92nd General Assembly
Summary of HB1684
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House Sponsors:
BELLOCK.

Senate Sponsors:
SYVERSON

Short description: 
HEALTH FACILITIES-TECH                                                     

Synopsis of Bill as introduced:
        Amends the Abused and Neglected Long Term Care Facility Residents      
   Reporting Act.  Makes a technical change in a Section  concerning  the      
   short title.                                                                
        SENATE AMENDMENT NO. 1.                                                
          Deletes reference to:                                                
          210 ILCS 30/1                                                        
          Adds reference to:                                                   
          20 ILCS 1705/7.3 new                                                 
          210 ILCS 30/6.2            from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 4166.2             
          210 ILCS 45/3-206.01       from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 4153-206.01        
        Deletes everything.  Amends the Mental Health  and  Developmental      
   Disabilities  Administrative  Act.  Provides that the Department shall      
   require that no facility, service agency, or support agency  providing      
   mental  health  or developmental disability services that is licensed,      
   certified, operated, or funded by the Department shall employ a person      
   who is identified by the  nurse  aide  registry  as  having  been  the      
   subject  of  a  substantiated finding of abuse or neglect of a service      
   recipient. Amends the Abused and Neglected Long Term Care Facility          
   Residents Reporting Act. Provides that the Office of the Inspector          
   General shall take into account any mitigating or aggravating               
   circumstances when determining if a report of abuse or neglect should       
   be substantiated. Requires the Inspector General to promulgate rules        
   to establish criteria for determining mitigating or aggravating             
   circumstances. Requires the Inspector General to give notice of his or      
   her determination to accept or reject a preliminary report of the           
   investigation of alleged abuse or neglect to  the  person  alleged  to      
   have  been responsible for the abuse or neglect and to the facility or      
   agency.  Adds the person alleged to  have  been  responsible  for  the      
   abuse or neglect to the list of those who may request clarification or      
   reconsideration based on additional information. Provides that the          
   Inspector General shall report to the Department of Public Health's         
   nurse aide registry the identity of individuals against whom there          
   has been a substantiated finding of abuse or neglect of a service           
   recipient. Provides for removal of a report from the registry if an         
   individual is terminated by an employer as the result of the                
   circumstances that led to the finding of abuse or neglect and that          
   finding is later overturned under a grievance or arbitration                
   procedure. Amends the Nursing Home Care Act. Provides that the              
   Department  of  Public Health shall add to or remove from the registry      
   the individuals reported by the Inspector General.  Effective  January      
   1, 2002.                                                                    
 
Last action on Bill: SESSION SINE DIE

   Last action date: JAN-07-2003

           Location: House

 Amendments to Bill: AMENDMENTS ADOPTED: HOUSE -   0     SENATE -   1


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