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| 1 | AN ACT concerning State government.
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| 2 | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| 3 | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | Section 5. The Custody Relinquishment Prevention Act is | ||||||
| 5 | amended by changing Section 15 as follows: | ||||||
| 6 | (20 ILCS 540/15)
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| 7 | Sec. 15. Interagency agreement. | ||||||
| 8 | (a) In order to intercept and divert children and youth at | ||||||
| 9 | risk of custody relinquishment to the Department of Children | ||||||
| 10 | and Family Services, within 180 days after the effective date | ||||||
| 11 | of this Act, the Department of Children of Family Services, | ||||||
| 12 | the Department of Human Services, the Department of Healthcare | ||||||
| 13 | and Family Services, the Illinois State Board of Education, | ||||||
| 14 | the Department of Juvenile Justice, and the Department of | ||||||
| 15 | Public Health shall enter into an interagency agreement for | ||||||
| 16 | the purpose of preventing children and youth who are not | ||||||
| 17 | otherwise abused or neglected from entering the custody or | ||||||
| 18 | guardianship of the Department of Children and Family Services | ||||||
| 19 | solely for purposes of receiving services for a serious mental | ||||||
| 20 | illness or serious emotional disturbance. | ||||||
| 21 | The intergovernmental agreement shall require the agencies | ||||||
| 22 | listed in this Section to establish an interagency clinical | ||||||
| 23 | team to review cases of children and youth who are at risk of | ||||||
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| 1 | relinquishment who are at a hospital or other similar | ||||||
| 2 | treatment facility, and to connect the child or youth and his | ||||||
| 3 | or her family with the appropriate services, treatment, and | ||||||
| 4 | support to stabilize the child or youth's serious mental | ||||||
| 5 | illness or serious emotional disturbance and prevent custody | ||||||
| 6 | relinquishment to the Department of Children and Family | ||||||
| 7 | Services. | ||||||
| 8 | The interagency agreement, among other things, shall | ||||||
| 9 | address all of the following: | ||||||
| 10 | (1) Requiring families with private health insurance | ||||||
| 11 | to exhaust their private insurance coverage. | ||||||
| 12 | (2) Establishing cost sharing for services received | ||||||
| 13 | for families whose income exceeds the federal poverty | ||||||
| 14 | level that would qualify them for Medicaid, based on the | ||||||
| 15 | family's ability to pay. | ||||||
| 16 | (3) For children or youth who are not otherwise | ||||||
| 17 | Medicaid eligible, performing a crisis stabilization | ||||||
| 18 | assessment and developing a care plan for the child or | ||||||
| 19 | youth and the family with the goal of determining what | ||||||
| 20 | services are necessary to (i) stabilize the child or youth | ||||||
| 21 | and (ii) prevent custody relinquishment to the Department | ||||||
| 22 | of Children and Family Services when there is no abuse or | ||||||
| 23 | neglect. | ||||||
| 24 | (4) Set criteria for short-term crisis stabilization | ||||||
| 25 | services, including intensive community-based services or | ||||||
| 26 | a short-term residential placement, as the child or | ||||||
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| 1 | youth's treatment plan is being developed.
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| 2 | (b) The Department of Children and Family Services, the | ||||||
| 3 | Department of Human Services, the Department of Healthcare and | ||||||
| 4 | Family Services, the Illinois State Board of Education, the | ||||||
| 5 | Department of Juvenile Justice, and the Department of Public | ||||||
| 6 | Health shall enter into a 5-year extension of the interagency | ||||||
| 7 | agreement required by Public Act 98-808. | ||||||
| 8 | (Source: P.A. 98-808, eff. 1-1-15.)
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| 9 | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | ||||||
| 10 | becoming law.
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