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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 Mental Health and Developmental |
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| Disabilities Administrative Act is amended by changing |
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| Sections 4.3 and 70 as follows:
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| (20 ILCS 1705/4.3) (from Ch. 91 1/2, par. 100-4.3)
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| Sec. 4.3. Site visits and inspections.
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| (a) (Blank).
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| (b) The Department shall establish a system of regular and |
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| ongoing
annual on-site
inspections , including unannounced |
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| visits, of each facility under its jurisdiction. The |
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| inspections shall
be conducted by the Department's central |
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| office to:
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| (1) Determine facility compliance with Department |
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| policies and procedures;
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| (2) Determine facility compliance with audit |
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| recommendations;
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| (3) Evaluate facility compliance with applicable |
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| federal standards;
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| (4) Review and follow up on complaints made by |
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| community mental health
agencies and advocates, and on |
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| findings of the Human Rights Authority
division of the |
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| Guardianship and Advocacy Commission; and
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| (5) Review administrative and management problems |
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| identified
by other sources ; and
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| (6) Identify and prevent abuse and neglect.
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| (Source: P.A. 92-111, eff. 1-1-02.)
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| (20 ILCS 1705/70)
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| Sec. 70. Monitoring by closed circuit television. The
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| Department of Human Services as successor to the Department of |
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| Mental Health
and Developmental Disabilities may install |
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| closed circuit televisions in quiet
rooms in institutions |
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| supervised or operated by the Department to monitor
patients in |
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| those quiet rooms. The Department shall study current and |
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| potential uses of closed circuit television monitoring and |
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| recording within institutions supervised or operated by the |
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| Department for the purpose of preventing and identifying abuse |
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| and neglect, and shall report to the General Assembly on or |
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| before January 1, 2008, with recommendations on how to increase |
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| the use of closed circuit television monitoring and recording |
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| for purposes of preventing and identifying abuse and neglect.
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| Nothing in this Section shall be construed to
supersede or |
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| interfere with any current provisions in the Mental Health and
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| Developmental Disabilities Code concerning the observation and |
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| monitoring of
patients.
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| (Source: P.A. 90-444, eff. 8-16-97; 90-655, eff. 7-30-98.)
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