103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2023 and 2024
HB5378

 

Introduced 2/9/2024, by Rep. Kelly M. Cassidy

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
50 ILCS 754/30
50 ILCS 754/65

    Amends the Community Emergency Services and Support Act. In provisions relating to emergency services dispatched through a 9-1-1 PSAP and coordination of activities with mobile and behavioral health services, provides that the coordination must begin no later than July 1, 2025 (rather than July 1, 2024). Provides that provisions relating to State prohibitions shall take effect once specified conditions are met, but no later than July 1, 2025 (rather than July 1, 2024). Effective immediately.


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A BILL FOR

 

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1    AN ACT concerning government.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The Community Emergency Services and Support
5Act is amended by changing Sections 30 and 65 as follows:
 
6    (50 ILCS 754/30)
7    Sec. 30. State prohibitions. 9-1-1 PSAPs, emergency
8services dispatched through 9-1-1 PSAPs, and the mobile mental
9and behavioral health service established by the Division of
10Mental Health must coordinate their services so that, based on
11the information provided to them, the following State
12prohibitions are avoided:
13    (a) Law enforcement responsibility for providing mental
14and behavioral health care. In any area where mobile mental
15health relief providers are available for dispatch, law
16enforcement shall not be dispatched to respond to an
17individual requiring mental or behavioral health care unless
18that individual is (i) involved in a suspected violation of
19the criminal laws of this State, or (ii) presents a threat of
20physical injury to self or others. Mobile mental health relief
21providers are not considered available for dispatch under this
22Section if 9-8-8 reports that it cannot dispatch appropriate
23service within the maximum response times established by each

 

 

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1Regional Advisory Committee under Section 45.
2        (1) Standing on its own or in combination with each
3    other, the fact that an individual is experiencing a
4    mental or behavioral health emergency, or has a mental
5    health, behavioral health, or other diagnosis, is not
6    sufficient to justify an assessment that the individual is
7    a threat of physical injury to self or others, or requires
8    a law enforcement response to a request for emergency
9    response or medical transportation.
10        (2) If, based on its assessment of the threat to
11    public safety, law enforcement would not accompany medical
12    transportation responding to a physical health emergency,
13    unless requested by mobile mental health relief providers,
14    law enforcement may not accompany emergency response or
15    medical transportation personnel responding to a mental or
16    behavioral health emergency that presents an equivalent
17    level of threat to self or public safety.
18        (3) Without regard to an assessment of threat to self
19    or threat to public safety, law enforcement may station
20    personnel so that they can rapidly respond to requests for
21    assistance from mobile mental health relief providers if
22    law enforcement does not interfere with the provision of
23    emergency response or transportation services. To the
24    extent practical, not interfering with services includes
25    remaining sufficiently distant from or out of sight of the
26    individual receiving care so that law enforcement presence

 

 

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1    is unlikely to escalate the emergency.
2    (b) Mobile mental health relief provider involvement in
3involuntary commitment. In order to maintain the appropriate
4care relationship, mobile mental health relief providers shall
5not in any way assist in the involuntary commitment of an
6individual beyond (i) reporting to their dispatching entity or
7to law enforcement that they believe the situation requires
8assistance the mobile mental health relief providers are not
9permitted to provide under this Section; (ii) providing
10witness statements; and (iii) fulfilling reporting
11requirements the mobile mental health relief providers may
12have under their professional ethical obligations or laws of
13this State. This prohibition shall not interfere with any
14mobile mental health relief provider's ability to provide
15physical or mental health care.
16    (c) Use of law enforcement for transportation. In any area
17where mobile mental health relief providers are available for
18dispatch, unless requested by mobile mental health relief
19providers, law enforcement shall not be used to provide
20transportation to access mental or behavioral health care, or
21travel between mental or behavioral health care providers,
22except where no alternative is available.
23    (d) Reduction of educational institution obligations. The
24services coordinated under this Act may not be used to replace
25any service an educational institution is required to provide
26to a student. It shall not substitute for appropriate special

 

 

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1education and related services that schools are required to
2provide by any law.
3    (e) This Section is Subsections (a), (c), and (d) are
4operative beginning on the date the 3 conditions in Section 65
5are met or July 1, 2025 2024, whichever is earlier. Subsection
6(b) is operative beginning on July 1, 2024.
7(Source: P.A. 102-580, eff. 1-1-22; 103-105, eff. 6-27-23.)
 
8    (50 ILCS 754/65)
9    Sec. 65. PSAP and emergency service dispatched through a
109-1-1 PSAP; coordination of activities with mobile and
11behavioral health services. Each 9-1-1 PSAP and emergency
12service dispatched through a 9-1-1 PSAP must begin
13coordinating its activities with the mobile mental and
14behavioral health services established by the Division of
15Mental Health once all 3 of the following conditions are met,
16but not later than July 1, 2025 2024:
17        (1) the Statewide Committee has negotiated useful
18    protocol and 9-1-1 operator script adjustments with the
19    contracted services providing these tools to 9-1-1 PSAPs
20    operating in Illinois;
21        (2) the appropriate Regional Advisory Committee has
22    completed design of the specific 9-1-1 PSAP's process for
23    coordinating activities with the mobile mental and
24    behavioral health service; and
25        (3) the mobile mental and behavioral health service is

 

 

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1    available in their jurisdiction.
2(Source: P.A. 102-580, eff. 1-1-22; 102-1109, eff. 12-21-22;
3103-105, eff. 6-27-23.)
 
4    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
5becoming law.