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HB3678 Engrossed |
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LRB095 10032 DRJ 32376 b |
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| AN ACT concerning children.
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| Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| represented in the General Assembly:
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| Section 5. The Abused and Neglected Child Reporting Act is |
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| amended by adding Section 4.4 as follows:
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| (325 ILCS 5/4.4 new) |
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| Sec. 4.4. DCFS duty to report to State's Attorney. Whenever |
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| the Department receives, by means of its statewide toll-free |
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| telephone number established under Section 7.6 for the purpose |
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| of reporting suspected child abuse or neglect or by any other |
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| means or from any mandated reporter under Section 4, a report |
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| of a newborn infant whose blood, urine, or meconium contains |
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| any amount of a controlled substance as defined in subsection |
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| (f) of Section 102 of the Illinois Controlled Substances Act or |
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| a metabolite thereof,
with the exception of a controlled |
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| substance or metabolite thereof whose
presence in the newborn |
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| infant is the result of medical treatment administered
to the |
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| mother or the newborn infant, the Department must immediately |
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| report that information to the State's Attorney of the county |
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| in which the infant was born.
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| Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon |
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| becoming law.
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