Bill Text: IL HB5233 | 2019-2020 | 101st General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Amends the Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Code. Provides that no adult person who is diagnosed as a person with an intellectual disability or a person with a developmental disability may be discharged from a hospital, or similar facility, and transferred to a mental health facility, or any portion thereof, without first notifying a parent or guardian of that individual.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-06-23 - Rule 19(b) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB5233 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2019-HB5233-Introduced.html
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1 | AN ACT concerning health.
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2 | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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3 | represented in the General Assembly:
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4 | Section 5. The Mental Health and Developmental | |||||||||||||||||||
5 | Disabilities Code is amended by adding Section 3-200.5 as | |||||||||||||||||||
6 | follows:
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7 | (405 ILCS 5/3-200.5 new) | |||||||||||||||||||
8 | Sec. 3-200.5. Notice of adult involuntary transfer. No | |||||||||||||||||||
9 | adult person who is diagnosed as a person with an intellectual | |||||||||||||||||||
10 | disability or a person with a developmental disability may be | |||||||||||||||||||
11 | discharged from a hospital, or similar facility, and | |||||||||||||||||||
12 | transferred to a mental health facility, or any portion | |||||||||||||||||||
13 | thereof, without first notifying a parent or guardian of that | |||||||||||||||||||
14 | individual.
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