97TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2011 and 2012
SB1624

 

Introduced 2/9/2011, by Sen. Heather A. Steans

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
5 ILCS 120/2  from Ch. 102, par. 42
5 ILCS 140/7  from Ch. 116, par. 207
5 ILCS 140/7.5
210 ILCS 28/30
405 ILCS 82/25
730 ILCS 195/40

    Amends the Open Meetings Act. Provides that only particular portions of specified meetings under the Abuse Prevention Review Team Act, Developmental Disability and Mental Health Safety Act, and Department of Juvenile Justice Mortality Review Team Act (rather than all of the specified meetings under those Acts) may be closed to the public. Amends the Freedom of Information Act. Provides that only particular portions (rather than all) of the records and information maintained or provided by certain entities under the Abuse Prevention Review Team Act, Developmental Disability and Mental Health Safety Act, and Department of Juvenile Justice Mortality Review Team Act are exempt from disclosure. Amends the Abuse Prevention Review Team Act, Developmental Disability and Mental Health Safety Act, and Department of Juvenile Justice Mortality Review Team Act to make conforming changes. Effective immediately.


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A BILL FOR

 

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1    AN ACT concerning government.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The Open Meetings Act is amended by changing
5Section 2 as follows:
 
6    (5 ILCS 120/2)  (from Ch. 102, par. 42)
7    Sec. 2. Open meetings.
8    (a) Openness required. All meetings of public bodies shall
9be open to the public unless excepted in subsection (c) and
10closed in accordance with Section 2a.
11    (b) Construction of exceptions. The exceptions contained
12in subsection (c) are in derogation of the requirement that
13public bodies meet in the open, and therefore, the exceptions
14are to be strictly construed, extending only to subjects
15clearly within their scope. The exceptions authorize but do not
16require the holding of a closed meeting to discuss a subject
17included within an enumerated exception.
18    (c) Exceptions. A public body may hold closed meetings to
19consider the following subjects:
20        (1) The appointment, employment, compensation,
21    discipline, performance, or dismissal of specific
22    employees of the public body or legal counsel for the
23    public body, including hearing testimony on a complaint

 

 

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1    lodged against an employee of the public body or against
2    legal counsel for the public body to determine its
3    validity.
4        (2) Collective negotiating matters between the public
5    body and its employees or their representatives, or
6    deliberations concerning salary schedules for one or more
7    classes of employees.
8        (3) The selection of a person to fill a public office,
9    as defined in this Act, including a vacancy in a public
10    office, when the public body is given power to appoint
11    under law or ordinance, or the discipline, performance or
12    removal of the occupant of a public office, when the public
13    body is given power to remove the occupant under law or
14    ordinance.
15        (4) Evidence or testimony presented in open hearing, or
16    in closed hearing where specifically authorized by law, to
17    a quasi-adjudicative body, as defined in this Act, provided
18    that the body prepares and makes available for public
19    inspection a written decision setting forth its
20    determinative reasoning.
21        (5) The purchase or lease of real property for the use
22    of the public body, including meetings held for the purpose
23    of discussing whether a particular parcel should be
24    acquired.
25        (6) The setting of a price for sale or lease of
26    property owned by the public body.

 

 

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1        (7) The sale or purchase of securities, investments, or
2    investment contracts.
3        (8) Security procedures and the use of personnel and
4    equipment to respond to an actual, a threatened, or a
5    reasonably potential danger to the safety of employees,
6    students, staff, the public, or public property.
7        (9) Student disciplinary cases.
8        (10) The placement of individual students in special
9    education programs and other matters relating to
10    individual students.
11        (11) Litigation, when an action against, affecting or
12    on behalf of the particular public body has been filed and
13    is pending before a court or administrative tribunal, or
14    when the public body finds that an action is probable or
15    imminent, in which case the basis for the finding shall be
16    recorded and entered into the minutes of the closed
17    meeting.
18        (12) The establishment of reserves or settlement of
19    claims as provided in the Local Governmental and
20    Governmental Employees Tort Immunity Act, if otherwise the
21    disposition of a claim or potential claim might be
22    prejudiced, or the review or discussion of claims, loss or
23    risk management information, records, data, advice or
24    communications from or with respect to any insurer of the
25    public body or any intergovernmental risk management
26    association or self insurance pool of which the public body

 

 

