Amends the Illinois Police Training Act. Requires full-time and part-time police officers to be licensed rather than certified. Makes related changes. Provides that the Board has the power to require local governmental units to furnish personnel rosters, employment status reports, and annual training plans to the Board. Effective immediately.
Amends the Children and Family Services Act. Allows the Department of Children and Family Services to arrange for or provide services through grants or contracts with private nonprofit agencies, with limited exceptions.
Amends the Medical Practice Act of 1987. Provides that a physician must maintain a minimum of $1,000,000 in liability coverage. Amends the Illinois Insurance Code. Provides that insurers in the business of providing liability insurance must establish, with respect to medical malpractice policies, a premium scale for coverage classification wherein premiums are proportional to settlements paid on the insured's behalf.
Amends the Medical Practice Act of 1987 to provide for the public release of individual profiles on persons licensed under the Act, including information relating to criminal charges, administrative disciplinary actions, hospital privilege revocations, and medical malpractice awards. Provides that a physician may elect to include certain information in his or her profile. Provides that certain information collected for physician profiles is not confidential. Provides that, when collecting information or compiling reports intended to compare physicians, the Disciplinary Board shall require that only the most basic identifying information from mandatory reports may be used, and details about a patient or personal details about a physician that are not already a matter of public record through another source must not be released. Effective immediately.
Amends the Abused and Neglected Child Reporting Act and the Juvenile Court Act of 1987. Provides that a law enforcement officer, DCFS employee, or physician may take or retain temporary protective custody of a child without the consent of the person responsible for the child's welfare if he or she has reason to believe that the child is in imminent danger of injury or death (instead of if he or she has reason to believe that the child cannot be cared for at home or in the custody of the person responsible for the child's welfare and there is not time to apply for a temporary custody order). If there is no such imminent danger, requires a warrant to take the child into temporary protective custody. Provides that the DCFS Guardianship Administrator has no authority to consent to an HIV test for a child or obtain and disclose HIV test information if the child has not been taken into temporary protective custody as provided by law. Provides that a person seeking to take photographs or x-rays of a child must first obtain the consent of the parent, guardian, or other person responsible for the child's welfare, unless the person has reason to believe that the child is in imminent danger of injury or death. Provides that if DCFS is denied reasonable access to a child, it shall seek law enforcement intervention for the purpose of examining and interviewing the child if it has reason to believe that the child is in imminent danger of injury or death; otherwise, it must seek a court order. Authorizes a law enforcement officer to take custody of a minor without a warrant under the Juvenile Court Act of 1987 if the officer has reasonable cause to believe the minor is an abused, neglected, or dependent minor, but only if the officer also has reasonable cause to believe that the minor is in imminent danger of injury or death.
Amends the Illinois Insurance Code, the Comprehensive Health Insurance Program Act, the Health Maintenance Organization Act, the Voluntary Health Services Plans Act, and the Senior Citizens and Disabled Persons Property Tax Relief and Pharmaceutical Assistance Act to require coverage under those Acts for immunosuppressive agents (anti-rejection medication).
Creates the Arthritis Prevention and Control Act. Directs the Department of Public Health to establish, promote, and maintain an Arthritis Prevention and Control Program to raise public awareness, educate consumers, and educate and train health professionals, teachers, and human services providers. Provides for an Advisory Council on Arthritis to provide non-governmental input regarding the program.
Amends the Personnel Code. Establishes a preference in an entrance examination of 5 points for a qualified person who has been wrongfully accused of a crime for which the person was imprisoned in a State prison and a court of competent jurisdiction finds that the evidence that resulted in his or her conviction was erroneous or that new evidence indicates that the person did not commit the crime. Amends the Court of Claims Act. Provides that claims against the State for time unjustly served in State prisons must be automatically heard and payment made within 120 days after the person who unjustly served time is discharged from prison. Provides that the claim may be made if a court finds that the evidence that resulted in the person's conviction was erroneous or that new evidence indicates that the person did not commit the crime for which he or she was convicted (rather than providing that only the issuance of a pardon by the Governor on the grounds of innocence may be the basis of a claim). Increases the maximum statutory awards to a person released from prison because of these factors. Effective immediately.
Amends the Abused and Neglected Child Reporting Act. Provides that in the case of reports of suspected child abuse or neglect made by a person other than a mandated reporter, to ensure that the investigation of a report is complete and accurate, and to prevent the filing of false reports, DCFS shall request and obtain information that identifies the person making the report. Provides that this identifying information shall be confidential, unless DCFS determines that the report is false and refers the person filing the report to the State's Attorney for prosecution for filing a false report.
Amends the Children and Family Services Act. Requires the Department of Children and Family Services to offer and provide family preservation services requested by a foster family that may be necessary to maintain a safe and appropriate temporary placement of a child, and requires the Department to prescribe foster family preservation services and the criteria, standards, and procedures for the provision of these services that will provide the most stable living arrangement for that child and prevent, to the greatest extent possible, multiple temporary placements pending a permanent living arrangement and permanent legal status.
