98TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2013 and 2014
HB2643

 

Introduced 2/21/2013, by Rep. Greg Harris

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
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    Creates the Vulnerable Adult Fatality Review Team Act. Requires the Director of the Department on Aging, in consultation with other specified agencies and professionals who work in the field of investigating, treating, or preventing abuse or neglect of vulnerable adults, to appoint members to a minimum of one vulnerable adult fatality review team in each of the Department's 13 planning and service areas. Contains provisions concerning appointment terms and the requirement that each review team consist of at least one member who is a physician knowledgeable about abuse and neglect of vulnerable adults; a representative of the Department; a representative of the Department of State Police; a representative of a social service or health care agency that provides services to persons with mental illness; and other specified persons. Provides that each review team shall select a chairperson from among its members and that the chairperson shall also serve on the Illinois Vulnerable Adult Fatality Review Teams Executive Council. Contains provisions concerning the Executive Council, its composition, and duties. Contains provisions concerning the review of vulnerable adult deaths; review team access to information; public access to information; the creation of a database of at-risk individuals; and other matters. Amends the Open Meetings Act. Provides that the meetings of a review team or the Executive Council shall be closed to the public. Amends the Freedom of Information Act. Provides that records and information provided to a review team or the Executive Council shall be exempt from public inspection and copying. Amends the Elder Abuse and Neglect Act. Repeals a provision permitting the Department on Aging to establish regional interagency elder abuse fatality review teams. Effective immediately.


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1    AN ACT concerning aging.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the
5Vulnerable Adult Fatality Review Team Act.
 
6    Section 5. State policy. The following statements are the
7policy of this State:
8        (a) Both the State and the community maintain a
9    commitment to preventing the abuse, neglect, and financial
10    exploitation of vulnerable adults. This includes a charge
11    to bring perpetrators of crimes against vulnerable adults
12    to justice and prevent untimely deaths in the community.
13        (b) When a vulnerable adult dies, the response by the
14    community and the State to the death must include an
15    accurate and complete determination of the cause of death,
16    and the development and implementation of measures to
17    prevent future deaths from similar causes.
18        (c) Multidisciplinary and multi-agency reviews of
19    deaths can assist the State and counties in (i)
20    investigating the deaths of vulnerable adults, (ii)
21    developing a greater understanding of the incidence and
22    causes of pre-mature deaths and the methods for preventing
23    those deaths, and (iii) identifying gaps in services to

 

 

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1    vulnerable adults.
2        (d) Access to information regarding the deceased and
3    their families by multidisciplinary and multi-agency
4    vulnerable adult fatality review teams is necessary in
5    order to fulfill their purposes and duties.
 
6    Section 10. Definitions. As used in this Act:
7    (a) "Department" means the Department on Aging.
8    (b) "Director" means the Director of the Department on
9Aging.
10    (c) "Executive Council" means the Illinois Vulnerable
11Adult Fatality Review Teams Executive Council.
12    (d) "Review team" means a vulnerable adult fatality review
13team appointed under this Act.
14    (e) "Vulnerable adult" means
15        (1) a person aged 18 through 59 who resides in a
16    domestic living situation and whose physical or mental
17    disability impairs his or her ability to seek or obtain
18    protection from abuse, neglect, or exploitation; or
19        (2) a person 60 years of age or older who resides in a
20    domestic living situation.
 
21    Section 15. Vulnerable adult fatality review teams;
22establishment.
23    (a) The Director, in consultation with the Executive
24Council, law enforcement, and other professionals who work in

 

 

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1the field of investigating, treating, or preventing abuse or
2neglect of vulnerable adults, shall appoint members to a
3minimum of one review team in each of the Department's 13
4planning and service areas. The members of a review team shall
5be appointed for 2-year terms and shall be eligible for
6reappointment upon the expiration of the terms. The Director
7must fill any vacancy in a review team within 60 days after
8that vacancy occurs.
9    (b) Each review team shall consist of at least one member
10from each of the following categories:
11        (1) Physician knowledgeable about abuse and neglect of
12    vulnerable adults.
13        (2) Representative of the Department.
14        (3) State's attorney or State's attorney's
15    representative.
16        (4) Representative of a local law enforcement agency.
17        (5) Psychologist or psychiatrist.
18        (6) Representative of a local health department.
19        (7) Representative of a social service agency
20    providing services for persons 60 years of age or older in
21    domestic living situations.
22        (8) Representative of a social service or health care
23    agency that provides services to persons with mental
24    illness, in a program whose accreditation to provide such
25    services is recognized by the Office of Mental Health
26    within the Department of Human Services.

