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State of Illinois
2011 and 2012
HB0244 Introduced 01/25/11, by Rep. Chad Hays SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
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Amends the Abandoned Newborn Infant Protection Act. Expands the definition of "police station" to include a State university's or a State college's police department and the various district headquarters of the Illinois State Police.
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| 1 | | AN ACT concerning children.
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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 Abandoned Newborn Infant Protection Act is |
| 5 | | amended by changing Section 10 as follows:
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| 6 | | (325 ILCS 2/10)
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| 7 | | Sec. 10. Definitions. In this Act:
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| 8 | | "Abandon" has the same meaning as in the Abused and |
| 9 | | Neglected
Child Reporting Act.
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| 10 | | "Abused child" has the same meaning as in the Abused and |
| 11 | | Neglected
Child Reporting Act.
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| 12 | | "Child-placing agency" means a licensed public or private |
| 13 | | agency
that receives a child for the purpose of placing or |
| 14 | | arranging
for the placement of the child in a foster family |
| 15 | | home or
other facility for child care, apart from the custody |
| 16 | | of the child's
parents.
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| 17 | | "Department" or "DCFS" means the Illinois Department of |
| 18 | | Children and
Family Services.
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| 19 | | "Emergency medical facility" means a freestanding |
| 20 | | emergency center or
trauma center, as defined in the Emergency |
| 21 | | Medical Services (EMS) Systems
Act.
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| 22 | | "Emergency medical professional" includes licensed |
| 23 | | physicians, and any
emergency medical technician-basic, |
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| 1 | | emergency medical
technician-intermediate, emergency medical |
| 2 | | technician-paramedic,
trauma nurse specialist, and |
| 3 | | pre-hospital RN, as defined in the
Emergency Medical Services |
| 4 | | (EMS) Systems Act.
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| 5 | | "Fire station" means a fire station within the State with |
| 6 | | at least one staff person.
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| 7 | | "Hospital" has the same meaning as in the Hospital |
| 8 | | Licensing Act.
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| 9 | | "Legal custody" means the relationship created by a court |
| 10 | | order in
the best interest of a newborn infant that imposes on |
| 11 | | the infant's custodian
the responsibility of physical |
| 12 | | possession of the infant, the duty to
protect, train, and |
| 13 | | discipline the infant, and the duty to provide the infant
with |
| 14 | | food,
shelter, education, and medical care, except as these are |
| 15 | | limited by
parental rights and responsibilities.
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| 16 | | "Neglected child" has the same meaning as in the Abused and
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| 17 | | Neglected Child Reporting Act.
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| 18 | | "Newborn infant" means a child who a licensed physician |
| 19 | | reasonably
believes is 30 days old or less at the time the |
| 20 | | child is
initially relinquished to a hospital, police station, |
| 21 | | fire station, or
emergency
medical facility, and who is not an |
| 22 | | abused or a neglected child.
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| 23 | | "Police station" means a municipal police station, or a |
| 24 | | county sheriff's
office, a State university's or a State |
| 25 | | college's police department, or any of the district |
| 26 | | headquarters of the Illinois State Police.
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| 1 | | "Relinquish" means to bring a newborn infant, who a
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| 2 | | licensed physician reasonably believes is 30 days old or less,
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| 3 | | to a hospital, police station, fire station, or emergency |
| 4 | | medical facility
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to leave the infant with personnel of the |
| 5 | | facility, if the person leaving the
infant does not express an |
| 6 | | intent to return for the
infant or states that he or she will |
| 7 | | not return for the infant.
In the case of a mother who gives |
| 8 | | birth to an infant in a hospital,
the mother's act of leaving |
| 9 | | that newborn infant at the
hospital (i) without expressing an |
| 10 | | intent to return for the infant or (ii)
stating that she will |
| 11 | | not return for the infant is not a "relinquishment" under
this |
| 12 | | Act.
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| 13 | | "Temporary protective custody" means the temporary |
| 14 | | placement of
a newborn infant within a hospital or other |
| 15 | | medical facility out of the
custody of the infant's parent.
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| 16 | | (Source: P.A. 96-345, eff. 1-1-10.)
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