 branches who has completed a sexual assault nurse
13 examiner (SANE) training program that meets the Forensic
14 Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner Education Guidelines
15 established by the International Association of Forensic
16 Nurses.
17 (3) "Hospital" means a facility licensed by the
18 Department of Public Health under the Hospital Licensing
19 Act or that meets both the definition of hospital and the
20 exemption provisions of that Act.
21 (4) "Hospital emergency services" means the health
22 care delivered to outpatients within or under the care
23 and supervision of personnel working in a designated
24 emergency department or emergency room of a hospital.
25 (c) SANE pilot program. The Authority shall, subject to
26 appropriation, establish a SANE pilot program to operate 4
27 pilot projects in Illinois. The projects shall be established
28 in the emergency rooms of hospitals in 4 counties
29 geographically distributed throughout the State. Hospitals
30 located throughout the State may apply to the Authority to
31 participate in the program. Each project must provide the
32 following services:
33 (1) Compassionate health assessment and effective
34 forensic evidence collection for sexual assault victims
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1 by a trained sexual assault nurse examiner or sexual
2 assault physician examiner in a hospital emergency room
3 as part of the provision of hospital emergency services.
4 (2) Presentation of testimony regarding victims'
5 injuries during criminal prosecutions for sex offenses.
6 (d) Each of the SANE projects established under this
7 pilot program must, at a minimum, meet the Sexual Assault
8 Nurse Examiner Standards of Practice established by the
9 International Association of Forensic Nurses.
10 (e) Each of the 4 pilot projects established by the
11 Authority under this Section shall be in existence for a
12 minimum of 3 years.
13 (f) Report. No later than 2 years after the
14 establishment of pilot projects under this Section, the
15 Authority must report to the General Assembly on the efficacy
16 of SANE programs.
17 (g) Rules. The Authority shall adopt rules to implement
18 this Section.".