SB0875 100TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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100TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2017 and 2018
SB0875

Introduced 2/7/2017, by Sen. David Koehler

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

110 ILCS 74/5

Amends the Student Optional Disclosure of Private Mental Health Act. Provides that an institution of higher learning may designate someone to act as a qualified examiner.

A BILL FOR

AN ACT concerning education.

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

Section 5. The Student Optional Disclosure of Private Mental Health Act is amended by changing Section 5 as follows:

(110 ILCS 74/5)

Sec. 5. Definitions. In this Act:

(a) "Designated person" means a parent, guardian, or other person over the age of 18 designated by the student to receive disclosure of certain private mental health information.

(b) "Qualified examiner" has the meaning ascribed to that term in Section 1-122 of the Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Code or means another person designated by an institution of higher learning.

(Source: P.A. 99-278, eff. 1-1-16.)