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1    is a member.
2        (13) Conciliation of complaints of discrimination in
3    the sale or rental of housing, when closed meetings are
4    authorized by the law or ordinance prescribing fair housing
5    practices and creating a commission or administrative
6    agency for their enforcement.
7        (14) Informant sources, the hiring or assignment of
8    undercover personnel or equipment, or ongoing, prior or
9    future criminal investigations, when discussed by a public
10    body with criminal investigatory responsibilities.
11        (15) Professional ethics or performance when
12    considered by an advisory body appointed to advise a
13    licensing or regulatory agency on matters germane to the
14    advisory body's field of competence.
15        (16) Self evaluation, practices and procedures or
16    professional ethics, when meeting with a representative of
17    a statewide association of which the public body is a
18    member.
19        (17) The recruitment, credentialing, discipline or
20    formal peer review of physicians or other health care
21    professionals for a hospital, or other institution
22    providing medical care, that is operated by the public
23    body.
24        (18) Deliberations for decisions of the Prisoner
25    Review Board.
26        (19) Review or discussion of applications received

 

 

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1    under the Experimental Organ Transplantation Procedures
2    Act.
3        (20) The classification and discussion of matters
4    classified as confidential or continued confidential by
5    the State Government Suggestion Award Board.
6        (21) Discussion of minutes of meetings lawfully closed
7    under this Act, whether for purposes of approval by the
8    body of the minutes or semi-annual review of the minutes as
9    mandated by Section 2.06.
10        (22) Deliberations for decisions of the State
11    Emergency Medical Services Disciplinary Review Board.
12        (23) The operation by a municipality of a municipal
13    utility or the operation of a municipal power agency or
14    municipal natural gas agency when the discussion involves
15    (i) contracts relating to the purchase, sale, or delivery
16    of electricity or natural gas or (ii) the results or
17    conclusions of load forecast studies.
18        (24) That portion of a meeting of either a Meetings of
19    a residential health care facility resident sexual assault
20    and death review team or the Executive Council during which
21    the sexual assault or death of a resident is being
22    investigated or examined under the Abuse Prevention Review
23    Team Act.
24        (25) That portion of a meeting of an independent team
25    of experts during which the death of a resident is being
26    investigated or examined under the Developmental

 

 

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1    Disability and Mental Health Safety Act Meetings of an
2    independent team of experts under Brian's Law.
3        (26) (25) That portion of a meeting of a mortality
4    review team during which the death of a youth is being
5    investigated or examined Meetings of a mortality review
6    team appointed under the Department of Juvenile Justice
7    Mortality Review Team Act.
8        (27) (25) Confidential information, when discussed by
9    one or more members of an elder abuse fatality review team,
10    designated under Section 15 of the Elder Abuse and Neglect
11    Act, while participating in a review conducted by that team
12    of the death of an elderly person in which abuse or neglect
13    is suspected, alleged, or substantiated; provided that
14    before the review team holds a closed meeting, or closes an
15    open meeting, to discuss the confidential information,
16    each participating review team member seeking to disclose
17    the confidential information in the closed meeting or
18    closed portion of the meeting must state on the record
19    during an open meeting or the open portion of a meeting the
20    nature of the information to be disclosed and the legal
21    basis for otherwise holding that information confidential.
22    (d) Definitions. For purposes of this Section:
23    "Employee" means a person employed by a public body whose
24relationship with the public body constitutes an
25employer-employee relationship under the usual common law
26rules, and who is not an independent contractor.

 

 

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1    "Public office" means a position created by or under the
2Constitution or laws of this State, the occupant of which is
3charged with the exercise of some portion of the sovereign
4power of this State. The term "public office" shall include
5members of the public body, but it shall not include
6organizational positions filled by members thereof, whether
7established by law or by a public body itself, that exist to
8assist the body in the conduct of its business.
9    "Quasi-adjudicative body" means an administrative body
10charged by law or ordinance with the responsibility to conduct
11hearings, receive evidence or testimony and make
12determinations based thereon, but does not include local
13electoral boards when such bodies are considering petition
14challenges.
15    (e) Final action. No final action may be taken at a closed
16meeting. Final action shall be preceded by a public recital of
17the nature of the matter being considered and other information
18that will inform the public of the business being conducted.
19(Source: P.A. 95-185, eff. 1-1-08; 96-1235, eff. 1-1-11;
2096-1378, eff. 7-29-10; 96-1428, eff. 8-11-10; revised 9-2-10.)
 
