98TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2013 and 2014
HB0100

 

Introduced 1/10/2013, by Rep. Jerry F. Costello, II

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
20 ILCS 1705/14  from Ch. 91 1/2, par. 100-14

    Amends the Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Administrative Act. Provides that the facility director of the Chester Mental Health Center may authorize the temporary use of transport devices on a civil recipient when necessary in the course of transport of the civil recipient outside the facility to maintain custody or security. Provides that the use of transport devices shall be reviewed and approved by a physician based upon a determination of the civil recipient's current functioning level, prior experience during similar transports, length, duration and purpose of trip, risk of unauthorized absence and risk of violence. Provides that staff transporting the individual shall be trained in the use of the transport devices and shall observe and monitor the individual while being transported. Provides that the facility shall keep a monthly record listing each instance in which transport devices are used, circumstances indicating the need for use of transport devices, and time of application of transport devices and time of release from those devices. Provides that the facility director shall allow the Illinois Guardianship and Advocacy Commission, the agency designated by the Governor under the Protection and Advocacy for Developmentally Disabled Persons Act, and the Department of Human Services to examine and copy the record upon request. Provides that this use of transport devices shall not be considered restraint as defined in the Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Code. Effective immediately.


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1    AN ACT concerning State government.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The Mental Health and Developmental
5Disabilities Administrative Act is amended by changing Section
614 as follows:
 
7    (20 ILCS 1705/14)  (from Ch. 91 1/2, par. 100-14)
8    Sec. 14. Chester Mental Health Center. To maintain and
9operate a facility for the care, custody, and treatment of
10persons with mental illness or habilitation of persons with
11developmental disabilities hereinafter designated, to be known
12as the Chester Mental Health Center.
13    Within the Chester Mental Health Center there shall be
14confined the following classes of persons, whose history, in
15the opinion of the Department, discloses dangerous or violent
16tendencies and who, upon examination under the direction of the
17Department, have been found a fit subject for confinement in
18that facility:
19        (a) Any male person who is charged with the commission
20    of a crime but has been acquitted by reason of insanity as
21    provided in Section 5-2-4 of the Unified Code of
22    Corrections.
23        (b) Any male person who is charged with the commission

 

 

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1    of a crime but has been found unfit under Article 104 of
2    the Code of Criminal Procedure of 1963.
3        (c) Any male person with mental illness or
4    developmental disabilities or person in need of mental
5    treatment now confined under the supervision of the
6    Department or hereafter admitted to any facility thereof or
7    committed thereto by any court of competent jurisdiction.
8    If and when it shall appear to the facility director of the
9Chester Mental Health Center that it is necessary to confine
10persons in order to maintain security or provide for the
11protection and safety of recipients and staff, the Chester
12Mental Health Center may confine all persons on a unit to their
13rooms. This period of confinement shall not exceed 10 hours in
14a 24 hour period, including the recipient's scheduled hours of
15sleep, unless approved by the Secretary of the Department.
16During the period of confinement, the persons confined shall be
17observed at least every 15 minutes. A record shall be kept of
18the observations. This confinement shall not be considered
19seclusion as defined in the Mental Health and Developmental
20Disabilities Code.
21    The facility director of the Chester Mental Health Center
22may authorize the temporary use of handcuffs on a recipient for
23a period not to exceed 10 minutes when necessary in the course
24of transport of the recipient within the facility to maintain
25custody or security. Use of handcuffs is subject to the
26provisions of Section 2-108 of the Mental Health and

 

 

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1Developmental Disabilities Code. The facility shall keep a
2monthly record listing each instance in which handcuffs are
3used, circumstances indicating the need for use of handcuffs,
4and time of application of handcuffs and time of release
5therefrom. The facility director shall allow the Illinois
6Guardianship and Advocacy Commission, the agency designated by
7the Governor under Section 1 of the Protection and Advocacy for
8Developmentally Disabled Persons Act, and the Department to
9examine and copy such record upon request.
10    The facility director of the Chester Mental Health Center
11may authorize the temporary use of transport devices on a civil
12recipient when necessary in the course of transport of the
13civil recipient outside the facility to maintain custody or
14security. Use of transport devices shall be reviewed and
15approved by a physician based upon a determination of the civil
16recipient's current functioning level, prior experience during
17similar transports, length, duration and purpose of trip, risk
18of unauthorized absence and risk of violence. Staff
19transporting the individual shall be trained in the use of the
20transport devices and shall observe and monitor the individual
21while being transported. The facility shall keep a monthly
22record listing each instance in which transport devices are
23used, circumstances indicating the need for use of transport
24devices, and time of application of transport devices and time
25of release from those devices. The facility director shall
26allow the Illinois Guardianship and Advocacy Commission, the

 

 

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1agency designated by the Governor under Section 1 of the
2Protection and Advocacy for Developmentally Disabled Persons
3Act, and the Department to examine and copy the record upon
4request. This use of transport devices shall not be considered
5restraint as defined in the Mental Health and Developmental
6Disabilities Code.
7    If and when it shall appear to the satisfaction of the
8Department that any person confined in the Chester Mental
9Health Center is not or has ceased to be such a source of
10danger to the public as to require his subjection to the
11regimen of the center, the Department is hereby authorized to
12transfer such person to any State facility for treatment of
13persons with mental illness or habilitation of persons with
14developmental disabilities, as the nature of the individual
15case may require.
16    Subject to the provisions of this Section, the Department,
17except where otherwise provided by law, shall, with respect to
18the management, conduct and control of the Chester Mental
19Health Center and the discipline, custody and treatment of the
20persons confined therein, have and exercise the same rights and
21powers as are vested by law in the Department with respect to
22any and all of the State facilities for treatment of persons
23with mental illness or habilitation of persons with
24developmental disabilities, and the recipients thereof, and
25shall be subject to the same duties as are imposed by law upon
26the Department with respect to such facilities and the

 

 

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1recipients thereof.
2(Source: P.A. 91-559, eff. 1-1-00.)
 
3    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
4becoming law.