Bill Text: IL SB0875 | 2017-2018 | 100th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Student Optional Disclosure of Private Mental Health Act. Provides that an institution of higher learning may designate someone to act as a qualified examiner.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2)

Status: (Failed) 2019-01-09 - Session Sine Die [SB0875 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2017-SB0875-Introduced.html

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100TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2017 and 2018 SB0875 Introduced 2/7/2017, by Sen. David Koehler SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
110 ILCS 74/5
Amends the Student Optional Disclosure of Private Mental Health Act. Provides that an institution of higher learning may designate someone to act as a qualified examiner.
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A BILL FOR
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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 Student Optional Disclosure of Private
Mental Health Act is amended by changing Section 5 as follows:
(110 ILCS 74/5)
Sec. 5. Definitions. In this Act:
(a) "Designated person" means a parent, guardian, or other
person over the age of 18 designated by the student to receive
disclosure of certain private mental health information.
(b) "Qualified examiner" has the meaning ascribed to that
term in Section 1-122 of the Mental Health and Developmental
Disabilities Code or means another person designated by an
institution of higher learning.
(Source: P.A. 99-278, eff. 1-1-16.)