21    Section 10. The Freedom of Information Act is amended by
22changing Sections 7 and 7.5 as follows:
 
23    (5 ILCS 140/7)  (from Ch. 116, par. 207)
24    Sec. 7. Exemptions.

 

 

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1    (1) When a request is made to inspect or copy a public
2record that contains information that is exempt from disclosure
3under this Section, but also contains information that is not
4exempt from disclosure, the public body may elect to redact the
5information that is exempt. The public body shall make the
6remaining information available for inspection and copying.
7Subject to this requirement, the following shall be exempt from
8inspection and copying:
9        (a) Information specifically prohibited from
10    disclosure by federal or State law or rules and regulations
11    implementing federal or State law.
12        (b) Private information, unless disclosure is required
13    by another provision of this Act, a State or federal law or
14    a court order.
15        (b-5) Files, documents, and other data or databases
16    maintained by one or more law enforcement agencies and
17    specifically designed to provide information to one or more
18    law enforcement agencies regarding the physical or mental
19    status of one or more individual subjects.
20        (c) Personal information contained within public
21    records, the disclosure of which would constitute a clearly
22    unwarranted invasion of personal privacy, unless the
23    disclosure is consented to in writing by the individual
24    subjects of the information. "Unwarranted invasion of
25    personal privacy" means the disclosure of information that
26    is highly personal or objectionable to a reasonable person

 

 

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1    and in which the subject's right to privacy outweighs any
2    legitimate public interest in obtaining the information.
3    The disclosure of information that bears on the public
4    duties of public employees and officials shall not be
5    considered an invasion of personal privacy.
6        (d) Records in the possession of any public body
7    created in the course of administrative enforcement
8    proceedings, and any law enforcement or correctional
9    agency for law enforcement purposes, but only to the extent
10    that disclosure would:
11            (i) interfere with pending or actually and
12        reasonably contemplated law enforcement proceedings
13        conducted by any law enforcement or correctional
14        agency that is the recipient of the request;
15            (ii) interfere with active administrative
16        enforcement proceedings conducted by the public body
17        that is the recipient of the request;
18            (iii) create a substantial likelihood that a
19        person will be deprived of a fair trial or an impartial
20        hearing;
21            (iv) unavoidably disclose the identity of a
22        confidential source, confidential information
23        furnished only by the confidential source, or persons
24        who file complaints with or provide information to
25        administrative, investigative, law enforcement, or
26        penal agencies; except that the identities of

 

 

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1        witnesses to traffic accidents, traffic accident
2        reports, and rescue reports shall be provided by
3        agencies of local government, except when disclosure
4        would interfere with an active criminal investigation
5        conducted by the agency that is the recipient of the
6        request;
7            (v) disclose unique or specialized investigative
8        techniques other than those generally used and known or
9        disclose internal documents of correctional agencies
10        related to detection, observation or investigation of
11        incidents of crime or misconduct, and disclosure would
12        result in demonstrable harm to the agency or public
13        body that is the recipient of the request;
14            (vi) endanger the life or physical safety of law
15        enforcement personnel or any other person; or
16            (vii) obstruct an ongoing criminal investigation
17        by the agency that is the recipient of the request.
18        (e) Records that relate to or affect the security of
19    correctional institutions and detention facilities.
20        (f) Preliminary drafts, notes, recommendations,
21    memoranda and other records in which opinions are
22    expressed, or policies or actions are formulated, except
23    that a specific record or relevant portion of a record
24    shall not be exempt when the record is publicly cited and
25    identified by the head of the public body. The exemption
26    provided in this paragraph (f) extends to all those records

 

 

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1    of officers and agencies of the General Assembly that
2    pertain to the preparation of legislative documents.
3        (g) Trade secrets and commercial or financial
4    information obtained from a person or business where the
5    trade secrets or commercial or financial information are
6    furnished under a claim that they are proprietary,
7    privileged or confidential, and that disclosure of the
8    trade secrets or commercial or financial information would
9    cause competitive harm to the person or business, and only
10    insofar as the claim directly applies to the records
11    requested.
12        The information included under this exemption includes
13    all trade secrets and commercial or financial information
14    obtained by a public body, including a public pension fund,
15    from a private equity fund or a privately held company
16    within the investment portfolio of a private equity fund as
17    a result of either investing or evaluating a potential
18    investment of public funds in a private equity fund. The
19    exemption contained in this item does not apply to the
20    aggregate financial performance information of a private
21    equity fund, nor to the identity of the fund's managers or
22    general partners. The exemption contained in this item does
23    not apply to the identity of a privately held company
24    within the investment portfolio of a private equity fund,
25    unless the disclosure of the identity of a privately held
26    company may cause competitive harm.

