Bill Text: IL HB3384 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Child Death Review Team Act. Provides that members of the General Assembly shall serve on the Illinois Child Death Review Teams Executive Council and attend all Executive Council meetings. Provides that members of the General Assembly shall be permitted to attend all Executive meetings, meetings between the Director and the Executive Council, and Child Death Review regional team meetings. Provides that in addition to other specified purposes, a child death review team's purpose in conducting reviews of child deaths is to share with the General Assembly the specific recommendations the review team makes to the Director and the Inspector General of the Department of Children and Family Services concerning the prevention of child deaths due to abuse or neglect and the establishment of protocols for investigating child deaths.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2023-03-27 - House Floor Amendment No. 1 Rule 19(c) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB3384 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2023-HB3384-Introduced.html

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103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2023 and 2024 HB3384 Introduced , by Rep. Carol Ammons SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
20 ILCS 515/15
20 ILCS 515/20
Amends the Child Death Review Team Act. Provides that members of the General Assembly shall serve on the Illinois Child Death Review Teams Executive Council and attend all Executive Council meetings. Provides that members of the General Assembly shall be permitted to attend all Executive meetings, meetings between the Director and the Executive Council, and Child Death Review regional team meetings. Provides that in addition to other specified purposes, a child death review team's purpose in conducting reviews of child deaths is to share with the General Assembly the specific recommendations the review team makes to the Director and the Inspector General of the Department of Children and Family Services concerning the prevention of child deaths due to abuse or neglect and the establishment of protocols for investigating child deaths.
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning State government.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Child Death Review Team Act is amended by
changing Sections 15 and 20 as follows:
(20 ILCS 515/15)
Sec. 15. Child death review teams; establishment.
(a) The Inspector General of the Department, in
consultation and cooperation with the Executive Council, law
enforcement, and other professionals who work in the field of
investigating, treating, or preventing child abuse or neglect
in that subregion, shall appoint members to a child death
review team in each of the Department's administrative
subregions of the State outside Cook County and at least one
child death review team in Cook County. The members of a team
shall be appointed for 2-year terms and shall be eligible for
reappointment upon the expiration of the terms. The Inspector
General of the Department must fill any vacancy in a team
within 60 days after that vacancy occurs.
(b) Each child death review team shall consist of at least
one member from each of the following categories:
(1) Pediatrician or other physician knowledgeable
about child abuse and neglect.

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(2) Representative of the Department.
(3) State's attorney or State's attorney's
representative.
(4) Representative of a local law enforcement agency.
(5) Psychologist or psychiatrist.
(6) Representative of a local health department.
(7) Representative of a school district or other
education or child care interests.
(8) Coroner or forensic pathologist.
(9) Representative of a child welfare agency or child
advocacy organization.
(10) Representative of a local hospital, trauma
center, or provider of emergency medical services.
(11) Representative of the Illinois State Police.
(12) Representative of the Department of Public
Health.
Each child death review team may make recommendations to
the Inspector General of the Department concerning additional
appointments. In the event of a disagreement, the Executive
Council's decision shall control.
Each child death review team member must have demonstrated
experience and an interest in investigating, treating, or
preventing child abuse or neglect.
(c) Each child death review team shall select a
chairperson and vice-chairperson from among its members. The
chairperson shall also serve on the Illinois Child Death

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Review Teams Executive Council. The vice-chairperson may also
serve on the Illinois Child Death Review Teams Executive
Council, but shall not have a vote on child death review team
business unless the chairperson is unable to attend a meeting.
(d) The child death review teams shall be funded under a
separate line item in the Department's annual budget.
(e) The Department shall provide at least one full-time
Statewide Department of Children and Family Services Liaison
who shall attend all child death review team meetings, all
Executive meetings, all Executive Council meetings, and
meetings between the Director and the Executive Council.
(f) Members of the General Assembly shall serve on the
Illinois Child Death Review Teams Executive Council and attend
all Executive Council meetings. Members of the General
Assembly shall be permitted to attend all Executive meetings,
meetings between the Director and the Executive Council, and
Child Death Review regional team meetings.
(Source: P.A. 102-538, eff. 8-20-21.)
(20 ILCS 515/20)
Sec. 20. Reviews of child deaths.
(a) Every child death shall be reviewed by the team in the
subregion which has primary case management responsibility.
The deceased child must be one of the following:
(1) A youth in care.
(2) The subject of an open service case maintained by

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the Department.
(3) The subject of a pending child abuse or neglect
investigation.
(4) A child who was the subject of an abuse or neglect
investigation at any time during the 12 months preceding
the child's death.
(5) Any other child whose death is reported to the
State central register as a result of alleged child abuse
or neglect which report is subsequently indicated.
A child death review team may, at its discretion, review
other sudden, unexpected, or unexplained child deaths, cases
of serious or fatal injuries to a child identified under the
Children's Advocacy Center Act, and all unfounded child death
cases.
(b) A child death review team's purpose in conducting
reviews of child deaths is to do the following:
(1) Assist in determining the cause and manner of the
child's death, when requested.
(2) Evaluate means by which the death might have been
prevented.
(3) Report its findings to appropriate agencies and
make recommendations that may help to reduce the number of
child deaths caused by abuse or neglect.
(4) Promote continuing education for professionals
involved in investigating, treating, and preventing child
abuse and neglect as a means of preventing child deaths

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due to abuse or neglect.
(5) Make specific recommendations to the Director and
the Inspector General of the Department concerning the
prevention of child deaths due to abuse or neglect and the
establishment of protocols for investigating child deaths.
(6) Share the specific recommendations made under
paragraph (5) with the General Assembly.
(c) A child death review team shall review a child death as
soon as practical and not later than 90 days following the
completion by the Department of the investigation of the death
under the Abused and Neglected Child Reporting Act. When there
has been no investigation by the Department, the child death
review team shall review a child's death within 90 days after
obtaining the information necessary to complete the review
from the coroner, pathologist, medical examiner, or law
enforcement agency, depending on the nature of the case. A
child death review team shall meet at least once in each
calendar quarter.
(d) The Director shall, within 90 days, review and reply
to recommendations made by a team under item (5) of subsection
(b). With respect to each recommendation made by a team, the
Director shall submit his or her reply both to the chairperson
of that team and to the chairperson of the Executive Council.
The Director's reply to each recommendation must include a
statement as to whether the Director intends to implement the
recommendation. The Director shall meet in person with the

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Executive Council at least every 60 days to discuss
recommendations and the Department's responses.
The Director shall implement recommendations as feasible
and appropriate and shall respond in writing to explain the
implementation or nonimplementation of the recommendations.
(e) Within 90 days after the Director submits a reply with
respect to a recommendation as required by subsection (d), the
Director must submit an additional report that sets forth in
detail the way, if any, in which the Director will implement
the recommendation and the schedule for implementing the
recommendation. The Director shall submit this report to the
chairperson of the team that made the recommendation and to
the chairperson of the Executive Council.
(f) Within 180 days after the Director submits a report
under subsection (e) concerning the implementation of a
recommendation, the Director shall submit a further report to
the chairperson of the team that made the recommendation and
to the chairperson of the Executive Council. This report shall
set forth the specific changes in the Department's policies
and procedures that have been made in response to the
recommendation.
(Source: P.A. 100-159, eff. 8-18-17; 100-1122, eff. 11-27-18.)