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Public Act 097-0020
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| HB0091 Enrolled | LRB097 00166 KTG 40181 b |
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AN ACT concerning State government.
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Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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represented in the General Assembly:
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Section 5. The Children and Family Services Act is amended |
by changing Section 4a as follows:
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(20 ILCS 505/4a) (from Ch. 23, par. 5004a)
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Sec. 4a.
(a) To administer child abuse prevention shelters |
and service
programs for abused and neglected children, or |
provide for their administration
by not-for-profit |
corporations, community-based organizations or units of
local |
government.
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The Department is hereby designated the single State agency |
for
planning and coordination of child abuse and neglect |
prevention programs
and services. On or before the first Friday |
in October April of each year, the
Department shall submit to |
the Governor and the General Assembly a State
comprehensive |
child abuse and neglect prevention plan. The plan shall:
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identify priorities, goals and objectives; identify the |
resources necessary
to implement the plan, including estimates |
of resources needed to
investigate or otherwise process reports |
of suspected child abuse or
neglect and to provide necessary |
follow-up services for child protection,
family preservation |
and family reunification in "indicated" cases as
determined |
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under the Abused and Neglected Child Reporting Act; make
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proposals for the most effective use of existing resources to |
implement the
plan, including recommendations for the optimum |
use of private, local
public, State and federal resources; and |
propose strategies for the
development of additional resources |
to meet the goal of reducing the
incidence of child abuse and |
neglect and reducing the number of
reports of suspected child |
abuse and neglect made to the Department.
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(b) The administration of child abuse prevention, shelters |
and service
programs under subsection (a) shall be funded in |
part by
appropriations made from the Child Abuse Prevention |
Fund, which is hereby
created in the State Treasury, and in |
part by appropriations from the
General Revenue Fund. All |
interest earned on monies in the Child Abuse
Prevention Fund |
shall remain in such fund. The Department and the State
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Treasurer may accept funds as provided by Sections 507 and 508 |
of the
Illinois Income Tax Act and unsolicited private |
donations for deposit into
the Child Abuse Prevention Fund. |
Annual requests for appropriations for the
purpose of providing |
child abuse and neglect prevention programs and
services under |
this Section shall be made in separate and distinct
line-items. |
In setting priorities for the direction and
scope of such |
programs, the Director shall be advised by the State-wide
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Citizen's Committee on Child Abuse and Neglect.
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(c) Where the Department contracts with outside agencies to |
operate the
shelters or programs, such outside agencies may |
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receive funding from the
Department, except that the shelters |
must certify a 20% financial match
for operating expenses of |
their programs. In
selecting the outside agencies to administer |
child shelters and service
programs, and in allocating funds |
for such agencies, the Department shall
give priority to new |
and existing shelters or programs offering the
broadest range |
of services to the community served.
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(d) The Department shall have the power to make grants of |
monies to fund
comprehensive community-based services to |
reduce the incidence of family
dysfunction typified by child |
abuse and neglect; to diminish those
factors found to increase |
family dysfunction; and to measure the effectiveness
and costs |
of such services.
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(e) For implementing such intergovernmental cooperation |
and
involvement, units of local government and public and |
private agencies may
apply for and receive federal or State |
funds from the Department under this
Act or seek and receive |
gifts from local philanthropic or other private
local sources |
in order to augment any State funds appropriated for the
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purposes of this Act.
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(f) For the purposes of this Section:
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(1) The terms "abused child" and "neglected child" have |
meanings ascribed
to them in Section 3 of the Abused and |
Neglected Child Reporting Act.
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(2) "Shelter" has the meaning ascribed to it in Section 1-3
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of the Juvenile Court Act of 1987.
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