(320 ILCS 25/8a) (from Ch. 67 1/2, par. 408.1)
Sec. 8a. Confidentiality.
(a) Except as otherwise provided in this Act, all
information received by the Department of Revenue or its successors, the Department on Aging and the Department of Healthcare and Family Services, from claims filed under this Act, or
from any investigation conducted under the provisions
of this Act, shall be confidential, except for official purposes within those Departments
or pursuant to official
procedures for collection of any State tax or enforcement of any civil or
criminal penalty or sanction imposed
by this Act or by any statute imposing a State tax, and any person who divulges
any such information in any
manner, except for such purposes and pursuant to order of the Director of one of those Departments or
in accordance with a proper judicial order, shall be guilty of a Class A
misdemeanor.
(b) Nothing contained in this Act shall prevent the Director of Aging from publishing
or making available reasonable statistics concerning the operation of the
grant programs contained in this Act wherein the contents
of claims are grouped into aggregates in such a way that information contained
in any individual claim shall not be disclosed.
(c) The Department on Aging shall furnish to the Secretary of State such
information as is reasonably necessary for the administration of reduced
vehicle registration fees pursuant to Section 3-806.3 of the Illinois Vehicle
Code.
(d) The Director of the Department on Aging shall make information available to the State Board of Elections as may be required by an agreement the State Board of Elections has entered into with a multi-state voter registration list maintenance system. (Source: P.A. 100-201, eff. 8-18-17.)
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