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90_SB0418enr
20 ILCS 1705/69 new
Amends the Department of Mental Health and Developmental
Disabilities Act (short title changed to Mental Health and
Developmental Disabilities Administrative Act effective July
1, 1997). Allows the Department of Human Services as
successor to the Department of Mental Health and
Developmental Disabilities to install closed circuit
televisions in institutions supervised or operated by the
Department to monitor patients in those institutions.
Effective July 1, 1997.
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SB418 Enrolled LRB9003019DNmb
1 AN ACT to amend the Department of Mental Health and
2 Developmental Disabilities Act (short title changed to Mental
3 Health and Developmental Disabilities Administrative Act
4 effective July 1, 1997) by adding Section 69.
5 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
6 represented in the General Assembly:
7 Section 5. The Department of Mental Health and
8 Developmental Disabilities Act (short title changed to
9 Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Administrative
10 Act effective July 1, 1997) is amended by adding Section 69
11 as follows:
12 (20 ILCS 1705/69 new)
13 Sec. 69. Monitoring by closed circuit television. The
14 Department of Human Services as successor to the Department
15 of Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities may install
16 closed circuit televisions in quiet rooms in institutions
17 supervised or operated by the Department to monitor patients
18 in those quiet rooms. Nothing in this Section shall be
19 construed to supersede or interfere with any current
20 provisions in the Mental Health and Developmental
21 Disabilities Code concerning the observation and monitoring
22 of patients.
23 Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect on
24 July 1, 1997.