Public Act 100-1025
 
SB3023 EnrolledLRB100 18060 MRW 33251 b

    AN ACT concerning substance use disorder treatment.
 
    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
 
    Section 1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the
Community-Law Enforcement Partnership for Deflection and
Substance Use Disorder Treatment Act.
 
    Section 5. Purposes. The General Assembly hereby
acknowledges that opioid use disorders, overdoses, and deaths
in Illinois are persistent and growing concerns for Illinois
communities. These concerns compound existing challenges to
adequately address and manage substance use and mental health
disorders. Law enforcement officers have a unique opportunity
to facilitate connections to community-based behavioral health
interventions that provide substance use treatment and can help
save and restore lives; help reduce drug use, overdose
incidence, criminal offending, and recidivism; and help
prevent arrest and conviction records that destabilize health,
families, and opportunities for community citizenship and
self-sufficiency. These efforts are bolstered when pursued in
partnership with licensed behavioral health treatment
providers and community members or organizations. It is the
intent of the General Assembly to authorize law enforcement to
develop and implement collaborative deflection programs in
Illinois that offer immediate pathways to substance use
treatment and other services as an alternative to traditional
case processing and involvement in the criminal justice system.
 
    Section 10. Definitions. In this Act:
    "Case management" means those services which will assist
persons in gaining access to needed social, educational,
medical, substance use and mental health treatment, and other
services.
    "Community member or organization" means an individual
volunteer, resident, public office, or a not-for-profit
organization, religious institution, charitable organization,
or other public body committed to the improvement of individual
and family mental and physical well-being and the overall
social welfare of the community, and may include persons with
lived experience in recovery from substance use disorder,
either themselves or as family members.
    "Deflection program" means a program in which a peace
officer or member of a law enforcement agency facilitates
contact between an individual and a licensed substance use
treatment provider or clinician for assessment and
coordination of treatment planning. This facilitation includes
defined criteria for eligibility and communication protocols
agreed to by the law enforcement agency and the licensed
treatment provider for the purpose of providing substance use
treatment to those persons in lieu of arrest or further justice
system involvement. Deflection programs may include, but are
not limited to, the following types of responses:
        (1) a post-overdose deflection response initiated by a
    peace officer or law enforcement agency subsequent to
    emergency administration of medication to reverse an
    overdose, or in cases of severe substance use disorder with
    acute risk for overdose;
        (2) a self-referral deflection response initiated by
    an individual by contacting a peace officer or law
    enforcement agency in the acknowledgment of their
    substance use or disorder;
        (3) an active outreach deflection response initiated
    by a peace officer or law enforcement agency as a result of
    proactive identification of persons thought likely to have
    a substance use disorder;
        (4) an officer prevention deflection response
    initiated by a peace officer or law enforcement agency in
    response to a community call when no criminal charges are
    present; and
        (5) an officer intervention deflection response when
    criminal charges are present but held in abeyance pending
    engagement with treatment.
    "Law enforcement agency" means a municipal police
department or county sheriff's office of this State, the
Department of State Police, or other law enforcement agency
whose officers, by statute, are granted and authorized to
exercise powers similar to those conferred upon any peace
officer employed by a law enforcement agency of this State.
    "Licensed treatment provider" means an organization
licensed by the Department of Human Services to perform an
activity or service, or a coordinated range of those activities
or services, as the Department of Human Services may establish
by rule, such as the broad range of emergency, outpatient,
intensive outpatient, and residential services and care,
including assessment, diagnosis, case management, medical,
psychiatric, psychological and social services,
medication-assisted treatment, care and counseling, and
recovery support, which may be extended to persons to assess or
treat substance use disorder or to families of those persons.
    "Peace officer" means any peace officer or member of any
duly organized State, county, or municipal peace officer unit,
any police force of another State, or any police force whose
members, by statute, are granted and authorized to exercise
powers similar to those conferred upon any peace officer
employed by a law enforcement agency of this State.
    "Substance use disorder" means a pattern of use of alcohol
or other drugs leading to clinical or functional impairment, in
accordance with the definition in the Diagnostic and
Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5), or in any
subsequent editions.
    "Treatment" means the broad range of emergency,
outpatient, intensive outpatient, and residential services and
care (including assessment, diagnosis, case management,
medical, psychiatric, psychological and social services,
medication-assisted treatment, care and counseling, and
recovery support) which may be extended to persons who have
substance use disorders, persons with mental illness, or
families of those persons.
 