 

 

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1        Nothing contained in this paragraph (g) shall be
2    construed to prevent a person or business from consenting
3    to disclosure.
4        (h) Proposals and bids for any contract, grant, or
5    agreement, including information which if it were
6    disclosed would frustrate procurement or give an advantage
7    to any person proposing to enter into a contractor
8    agreement with the body, until an award or final selection
9    is made. Information prepared by or for the body in
10    preparation of a bid solicitation shall be exempt until an
11    award or final selection is made.
12        (i) Valuable formulae, computer geographic systems,
13    designs, drawings and research data obtained or produced by
14    any public body when disclosure could reasonably be
15    expected to produce private gain or public loss. The
16    exemption for "computer geographic systems" provided in
17    this paragraph (i) does not extend to requests made by news
18    media as defined in Section 2 of this Act when the
19    requested information is not otherwise exempt and the only
20    purpose of the request is to access and disseminate
21    information regarding the health, safety, welfare, or
22    legal rights of the general public.
23        (j) The following information pertaining to
24    educational matters:
25            (i) test questions, scoring keys and other
26        examination data used to administer an academic

 

 

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1        examination;
2            (ii) information received by a primary or
3        secondary school, college, or university under its
4        procedures for the evaluation of faculty members by
5        their academic peers;
6            (iii) information concerning a school or
7        university's adjudication of student disciplinary
8        cases, but only to the extent that disclosure would
9        unavoidably reveal the identity of the student; and
10            (iv) course materials or research materials used
11        by faculty members.
12        (k) Architects' plans, engineers' technical
13    submissions, and other construction related technical
14    documents for projects not constructed or developed in
15    whole or in part with public funds and the same for
16    projects constructed or developed with public funds,
17    including but not limited to power generating and
18    distribution stations and other transmission and
19    distribution facilities, water treatment facilities,
20    airport facilities, sport stadiums, convention centers,
21    and all government owned, operated, or occupied buildings,
22    but only to the extent that disclosure would compromise
23    security.
24        (l) Minutes of meetings of public bodies closed to the
25    public as provided in the Open Meetings Act until the
26    public body makes the minutes available to the public under

 

 

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1    Section 2.06 of the Open Meetings Act.
2        (m) Communications between a public body and an
3    attorney or auditor representing the public body that would
4    not be subject to discovery in litigation, and materials
5    prepared or compiled by or for a public body in
6    anticipation of a criminal, civil or administrative
7    proceeding upon the request of an attorney advising the
8    public body, and materials prepared or compiled with
9    respect to internal audits of public bodies.
10        (n) Records relating to a public body's adjudication of
11    employee grievances or disciplinary cases; however, this
12    exemption shall not extend to the final outcome of cases in
13    which discipline is imposed.
14        (o) Administrative or technical information associated
15    with automated data processing operations, including but
16    not limited to software, operating protocols, computer
17    program abstracts, file layouts, source listings, object
18    modules, load modules, user guides, documentation
19    pertaining to all logical and physical design of
20    computerized systems, employee manuals, and any other
21    information that, if disclosed, would jeopardize the
22    security of the system or its data or the security of
23    materials exempt under this Section.
24        (p) Records relating to collective negotiating matters
25    between public bodies and their employees or
26    representatives, except that any final contract or

 

 

