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4-AN ACT concerning children.
5-Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
6-represented in the General Assembly:
7-Section 5. The Abandoned Newborn Infant Protection Act is
8-amended by changing Section 20 as follows:
3+1 AN ACT concerning children.
4+2 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
5+3 represented in the General Assembly:
6+4 Section 5. The Abandoned Newborn Infant Protection Act is
7+5 amended by changing Section 20 as follows:
8+6 (325 ILCS 2/20)
9+7 Sec. 20. Procedures with respect to relinquished newborn
10+8 infants.
11+9 (a) Hospitals. Every hospital must accept and provide all
12+10 necessary emergency services and care to a relinquished
13+11 newborn infant, in accordance with this Act. The hospital
14+12 shall examine a relinquished newborn infant and perform tests
15+13 that, based on reasonable medical judgment, are appropriate in
16+14 evaluating whether the relinquished newborn infant was abused
17+15 or neglected.
18+16 The act of relinquishing a newborn infant serves as
19+17 implied consent for the hospital and its medical personnel and
20+18 physicians on staff to treat and provide care for the infant.
21+19 The hospital shall be deemed to have temporary protective
22+20 custody of a relinquished newborn infant until the infant is
23+21 discharged to the custody of a child welfare agency or the
24+22 Department. The hospital shall provide all available medical
25+23 records and information to the Department and the child
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34+1 welfare agency that has accepted the referral of the infant in
35+2 accordance with Section 50.
36+3 If the person who relinquished or a person claiming to be
37+4 the parent of a newborn infant returns to reclaim the infant
38+5 within 30 days after the infant was relinquished to a
39+6 hospital, the hospital must inform such person of the name and
40+7 contact information of the child welfare agency to whom
41+8 custody of the infant was transferred.
42+9 (b) Fire stations and emergency medical facilities. Every
43+10 fire station and emergency medical facility must accept and
44+11 provide all necessary emergency services and care to a
45+12 relinquished newborn infant, in accordance with this Act.
46+13 The act of relinquishing a newborn infant serves as
47+14 implied consent for the fire station or emergency medical
48+15 facility and its emergency medical professionals to treat and
49+16 provide care for the infant, to the extent that those
50+17 emergency medical professionals are trained to provide those
51+18 services.
52+19 After the relinquishment of a newborn infant to a fire
53+20 station or emergency medical facility, the fire station or
54+21 emergency medical facility's personnel must arrange for the
55+22 transportation of the infant to the nearest hospital as soon
56+23 as transportation can be arranged.
57+24 If the person who relinquished or a person claiming to be
58+25 the parent of a newborn infant returns to reclaim the infant
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