 

 

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1        (9) Representative of a social service or health care
2    agency that provides services to persons with
3    developmental disabilities, in a program whose
4    accreditation to provide such services is recognized by the
5    Office of Developmental Disabilities within the Department
6    of Human Services.
7        (10) Coroner or forensic pathologist.
8        (11) Representative of a local hospital, trauma
9    center, or provider of emergency medical services.
10        (12) Representative of the Department of State Police.
11        (13) Representative of the Area Agency on Aging for the
12    review team's planning and service area.
13        (14) Representative of a forensic unit.
14    Each review team may make recommendations to the Director
15concerning additional appointments.
16    Each review team member must have demonstrated experience
17and an interest in investigating, treating, or preventing abuse
18or neglect of vulnerable adults.
19    (c) Each review team shall select a chairperson from among
20its members. The chairperson shall also serve on the Illinois
21Vulnerable Adult Fatality Review Teams Executive Council.
 
22    Section 20. Reviews of vulnerable adult deaths.
23    (a) The review team shall review a case of a death of a
24vulnerable adult occurring in its planning and service area if:
25        (1) the death involves blunt force trauma or an

 

 

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1    undetermined manner or suspicious cause of death;
2        (2) requested by the deceased's attending physician;
3        (3) referred by a health care provider; or
4        (4) the vulnerable adult was the subject of an open or
5    closed case from a senior protective services agency, law
6    enforcement agency, or State's Attorney's office that
7    involves alleged or suspected abuse, neglect, or financial
8    exploitation.
9    A review team may also review other cases of deaths of
10vulnerable adults if the alleged abuse or neglect occurred
11while the person was residing in a domestic living situation.
12    (b) A review team's purpose in conducting reviews of
13vulnerable adult deaths is to do all of the following:
14        (1) Assist local agencies in identifying and reviewing
15    suspicious deaths of vulnerable adult victims of alleged,
16    suspected, or substantiated abuse or neglect in domestic
17    living situations.
18        (2) Facilitate communications between officials
19    responsible for autopsies and inquests and persons
20    involved in reporting or investigating alleged or
21    suspected cases of abuse, neglect, or financial
22    exploitation of vulnerable adults.
23        (3) Evaluate means by which the death might have been
24    prevented.
25        (4) Report its findings to appropriate agencies and the
26    Executive Council and make recommendations that may help to

 

 

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1    reduce the number of vulnerable adult deaths caused by
2    abuse or neglect.
3    (c) A review team shall meet not less than 6 times a year
4to discuss cases for its possible review. Each review team,
5with the advice and consent of the Department, shall establish
6criteria to be used by review teams in discussing cases of
7alleged, suspected, or substantiated abuse or neglect of
8vulnerable adults for review.
 
9    Section 25. Review team access to information.
10    (a) Each entity's or individual's representative on the
11review team may share with other members of the review team
12information in the entity's or individual's possession
13concerning the decedent who is the subject of the review or
14concerning any person who was in contact with the decedent, as
15well as any other information deemed by the entity or
16individual to be pertinent to the review. Any such information
17shared by an entity's or individual's representative on the
18review team with other members of the review team is
19confidential. The intent of this subsection is to permit the
20disclosure to members of a review team of any information
21deemed confidential or privileged or prohibited from
22disclosure by any other provision of law. Release of a
23confidential communication between domestic violence advocates
24and a domestic violence victim shall be in accordance with
25subsection (d) of Section 227 of the Illinois Domestic Violence

 

 

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1Act of 1986 which allows for the waiver of privilege afforded
2to guardians, executors, or administrators of the estate of the
3domestic violence victim. This provision relating to the
4release of a confidential communication between domestic
5violence advocates and a domestic violence victim shall exclude
6adult protective service providers.
7    (b) A coroner's or medical examiner's office may share with
8a review team medical records that have been made available to
9the coroner's or medical examiner's office in connection with
10that office's investigation of a death.
 
