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1 AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 3540
2 AMENDMENT NO. . Amend House Bill 3540 by replacing
3 everything after the enacting clause with the following:
4 "Section 5. The Abused and Neglected Long Term Care
5 Facility Residents Reporting Act is amended by changing
6 Section 3 as follows:
7 (210 ILCS 30/3) (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 4163)
8 Sec. 3. Definitions. As used in this Act unless the
9 context otherwise requires:
10 a. "Department" means the Department of Public Health of
11 the State of Illinois.
12 b. "Resident" means a person residing in and receiving
13 personal care from a long term care facility, or residing in
14 a mental health facility or developmental disability facility
15 as defined in the Mental Health and Developmental
16 Disabilities Code.
17 c. "Long term care facility" has the same meaning
18 ascribed to such term in the Nursing Home Care Act, except
19 that the term as used in this Act shall include any mental
20 health facility or developmental disability facility as
21 defined in the Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities
22 Code.
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1 d. "Abuse" means any physical injury, sexual abuse or
2 mental injury inflicted on a resident other than by
3 accidental means.
4 e. "Neglect" means a failure in a long term care
5 facility to provide adequate medical or personal care or
6 maintenance, which failure results in physical or mental
7 injury to a resident or in the deterioration of a resident's
8 physical or mental condition.
9 f. "Protective services" means services provided to a
10 resident who has been abused or neglected, which may include,
11 but are not limited to alternative temporary institutional
12 placement, nursing care, counseling, other social services
13 provided at the nursing home where the resident resides or at
14 some other facility, personal care and such protective
15 services of voluntary agencies as are available.
16 g. Unless the context otherwise requires, direct or
17 indirect references in this Act to the programs, personnel,
18 facilities, services, service providers, or service
19 recipients of the Department of Human Services shall be
20 construed to refer only to those programs, personnel,
21 facilities, services, service providers, or service
22 recipients that pertain to the Department of Human Services'
23 mental health and developmental disabilities functions.
24 (Source: P.A. 89-507, eff. 7-1-97.)".