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| AN ACT concerning children.
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| Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| represented in the General Assembly:
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| Section 5. The Abandoned Newborn Infant Protection Act is | 5 |
| amended by changing Sections 10 and 60 as follows: | 6 |
| (325 ILCS 2/10)
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| Sec. 10. Definitions. In this Act:
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| "Abandon" has the same meaning as in the Abused and | 9 |
| Neglected
Child Reporting Act.
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| "Abused child" has the same meaning as in the Abused and | 11 |
| Neglected
Child Reporting Act.
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| "Child-placing agency" means a licensed public or private | 13 |
| agency
that receives a child for the purpose of placing or | 14 |
| arranging
for the placement of the child in a foster family | 15 |
| home or
other facility for child care, apart from the custody | 16 |
| of the child's
parents.
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| "Department" or "DCFS" means the Illinois Department of | 18 |
| Children and
Family Services.
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| "Emergency medical facility" means a freestanding | 20 |
| emergency center or
trauma center, as defined in the Emergency | 21 |
| Medical Services (EMS) Systems
Act.
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| "Emergency medical professional" includes licensed | 23 |
| physicians, and any
emergency medical technician-basic, | 24 |
| emergency medical
technician-intermediate, emergency medical | 25 |
| technician-paramedic,
trauma nurse specialist, and | 26 |
| pre-hospital RN, as defined in the
Emergency Medical Services | 27 |
| (EMS) Systems Act.
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| "Fire station" means a fire station within the State that | 29 |
| is staffed
with at least one full-time emergency medical | 30 |
| professional.
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| "Hospital" has the same meaning as in the Hospital | 32 |
| Licensing Act.
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| "Legal custody" means the relationship created by a court | 2 |
| order in
the best interest of a newborn infant that imposes on | 3 |
| the infant's custodian
the responsibility of physical | 4 |
| possession of the infant, the duty to
protect, train, and | 5 |
| discipline the infant, and the duty to provide the infant
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| food,
shelter, education, and medical care, except as these are | 7 |
| limited by
parental rights and responsibilities.
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| "Neglected child" has the same meaning as in the Abused and
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| Neglected Child Reporting Act.
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| "Newborn infant" means a child who a licensed physician | 11 |
| reasonably
believes is 7 days
72 hours old or less at the time | 12 |
| the child is
initially relinquished to a hospital, police | 13 |
| station, fire station, or
emergency
medical facility, and who | 14 |
| is not an abused or a neglected child.
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| "Police station" means a municipal police station or a | 16 |
| county sheriff's
office.
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| "Relinquish" means to bring a newborn infant, who a
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| licensed physician reasonably believes is 7 days
72 hours old | 19 |
| or less,
to a hospital, police station, fire station, or | 20 |
| emergency medical facility
and
to leave the infant with | 21 |
| personnel of the facility, if the person leaving the
infant | 22 |
| does not express an intent to return for the
infant or states | 23 |
| that he or she will not return for the infant.
In the case of a | 24 |
| mother who gives birth to an infant in a hospital,
the mother's | 25 |
| act of leaving that newborn infant at the
hospital (i) without | 26 |
| expressing an intent to return for the infant or (ii)
stating | 27 |
| that she will not return for the infant is not a | 28 |
| "relinquishment" under
this Act.
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| "Temporary protective custody" means the temporary | 30 |
| placement of
a newborn infant within a hospital or other | 31 |
| medical facility out of the
custody of the infant's parent.
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| (Source: P.A. 92-408, eff. 8-17-01; 92-432, eff. 8-17-01; | 33 |
| 93-820, eff. 7-27-04 .)
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| (325 ILCS 2/60)
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| Sec. 60. Department's duties. The Department must |
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| implement a
public information program to promote safe | 2 |
| placement alternatives for newborn
infants. The public | 3 |
| information program must inform the public of the
following:
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| (1) The relinquishment alternative provided for in | 5 |
| this
Act, which results in the adoption of a newborn infant | 6 |
| under 7 days
72 hours of age
and which
provides for the | 7 |
| parent's
anonymity, if the parent so chooses.
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| (2) The alternative of adoption
through a public or | 9 |
| private agency, in which the parent's identity may or may
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| not be known to the agency, but is kept anonymous from the | 11 |
| adoptive parents, if
the birth parent so desires, and which | 12 |
| allows the parent to be actively
involved in the child's | 13 |
| adoption plan.
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| The public information program may include, but
need
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| limited to, the
following elements:
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| (i) Educational and informational materials in print, | 17 |
| audio, video,
electronic or other media.
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| (ii) Establishment of a web site.
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| (iii) Public service announcements and advertisements.
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| (iv) Establishment of toll-free
telephone
hotlines to | 21 |
| provide information.
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| (Source: P.A. 92-408, eff. 8-17-01; 92-432, eff. 8-17-01 .)
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| Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | 24 |
| becoming law.
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