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 1                    AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 849

 2        AMENDMENT NO.     .  Amend Senate Bill 849,  AS  AMENDED,
 3    by  inserting  immediately  below  Section 15 of the bill the
 4    following:

 5        "Section  20.   The  Mental  Health   and   Developmental
 6    Disabilities  Confidentiality  Act  is  amended  by  changing
 7    Section 9.2 as follows:

 8        (740 ILCS 110/9.2)
 9        Sec.    9.2.    Interagency   disclosure   of   recipient
10    information.  For the purposes of  continuity  of  care,  the
11    Department  of Human Services (as successor to the Department
12    of  Mental  Health  and  Developmental   Disabilities),   and
13    community agencies funded by the Department of Human Services
14    in  that  capacity,  and jails operated by any county of this
15    State may disclose a recipient's  record  or  communications,
16    without  consent,  to each other, but only for the purpose of
17    admission, treatment, planning, or discharge.  Entities shall
18    not  redisclose  any  personally  identifiable   information,
19    unless  necessary  for  admission,  treatment,  planning,  or
20    discharge  of the identified recipient to another setting. No
21    records or communications may be disclosed to a  county  jail
22    pursuant  to  this  Section unless the Department has entered
 
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 1    into a written agreement with the county jail requiring  that
 2    the   county  jail  adopt  written  policies  and  procedures
 3    designed to ensure that the records  and  communications  are
 4    disclosed only to those persons employed by or under contract
 5    to  the  county  jail  who  are  involved in the provision of
 6    mental health services to inmates and that  the  records  and
 7    communications are protected from further disclosure.
 8    (Source: P.A. 88-484; 89-507, eff. 7-1-97.)".

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