Bill Text: IL SB2909 | 2013-2014 | 98th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Children and Family Services Act. In provisions concerning the Department of Children and Family Services' case tracking system, requires the Department to use the case tracking system to monitor and provide data concerning families subject to safety plans. Provides that the Department shall ensure that any safety plan with a duration of 5 days or more shall be in writing, signed by each affected parent or guardian and all participants responsible for carrying out the plan, and shall be reviewed by a child protection supervisor. Requires the child protection supervisor to provide a sworn certification stating that the plan has been determined to be the least restrictive possible and that the Department, at the time of entering into the safety plan, possesses objectively reasonable evidence of abuse or neglect of the child by the person or persons whose access to the child is limited by the safety plan. Beginning with fiscal year 2015, requires the Department to (i) provide certain data in its annual report and case tracking system concerning children and families subject to safety plans and (ii) track certain safety plans. Effective immediately.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)

Status: (Passed) 2014-08-01 - Public Act . . . . . . . . . 98-0830 [SB2909 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2013-SB2909-Introduced.html

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98TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2013 and 2014 SB2909 Introduced 2/4/2014, by Sen. Julie A. Morrison SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
20 ILCS 505/6b from Ch. 23, par. 5006b
Amends the Children and Family Services Act. In provisions concerning the Department of Children and Family Services' case tracking system, requires the Department to use the case tracking system to monitor and provide data concerning families subject to safety plans. Provides that the Department shall ensure that any safety plan with a duration of 5 days or more shall be in writing, signed by each affected parent or guardian and all participants responsible for carrying out the plan, and shall be reviewed by a child protection supervisor. Requires the child protection supervisor to provide a sworn certification stating that the plan has been determined to be the least restrictive possible and that the Department, at the time of entering into the safety plan, possesses objectively reasonable evidence of abuse or neglect of the child by the person or persons whose access to the child is limited by the safety plan. Beginning with fiscal year 2015, requires the Department to (i) provide certain data in its annual report and case tracking system concerning children and families subject to safety plans and (ii) track certain safety plans. Effective immediately.
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FISCAL NOTE ACT MAY APPLY
A BILL FOR
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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 6b as follows:
(20 ILCS 505/6b) (from Ch. 23, par. 5006b)
Sec. 6b. Case tracking system.
(1) The Department shall establish and operate a case
tracking system which shall be designed to monitor and evaluate
family preservation, family reunification and placement
services.
(2) The Department shall establish and operate the case
tracking system for the Department clients for whom the
Department is providing or paying for such services. The
Department shall work with the courts in the development of a
cooperative case tracking system.
(3) The Department shall determine the basic elements and
access and provide for records of the case tracking system to
not be open to the general public.
(4) The Department shall use the case tracking system to
determine whether any child reported to the Department under
Section 3.5 of the Intergovernmental Missing Child Recovery Act
of 1984 matches a Department ward and whether that child had

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been abandoned within the previous 2 months.
(5) The Department shall use the case tracking system to
monitor and provide data concerning families subject to safety
plans.
The Department shall ensure that any safety plan with a
duration of 5 days or more shall be in writing, signed by each
affected parent or guardian and all participants responsible
for carrying out the plan, and shall be reviewed by a child
protection supervisor. Each affected parent or guardian and all
participants responsible for carrying out the plan shall be
provided a copy of the written, signed safety plan. A sworn
certification shall be provided by the child protection
supervisor stating that the plan has been determined to be the
least restrictive possible and that the Department, at the time
of entering into the safety plan, possesses objectively
reasonable evidence of abuse or neglect of the child by the
person or persons whose access to the child is limited by the
safety plan.
Beginning with fiscal year 2015, the Department shall
provide the following data in its annual report and case
tracking system concerning children and families subject to
safety plans:
The number of cases and the duration of the safety plan
in which:
(A) a child has been relocated from the child's
primary residence during a pending child protection

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investigation, including cases in which a child has
been moved to another parent's home or the home of a
relative or non-relative;
(B) a child's parent, guardian, or other custodian
has been required to leave the residence during an
investigation;
(C) a parent, guardian, or other custodian of the
child has been directed to have no contact with the
child;
(D) a safety plan was implemented previous to the
Department taking temporary protective custody as
defined in Section 3 of the Abused and Neglected Child
Reporting Act; and
(E) a safety plan was implemented without the
Department ever taking temporary protective custody as
defined in Section 3 of the Abused and Neglected Child
Reporting Act.
Beginning with fiscal year 2015, the Department shall also
track the number of:
(i) written safety plans in effect in Illinois each
month;
(ii) safety plan cases in which a short-term
guardianship has been executed;
(iii) safety plan cases in which the Department has
referred the person responsible for carrying out the
safety plan, the parent, or the guardian to court to

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obtain a private guardianship pursuant to the Probate
Act of 1975;
(iv) safety plans in effect beyond the end of the
investigation being completed;
(v) safety plans for investigations that resulted
in an unfounded determination;
(vi) safety plans for which there is a sworn
certification by a child protection supervisor stating
that the safety plan is the least restrictive possible
and that the Department, at the time of entering into
the safety plan, possesses objectively reasonable
evidence of abuse or neglect by the person or persons
whose access to the child is limited by the safety
plan; and
(vii) total safety plan cases opened each fiscal
year.
(Source: P.A. 89-213, eff. 1-1-96.)
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.