11    Section 30. Public access to information.
12    (a) Meetings of the review teams and the Executive Council
13shall be closed to the public. Meetings of the review teams and
14the Executive Council are not subject to the Open Meetings Act.
15    (b) Records and information provided to a review team and
16the Executive Council, and records maintained by a team or the
17Executive Council, are confidential and are not subject to the
18Freedom of Information Act.
19    (c) Any document or oral or written communication shared
20within or produced by a review team relating to a case
21discussed or reviewed by the review team is confidential, is
22not subject to discovery or subpoena, and is 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

 

 

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1otherwise available to the public.
2    (d) Any document or oral or written communication provided
3to a review team by an individual or entity, and created by
4that individual or entity solely for the use of the review
5team, is confidential, is not subject to discovery or subpoena,
6and is not admissible as evidence in any civil or criminal
7proceeding. Those records and information are, however,
8subject to discovery or a subpoena, and are admissible as
9evidence, to the extent they are otherwise available to the
10public.
11    (e) Members of a review team and the Executive Council are
12not subject to examination, in any civil or criminal
13proceeding, concerning information presented to members of the
14review team or the Executive Council or opinions formed by
15members of the review team or the Executive Council based on
16that information. A person may, however, be examined concerning
17information provided to a review team or the Executive Council
18that is otherwise available to the public.
 
19    Section 35. Indemnification. The State shall indemnify and
20hold harmless members of a review team and the Executive
21Council for all their acts, omissions, decisions, or other
22conduct arising out of the scope of their service on the review
23team or Executive Council, except those involving willful or
24wanton misconduct. The method of providing indemnification
25shall be as provided in the State Employee Indemnification Act.
 

 

 

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1    Section 40. Illinois Vulnerable Adult Fatality Review
2Teams Executive Council.
3    (a) The Illinois Vulnerable Adult Fatality Review Teams
4Executive Council, consisting of the chairpersons of all review
5teams in Illinois, is the coordinating and oversight body for
6review teams and activities in Illinois. The vice-chairperson
7of a review team, as designated by the chairperson, may serve
8as a back-up member or an alternate member of the Executive
9Council, if the chairperson of the review team is unavailable
10to serve on the Executive Council. The Inspector General of the
11Department, ex officio, is a non-voting member of the Executive
12Council. The Director may appoint to the Executive Council any
13ex-officio members deemed necessary. Persons with expertise
14needed by the Executive Council may be invited to meetings. The
15Executive Council must select from its members a chairperson
16and a vice-chairperson, each to serve a 2-year term. The
17chairperson or vice-chairperson may be selected to serve
18additional, subsequent terms. The Executive Council must meet
19at least 4 times during each calendar year.
20    (b) The Department must provide or arrange for the staff
21support necessary for the Executive Council to carry out its
22duties. The Director, in cooperation and consultation with the
23Executive Council, shall appoint, reappoint, and remove review
24team members.
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1following duties:
2        (1) To serve as the voice of review teams in Illinois.
3        (2) To oversee the review teams in order to ensure that
4    the review teams' work is coordinated and in compliance
5    with State statutes and the operating protocol.
6        (3) To ensure that the data, results, findings, and
7    recommendations of the review teams are adequately used to
8    make any necessary changes to the policies, procedures, and
9    State statutes in order to protect vulnerable adults in a
10    timely manner.
11        (4) To collaborate with the Department in order to
12    develop any legislation needed to prevent unnecessary
13    deaths of vulnerable adults.
14        (5) To assist in the development of quarterly and
15    annual reports based on the work and the findings of the
16    review teams.
17        (6) To ensure that the review teams' review processes
18    are standardized in order to convey data, findings, and
19    recommendations in a usable format.
20        (7) To serve as a link with review teams throughout the
21    country and to participate in national review team
22    activities.
23        (8) To develop an annual statewide symposium to update
24    the knowledge and skills of review team members and to
25    promote the exchange of information between review teams.
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1    information and practices concerning vulnerable adult
2    death review and related topics.
3        (10) To perform any other functions necessary to
4    enhance the capability of the review teams to reduce and
5    prevent vulnerable adult fatalities.
6    (d) The Executive Council shall prepare an annual report,
7in consultation with the Department, using aggregate data
8gathered by review teams and using the review teams'
9recommendations to develop education, prevention, prosecution,
10or other strategies designed to improve the coordination of
11services for vulnerable adults and their families. The
12Executive Council shall send a copy of its annual report to
13each of the following:
14        (1) The Governor.
15        (2) The chairperson of each review team in the State.
16    (e) In any instance when a review team does not operate in
17accordance with established protocol, the Director, in
18consultation and cooperation with the Executive Council, must
19take any necessary actions to bring the review team into
20compliance with the protocol.
 
