HB3172 99TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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99TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2015 and 2016
HB3172

Introduced , by Rep. Patricia R. Bellock

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

20 ILCS 505/39.3 new

Amends the Children and Family Services Act. Provides that the Department of Children and Family Services must place in each residential treatment center that accepts wards of the Department a locked suggestion box into which residents may place comments and concerns to be addressed by the Department. Provides that only employees of the Department shall have access to the contents of the locked suggestion boxes and that an employee of the Department must check the locked suggestion boxes at least once per week. Effective immediately.

FISCAL NOTE ACT MAY APPLY

A BILL FOR

AN ACT concerning State government.

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly:

Section 5. The Children and Family Services Act is amended by adding Section 39.3 as follows:

(20 ILCS 505/39.3 new)

Sec. 39.3. Suggestion boxes. The Department must place in each residential treatment center that accepts wards of the Department a locked suggestion box into which residents may place comments and concerns to be addressed by the Department. Only employees of the Department shall have access to the contents of the locked suggestion boxes. An employee of the Department must check the locked suggestion boxes at least once per week.

Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon becoming law.