    Section 15. Authorization.
    (a) Any law enforcement agency may establish a deflection
program subject to the provisions of this Act in partnership
with one or more licensed providers of substance use disorder
treatment services and one or more community members or
organizations.
    (b) The deflection program may involve a post-overdose
deflection response, a self-referral deflection response, an
active outreach deflection response, an officer prevention
deflection response, or an officer intervention deflection
response, or any combination of those.
    (c) Nothing shall preclude the General Assembly from adding
other responses to a deflection program, or preclude a law
enforcement agency from developing a deflection program
response based on a model unique and responsive to local
issues, substance use or mental health needs, and partnerships,
using sound and promising or evidence-based practices.
    (c-5) Whenever appropriate and available, case management
should be provided by a licensed treatment provider or other
appropriate provider and may include peer recovery support
approaches.
    (d) To receive funding for activities as described in
Section 35 of this Act, planning for the deflection program
shall include:
        (1) the involvement of one or more licensed treatment
    programs and one or more community member or organization;
    and
        (2) an agreement with the Illinois Criminal Justice
    Information Authority to collect and evaluate relevant
    statistical data related to the program, as established by
    the Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority in
    paragraph (2) of subsection (a) of Section 25 of this Act.
 
    Section 20. Procedure. The law enforcement agency,
licensed treatment providers, and community members or
organizations shall establish a local deflection program plan
that includes protocols and procedures for participant
identification, screening or assessment, treatment
facilitation, reporting, and ongoing involvement of the law
enforcement agency. Licensed substance use disorder treatment
organizations shall adhere to 42 CFR Part 2 regarding
confidentiality regulations for information exchange or
release. Substance use disorder treatment services shall
adhere to all regulations specified in Department of Human
Services Administrative Rules, Parts 2060 and 2090.
 
    Section 25. Reporting and evaluation.
    (a) The Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority,
in conjunction with an association representing police chiefs
and the Department of Human Services' Division of Substance Use
Prevention and Recovery, shall within 6 months of the effective
date of this Act:
        (1) develop a set of minimum data to be collected from
    each deflection program and reported annually, beginning
    one year after the effective date of this Act, by the
    Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority,
    including, but not limited to, demographic information on
    program participants, number of law enforcement encounters
    that result in a treatment referral, and time from law
    enforcement encounter to treatment engagement; and
        (2) develop a performance measurement system,
    including key performance indicators for deflection
    programs including, but not limited to, rate of treatment
    engagement at 30 days from the point of initial contact.
    Each program that receives funding for services under
    Section 35 of this Act shall include the performance
    measurement system in its local plan and report data
    quarterly to the Illinois Criminal Justice Information
    Authority for the purpose of evaluation of deflection
    programs in aggregate.
    (b) The Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority
shall make statistical data collected under subsection (a) of
this Section available to the Department of Human Services,
Division of Substance Use Prevention and Recovery for inclusion
in planning efforts for services to persons with criminal
justice or law enforcement involvement.
 
    Section 30. Exemption from civil liability. The law
enforcement agency or peace officer acting in good faith shall
not, as the result of acts or omissions in providing services
under Section 15 of this Act, be liable for civil damages,
unless the acts or omissions constitute willful and wanton
misconduct.
 
    Section 35. Funding.
    (a) The General Assembly may appropriate funds to the
Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority for the
purpose of funding law enforcement agencies for services
provided by deflection program partners as part of deflection
programs subject to subsection (d) of Section 15 of this Act.
    (b) The Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority
may adopt guidelines and requirements to direct the
distribution of funds for expenses related to deflection
programs. Funding shall be made available to support both new
and existing deflection programs in a broad spectrum of
geographic regions in this State, including urban, suburban,
and rural communities. Activities eligible for funding under
this Act may include, but are not limited to, the following:
        (1) activities related to program administration,
    coordination, or management, including, but not limited
    to, the development of collaborative partnerships with
    licensed treatment providers and community members or
    organizations; collection of program data; or monitoring
    of compliance with a local deflection program plan;
        (2) case management including case management provided
    prior to assessment, diagnosis, and engagement in
    treatment, as well as assistance navigating and gaining
    access to various treatment modalities and support
    services;
        (3) peer recovery or recovery support services that
    include the perspectives of persons with the experience of
    recovering from a substance use disorder, either
    themselves or as family members;
        (4) transportation to a licensed treatment provider or
    other program partner location;
        (5) program evaluation activities.
    (c) Specific linkage agreements with recovery support
services or self-help entities may be a requirement of the
program services protocols. All deflection programs shall
encourage the involvement of key family members and significant
others as a part of a family-based approach to treatment. All
deflection programs are encouraged to use evidence-based
practices and outcome measures in the provision of substance
use disorder treatment and medication assisted treatment for
persons with opioid use disorders.

Effective Date: 1/1/2019