21    Section 45. Database. The Department or another State or
22county agency, in consultation with coroners, medical
23examiners, and law enforcement agencies, also may use aggregate
24data gathered by review teams to create a database of at-risk
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1    Section 50. Administrative rules. The Department shall
2adopt such rules and regulations as it deems necessary to
3implement this Act.
 
4    Section 55. 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. This exception shall not apply to the
3    investment of assets or income of funds deposited into the
4    Illinois Prepaid Tuition Trust Fund.
5        (8) Security procedures and the use of personnel and
6    equipment to respond to an actual, a threatened, or a
7    reasonably potential danger to the safety of employees,
8    students, staff, the public, or public property.
9        (9) Student disciplinary cases.
10        (10) The placement of individual students in special
11    education programs and other matters relating to
12    individual students.
13        (11) Litigation, when an action against, affecting or
14    on behalf of the particular public body has been filed and
15    is pending before a court or administrative tribunal, or
16    when the public body finds that an action is probable or
17    imminent, in which case the basis for the finding shall be
18    recorded and entered into the minutes of the closed
19    meeting.
20        (12) The establishment of reserves or settlement of
21    claims as provided in the Local Governmental and
22    Governmental Employees Tort Immunity Act, if otherwise the
23    disposition of a claim or potential claim might be
24    prejudiced, or the review or discussion of claims, loss or
25    risk management information, records, data, advice or
26    communications from or with respect to any insurer of the

 

 

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1    public body or any intergovernmental risk management
2    association or self insurance pool of which the public body
3    is a member.
4        (13) Conciliation of complaints of discrimination in
5    the sale or rental of housing, when closed meetings are
6    authorized by the law or ordinance prescribing fair housing
7    practices and creating a commission or administrative
8    agency for their enforcement.
9        (14) Informant sources, the hiring or assignment of
10    undercover personnel or equipment, or ongoing, prior or
11    future criminal investigations, when discussed by a public
12    body with criminal investigatory responsibilities.
13        (15) Professional ethics or performance when
14    considered by an advisory body appointed to advise a
15    licensing or regulatory agency on matters germane to the
16    advisory body's field of competence.
17        (16) Self evaluation, practices and procedures or
18    professional ethics, when meeting with a representative of
19    a statewide association of which the public body is a
20    member.
21        (17) The recruitment, credentialing, discipline or
22    formal peer review of physicians or other health care
23    professionals for a hospital, or other institution
24    providing medical care, that is operated by the public
25    body.
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1    Review Board.
2        (19) Review or discussion of applications received
3    under the Experimental Organ Transplantation Procedures
4    Act.
5        (20) The classification and discussion of matters
6    classified as confidential or continued confidential by
7    the State Government Suggestion Award Board.
8        (21) Discussion of minutes of meetings lawfully closed
9    under this Act, whether for purposes of approval by the
10    body of the minutes or semi-annual review of the minutes as
11    mandated by Section 2.06.
12        (22) Deliberations for decisions of the State
13    Emergency Medical Services Disciplinary Review Board.
14        (23) The operation by a municipality of a municipal
15    utility or the operation of a municipal power agency or
16    municipal natural gas agency when the discussion involves
17    (i) contracts relating to the purchase, sale, or delivery
18    of electricity or natural gas or (ii) the results or
19    conclusions of load forecast studies.
20        (24) Meetings of a residential health care facility
21    resident sexual assault and death review team or the
22    Executive Council under the Abuse Prevention Review Team
23    Act.
24        (25) Meetings of an independent team of experts under
25    Brian's Law.
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1    under the Department of Juvenile Justice Mortality Review
2    Team Act.
3        (27) Confidential information, when discussed by one
4    or more members of an elder abuse fatality review team,
5    designated under Section 15 of the Elder Abuse and Neglect
6    Act, while participating in a review conducted by that team
7    of the death of an elderly person in which abuse or neglect
8    is suspected, alleged, or substantiated; provided that
9    before the review team holds a closed meeting, or closes an
10    open meeting, to discuss the confidential information,
11    each participating review team member seeking to disclose
12    the confidential information in the closed meeting or
13    closed portion of the meeting must state on the record
14    during an open meeting or the open portion of a meeting the
15    nature of the information to be disclosed and the legal
16    basis for otherwise holding that information confidential.
17        (28) Correspondence and records (i) that may not be
18    disclosed under Section 11-9 of the Public Aid Code or (ii)
19    that pertain to appeals under Section 11-8 of the Public
20    Aid Code.
21        (29) Meetings between internal or external auditors
22    and governmental audit committees, finance committees, and
23    their equivalents, when the discussion involves internal
24    control weaknesses, identification of potential fraud risk
25    areas, known or suspected frauds, and fraud interviews
26    conducted in accordance with generally accepted auditing

