Bill Text: IL HB1321 | 2021-2022 | 102nd General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Creates the First Responder Mental Health Grant Program Act. Provides that, subject to appropriation, there is created within the Department of Human Services a First Responder Behavioral Health Grant Program to provide grants to the following recipients: (1) units of local government; (2) law enforcement agencies; (3) fire protection districts; (4) school districts; (5) public or private hospitals; or (6) ambulance services that employ first responders. Creates a First Responder Behavioral Health Grant Fund in the State treasury, which shall be used by the Secretary of Human Services to make grants to eligible recipients. Provides that recipients eligible for grants shall use the grants for expenses related to behavioral health care services for first responders, including, but not limited to, telehealth services. Provides that an employer may not reduce behavioral health care provided through a first responder's employee benefit package as a result of the receipt of grant funds under the Act. Provides that all records, notes, and conclusions by a treatment provider providing behavioral health care to first responders whose employers receive grants under the Act shall not be shared with the employer unless otherwise mandated by law.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 48-0)

Status: (Passed) 2022-05-27 - Public Act . . . . . . . . . 102-0911 [HB1321 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2021-HB1321-Introduced.html

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102ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2021 and 2022 HB1321 Introduced , by Rep. Emanuel Chris Welch SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
405 ILCS 5/1-102 from Ch. 91 1/2, par. 1-102
Amends the Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the definition of "care and custody".
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AN ACT concerning health.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Mental Health and Developmental
Disabilities Code is amended by changing Section 1-102 as
follows:
(405 ILCS 5/1-102) (from Ch. 91 1/2, par. 1-102)
Sec. 1-102. "Care and and custody" means authorization to
an appropriate person, with his consent, to provide or arrange
for proper and adequate treatment of another person who is
subject to involuntary admission but does not include the
authority to require hospitalization of the recipient unless
such authority is expressly granted by court order pursuant to
Article VII of Chapter III.
(Source: P.A. 88-380.)