HEALING THROUGH HISTORY ACT
What changed between versions
Removed the requirement for the Department of Children and Family Services to provide prospective adoptive families with unredacted full case records, including caseworker notes, foster home histories, and therapy logs.
Removed provisions requiring the department to develop new protocols and infrastructure to collect and transmit full child records.
Modified the disclosure requirements to align with the existing Adoption Act, which provides non-identifying biological information (such as race, religion, and medical history) rather than full case files.
Added specific provisions for the Illinois Adoption Registry to release medical information and adoption details to registrants who complete a Medical Information Exchange Authorization.
Removed the mandate that former foster youth aging out of care receive complete, unredacted case files at no cost.
Added a requirement for the Department of Children and Family Services to retain adoption files until the adoptee reaches the age of 99.