 

 

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1    standards of the United States of America.
2        (30) Meetings of a vulnerable adult fatality review
3    team or the Illinois Vulnerable Adult Fatality Review Teams
4    Executive Council under the Vulnerable Adult Fatality
5    Review Team Act.
6    (d) Definitions. For purposes of this Section:
7    "Employee" means a person employed by a public body whose
8relationship with the public body constitutes an
9employer-employee relationship under the usual common law
10rules, and who is not an independent contractor.
11    "Public office" means a position created by or under the
12Constitution or laws of this State, the occupant of which is
13charged with the exercise of some portion of the sovereign
14power of this State. The term "public office" shall include
15members of the public body, but it shall not include
16organizational positions filled by members thereof, whether
17established by law or by a public body itself, that exist to
18assist the body in the conduct of its business.
19    "Quasi-adjudicative body" means an administrative body
20charged by law or ordinance with the responsibility to conduct
21hearings, receive evidence or testimony and make
22determinations based thereon, but does not include local
23electoral boards when such bodies are considering petition
24challenges.
25    (e) Final action. No final action may be taken at a closed
26meeting. Final action shall be preceded by a public recital of

 

 

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1the nature of the matter being considered and other information
2that will inform the public of the business being conducted.
3(Source: P.A. 96-1235, eff. 1-1-11; 96-1378, eff. 7-29-10;
496-1428, eff. 8-11-10; 97-318, eff. 1-1-12; 97-333, eff.
58-12-11; 97-452, eff. 8-19-11; 97-813, eff. 7-13-12; 97-876,
6eff. 8-1-12.)
 
7    Section 60. The Freedom of Information Act is amended by
8changing Section 7.5 as follows:
 
9    (5 ILCS 140/7.5)
10    Sec. 7.5. Statutory Exemptions. To the extent provided for
11by the statutes referenced below, the following shall be exempt
12from inspection and copying:
13    (a) All information determined to be confidential under
14Section 4002 of the Technology Advancement and Development Act.
15    (b) Library circulation and order records identifying
16library users with specific materials under the Library Records
17Confidentiality Act.
18    (c) Applications, related documents, and medical records
19received by the Experimental Organ Transplantation Procedures
20Board and any and all documents or other records prepared by
21the Experimental Organ Transplantation Procedures Board or its
22staff relating to applications it has received.
23    (d) Information and records held by the Department of
24Public Health and its authorized representatives relating to

 

 

