Sen. Terry Link
Filed: 3/23/2007
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1 | AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 1245
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2 | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 1245, AS AMENDED, | ||||||
3 | by replacing everything after the enacting clause with the | ||||||
4 | following:
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5 | "Section 5. The Mental Health and Developmental | ||||||
6 | Disabilities Administrative Act is amended by changing | ||||||
7 | Sections 4.3 and 70 as follows:
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8 | (20 ILCS 1705/4.3) (from Ch. 91 1/2, par. 100-4.3)
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9 | Sec. 4.3. Site visits and inspections.
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10 | (a) (Blank).
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11 | (b) The Department shall establish a system of regular and | ||||||
12 | ongoing
annual on-site
inspections , including unannounced | ||||||
13 | visits, of each facility under its jurisdiction. The | ||||||
14 | inspections shall
be conducted by the Department's central | ||||||
15 | office to:
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16 | (1) Determine facility compliance with Department |
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1 | policies and procedures;
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2 | (2) Determine facility compliance with audit | ||||||
3 | recommendations;
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4 | (3) Evaluate facility compliance with applicable | ||||||
5 | federal standards;
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6 | (4) Review and follow up on complaints made by | ||||||
7 | community mental health
agencies and advocates, and on | ||||||
8 | findings of the Human Rights Authority
division of the | ||||||
9 | Guardianship and Advocacy Commission; and
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10 | (5) Review administrative and management problems | ||||||
11 | identified
by other sources ; and
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12 | (6) Identify and prevent abuse and neglect.
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13 | (Source: P.A. 92-111, eff. 1-1-02.)
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14 | (20 ILCS 1705/70)
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15 | Sec. 70. Monitoring by closed circuit television. The
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16 | Department of Human Services as successor to the Department of | ||||||
17 | Mental Health
and Developmental Disabilities may install | ||||||
18 | closed circuit televisions in quiet
rooms in institutions | ||||||
19 | supervised or operated by the Department to monitor
patients in | ||||||
20 | those quiet rooms. The Department shall study current and | ||||||
21 | potential uses of closed circuit television monitoring and | ||||||
22 | recording within institutions supervised or operated by the | ||||||
23 | Department for the purpose of preventing and identifying abuse | ||||||
24 | and neglect, and shall report to the General Assembly on or | ||||||
25 | before January 1, 2008, with recommendations on how to increase |
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1 | the use of closed circuit television monitoring and recording | ||||||
2 | for purposes of preventing and identifying abuse and neglect. | ||||||
3 | Nothing in this Section shall be construed to
supersede or | ||||||
4 | interfere with any current provisions in the Mental Health and
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5 | Developmental Disabilities Code concerning the observation and | ||||||
6 | monitoring of
patients.
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7 | (Source: P.A. 90-444, eff. 8-16-97; 90-655, eff. 7-30-98.)".
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