Bill Text: IL HB0187 | 2025-2026 | 104th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Adult Protective Services Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning reports of abuse, abandonment, or neglect.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2025-05-31 - Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB0187 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2025-HB0187-Introduced.html

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104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2025 and 2026 HB0187 Introduced , by Rep. Emanuel "Chris" Welch SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
320 ILCS 20/4 from Ch. 23, par. 6604
Amends the Adult Protective Services Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning reports of abuse, abandonment, or neglect.
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning aging.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Adult Protective Services Act is amended by
changing Section 4 as follows:
(320 ILCS 20/4) (from Ch. 23, par. 6604)
Sec. 4. Reports of abuse, abandonment, or neglect.
(a) Any person who suspects the the abuse, abandonment,
neglect, financial exploitation, or self-neglect of an
eligible adult may report this suspicion or information about
the suspicious death of an eligible adult to an agency
designated to receive such reports under this Act or to the
Department.
(a-5) If any mandated reporter has reason to believe that
an eligible adult, who because of a disability or other
condition or impairment is unable to seek assistance for
himself or herself, has, within the previous 12 months, been
subjected to abuse, abandonment, neglect, or financial
exploitation, the mandated reporter shall, within 24 hours
after developing such belief, report this suspicion to an
agency designated to receive such reports under this Act or to
the Department. The agency designated to receive such reports
under this Act or the Department may establish a manner in

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which a mandated reporter can make the required report through
an Internet reporting tool. Information sent and received
through the Internet reporting tool is subject to the same
rules in this Act as other types of confidential reporting
established by the designated agency or the Department.
Whenever a mandated reporter is required to report under this
Act in his or her capacity as a member of the staff of a
medical or other public or private institution, facility, or
agency, he or she shall make a report to an agency designated
to receive such reports under this Act or to the Department in
accordance with the provisions of this Act and may also notify
the person in charge of the institution, facility, or agency
or his or her designated agent that the report has been made.
Under no circumstances shall any person in charge of such
institution, facility, or agency, or his or her designated
agent to whom the notification has been made, exercise any
control, restraint, modification, or other change in the
report or the forwarding of the report to an agency designated
to receive such reports under this Act or to the Department.
The privileged quality of communication between any
professional person required to report and his or her patient
or client shall not apply to situations involving abused,
abandoned, neglected, or financially exploited eligible adults
and shall not constitute grounds for failure to report as
required by this Act.
(a-6) If a mandated reporter has reason to believe that

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the death of an eligible adult may be the result of abuse or
neglect, the matter shall be reported to an agency designated
to receive such reports under this Act or to the Department for
subsequent referral to the appropriate law enforcement agency
and the coroner or medical examiner in accordance with
subsection (c-5) of Section 3 of this Act.
(a-7) A person making a report under this Act in the belief
that it is in the alleged victim's best interest shall be
immune from criminal or civil liability or professional
disciplinary action on account of making the report,
notwithstanding any requirements concerning the
confidentiality of information with respect to such eligible
adult which might otherwise be applicable.
(a-9) Law enforcement officers shall continue to report
incidents of alleged abuse pursuant to the Illinois Domestic
Violence Act of 1986, notwithstanding any requirements under
this Act.
(b) Any person, institution or agency participating in the
making of a report, providing information or records related
to a report, assessment, or services, or participating in the
investigation of a report under this Act in good faith, or
taking photographs or x-rays as a result of an authorized
assessment, shall have immunity from any civil, criminal or
other liability in any civil, criminal or other proceeding
brought in consequence of making such report or assessment or
on account of submitting or otherwise disclosing such

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photographs or x-rays to any agency designated to receive
reports of alleged or suspected abuse, abandonment, or
neglect. Any person, institution or agency authorized by the
Department to provide assessment, intervention, or
administrative services under this Act shall, in the good
faith performance of those services, have immunity from any
civil, criminal or other liability in any civil, criminal, or
other proceeding brought as a consequence of the performance
of those services. For the purposes of any civil, criminal, or
other proceeding, the good faith of any person required to
report, permitted to report, or participating in an
investigation of a report of alleged or suspected abuse,
abandonment, neglect, financial exploitation, or self-neglect
shall be presumed.
(c) The identity of a person making a report of alleged or
suspected abuse, abandonment, neglect, financial exploitation,
or self-neglect or a report concerning information about the
suspicious death of an eligible adult under this Act may be
disclosed by the Department or other agency provided for in
this Act only with such person's written consent or by court
order, but is otherwise confidential.
(d) The Department shall by rule establish a system for
filing and compiling reports made under this Act.
(e) Any physician who willfully fails to report as
required by this Act shall be referred to the Illinois State
Medical Disciplinary Board for action in accordance with

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subdivision (A)(22) of Section 22 of the Medical Practice Act
of 1987. Any dentist or dental hygienist who willfully fails
to report as required by this Act shall be referred to the
Department of Financial and Professional Regulation for
possible disciplinary action. Any optometrist who willfully
fails to report as required by this Act shall be referred to
the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation for
action in accordance with paragraph (15) of subsection (a) of
Section 24 of the Illinois Optometric Practice Act of 1987.
Any other mandated reporter required by this Act to report
suspected abuse, abandonment, neglect, or financial
exploitation who willfully fails to report the same is guilty
of a Class A misdemeanor.
(Source: P.A. 102-244, eff. 1-1-22; 103-329, eff. 1-1-24;
103-626, eff. 1-1-25.)