SB2823 93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY

LRB093 14332 RLC 46905 b

93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2003 and 2004
SB2823

Introduced 2/5/2004, by Christine Radogno

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

720 ILCS 5/33-6 new

Amends the Criminal Code of 1961. Provides that an employee of the Department of Children and Family Services or a foster parent licensed by the Department of Children and Family Services who knowingly falsifies a Department document or who knowingly makes a false statement in a Department document as to a material fact in relation to an investigation of alleged or suspected neglect or abuse of a minor or in relation to an investigation of an alleged dependent minor is guilty of a Class 4 felony. Effective immediately.

CORRECTIONAL BUDGET AND IMPACT NOTE ACT MAY APPLY

A BILL FOR

AN ACT in relation to criminal law.

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

Section 5. The Criminal Code of 1961 is amended by adding Section 33-6 as follows:

(720 ILCS 5/33-6 new)

Sec. 33-6. Department of Children and Family Services employees or foster parents falsifying records. An employee of the Department of Children and Family Services or a foster parent licensed by the Department of Children and Family Services who knowingly falsifies a document required to be made or kept by the Department or who knowingly makes a false statement in a document required to be made or kept by the Department as to a material fact in relation to an investigation of alleged or suspected neglect or abuse of a minor as defined in Section 2-3 of the Juvenile Court Act of 1987 or in relation to an investigation of an alleged dependent minor as defined in Section 2-4 of the Juvenile Court Act of 1987 is guilty of a Class 4 felony.

Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon becoming law.