093_SB1339

 
                                     LRB093 08208 LCB 08415 b

 1        AN ACT concerning clergy.

 2        Be it enacted by the People of  the  State  of  Illinois,
 3    represented in the General Assembly:

 4        Section  5.   The  Code  of Civil Procedure is amended by
 5    changing Section 8-803 as follows:

 6        (735 ILCS 5/8-803) (from Ch. 110, par. 8-803)
 7        Sec. 8-803.  Clergy. A clergyman or practitioner  of  any
 8    religious  denomination  accredited  by the religious body to
 9    which he or she belongs, shall not be compelled  to  disclose
10    in any court, or to any administrative board or agency, or to
11    any   public   officer,   a   confession,  or  admission,  or
12    communication  made to him or her in his or her  professional
13    character  or  as  a  spiritual  advisor in the course of the
14    discipline  enjoined  by  the  rules  or  practices  of  such
15    religious body or of the religion which he or she  professes,
16    nor  be  compelled  to divulge any information which has been
17    obtained by him or her in such professional character  or  as
18    such spiritual advisor if:
19             (1)  the  confession, admission, or communication is
20        intended to be confidential;
21             (2)  the  confidential  confession,  admission,   or
22        communication is made directly to a member of the clergy;
23        and
24             (3)  the   confidential  confession,  admission,  or
25        communication is such that  the  clergyman  is  bound  to
26        maintain  that  confidentiality  pursuant to a duty under
27        the canon law,  church  doctrine,  practice,  discipline,
28        tenet, custom, or practice of his or her denomination.
29        This Section is subject to the provisions of Section 4 of
30    the Abused and Neglected Child Reporting Act.
31    (Source: P.A. 82-280.)