Public Act 103-0624
 
SB2788 EnrolledLRB103 35567 KTG 65639 b

    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 changing Sections 7 and 8.6 as follows:
 
    (325 ILCS 5/7)  (from Ch. 23, par. 2057)
    Sec. 7. Time and manner of making reports. All reports of 
suspected child abuse or neglect made under this Act shall be 
made immediately by telephone to the central register 
established under Section 7.7 on the single, State-wide, 
toll-free telephone number established in Section 7.6, or in 
person or by telephone through the nearest Department office. 
The Department shall, in cooperation with school officials, 
distribute appropriate materials in school buildings listing 
the toll-free telephone number established in Section 7.6, 
including methods of making a report under this Act. The 
Department may, in cooperation with appropriate members of the 
clergy, distribute appropriate materials in churches, 
synagogues, temples, mosques, or other religious buildings 
listing the toll-free telephone number established in Section 
7.6, including methods of making a report under this Act.
    Wherever the Statewide number is posted, there shall also 
be posted the following notice:
    "Any person who knowingly transmits a false report to the 
Department commits the offense of disorderly conduct under 
subsection (a)(7) of Section 26-1 of the Criminal Code of 
2012. A violation of this subsection is a Class 4 felony."
    The report required by this Act shall include, if known, 
the name and address of the child and the child's parents or 
other persons having the child's custody; the child's age; the 
nature of the child's condition, including any evidence of 
previous injuries or disabilities; and any other information 
that the person filing the report believes might be helpful in 
establishing the cause of such abuse or neglect and the 
identity of the person believed to have caused such abuse or 
neglect. Reports made to the central register through the 
State-wide, toll-free telephone number shall be immediately 
transmitted by the Department to the appropriate Child 
Protective Service Unit. All such reports alleging the death 
of a child, serious injury to a child, including, but not 
limited to, brain damage, skull fractures, subdural hematomas, 
and internal injuries, torture of a child, malnutrition of a 
child, and sexual abuse to a child, including, but not limited 
to, sexual intercourse, sexual exploitation, sexual 
molestation, and sexually transmitted disease in a child age 
12 and under, shall also be immediately transmitted by the 
Department to the appropriate local law enforcement agency. 
The Department shall within 24 hours orally notify local law 
enforcement personnel and the office of the State's Attorney 
of the involved county of the receipt of any report alleging 
the death of a child, serious injury to a child, including, but 
not limited to, brain damage, skull fractures, subdural 
hematomas, and internal injuries, torture of a child, 
malnutrition of a child, and sexual abuse to a child, 
including, but not limited to, sexual intercourse, sexual 
exploitation, sexual molestation, and sexually transmitted 
disease in a child age 12 and under. All oral reports made by 
the Department to local law enforcement personnel and the 
office of the State's Attorney of the involved county shall be 
confirmed in writing within 24 hours of the oral report. All 
reports by persons mandated to report under this Act shall be 
confirmed in writing to the appropriate Child Protective 
Service Unit, which may be on forms supplied by the 
Department, within 48 hours of any initial report.
    Any report received by the Department alleging the abuse 
or neglect of a child by a person who is not the child's 
parent, a member of the child's immediate family, a person 
responsible for the child's welfare, an individual residing in 
the same home as the child, or a paramour of the child's parent 
shall immediately be referred to the appropriate local law 
enforcement agency for consideration of criminal investigation 
or other action. 
    Written confirmation reports from persons not required to 
report by this Act may be made to the appropriate Child 
Protective Service Unit. Written reports from persons required 
by this Act to report shall be admissible in evidence in any 
judicial proceeding or administrative hearing relating to 
child abuse or neglect. Reports involving known or suspected 
child abuse or neglect in public or private residential 
agencies or institutions shall be made and received in the 
same manner as all other reports made under this Act.
    For purposes of this Section, "child" includes an adult 
resident as defined in this Act. 
(Source: P.A. 102-558, eff. 8-20-21; 103-22, eff. 8-8-23.)
 
    (325 ILCS 5/8.6)
    Sec. 8.6. Reports to a child's school. Within 10 days 
after completing an investigation of alleged physical or 
sexual abuse under this Act, if the report is indicated, the 
Child Protective Service Unit shall send a copy of its final 
finding report to the school that the child, who is the 
indicated victim of child abuse, the report attends. During If 
the final finding report is sent during the summer when the 
school is not in session, the report shall be sent to the last 
school that the child attended. The final finding report shall 
be sent as "confidential", and the school shall be responsible 
for ensuring that the report remains confidential in 
accordance with the Illinois School Student Records Act. If an 
indicated finding is overturned in an appeal or hearing, or if 
the Department has made a determination that the child is no 
longer at risk of physical or sexual harm, the Department 
shall request that the final finding report be purged from the 
student's record, and the school shall purge the final finding 
report from the student's record. The final finding report 
shall provide the date of expungement and return the report to 
the Department. If an indicated report is expunged from the 
central register, and that report has been sent to a child's 
school, the Department shall request that the final finding 
report be purged from the student's record, and the school 
shall purge the final finding report from the student's record 
in accordance with the Illinois School Student Records Act and 
return the report to the Department.
(Source: P.A. 92-295, eff. 1-1-02.)

Effective Date:  1/1/2025