Bill Text: IL SB3208 | 2021-2022 | 102nd General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Criminal Identification Act. Provides that when a person sustains injury as a victim of a crime and is treated by a medical facility or a physician or nurse and the person presents himself or herself as a victim of a sex offense or domestic violence, the local law enforcement agency shall only be notified by the medical facility, or any physician or nurse that treats the victim, if the victim requests or agrees to the notification. Provides that this exception does not change the obligations of mandated reporters under the Abused and Neglected Child Reporting Act. Effective immediately.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-12-22 - Chief Sponsor Changed to Sen. Don Harmon [SB3208 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2021-SB3208-Introduced.html

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102ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2021 and 2022 SB3208 Introduced 1/14/2022, by Sen. Scott M. Bennett SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
20 ILCS 2630/3.2 from Ch. 38, par. 206-3.2
Amends the Criminal Identification Act. Provides that when a person sustains injury as a victim of a crime and is treated by a medical facility or a physician or nurse and the person presents himself or herself as a victim of a sex offense or domestic violence, the local law enforcement agency shall only be notified by the medical facility, or any physician or nurse that treats the victim, if the victim requests or agrees to the notification. Provides that this exception does not change the obligations of mandated reporters under the Abused and Neglected Child Reporting Act. Effective immediately.
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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 Criminal Identification Act is amended by
changing Section 3.2 as follows:
(20 ILCS 2630/3.2) (from Ch. 38, par. 206-3.2)
Sec. 3.2. It is the duty of any person conducting or
operating a medical facility, or any physician or nurse as
soon as treatment permits to notify the local law enforcement
agency of that jurisdiction upon the application for treatment
of a person who is not accompanied by a law enforcement
officer, when it reasonably appears that the person requesting
treatment has received:
(1) any injury resulting from the discharge of a
firearm; or
(2) any injury sustained in the commission of or as a
victim of a criminal offense, except that when the person
presents himself or herself as a victim of a sex offense or
domestic violence, the local law enforcement agency shall
only be notified if the victim requests or agrees to the
notification. This exception does not change the
obligations of mandated reporters under the Abused and
Neglected Child Reporting Act.

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Any hospital, physician or nurse shall be forever held
harmless from any civil liability for their reasonable
compliance with the provisions of this Section.
(Source: P.A. 86-1475.)
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.