Bill Text: IL HB2770 | 2019-2020 | 101st General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Administrative Act. Provides that for the safety of mental health care patients and staff members, no fewer than a total of 4 registered nurses or mental health technicians shall be assigned to any unit at any time in the following State-operated hospitals: (1) the Alton Mental Health Center, at Alton; (2) the Chicago-Read Mental Health Center, at Chicago; (3) the Clyde L. Choate Mental Health and Developmental Center, at Anna; (4) the Elgin Mental Health Center, at Elgin; (5) the John J. Madden Mental Health Center, at Chicago; and (6) the Andrew McFarland Mental Health Center, at Springfield. Effective immediately.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-03-29 - House Committee Amendment No. 1 Rule 19(c) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB2770 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2019-HB2770-Introduced.html

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101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2019 and 2020 HB2770 Introduced , by Rep. Maurice A. West II SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
20 ILCS 1705/4 from Ch. 91 1/2, par. 100-4
Amends the Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Administrative Act. Provides that for the safety of mental health care patients and staff members, no fewer than a total of 4 registered nurses or mental health technicians shall be assigned to any unit at any time in the following State-operated hospitals: (1) the Alton Mental Health Center, at Alton; (2) the Chicago-Read Mental Health Center, at Chicago; (3) the Clyde L. Choate Mental Health and Developmental Center, at Anna; (4) the Elgin Mental Health Center, at Elgin; (5) the John J. Madden Mental Health Center, at Chicago; and (6) the Andrew McFarland Mental Health Center, at Springfield. Effective immediately.
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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 Mental Health and Developmental
Disabilities Administrative Act is amended by changing Section
4 as follows:
(20 ILCS 1705/4) (from Ch. 91 1/2, par. 100-4)
Sec. 4. Supervision of facilities and services; quarterly
reports.
(a) To exercise executive and administrative supervision
over all facilities, divisions, programs and services now
existing or hereafter acquired or created under the
jurisdiction of the Department, including, but not limited to,
the following:
The Alton Mental Health Center, at Alton
The Clyde L. Choate Mental Health and Developmental
Center, at Anna
The Chester Mental Health Center, at Chester
The Chicago-Read Mental Health Center, at Chicago
The Elgin Mental Health Center, at Elgin
The Metropolitan Children and Adolescents Center, at
Chicago
The Jacksonville Developmental Center, at Jacksonville

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The Governor Samuel H. Shapiro Developmental Center,
at Kankakee
The Tinley Park Mental Health Center, at Tinley Park
The Warren G. Murray Developmental Center, at
Centralia
The Jack Mabley Developmental Center, at Dixon
The Lincoln Developmental Center, at Lincoln
The H. Douglas Singer Mental Health and Developmental
Center, at Rockford
The John J. Madden Mental Health Center, at Chicago
The George A. Zeller Mental Health Center, at Peoria
The Andrew McFarland Mental Health Center, at
Springfield
The Adolf Meyer Mental Health Center, at Decatur
The William W. Fox Developmental Center, at Dwight
The Elisabeth Ludeman Developmental Center, at Park
Forest
The William A. Howe Developmental Center, at Tinley
Park
The Ann M. Kiley Developmental Center, at Waukegan.
(b) Beginning not later than July 1, 1977, the Department
shall cause each of the facilities under its jurisdiction which
provide in-patient care to comply with standards, rules and
regulations of the Department of Public Health prescribed under
Section 6.05 of the Hospital Licensing Act.
(b-5) The Department shall cause each of the facilities

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under its jurisdiction that provide in-patient care to comply
with Section 6.25 of the Hospital Licensing Act.
(c) The Department shall issue quarterly electronic
reports to the General Assembly on admissions, deflections,
discharges, bed closures, staff-resident ratios, census,
average length of stay, and any adverse federal certification
or accreditation findings, if any, for each State-operated
facility for the mentally ill and for persons with
developmental disabilities. The quarterly reports shall be
issued by January 1, April 1, July 1, and October 1 of each
year. The quarterly reports shall include the following
information for each facility reflecting the period ending 15
days prior to the submission of the report:
(1) the number of employees;
(2) the number of workplace violence incidents that
occurred, including the number that were a direct assault
on employees by residents and the number that resulted from
staff intervention in a resident altercation or other form
of injurious behavior;
(3) the number of employees impacted in each incident;
and
(4) the number of employee injuries resulting,
descriptions of the nature of the injuries, the number of
employee injuries requiring medical treatment at the
facility, the number of employee injuries requiring
outside medical treatment, and the number of days off work

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per injury.
(d) The requirements in subsection (c) do not relieve the
Department from the recordkeeping requirements of the
Occupational Safety and Health Act.
(e) The Department shall:
(1) establish a reasonable procedure for employees to
report work-related assaults and injuries. A procedure is
not reasonable if it would deter or discourage a reasonable
employee from accurately reporting a workplace assault or
injury;
(2) inform each employee:
(A) of the procedure for reporting work-related
assaults and injuries;
(B) of the right to report work-related assaults
and injuries; and
(C) that the Department is prohibited from
discharging or in any manner discriminating against
employees for reporting work-related assaults and
injuries; and
(3) not discharge, discipline, or in any manner
discriminate against any employee for reporting a
work-related assault or injury.
(f) To provide for the safety of mental health care
patients and staff members, no fewer than a total of 4
registered nurses or mental health technicians shall be
assigned to any unit at any time in the following

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State-operated hospitals:
(1) The Alton Mental Health Center, at Alton.
(2) The Chicago-Read Mental Health Center, at Chicago.
(3) The Clyde L. Choate Mental Health and Developmental
Center, at Anna.
(4) The Elgin Mental Health Center, at Elgin.
(5) The John J. Madden Mental Health Center, at
Chicago.
(6) The Andrew McFarland Mental Health Center, at
Springfield.
(Source: P.A. 99-143, eff. 7-27-15; 100-1075, eff. 1-1-19.)
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.