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 1        AN  ACT  concerning  mental  health   and   developmental
 2    disabilities confidentiality.

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

 5        Section   5.    The   Mental   Health  and  Developmental
 6    Disabilities  Confidentiality  Act  is  amended  by  changing
 7    Section 12 as follows:

 8        (740 ILCS 110/12) (from Ch. 91 1/2, par. 812)
 9        Sec. 12.  (a) If the United States Secret Service or  the
10    Department of State Police requests information from a mental
11    health  or  developmental  disability facility, as defined in
12    Section  1-107  and  1-114   of   the   Mental   Health   and
13    Developmental  Disabilities  Code,  relating  to  a  specific
14    recipient   and   the   facility   director  determines  that
15    disclosure of such information may be  necessary  to  protect
16    the  life  of,  or  to prevent the infliction of great bodily
17    harm to, a public official, or a person under the  protection
18    of  the  United  States  Secret  Service,  only the following
19    information may be disclosed: the recipient's name,  address,
20    and  age and the date of any admission to or discharge from a
21    facility; and any information which would indicate whether or
22    not the recipient has a history of  violence  or  presents  a
23    danger  of  violence  to  the  person  under protection.  Any
24    information so disclosed  shall  be  used  for  investigative
25    purposes  only  and  shall  not be publicly disseminated. Any
26    person participating in good faith in the disclosure of  such
27    information  in  accordance  with  this  provision shall have
28    immunity from any liability, civil, criminal or otherwise, if
29    such information is disclosed relying upon the representation
30    of an officer of the United  States  Secret  Service  or  the
31    Department  of  State  Police  that  a  person  is  under the
 
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 1    protection of the United States Secret Service or is a public
 2    official.
 3        For the purpose of this subsection (a), the term  "public
 4    official"  means  the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Attorney
 5    General,  Secretary  of  State,  State   Comptroller,   State
 6    Treasurer  or member of the General Assembly.  The term shall
 7    also include the  spouse,  child  or  children  of  a  public
 8    official.
 9        (b)  The   Department   of   Human  Services  (acting  as
10    successor  to   the   Department   of   Mental   Health   and
11    Developmental  Disabilities)  and  all  private hospitals are
12    required, as  hereafter  described  in  this  subsection,  to
13    furnish  the Department of State Police only such information
14    as may be  required  for  the  sole  purpose  of  determining
15    whether  an  individual who may be or may have been a patient
16    is disqualified because of  that  status  from  receiving  or
17    retaining   a   Firearm  Owner's  Identification  Card  under
18    subsection  (e)  of  Section  8   of   the   Firearm   Owners
19    Identification  Card Act. All private hospitals shall, in the
20    form and manner required  by  the  Department,  provide  such
21    information  as  shall  be  necessary  for  the Department to
22    comply with the reporting requirements to the  Department  of
23    State  Police.  Such information shall be furnished within 30
24    days  after  admission  to  a  private  hospital.   Any  such
25    information disclosed  under  this  subsection  shall  remain
26    privileged and confidential, and shall not be redisclosed nor
27    utilized  for any other purpose.  The method of requiring the
28    providing  of  such  information  shall  guarantee  that   no
29    information  is  released  beyond  what is necessary for this
30    purpose. In addition,  the  information  disclosed  shall  be
31    provided by the Department within the time period established
32    by  Section  24-3  of the Criminal Code of 1961 regarding the
33    delivery of firearms.  The method used shall be sufficient to
34    provide the necessary information within the prescribed  time
 
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 1    period, which may include periodically providing lists to the
 2    Department  of  Human  Services  or  any  private hospital of
 3    Firearm Owner's Identification Card applicants on  which  the
 4    Department or hospital shall indicate the identities of those
 5    individuals who are to its knowledge disqualified from having
 6    a  Firearm  Owner's Identification Card for reasons described
 7    herein.  The Department may provide for a centralized  source
 8    of  information  for  the  State  on  this  subject under its
 9    jurisdiction.
10        Any person,  institution,  or  agency,  under  this  Act,
11    participating in good faith in the reporting or disclosure of
12    records  and communications otherwise in accordance with this
13    provision or with rules, regulations or guidelines issued  by
14    the Department shall have immunity from any liability, civil,
15    criminal  or  otherwise,  that  might result by reason of the
16    action.   For  the  purpose  of  any  proceeding,  civil   or
17    criminal, arising out of a report or disclosure in accordance
18    with   this   provision,   the  good  faith  of  any  person,
19    institution, or agency so reporting or  disclosing  shall  be
20    presumed.   The  full extent of the immunity provided in this
21    subsection (b) shall apply  to  any  person,  institution  or
22    agency  that fails to make a report or disclosure in the good
23    faith belief that the  report  or  disclosure  would  violate
24    federal  regulations governing the confidentiality of alcohol
25    and drug abuse patient records implementing 42 U.S.C. 290dd-3
26    and 290ee-3.
27        For purposes of this subsection (b) only,  the  following
28    terms shall have the meaning prescribed:
29             (1)  "Hospital"  means only that type of institution
30        which is providing full-time residential  facilities  and
31        treatment for in-patients and excludes institutions, such
32        as  community  clinics,  which  only provide treatment to
33        out-patients.
34             (2)  "Patient" shall mean only a person  who  is  an
 
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 1        in-patient   or   resident   of   any  hospital,  not  an
 2        out-patient  or   client   seen   solely   for   periodic
 3        consultation.
 4        (c)  Upon  the  request  of  a  peace officer who takes a
 5    person into custody and transports such person  to  a  mental
 6    health  or  developmental  disability  facility  pursuant  to
 7    Section 3-606 or 4-404 of the Mental Health and Developmental
 8    Disabilities  Code  or  who  transports  a  person  from such
 9    facility,  a  facility  director  shall  furnish  said  peace
10    officer the name,  address,  age  and  name  of  the  nearest
11    relative  of  the  person  transported  to or from the mental
12    health or developmental  disability  facility.   In  no  case
13    shall the facility director disclose to the peace officer any
14    information   relating   to   the   diagnosis,  treatment  or
15    evaluation of the person's mental or physical health.
16        For the  purposes  of  this  subsection  (c),  the  terms
17    "mental  health or developmental disability facility", "peace
18    officer" and "facility  director"  shall  have  the  meanings
19    ascribed  to  them  in  the  Mental  Health and Developmental
20    Disabilities Code.
21        (d)  Upon the request of a peace officer  or  prosecuting
22    authority  who  is  conducting a bona fide investigation of a
23    criminal offense, or attempting to apprehend a fugitive  from
24    justice, a facility director may disclose whether a person is
25    present  at  the facility. Upon request of a peace officer or
26    prosecuting authority who has a valid forcible felony warrant
27    issued, a facility director shall disclose: (1)  whether  the
28    person  who  is  the subject of the warrant is present at the
29    facility and (2) the  date  of  that  person's  discharge  or
30    future  discharge  from  the  facility.  The requesting peace
31    officer or prosecuting authority must furnish a  case  number
32    and the purpose of the investigation or an outstanding arrest
33    warrant at the time of the request.  Any person, institution,
34    or  agency  participating  in  good  faith in disclosing such
 
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 1    information in accordance with this subsection (d) is  immune
 2    from  any liability, civil, criminal or otherwise, that might
 3    result by reason of the action.
 4    (Source: P.A. 89-507, eff. 7-1-97; 90-423, eff. 8-15-97.)

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

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