Bill Text: IL HB0639 | 2021-2022 | 102nd General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Administrative Act. Provides that to provide for the safety of mental health care patients and staff members, no fewer than 2 registered nurses and no fewer than 2 mental health technicians shall be assigned to any unit at any time in the following State-operated hospitals: (1) the Alton Mental Health Center, at Alton; (2) the Chicago-Read Mental Health Center, at Chicago; (3) the Clyde L. Choate Mental Health and Developmental Center, at Anna; (4) the Elgin Mental Health Center, at Elgin; (5) the John J. Madden Mental Health Center, at Chicago; and (6) the Andrew McFarland Mental Health Center, at Springfield. Provides that if a registered nurse or mental health technician is assigned to 2 or more units, the calculation of the number of registered nurses or mental health technicians who are assigned to a unit shall be calculated for each registered nurse or mental health technician as one divided by the number of units to which the registered nurse or mental health technician is assigned. Effective immediately.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-03-27 - Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB0639 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2021-HB0639-Introduced.html

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102ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2021 and 2022 HB0639 Introduced , by Rep. Maurice A. West, II SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
20 ILCS 1705/4 from Ch. 91 1/2, par. 100-4
Amends the Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Administrative Act. Provides that to provide for the safety of mental health care patients and staff members, no fewer than 2 registered nurses and no fewer than 2 mental health technicians shall be assigned to any unit at any time in the following State-operated hospitals: (1) the Alton Mental Health Center, at Alton; (2) the Chicago-Read Mental Health Center, at Chicago; (3) the Clyde L. Choate Mental Health and Developmental Center, at Anna; (4) the Elgin Mental Health Center, at Elgin; (5) the John J. Madden Mental Health Center, at Chicago; and (6) the Andrew McFarland Mental Health Center, at Springfield. Provides that if a registered nurse or mental health technician is assigned to 2 or more units, the calculation of the number of registered nurses or mental health technicians who are assigned to a unit shall be calculated for each registered nurse or mental health technician as one divided by the number of units to which the registered nurse or mental health technician is assigned. Effective immediately.
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AN ACT concerning State government.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Mental Health and Developmental
Disabilities Administrative Act is amended by changing Section
4 as follows:
(20 ILCS 1705/4) (from Ch. 91 1/2, par. 100-4)
Sec. 4. Supervision of facilities and services; quarterly
reports.
(a) To exercise executive and administrative supervision
over all facilities, divisions, programs and services now
existing or hereafter acquired or created under the
jurisdiction of the Department, including, but not limited to,
the following:
The Alton Mental Health Center, at Alton
The Clyde L. Choate Mental Health and Developmental
Center, at Anna
The Chester Mental Health Center, at Chester
The Chicago-Read Mental Health Center, at Chicago
The Elgin Mental Health Center, at Elgin
The Metropolitan Children and Adolescents Center, at
Chicago
The Jacksonville Developmental Center, at Jacksonville

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The Governor Samuel H. Shapiro Developmental Center,
at Kankakee
The Tinley Park Mental Health Center, at Tinley Park
The Warren G. Murray Developmental Center, at
Centralia
The Jack Mabley Developmental Center, at Dixon
The Lincoln Developmental Center, at Lincoln
The H. Douglas Singer Mental Health and Developmental
Center, at Rockford
The John J. Madden Mental Health Center, at Chicago
The George A. Zeller Mental Health Center, at Peoria
The Andrew McFarland Mental Health Center, at
Springfield
The Adolf Meyer Mental Health Center, at Decatur
The William W. Fox Developmental Center, at Dwight
The Elisabeth Ludeman Developmental Center, at Park
Forest
The William A. Howe Developmental Center, at Tinley
Park
The Ann M. Kiley Developmental Center, at Waukegan.
(b) Beginning not later than July 1, 1977, the Department
shall cause each of the facilities under its jurisdiction
which provide in-patient care to comply with standards, rules
and regulations of the Department of Public Health prescribed
under Section 6.05 of the Hospital Licensing Act.
(b-5) The Department shall cause each of the facilities

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under its jurisdiction that provide in-patient care to comply
with Section 6.25 of the Hospital Licensing Act.
(c) The Department shall issue quarterly electronic
reports to the General Assembly on admissions, deflections,
discharges, bed closures, staff-resident ratios, census,
average length of stay, and any adverse federal certification
or accreditation findings, if any, for each State-operated
facility for the mentally ill and for persons with
developmental disabilities. The quarterly reports shall be
issued by January 1, April 1, July 1, and October 1 of each
year. The quarterly reports shall include the following
information for each facility reflecting the period ending 15
days prior to the submission of the report:
(1) the number of employees;
(2) the number of workplace violence incidents that
occurred, including the number that were a direct assault
on employees by residents and the number that resulted
from staff intervention in a resident altercation or other
form of injurious behavior;
(3) the number of employees impacted in each incident;
and
(4) the number of employee injuries resulting,
descriptions of the nature of the injuries, the number of
employee injuries requiring medical treatment at the
facility, the number of employee injuries requiring
outside medical treatment, and the number of days off work

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per injury.
(d) The requirements in subsection (c) do not relieve the
Department from the recordkeeping requirements of the
Occupational Safety and Health Act.
(e) The Department shall:
(1) establish a reasonable procedure for employees to
report work-related assaults and injuries. A procedure is
not reasonable if it would deter or discourage a
reasonable employee from accurately reporting a workplace
assault or injury;
(2) inform each employee:
(A) of the procedure for reporting work-related
assaults and injuries;
(B) of the right to report work-related assaults
and injuries; and
(C) that the Department is prohibited from
discharging or in any manner discriminating against
employees for reporting work-related assaults and
injuries; and
(3) not discharge, discipline, or in any manner
discriminate against any employee for reporting a
work-related assault or injury.
(f) To provide for the safety of mental health care
patients and staff members, no fewer than 2 registered nurses
and no fewer than 2 mental health technicians shall be
assigned to any unit at any time in the following

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State-operated hospitals:
(1) The Alton Mental Health Center, at Alton.
(2) The Chicago-Read Mental Health Center, at Chicago.
(3) The Clyde L. Choate Mental Health and
Developmental Center, at Anna.
(4) The Elgin Mental Health Center, at Elgin.
(5) The John J. Madden Mental Health Center, at
Chicago.
(6) The Andrew McFarland Mental Health Center, at
Springfield.
In this subsection (f), if a registered nurse or mental
health technician is assigned to 2 or more units, the
calculation of the number of registered nurses or mental
health technicians who are assigned to a unit shall be
calculated for each registered nurse or mental health
technician as one divided by the number of units to which the
registered nurse or mental health technician is assigned.
(Source: P.A. 99-143, eff. 7-27-15; 100-1075, eff. 1-1-19.)
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.