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| AN ACT concerning children.
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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 Abandoned Newborn Infant Protection Act is |
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| amended by changing Sections 10 and 60 as follows:
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| (325 ILCS 2/10)
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| Sec. 10. Definitions. In this Act:
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| "Abandon" has the same meaning as in the Abused and |
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| Neglected
Child Reporting Act.
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| "Abused child" has the same meaning as in the Abused and |
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| Neglected
Child Reporting Act.
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| "Child-placing agency" means a licensed public or private |
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| agency
that receives a child for the purpose of placing or |
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| arranging
for the placement of the child in a foster family |
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| home or
other facility for child care, apart from the custody |
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| of the child's
parents.
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| "Department" or "DCFS" means the Illinois Department of |
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| Children and
Family Services.
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| "Emergency medical facility" means a freestanding |
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| emergency center or
trauma center, as defined in the Emergency |
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| Medical Services (EMS) Systems
Act.
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| "Emergency medical professional" includes licensed |
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| physicians, and any
emergency medical technician-basic, |
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| emergency medical
technician-intermediate, emergency medical |
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| technician-paramedic,
trauma nurse specialist, and |
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| pre-hospital RN, as defined in the
Emergency Medical Services |
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| (EMS) Systems Act.
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| "Fire station" means a fire station within the State that |
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| is staffed
with at least one full-time emergency medical |
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| professional.
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| "Hospital" has the same meaning as in the Hospital |
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| Licensing Act.
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| "Legal custody" means the relationship created by a court |
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| order in
the best interest of a newborn infant that imposes on |
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| the infant's custodian
the responsibility of physical |
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| possession of the infant, the duty to
protect, train, and |
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| discipline the infant, and the duty to provide the infant
with |
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| food,
shelter, education, and medical care, except as these are |
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| limited by
parental rights and responsibilities.
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| "Neglected child" has the same meaning as in the Abused and
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| Neglected Child Reporting Act.
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| "Newborn infant" means a child who a licensed physician |
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| reasonably
believes is 7 days
72 hours old or less at the time |
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| the child is
initially relinquished to a hospital, police |
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| station, fire station, or
emergency
medical facility, and who |
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| is not an abused or a neglected child.
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| "Police station" means a municipal police station or a |
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| county sheriff's
office.
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| "Relinquish" means to bring a newborn infant, who a
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| licensed physician reasonably believes is 7 days
72 hours old |
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| or less,
to a hospital, police station, fire station, or |
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| emergency medical facility
and
to leave the infant with |
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| personnel of the facility, if the person leaving the
infant |
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| does not express an intent to return for the
infant or states |
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| that he or she will not return for the infant.
In the case of a |
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| mother who gives birth to an infant in a hospital,
the mother's |
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| act of leaving that newborn infant at the
hospital (i) without |
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| expressing an intent to return for the infant or (ii)
stating |
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| that she will not return for the infant is not a |
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| "relinquishment" under
this Act.
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| "Temporary protective custody" means the temporary |
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| placement of
a newborn infant within a hospital or other |
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| medical facility out of the
custody of the infant's parent.
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| (Source: P.A. 92-408, eff. 8-17-01; 92-432, eff. 8-17-01; |
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| 93-820, eff. 7-27-04.)
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| (325 ILCS 2/60)
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| Sec. 60. Department's duties. The Department must |
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| implement a
public information program to promote safe |
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| placement alternatives for newborn
infants. The public |
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| information program must inform the public of the
following:
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| (1) The relinquishment alternative provided for in |
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| this
Act, which results in the adoption of a newborn infant |
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| under 7 days
72 hours of age
and which
provides for the |
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| parent's
anonymity, if the parent so chooses.
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| (2) The alternative of adoption
through a public or |
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| private agency, in which the parent's identity may or may
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| not be known to the agency, but is kept anonymous from the |
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| adoptive parents, if
the birth parent so desires, and which |
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| allows the parent to be actively
involved in the child's |
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| adoption plan.
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| The public information program may include, but
need
not be |
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| limited to, the
following elements:
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| (i) Educational and informational materials in print, |
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| audio, video,
electronic or other media.
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| (ii) Establishment of a web site.
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| (iii) Public service announcements and advertisements.
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| (iv) Establishment of toll-free
telephone
hotlines to |
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| provide information.
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| (Source: P.A. 92-408, eff. 8-17-01; 92-432, eff. 8-17-01.)
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| Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon |
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| becoming law.
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