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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 will provide health
20 assessments and collect forensic evidence from sexual assault
21 victims in the emergency room. The nurses will also testify
22 to victims' injuries during criminal prosecutions.
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1 (b) Definitions. In this Section:
2 (1) "Sexual assault nurse examiner" means a
3 registered nurse who has completed a sexual assault nurse
4 examiner (SANE) training program that meets the Forensic
5 Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner Education Guidelines
6 established by the International Association of Forensic
7 Nurses.
8 (2) "Hospital" means a facility licensed by the
9 Department of Public Health under the Hospital Licensing
10 Act or that meets both the definition of hospital and the
11 exemption provisions of that Act.
12 (3) "Hospital emergency services" means the health
13 care delivered to outpatients within or under the care
14 and supervision of personnel working in a designated
15 emergency department or emergency room of a hospital.
16 (c) SANE pilot program. The Authority shall, subject to
17 appropriation, establish a SANE pilot program to operate 4
18 pilot projects in Illinois. The projects shall be established
19 in the emergency rooms of hospitals in Cook, Lake, Champaign,
20 and Madison Counties. Each project must provide the
21 following services:
22 (1) Compassionate health assessment and effective
23 forensic evidence collection for sexual assault victims
24 by a trained sexual assault nurse examiner in a hospital
25 emergency room as part of the provision of hospital
26 emergency services.
27 (2) Presentation of testimony regarding victims'
28 injuries during criminal prosecutions for sex offenses.
29 Hospitals in Cook, Lake, Champaign, and Madison Counties
30 may apply to the Authority to participate in the program.
31 The 4 pilot projects established by the Authority under
32 this Section shall be in existence for a minimum of 3 years.
33 (d) Report. No later than 2 years after the
34 establishment of pilot projects under this Section, the
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1 Authority must report to the General Assembly on the efficacy
2 of SANE programs.
3 (e) Rules. The Authority shall adopt rules to implement
4 this Section.".