Section 150.30 Definitions
For the purposes of this Part, the following terms are
defined:
"Adjudicated a mentally
disabled person" – The person is the subject of a determination by a
court, board, commission or other lawful authority that the person, as a result
of marked subnormal intelligence, mental illness, mental impairment,
incompetency, condition or disease:
presents a clear and
present danger to himself, herself or others;
lacks the mental capacity to
manage his or her own affairs or is adjudicated a disabled person as defined in
Section 11a-2 of the Probate Act of 1975 [755 ILCS 5];
is not guilty in a criminal case
by reason of insanity, mental disease or defect as provided in Section 5-2-4 of
the Unified Code of Corrections [730 ILCS 5];
is guilty but mentally ill, as
provided in Section 5-2-6 of the Unified Code of Corrections;
is incompetent to stand trial in a
criminal case as provided in Article 104 of the Code of Criminal Procedure [725
ILCS 5];
is not guilty by reason of lack of
mental responsibility pursuant to Articles 50a and 72b of the Uniform Code of
Military Justice (10 USC 850a and 876b);
is a sexually violent person under
Section 5(f) of the Sexually Violent Persons Commitment Act [725 ILCS 207];
has been found to be a sexually
dangerous person under the Sexually Dangerous Persons Act [725 ILCS 205];
is unfit to stand trial under the
Juvenile Court Act of 1987 [705 ILCS 405];
is not guilty by reason of
insanity under the Juvenile Court Act of 1987;
is subject to involuntary
admission as an inpatient as defined in Section 1-119 of the Mental Health and
Development Disabilities Code [405 ILCS 5];
is subject to involuntary
admissions as an outpatient as defined in Section 1-119.1 of the Mental Health
and Developmental Disabilities Code;
is subject to judicial admission
as set forth in Section 4-500 of the Mental Health and Developmental
Disabilities Code; or
is subject to the provisions of
the Interstate Agreements on Sexually Dangerous Persons Act [45 ILCS 20] (see
Section 1.1 of the FOID Act).
"Clear and
present danger" – a person who:
communicates a serious threat of
physical violence against a reasonably identifiable victim or poses a clear and
imminent risk of serious physical injury to himself, herself or another person
as determined by a clinician; or
demonstrates threatening physical
or verbal behavior, such as violent, suicidal or assaultive threats, actions or
other behavior, as determined by a clinician, school administrator or law
enforcement official (see Section 1.1 of the FOID Act).
"Clinical psychologist"
– a person licensed by the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional
Regulation under the Clinical Psychologist Licensing Act [225 ILCS 15] (see 405
ILCS 5/1-103).
"Clinical
social worker" – a person who:
has a master's or doctoral degree
in social work from an accredited graduate school of social work; and
has at least 3 years of supervised
postmaster's clinical social work practice that shall include the provision of
mental health services for the evaluation, treatment and prevention of mental
and emotional disorders (see 405 ILCS 5/1-122.1).
"Clinician"–
a physician, psychiatrist, clinical psychologist or qualified examiner.
"Confidentiality Act" –
the Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Confidentiality Act [740 ILCS
110].
"Determined" – the
mandated reporter has completed a formal structured evaluation and/or
assessment that, in his or her clinical judgment, supports the diagnosis of developmentally
disabled and/or intellectual disability.
"Developmentally disabled"
– a person with a disability that is attributable to any other condition that
results in impairment similar to that caused by an intellectual disability and that
requires services similar to those required by intellectually disabled
persons. The disability must originate before the age of 18 years, be expected
to continue indefinitely, and constitute a substantial handicap (see Section
1.1 of the FOID Act). This can include an intellectual disability, autism,
cerebral palsy and epilepsy.
"DHS" –
the Illinois Department of Human Services.
"DPH" –
the Illinois Department of Public Health.
"FOID Act"
– the Firearm Owner's Identification Card Act [430 ILCS 65].
"Intellectual disability"
– significantly subaverage general intellectual functioning that exists
concurrently with impairment in adaptive behavior and that originates before
the age of 18 years.
"Involuntarily admitted"
– has the meaning prescribed in Sections 1-119 and 1-119.1 of the MHDD Code
(see Section 1.1 of the FOID Act).
"MHDD Code" – the Mental
Health and Developmental Disabilities Code [405 ILCS 5].
"Mental health facility"
– any licensed private hospital or hospital affiliate, institution or facility,
or part thereof, and any facility, or part thereof, operated by the State or a
political subdivision thereof that provides treatment of persons with mental
illness and includes all hospitals, institutions, clinics, evaluation
facilities, mental health centers, colleges, universities, long-term care
facilities, and nursing homes, or parts thereof, that provides treatment of
persons with mental illness whether or not the primary purpose is to provide
treatment of persons with mental illness (see Section 1.1 of the FOID Act).
