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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. The decision whether to use any transport devices
15shall be reviewed and approved on an individualized basis by a
16physician based upon a determination of the civil recipient's:
17(1) history of violence, (2) history of violence during
18transports, (3) history of escapes and escape attempts, (4)
19history of trauma, (5) history of incidents of restraint or
20seclusion and use of involuntary medication, (6) current
21functioning level and medical status, (7) prior experience
22during similar transports, and (8) the length, duration, and
23purpose of the transport. The least restrictive transport
24device consistent with the individual's need shall be used.
25Staff transporting the individual shall be trained in the use
26of the transport devices, recognizing and responding to a

 

 

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1person in distress, and shall observe and monitor the
2individual while being transported. The facility shall keep a
3monthly record listing all transports, including those
4transports for which use of transport devices were not sought,
5those for which use of transport devices were sought but
6denied, and each instance in which transport devices are used,
7circumstances indicating the need for use of transport devices,
8time of application of transport devices, time of release from
9those devices, and any adverse events. The facility director
10shall allow the Illinois Guardianship and Advocacy Commission,
11the agency designated by the Governor under Section 1 of the
12Protection and Advocacy for Developmentally Disabled Persons
13Act, and the Department to examine and copy the record upon
14request. This use of transport devices shall not be considered
15restraint as defined in the Mental Health and Developmental
16Disabilities Code. For the purpose of this Section "transport
17device" means ankle cuffs, handcuffs, waist chains or
18wrist-waist devices designed to restrict an individual's range
19of motion while being transported. These devices must be
20approved by the Division of Mental Health, used in accordance
21with the manufacturer's instructions, and used only by
22qualified staff members who have completed all training
23required to be eligible to transport patients and all other
24required training relating to the safe use and application of
25transport devices, including recognizing and responding to
26signs of distress in an individual whose movement is being

 

 

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1restricted by a transport device.
2    If and when it shall appear to the satisfaction of the
3Department that any person confined in the Chester Mental
4Health Center is not or has ceased to be such a source of
5danger to the public as to require his subjection to the
6regimen of the center, the Department is hereby authorized to
7transfer such person to any State facility for treatment of
8persons with mental illness or habilitation of persons with
9developmental disabilities, as the nature of the individual
10case may require.
11    Subject to the provisions of this Section, the Department,
12except where otherwise provided by law, shall, with respect to
13the management, conduct and control of the Chester Mental
14Health Center and the discipline, custody and treatment of the
15persons confined therein, have and exercise the same rights and
16powers as are vested by law in the Department with respect to
17any and all of the State facilities for treatment of persons
18with mental illness or habilitation of persons with
19developmental disabilities, and the recipients thereof, and
20shall be subject to the same duties as are imposed by law upon
21the Department with respect to such facilities and the
22recipients thereof.
23(Source: P.A. 91-559, eff. 1-1-00.)
 
24    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
25becoming law.