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1    agreement shall be subject to inspection and copying.
2        (q) Test questions, scoring keys, and other
3    examination data used to determine the qualifications of an
4    applicant for a license or employment.
5        (r) The records, documents, and information relating
6    to real estate purchase negotiations until those
7    negotiations have been completed or otherwise terminated.
8    With regard to a parcel involved in a pending or actually
9    and reasonably contemplated eminent domain proceeding
10    under the Eminent Domain Act, records, documents and
11    information relating to that parcel shall be exempt except
12    as may be allowed under discovery rules adopted by the
13    Illinois Supreme Court. The records, documents and
14    information relating to a real estate sale shall be exempt
15    until a sale is consummated.
16        (s) Any and all proprietary information and records
17    related to the operation of an intergovernmental risk
18    management association or self-insurance pool or jointly
19    self-administered health and accident cooperative or pool.
20    Insurance or self insurance (including any
21    intergovernmental risk management association or self
22    insurance pool) claims, loss or risk management
23    information, records, data, advice or communications.
24        (t) Information contained in or related to
25    examination, operating, or condition reports prepared by,
26    on behalf of, or for the use of a public body responsible

 

 

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1    for the regulation or supervision of financial
2    institutions or insurance companies, unless disclosure is
3    otherwise required by State law.
4        (u) Information that would disclose or might lead to
5    the disclosure of secret or confidential information,
6    codes, algorithms, programs, or private keys intended to be
7    used to create electronic or digital signatures under the
8    Electronic Commerce Security Act.
9        (v) Vulnerability assessments, security measures, and
10    response policies or plans that are designed to identify,
11    prevent, or respond to potential attacks upon a community's
12    population or systems, facilities, or installations, the
13    destruction or contamination of which would constitute a
14    clear and present danger to the health or safety of the
15    community, but only to the extent that disclosure could
16    reasonably be expected to jeopardize the effectiveness of
17    the measures or the safety of the personnel who implement
18    them or the public. Information exempt under this item may
19    include such things as details pertaining to the
20    mobilization or deployment of personnel or equipment, to
21    the operation of communication systems or protocols, or to
22    tactical operations.
23        (w) (Blank).
24        (x) Maps and other records regarding the location or
25    security of generation, transmission, distribution,
26    storage, gathering, treatment, or switching facilities

 

 

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1    owned by a utility, by a power generator, or by the
2    Illinois Power Agency.
3        (y) Information contained in or related to proposals,
4    bids, or negotiations related to electric power
5    procurement under Section 1-75 of the Illinois Power Agency
6    Act and Section 16-111.5 of the Public Utilities Act that
7    is determined to be confidential and proprietary by the
8    Illinois Power Agency or by the Illinois Commerce
9    Commission.
10        (z) Information about students exempted from
11    disclosure under Sections 10-20.38 or 34-18.29 of the
12    School Code, and information about undergraduate students
13    enrolled at an institution of higher education exempted
14    from disclosure under Section 25 of the Illinois Credit
15    Card Marketing Act of 2009.
16        (aa) Information the disclosure of which is exempted
17    under the Viatical Settlements Act of 2009.
18        (bb) Records and information provided to a mortality
19    review team and records maintained by a mortality review
20    team that pertain to the investigation and examination,
21    appointed under the Department of Juvenile Justice
22    Mortality Review Team Act, of the death of any youth.
23        (cc) (bb) Information regarding interments,
24    entombments, or inurnments of human remains that are
25    submitted to the Cemetery Oversight Database under the
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1    is applicable.
2    (2) A public record that is not in the possession of a
3public body but is in the possession of a party with whom the
4agency has contracted to perform a governmental function on
5behalf of the public body, and that directly relates to the
6governmental function and is not otherwise exempt under this
7Act, shall be considered a public record of the public body,
8for purposes of this Act.
9    (3) This Section does not authorize withholding of
10information or limit the availability of records to the public,
11except as stated in this Section or otherwise provided in this
12Act.
13(Source: P.A. 95-331, eff. 8-21-07; 95-481, eff. 8-28-07;
1495-941, eff. 8-29-08; 95-988, eff. 6-1-09; 96-261, eff. 1-1-10;
1596-328, eff. 8-11-09; 96-542, eff. 1-1-10; 96-558, eff. 1-1-10;
1696-736, eff. 7-1-10; 96-863, eff. 3-1-10; 96-1378, eff.
177-29-10; revised 9-2-10.)
 
