Bill Text: IL HB0212 | 2021-2022 | 102nd General Assembly | Enrolled

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Bill Title: Amends the Children's Mental Health Act of 2003. Provides that the Children's Mental Health Plan shall include recommendations for ensuring all Illinois youth receive mental health education and have access to mental health care in the school setting. Provides that in developing these recommendations, the Children's Mental Health Partnership shall consult with the State Board of Education, education practitioners, health care professionals, disability advocates, and other representatives as necessary to ensure the interests of all students are represented. Effective July 1, 2021.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 10-0)

Status: (Passed) 2021-07-23 - Public Act . . . . . . . . . 102-0116 [HB0212 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2021-HB0212-Enrolled.html

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AN ACT concerning education.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Children's Mental Health Act of 2003 is
amended by changing Section 5 as follows:
(405 ILCS 49/5)
Sec. 5. Children's Mental Health Plan.
(a) The State of Illinois shall develop a Children's
Mental Health Plan containing short-term and long-term
recommendations to provide comprehensive, coordinated mental
health prevention, early intervention, and treatment services
for children from birth through age 18. This Plan shall
include but not be limited to:
(1) Coordinated provider services and interagency
referral networks for children from birth through age 18
to maximize resources and minimize duplication of
services.
(2) Guidelines for incorporating social and emotional
development into school learning standards and educational
programs, pursuant to Section 15 of this Act.
(3) Protocols for implementing screening and
assessment of children prior to any admission to an
inpatient hospital for psychiatric services, pursuant to

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subsection (a) of Section 5-5.23 of the Illinois Public
Aid Code.
(4) Recommendations regarding a State budget for
children's mental health prevention, early intervention,
and treatment across all State agencies.
(5) Recommendations for State and local mechanisms for
integrating federal, State, and local funding sources for
children's mental health.
(6) Recommendations for building a qualified and
adequately trained workforce prepared to provide mental
health services for children from birth through age 18 and
their families.
(7) Recommendations for facilitating research on best
practices and model programs, and dissemination of this
information to Illinois policymakers, practitioners, and
the general public through training, technical assistance,
and educational materials.
(8) Recommendations for a comprehensive, multi-faceted
public awareness campaign to reduce the stigma of mental
illness and educate families, the general public, and
other key audiences about the benefits of children's
social and emotional development, and how to access
services.
(9) Recommendations for creating a quality-driven
children's mental health system with shared accountability
among key State agencies and programs that conducts

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ongoing needs assessments, uses outcome indicators and
benchmarks to measure progress, and implements quality
data tracking and reporting systems.
(10) Recommendations for ensuring all Illinois youth
receive mental health education and have access to mental
health care in the school setting. In developing these
recommendations, the Children's Mental Health Partnership
created under subsection (b) shall consult with the State
Board of Education, education practitioners, including,
but not limited to, administrators, regional
superintendents of schools, teachers, and school support
personnel, health care professionals, including mental
health professionals and child health leaders, disability
advocates, and other representatives as necessary to
ensure the interests of all students are represented.
(b) The Children's Mental Health Partnership (hereafter
referred to as "the Partnership") is created. The Partnership
shall have the responsibility of developing and monitoring the
implementation of the Children's Mental Health Plan as
approved by the Governor. The Children's Mental Health
Partnership shall be comprised of: the Secretary of Human
Services or his or her designee; the State Superintendent of
Education or his or her designee; the directors of the
departments of Children and Family Services, Healthcare and
Family Services, Public Health, and Juvenile Justice, or their
designees; the head of the Illinois Violence Prevention

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Authority, or his or her designee; the Attorney General or his
or her designee; up to 25 representatives of community mental
health authorities and statewide mental health, children and
family advocacy, early childhood, education, health, substance
abuse, violence prevention, and juvenile justice organizations
or associations, to be appointed by the Governor; and 2
members of each caucus of the House of Representatives and
Senate appointed by the Speaker of the House of
Representatives and the President of the Senate, respectively.
The Governor shall appoint the Partnership Chair and shall
designate a Governor's staff liaison to work with the
Partnership.
(c) The Partnership shall submit a Preliminary Plan to the
Governor on September 30, 2004 and shall submit the Final Plan
on June 30, 2005. Thereafter, on September 30 of each year, the
Partnership shall submit an annual report to the Governor on
the progress of Plan implementation and recommendations for
revisions in the Plan. The Final Plan and annual reports
submitted in subsequent years shall include estimates of
savings achieved in prior fiscal years under subsection (a) of
Section 5-5.23 of the Illinois Public Aid Code and federal
financial participation received under subsection (b) of
Section 5-5.23 of that Code. The Department of Healthcare and
Family Services shall provide technical assistance in
developing these estimates and reports.
(Source: P.A. 94-696, eff. 6-1-06; 95-331, eff. 8-21-07.)

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Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect July 1,
2021.