For purposes of this Part, an inpatient mental health facility includes:
State-operated mental health
facility as described in Section 4 of the Mental Health and Developmental
Disabilities Administrative Act [20 ILCS 1705];
Psychiatric
hospital as authorized by DPH;
The specific units of a general
hospital providing psychiatric services as authorized by DPH; and
Residential settings.
Residential settings include:
Nursing homes or long-term care
facilities that are considered Institutes for Mental Disease as that term is
described in section 1905(i) of Title XIX of the Social Security Act (42 USC 1396d(i));
The specific units of a nursing
home or long-term care facility authorized by DPH to provide psychiatric or
behavioral healthcare;
The specific units of a nursing
home or long-term care facility held out by the facility as providing
psychiatric or behavioral health care;
Specialized Mental Health
Rehabilitation Facilities as described in the Specialized Mental Health
Rehabilitation Act of 2013 [210 ILCS 49]; and
A supervised transitional
residential program funded by the DHS Division of Mental Health (DHS-DMH) when
that level of service has been determined to be medically necessary as that
term is defined by 59 Ill. Adm. Code 132.
For the purposes of this Part, an
outpatient mental health facility includes:
A community mental health agency;
A general hospital that does not
provide inpatient psychiatric care;
A general hospital emergency
department;
The portions of a psychiatric
hospital (or general hospital with psychiatric services) that do not provide
inpatient psychiatric services;
A nursing home or long-term care
facility that does not provide inpatient psychiatric care;
A health counseling center or
health clinic operated by a college or university;
A clinic.
It is
possible for a facility to qualify as both an inpatient and outpatient mental
health facility.
"National Instant Criminal
Background Check System" or "NICS" – the system that a federal
firearm licensee must, with limited exceptions, contact for information on
whether receipt of a firearm by a person who is not licensed under 18 USC 923
would violate federal or State law (28 CFR 25.2).
"Patient" –
a person who voluntarily receives
mental health treatment as an inpatient or resident of any public or private
mental health facility, unless the treatment was solely for an alcohol abuse
disorder and no other secondary substance abuse disorder or mental illness; or
a person who voluntarily receives
mental health treatment as an outpatient or is provided services by a public or
private mental health facility, and who poses a clear and present danger to
himself, herself or others (see Section 1.1 of the FOID Act).
For the purposes of this Part, a
person is considered to voluntarily receive mental health services on an
inpatient basis if the person is admitted:
On a voluntary basis as that term
is used in Article IV of Chapter III of the MHDD Code;
On an informal basis as that term
is used in Section 3-300 of the MHDD Code;
As a juvenile under the provisions
of Article V of Chapter III of the MHDD Code;
On a petition, or a petition and
one or more certificates, as described in Article VI, VII or VII-A of Chapter
III of the MHDD Code; or
On a court order for detention and
examination under the provisions of Section 3-607 of the MHDD Code.
"Physician" – any
person licensed by the State of Illinois to practice medicine in all its
branches and includes any person holding a temporary license, as provided in
the Medical Practice Act of 1987 [225 ILCS 60]. Physician includes a
psychiatrist as defined in this Section [405 ILCS 5/1-120].
"Psychiatrist" – a
physician as defined in this Section who has successfully completed
a residency program in psychiatry accredited by either the Accreditation
Council for Graduate Medical Education (www.acgme.org) or the American
Osteopathic Association (www.osteopathic.org) [405 ILCS 5/1-121].
"Qualified
examiner" – a person who is:
A clinical social
worker as defined in this Part;
A registered nurse with a master's
degree in psychiatric nursing who has 3 years of clinical training and experience
in the evaluation and treatment of mental illness that has been acquired
subsequent to any training and experience that constituted a part of the degree
program;
A licensed clinical professional
counselor with a master's or doctoral degree in counseling or psychology or a
similar master's or doctorate program from a regionally accredited institution
who has at least 3 years of supervised post-master's clinical professional
counseling experience that includes the provision of mental health services for
the evaluation, treatment and prevention of mental and emotional disorders; or
A licensed marriage and family
therapist with a master's or doctoral degree in marriage and family therapy
from a regionally accredited educational institution or a similar master's
program or from a program accredited by either the Commission on Accreditation
for Marriage and Family Therapy Education http://www.aamft.org/imis15/content/
coamfte/About_COAMFTE.aspx) or the
Council for Accreditation of Counseling & Related Educational Programs (www.cacrep.org),
who has at least 3 years of supervised post-master's experience as a marriage
and family therapist that includes the provisions of mental health services for
the evaluation, treatment and prevention of mental and emotional disorders.
A social worker who is a
qualified examiner shall be a licensed clinical social worker under the
Clinical Social Work and Social Work Practice Act [225 ILCS 20] (see 405 ILCS
5/1-122).