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1known or suspected cases of sexually transmissible disease or
2any information the disclosure of which is restricted under the
3Illinois Sexually Transmissible Disease Control Act.
4    (e) Information the disclosure of which is exempted under
5Section 30 of the Radon Industry Licensing Act.
6    (f) Firm performance evaluations under Section 55 of the
7Architectural, Engineering, and Land Surveying Qualifications
8Based Selection Act.
9    (g) Information the disclosure of which is restricted and
10exempted under Section 50 of the Illinois Prepaid Tuition Act.
11    (h) Information the disclosure of which is exempted under
12the State Officials and Employees Ethics Act, and records of
13any lawfully created State or local inspector general's office
14that would be exempt if created or obtained by an Executive
15Inspector General's office under that Act.
16    (i) Information contained in a local emergency energy plan
17submitted to a municipality in accordance with a local
18emergency energy plan ordinance that is adopted under Section
1911-21.5-5 of the Illinois Municipal Code.
20    (j) Information and data concerning the distribution of
21surcharge moneys collected and remitted by wireless carriers
22under the Wireless Emergency Telephone Safety Act.
23    (k) Law enforcement officer identification information or
24driver identification information compiled by a law
25enforcement agency or the Department of Transportation under
26Section 11-212 of the Illinois Vehicle Code.

 

 

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1    (l) Records and information provided to a residential
2health care facility resident sexual assault and death review
3team or the Executive Council under the Abuse Prevention Review
4Team Act.
5    (m) Information provided to the predatory lending database
6created pursuant to Article 3 of the Residential Real Property
7Disclosure Act, except to the extent authorized under that
8Article.
9    (n) Defense budgets and petitions for certification of
10compensation and expenses for court appointed trial counsel as
11provided under Sections 10 and 15 of the Capital Crimes
12Litigation Act. This subsection (n) shall apply until the
13conclusion of the trial of the case, even if the prosecution
14chooses not to pursue the death penalty prior to trial or
15sentencing.
16    (o) Information that is prohibited from being disclosed
17under Section 4 of the Illinois Health and Hazardous Substances
18Registry Act.
19    (p) Security portions of system safety program plans,
20investigation reports, surveys, schedules, lists, data, or
21information compiled, collected, or prepared by or for the
22Regional Transportation Authority under Section 2.11 of the
23Regional Transportation Authority Act or the St. Clair County
24Transit District under the Bi-State Transit Safety Act.
25    (q) Information prohibited from being disclosed by the
26Personnel Records Review Act.

 

 

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1    (r) Information prohibited from being disclosed by the
2Illinois School Student Records Act.
3    (s) Information the disclosure of which is restricted under
4Section 5-108 of the Public Utilities Act.
5    (t) All identified or deidentified health information in
6the form of health data or medical records contained in, stored
7in, submitted to, transferred by, or released from the Illinois
8Health Information Exchange, and identified or deidentified
9health information in the form of health data and medical
10records of the Illinois Health Information Exchange in the
11possession of the Illinois Health Information Exchange
12Authority due to its administration of the Illinois Health
13Information Exchange. The terms "identified" and
14"deidentified" shall be given the same meaning as in the Health
15Insurance Accountability and Portability Act of 1996, Public
16Law 104-191, or any subsequent amendments thereto, and any
17regulations promulgated thereunder.
18    (u) Records and information provided to an independent team
19of experts under Brian's Law.
20    (v) Names and information of people who have applied for or
21received Firearm Owner's Identification Cards under the
22Firearm Owners Identification Card Act.
23    (w) Personally identifiable information which is exempted
24from disclosure under subsection (g) of Section 19.1 of the
25Toll Highway Act.
26    (x) Information which is exempted from disclosure under

 

 

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1Section 5-1014.3 of the Counties Code or Section 8-11-21 of the
2Illinois Municipal Code.
3    (y) Records and information provided to a vulnerable adult
4fatality review team or the Illinois Vulnerable Adult Fatality
5Review Teams Executive Council under the Vulnerable Adult
6Fatality Review Team Act.
7(Source: P.A. 96-542, eff. 1-1-10; 96-1235, eff. 1-1-11;
896-1331, eff. 7-27-10; 97-80, eff. 7-5-11; 97-333, eff.
98-12-11; 97-342, eff. 8-12-11; 97-813, eff. 7-13-12; 97-976,
10eff. 1-1-13.)
 
11    (320 ILCS 20/15 rep.)
12    Section 65. The Elder Abuse and Neglect Act is amended by
13repealing Section 15.
 
14    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
15becoming law.

 

 

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1 INDEX
2 Statutes amended in order of appearance
3    New Act
4    5 ILCS 120/2from Ch. 102, par. 42
5    5 ILCS 140/7.5
6    320 ILCS 20/15 rep.