Bill Text: IL HB1530 | 2015-2016 | 99th General Assembly | Chaptered

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Bill Title: Amends the Children and Family Services Act. Provides that no facility authorized by the Department of Children and Family Services to provide temporary residential shelter services to wards of the Department shall permit any child under the age of 18 to leave the facility for any period of time prior to the child's complete discharge from the temporary shelter program, unless the child is accompanied by a responsible adult or the facility authorizes the child to leave the facility for a particular purpose. Requires the Department to adopt any rules necessary to implement this provision. Effective immediately.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5)

Status: (Passed) 2015-08-11 - Public Act . . . . . . . . . 99-0339 [HB1530 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2015-HB1530-Chaptered.html

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Public Act 099-0339
HB1530 Enrolled LRB099 07656 KTG 27787 b
AN ACT concerning State government.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Children and Family Services Act is amended
by adding Section 4c as follows:
(20 ILCS 505/4c new)
Sec. 4c. Temporary residential shelter services. Any child
care facility authorized by the Department to provide temporary
residential shelter services to children in the guardianship,
temporary custody, or protective custody of the Department
shall:
(1) provide interventions and activities that engage
the children and youth in its care;
(2) maintain staffing levels that ensure a safe
environment;
(3) implement protocols that require screening and
assessment upon admission to evaluate behaviors that
indicate the risk of elopement and physical aggression,
with the findings reflected in the individual service plan
and updated periodically as new behaviors manifest;
(4) establish rules and procedures that prevent the
violation of curfew laws and that do not permit any child
under the age of 18 to leave the facility for any period of

time prior to the child's complete discharge from the
temporary shelter program, unless the child is accompanied
by a responsible adult or the facility or the Department
authorizes the child to leave the facility for a particular
purpose; and
(5) whenever a child or youth is absent from the
facility without authorization, utilize the standards of
best practice and adopt actionable steps to locate and
return the child or youth to the facility, including, but
not limited to, calling any known contacts, interviewing
peer groups likely to know whereabouts, searching
community places frequented by the child or youth, and
checking schools and work sites; actionable steps shall be
frequent and documented and available for review by the
Department.
A child care facility shall have its admissions placed on
hold by the Department whenever unauthorized absences from the
facility are excessive; the admissions hold shall remain in
effect until the facility has complied with a corrective action
plan prescribed by the Department, and if the facility is
non-compliant, the Department shall impose licensing sanctions
up to and including the revocation of the facility's license.
The Department shall adopt any rules necessary to implement
the requirements of this Section and shall monitor a child care
facility to ensure that the facility establishes and adheres to
these requirements. Nothing in this Section shall be

interpreted to create a "secure child care facility" as defined
in the Child Care Act of 1969.