18    (5 ILCS 140/7.5)
19    Sec. 7.5. Statutory Exemptions. To the extent provided for
20by the statutes referenced below, the following shall be exempt
21from inspection and copying:
22    (a) All information determined to be confidential under
23Section 4002 of the Technology Advancement and Development Act.
24    (b) Library circulation and order records identifying
25library users with specific materials under the Library Records

 

 

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1Confidentiality Act.
2    (c) Applications, related documents, and medical records
3received by the Experimental Organ Transplantation Procedures
4Board and any and all documents or other records prepared by
5the Experimental Organ Transplantation Procedures Board or its
6staff relating to applications it has received.
7    (d) Information and records held by the Department of
8Public Health and its authorized representatives relating to
9known or suspected cases of sexually transmissible disease or
10any information the disclosure of which is restricted under the
11Illinois Sexually Transmissible Disease Control Act.
12    (e) Information the disclosure of which is exempted under
13Section 30 of the Radon Industry Licensing Act.
14    (f) Firm performance evaluations under Section 55 of the
15Architectural, Engineering, and Land Surveying Qualifications
16Based Selection Act.
17    (g) Information the disclosure of which is restricted and
18exempted under Section 50 of the Illinois Prepaid Tuition Act.
19    (h) Information the disclosure of which is exempted under
20the State Officials and Employees Ethics Act, and records of
21any lawfully created State or local inspector general's office
22that would be exempt if created or obtained by an Executive
23Inspector General's office under that Act.
24    (i) Information contained in a local emergency energy plan
25submitted to a municipality in accordance with a local
26emergency energy plan ordinance that is adopted under Section

 

 

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111-21.5-5 of the Illinois Municipal Code.
2    (j) Information and data concerning the distribution of
3surcharge moneys collected and remitted by wireless carriers
4under the Wireless Emergency Telephone Safety Act.
5    (k) Law enforcement officer identification information or
6driver identification information compiled by a law
7enforcement agency or the Department of Transportation under
8Section 11-212 of the Illinois Vehicle Code.
9    (l) Records and information provided to a residential
10health care facility resident sexual assault and death review
11team or the Executive Council that pertain to the investigation
12and examination, under the Abuse Prevention Review Team Act, of
13the sexual assault or death of any resident.
14    (m) Information provided to the predatory lending database
15created pursuant to Article 3 of the Residential Real Property
16Disclosure Act, except to the extent authorized under that
17Article.
18    (n) Defense budgets and petitions for certification of
19compensation and expenses for court appointed trial counsel as
20provided under Sections 10 and 15 of the Capital Crimes
21Litigation Act. This subsection (n) shall apply until the
22conclusion of the trial of the case, even if the prosecution
23chooses not to pursue the death penalty prior to trial or
24sentencing.
25    (o) Information that is prohibited from being disclosed
26under Section 4 of the Illinois Health and Hazardous Substances

 

 

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1Registry Act.
2    (p) Security portions of system safety program plans,
3investigation reports, surveys, schedules, lists, data, or
4information compiled, collected, or prepared by or for the
5Regional Transportation Authority under Section 2.11 of the
6Regional Transportation Authority Act or the St. Clair County
7Transit District under the Bi-State Transit Safety Act.
8    (q) Information prohibited from being disclosed by the
9Personnel Records Review Act.
10    (r) Information prohibited from being disclosed by the
11Illinois School Student Records Act.
12    (s) Information the disclosure of which is restricted under
13Section 5-108 of the Public Utilities Act.
14    (t) All identified or deidentified health information in
15the form of health data or medical records contained in, stored
16in, submitted to, transferred by, or released from the Illinois
17Health Information Exchange, and identified or deidentified
18health information in the form of health data and medical
19records of the Illinois Health Information Exchange in the
20possession of the Illinois Health Information Exchange
21Authority due to its administration of the Illinois Health
22Information Exchange. The terms "identified" and
23"deidentified" shall be given the same meaning as in the Health
24Insurance Accountability and Portability Act of 1996, Public
25Law 104-191, or any subsequent amendments thereto, and any
26regulations promulgated thereunder.

 

 

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1    (u) (t) Records and information provided to an independent
2team of experts that pertain to the investigation and
3examination, under the Developmental Disability and Mental
4Health Safety Act, of the death of any resident under Brian's
5Law.
6(Source: P.A. 96-542, eff. 1-1-10; 96-1235, eff. 1-1-11;
796-1331, eff. 7-27-10; revised 9-2-10.)
 
