Bill Text: IL SB3813 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Abused and Neglected Child Reporting Act. Provide that if a caseworker of the Department of Children and Family Services, including an intact family specialist or placement specialist, believes that a parent, guardian, or other responsible adult of a child has made a credible threat of violence against the caseworker during a prior home visit, the caseworker may (i) request that local law enforcement officers accompany the caseworker on any subsequent home visits for that child or (ii) request that the Department reassign the child's case to another caseworker. Requires law enforcement officers to, upon request, make all reasonable efforts to assist the caseworker in receiving law enforcement assistance from any other police jurisdiction that is outside the accompanying officers' primary jurisdiction.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-02-20 - Referred to Assignments [SB3813 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2023-SB3813-Introduced.html

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103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2023 and 2024 SB3813 Introduced 2/20/2024, by Sen. Doris Turner SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
325 ILCS 5/7.5a new
Amends the Abused and Neglected Child Reporting Act. Provide that if a caseworker of the Department of Children and Family Services, including an intact family specialist or placement specialist, believes that a parent, guardian, or other responsible adult of a child has made a credible threat of violence against the caseworker during a prior home visit, the caseworker may (i) request that local law enforcement officers accompany the caseworker on any subsequent home visits for that child or (ii) request that the Department reassign the child's case to another caseworker. Requires law enforcement officers to, upon request, make all reasonable efforts to assist the caseworker in receiving law enforcement assistance from any other police jurisdiction that is outside the accompanying officers' primary jurisdiction.
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A BILL FOR
SB3813 LRB103 39575 KTG 69830 b
AN ACT concerning children.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Abused and Neglected Child Reporting Act is
amended by adding Section 7.5a as follows: