Bill Text: IL HB4449 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Abused and Neglected Child Reporting Act. In a provision concerning law enforcement assistance for child protective investigators when responding to a high-risk report of child abuse or neglect, provides that when assistance is not available from law enforcement with primary jurisdiction, law enforcement from any other police jurisdiction in Illinois may provide assistance to a child protection investigator.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-04-19 - Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB4449 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2023-HB4449-Introduced.html

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103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2023 and 2024 HB4449 Introduced , by Rep. Terra Costa Howard SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
325 ILCS 5/7.2 from Ch. 23, par. 2057.2
Amends the Abused and Neglected Child Reporting Act. In a provision concerning law enforcement assistance for child protective investigators when responding to a high-risk report of child abuse or neglect, provides that when assistance is not available from law enforcement with primary jurisdiction, law enforcement from any other police jurisdiction in Illinois may provide assistance to a child protection investigator.
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning children.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Abused and Neglected Child Reporting Act is
amended by changing Section 7.2 as follows:
(325 ILCS 5/7.2) (from Ch. 23, par. 2057.2)
Sec. 7.2. The Department shall establish a Child
Protective Service Unit within each geographic region as
designated by the Director of the Department. The Child
Protective Service Unit shall perform those functions assigned
by this Act to it and only such others that would further the
purposes of this Act. It shall have a sufficient staff of
qualified personnel to fulfill the purpose of this Act and be
organized in such a way as to maximize the continuity of
responsibility, care and service of the individual workers
toward the individual children and families.
The Child Protective Service Unit shall designate members
of each unit to receive specialty training to serve as special
consultants to unit staff and the public in the areas of child
sexual abuse, child deaths and injuries, and out-of-home
investigations.
If a child protective investigator of a Child Protective
Service Unit is unable to obtain assistance from other unit

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