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 1        AN ACT to amend the Child Care Act of  1969  by  changing
 2    Section 4.3.

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

 5        Section 5.  The Child Care Act  of  1969  is  amended  by
 6    changing Section 4.3 as follows:

 7        (225 ILCS 10/4.3) (from Ch. 23, par. 2214.3)
 8        Sec.  4.3.   Child  Abuse  and Neglect Reports. All child
 9    care  facility  license  applicants  and  all   current   and
10    prospective  employees  of a child care facility who have any
11    possible contact with children in the course of their duties,
12    as  a  condition  of  such  licensure  or  employment,  shall
13    authorize in writing on a form prescribed by  the  Department
14    an  investigation  of the Central Register, as defined in the
15    Abused and Neglected Child Reporting  Act,  to  ascertain  if
16    such  applicant  or  employee  has  been  determined  to be a
17    perpetrator in an indicated report of child abuse or neglect.
18        All child care facilities as  a  condition  of  licensure
19    pursuant  to  this  Act shall maintain such information which
20    demonstrates that all current employees and other  applicants
21    for employment who have any possible contact with children in
22    the  course  of their duties have authorized an investigation
23    of the Central Register as hereinabove required.  Only  those
24    current  or  prospective  employees who will have no possible
25    contact with children as part of their present or prospective
26    employment  may  be  excluded   from   provisions   requiring
27    authorization of an investigation.
28        Such information concerning a license applicant, employee
29    or  prospective  employee obtained by the Department shall be
30    confidential and exempt from public inspection and copying as
31    provided under Section 7 of The Freedom of  Information  Act,
 
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 1    and  such  information  shall  not be transmitted outside the
 2    Department, except as provided in the  Abused  and  Neglected
 3    Child  Reporting  Act, and shall not be transmitted to anyone
 4    within the Department except as provided in  the  Abused  and
 5    Neglected  Child  Reporting Act, and shall not be transmitted
 6    to anyone within the Department  except  as  needed  for  the
 7    purposes of evaluation of an application for licensure or for
 8    consideration  by  a  child care facility of an employee. Any
 9    employee of the Department of Children  and  Family  Services
10    under  this  Section  who  gives  or  causes  to be given any
11    confidential  information  concerning  any  child  abuse   or
12    neglect  reports about a child care facility applicant, child
13    care  facility  employee,  shall  be  guilty  of  a  Class  A
14    misdemeanor, unless release of such information is authorized
15    by Section 11.1 of the Abused and Neglected  Child  Reporting
16    Act.
17        Additionally,   any  licensee  who  is  informed  by  the
18    Department of  Children  and  Family  Services,  pursuant  to
19    Section  7.4 of the Abused and Neglected Child Reporting Act,
20    approved  June  26,  1975,  as   amended,   that   a   formal
21    investigation  has  commenced  relating to an employee of the
22    child care facility or any other person in  frequent  contact
23    with  children  at the facility, shall take reasonable action
24    necessary to insure that the  employee  or  other  person  is
25    restricted  during  the  pendency  of  the investigation from
26    contact with children whose care has been  entrusted  to  the
27    facility.
28        When  a foster family home is the subject of an indicated
29    report under the Abused and Neglected  Child  Reporting  Act,
30    the   Department   of   Children  and  Family  Services  must
31    immediately conduct a re-examination  of  the  foster  family
32    home  to  evaluate  whether  it continues to meet the minimum
33    standards for licensure.  The re-examination is separate  and
34    apart  from  the  formal  investigation  of  the report.  The
 
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 1    Department must establish a schedule  for  re-examination  of
 2    the  foster family home mentioned in the report at least once
 3    a year.
 4    (Source: P.A. 86-1420.)

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