Bill Text: IL HB5076 | 2017-2018 | 100th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Children and Family Services Act. Requires the Department of Children and Family Services to place a locked suggestion box in each group home, shelter, and transitional living arrangement that accepts youth in care for placement by the Department.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 3-1)

Status: (Failed) 2019-01-08 - Session Sine Die [HB5076 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2017-HB5076-Introduced.html

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100TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2017 and 2018 HB5076 Introduced , by Rep. Patricia R. Bellock SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
20 ILCS 505/39.3
Amends the Children and Family Services Act. Requires the Department of Children and Family Services to place a locked suggestion box in each group home, shelter, and transitional living arrangement that accepts youth in care for placement by the Department.
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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 Children and Family Services Act is amended
by changing Section 39.3 as follows:
(20 ILCS 505/39.3)
Sec. 39.3. Suggestion boxes. The Department must place in
each residential treatment center, group home, shelter, and
transitional living arrangement that accepts youth in care for
placement by the Department a locked suggestion box into which
residents may place comments and concerns to be addressed by
the Department. Only employees of the Department shall have
access to the contents of the locked suggestion boxes. An
employee of the Department must check the locked suggestion
boxes at least once per week.
(Source: P.A. 99-342, eff. 8-11-15; 100-159, eff. 8-18-17.)