Public Act 0361 95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

HB3678 Enrolled LRB095 10032 DRJ 32376 b

Public Act 095-0361

AN ACT concerning children.

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

Section 5. The Abused and Neglected Child Reporting Act is amended by adding Section 4.4 as follows:

(325 ILCS 5/4.4 new)

Sec. 4.4. DCFS duty to report to State's Attorney. Whenever the Department receives, by means of its statewide toll-free telephone number established under Section 7.6 for the purpose of reporting suspected child abuse or neglect or by any other means or from any mandated reporter under Section 4, a report of a newborn infant whose blood, urine, or meconium contains any amount of a controlled substance as defined in subsection (f) of Section 102 of the Illinois Controlled Substances Act or a metabolite thereof, with the exception of a controlled substance or metabolite thereof whose presence in the newborn infant is the result of medical treatment administered to the mother or the newborn infant, the Department must immediately report that information to the State's Attorney of the county in which the infant was born.

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

Effective Date: 8/23/2007