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91_SB0849ham003
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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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