IL SB2369 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly

Status

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Introduced on February 10 2023 - 25% progression
Action: 2023-03-10 - Rule 3-9(a) / Re-referred to Assignments
Pending: Senate Assignments Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Summary

Amends the Department of Children and Family Services Act. Provides that the Department of Human Services and the Department of Children and Family Services shall require that all participants in the Comprehensive Community-Based Youth Services Network provide alternatives to detention for all youths age 10 through 12 who have been referred to a juvenile detention center and who cannot be returned to their homes and cannot be placed with an alternative family member except when: (1) the youth has a criminal history with multiple documented incidents of violence or injury to others; or (2) the youth is in a medical crisis and shall instead be transported to an emergency room. Amends the Child Care Act of 1969. Deletes provision that host homes licensed by the Department of Children and Family Services shall not be utilized for a child who is a youth in care as defined in the Children and Family Services Act. Provides that the Department of Children and Family Services and the Department of Human Services shall provide training and funding for the participants in the Comprehensive Community-Based Youth Services program that includes receiving youth ages 10 through 12 referred to them by police departments and juvenile detention facilities. Provides that any representative of a Comprehensive Community-Based Youth Services program who returns a youth to the parent's home without delivery of services as an alternative to detention, and communicates to that parent that the parent will be charged with abuse and neglect unless the parent unconditionally accepts the youth's return, shall be subject to the immediate suspension of any license for that representative and the program for which that representative is employed. Amends the Juvenile Court Act of 1987 to make conforming changes.

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Title

CHILDREN-DETENTION-ALTERNATIVE

Sponsors


History

DateChamberAction
2023-03-10SenateRule 3-9(a) / Re-referred to Assignments
2023-02-28SenateAssigned to Appropriations - Health and Human Services
2023-02-10SenateReferred to Assignments
2023-02-10SenateFirst Reading
2023-02-10SenateFiled with Secretary by Sen. Cristina Castro

Code Citations

ChapterArticleSectionCitation TypeStatute Text
2050517Amended CodeCitation Text
225103.6Amended CodeCitation Text
7054055-410Amended CodeCitation Text

Illinois State Sources


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