Public Act 097-0020
 
HB0091 EnrolledLRB097 00166 KTG 40181 b

    AN ACT concerning State government.
 
    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
 
    Section 5. The Children and Family Services Act is amended
by changing Section 4a as follows:
 
    (20 ILCS 505/4a)  (from Ch. 23, par. 5004a)
    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.
    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:
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
under the Abused and Neglected Child Reporting Act; make
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.
    (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
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
Citizen's Committee on Child Abuse and Neglect.
    (c) Where the Department contracts with outside agencies to
operate the shelters or programs, such outside agencies may
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.
    (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.
    (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
purposes of this Act.
    (f) For the purposes of this Section:
    (1) The terms "abused child" and "neglected child" have
meanings ascribed to them in Section 3 of the Abused and
Neglected Child Reporting Act.
    (2) "Shelter" has the meaning ascribed to it in Section 1-3
of the Juvenile Court Act of 1987.
(Source: P.A. 85-1209.)
 
    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.