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1 AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 849
2 AMENDMENT NO. . Amend Senate Bill 849, AS AMENDED,
3 by inserting immediately above Section 5, the following:
4 "Section 2. The Mental Health and Developmental
5 Disabilities Administrative Act is amended by changing
6 Section 2 as follows:
7 (20 ILCS 1705/2) (from Ch. 91 1/2, par. 100-2)
8 Sec. 2. Definitions; administrative subdivisions.
9 (a) For the purposes of this Act, unless the context
10 otherwise requires:
11 "Department" means the Department of Human Services,
12 successor to the former Department of Mental Health and
13 Developmental Disabilities.
14 "Secretary" means the Secretary of Human Services.
15 (b) Unless the context otherwise requires:
16 (1) References in this Act to the programs or
17 facilities of the Department shall be construed to refer
18 only to those programs or facilities of the Department
19 that pertain to mental health or developmental
20 disabilities.
21 (2) References in this Act to the Department's
22 service providers or service recipients shall be
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1 construed to refer only to providers or recipients of
2 services that pertain to the Department's mental health
3 and developmental disabilities functions.
4 (3) References in this Act to employees of the
5 Department shall be construed to refer only to employees
6 whose duties pertain to the Department's mental health
7 and developmental disabilities functions.
8 (c) The Secretary shall establish such subdivisions of
9 the Department as shall be desirable and shall assign to the
10 various subdivisions the responsibilities and duties placed
11 upon the Department by the Laws of the State of Illinois.
12 (d) There is established a coordinator of services to
13 mentally disabled deaf and hearing impaired persons. In
14 hiring this coordinator, every consideration shall be given
15 to qualified deaf or hearing impaired individuals.
16 (e) Whenever the administrative director of the
17 subdivision for mental health services is not a
18 board-certified psychiatrist, the Secretary shall appoint a
19 Chief for Clinical Services who shall be a board-certified
20 psychiatrist with both clinical and administrative
21 experience. The Chief for Clinical Services shall be
22 responsible for all clinical and medical decisions for mental
23 health services.
24 (Source: P.A. 89-507, eff. 7-1-97.)".