8    Section 15. The Abuse Prevention Review Team Act is amended
9by changing Section 30 as follows:
 
10    (210 ILCS 28/30)
11    Sec. 30. Public access to information.
12    (a) Meetings of the review teams and the Executive Council
13shall be closed to the public pursuant to paragraph (24) of
14subsection (c) of Section 2 of the Open Meetings Act. Meetings
15of the review teams and the Executive Council are not subject
16to the Open Meetings Act, as provided in that Act.
17    (b) Records and information provided to a review team and
18the Executive Council, and records maintained by a review team
19or the Executive Council, are confidential pursuant to
20subsection (l) of Section 7.5 of the Freedom of Information Act
21and not subject to the Freedom of Information Act, as provided
22in that Act. Nothing contained in this subsection (b) prevents
23the sharing or disclosure of records, other than those produced
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1pertaining to the sexual assault or death of a resident.
2    (c) Members of a review team and the Executive Council are
3not subject to examination, in any civil or criminal
4proceeding, concerning information presented to members of the
5review team or the Executive Council or opinions formed by
6members of the review team or the Executive Council based on
7that information. A person may, however, be examined concerning
8information provided to a review team or the Executive Council
9that is otherwise available to the public.
10    (d) Records and information produced by a review team and
11the Executive Council (other than records and information that
12are produced by a review team and the Executive Council and may
13be disclosed under the Freedom of Information Act) are not
14subject to discovery or subpoena and are not admissible as
15evidence in any civil or criminal proceeding. Those records and
16information are, however, subject to discovery or a subpoena,
17and are admissible as evidence, to the extent they are
18otherwise available to the public.
19(Source: P.A. 93-577, eff. 8-21-03.)
 
20    Section 20. The Developmental Disability and Mental Health
21Safety Act (aka Brian's Law) is amended by changing Section 25
22as follows:
 
23    (405 ILCS 82/25)
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1information.
2    (a) Meetings of the independent team of experts shall be
3closed to the public pursuant to paragraph (25) of subsection
4(c) of Section 2 of the Open Meetings Act.
5    (b) Records and information provided to the independent
6team of experts are confidential pursuant to subsection (u) of
7Section 7.5 of the Freedom of Information Act. Nothing
8contained in this subsection (b) prevents the sharing or
9disclosure of records, other than those produced by the
10independent team, relating or pertaining to the death of an
11individual.
12    (c) Members of the independent team of experts are not
13subject to examination, in any civil or criminal proceeding,
14concerning information presented to members of the team or
15opinions formed by members of the team based on that
16information. A person may, however, be examined concerning
17information provided to the team that is otherwise available to
18the public.
19    (d) Records and information produced by the team (other
20than records and information that are produced by the team and
21may be disclosed under the Freedom of Information Act) are not
22subject to discovery or subpoena and are not admissible as
23evidence in any civil or criminal proceeding. Those records and
24information are, however, subject to discovery or a subpoena,
25and are admissible as evidence to the extent they are otherwise
26available to the public.

 

 

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1(Source: P.A. 96-1235, eff. 1-1-11.)
 
2    Section 25. The Department of Juvenile Justice Mortality
3Review Team Act is amended by changing Section 40 as follows:
 
4    (730 ILCS 195/40)
5    Sec. 40. Public access to information.
6    (a) Meetings of a mortality review team shall be closed to
7the public pursuant to paragraph (26) of subsection (c) of
8Section 2 of the Open Meetings Act. . Meetings of the mortality
9review teams are not subject to the Open Meetings Act, as
10provided in that Act.
11    (b) Records and information provided to a mortality review
12team and records maintained by a team are confidential and not
13subject to inspection and copying pursuant to paragraph (bb) of
14subsection (l) of Section 7 of the Freedom of Information Act.
15under the Freedom of Information Act, as provided in that Act.
16    (c) Members of a mortality review team are not subject to
17examination, in any civil or criminal proceeding, concerning
18information presented to members of the team or opinions formed
19by members of the team based on that information. A team member
20may, however, be examined concerning information provided to
21the team that is otherwise available to the public.
22    (d) Records and information produced by a mortality review
23team (other than records and information that are produced by
24the team and may be disclosed under the Freedom of Information

 

 

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1Act) are not subject to discovery or subpoena and are not
2admissible as evidence in any civil or criminal proceeding.
3Those records and information are, however, subject to
4discovery or a subpoena, and are admissible as evidence, to the
5extent they are otherwise available to the public.
6(Source: P.A. 96-1378, eff. 7-29-10.)
 
7    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
8becoming law.