Illinois 2025-2026 Regular Session

Illinois House Bill HB3600 Compare Versions

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1	1	104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2025 and 2026 HB3600 Introduced , by Rep. Jackie Haas SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: 325 ILCS 2/10325 ILCS 2/20 Amends the Abandoned Newborn Infant Protection Act. In a provision requiring a hospital to provide all necessary emergency services and care to a relinquished newborn infant, provides that all necessary emergency services and care may include having a child rescue pod available for use if the hospital has an emergency department that is staffed and monitored at all times. Defines "child rescue pod" to mean a medical device used to maintain an optimal environment for the care of a newborn infant. LRB104 11391 KTG 21479 b A BILL FOR 104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2025 and 2026 HB3600 Introduced , by Rep. Jackie Haas SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: 325 ILCS 2/10325 ILCS 2/20 325 ILCS 2/10 325 ILCS 2/20 Amends the Abandoned Newborn Infant Protection Act. In a provision requiring a hospital to provide all necessary emergency services and care to a relinquished newborn infant, provides that all necessary emergency services and care may include having a child rescue pod available for use if the hospital has an emergency department that is staffed and monitored at all times. Defines "child rescue pod" to mean a medical device used to maintain an optimal environment for the care of a newborn infant. LRB104 11391 KTG 21479 b LRB104 11391 KTG 21479 b A BILL FOR
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6	6	Amends the Abandoned Newborn Infant Protection Act. In a provision requiring a hospital to provide all necessary emergency services and care to a relinquished newborn infant, provides that all necessary emergency services and care may include having a child rescue pod available for use if the hospital has an emergency department that is staffed and monitored at all times. Defines "child rescue pod" to mean a medical device used to maintain an optimal environment for the care of a newborn infant.
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12	12	1 AN ACT concerning children.
13	13	2 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
14	14	3 represented in the General Assembly:
15	15	4 Section 5. The Abandoned Newborn Infant Protection Act is
16	16	5 amended by changing Sections 10 and 20 as follows:
17	17	6 (325 ILCS 2/10)
18	18	7 Sec. 10. Definitions. In this Act:
19	19	8 "Abandon" has the same meaning as in the Abused and
20	20	9 Neglected Child Reporting Act.
21	21	10 "Abused child" has the same meaning as in the Abused and
22	22	11 Neglected Child Reporting Act.
23	23	12 "Child welfare agency" means an Illinois licensed public
24	24	13 or private agency that receives a child for the purpose of
25	25	14 placing or arranging for the placement of the child in a foster
26	26	15 or pre-adoptive family home or other facility for child care,
27	27	16 apart from the custody of the child's parents.
28	28	17 "Child rescue pod" means a medical device used to maintain
29	29	18 an optimal environment for the care of a newborn infant.
30	30	19 "Department" or "DCFS" means the Illinois Department of
31	31	20 Children and Family Services.
32	32	21 "Emergency medical facility" means a freestanding
33	33	22 emergency center or trauma center, as defined in the Emergency
34	34	23 Medical Services (EMS) Systems Act.
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42	42	Amends the Abandoned Newborn Infant Protection Act. In a provision requiring a hospital to provide all necessary emergency services and care to a relinquished newborn infant, provides that all necessary emergency services and care may include having a child rescue pod available for use if the hospital has an emergency department that is staffed and monitored at all times. Defines "child rescue pod" to mean a medical device used to maintain an optimal environment for the care of a newborn infant.
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71	71	1 "Emergency medical professional" includes licensed
72	72	2 physicians, and any emergency medical technician, emergency
73	73	3 medical technician-intermediate, advanced emergency medical
74	74	4 technician, paramedic, trauma nurse specialist, and
75	75	5 pre-hospital registered nurse, as defined in the Emergency
76	76	6 Medical Services (EMS) Systems Act.
77	77	7 "Fire station" means a fire station within the State with
78	78	8 at least one staff person.
79	79	9 "Hospital" has the same meaning as in the Hospital
80	80	10 Licensing Act.
81	81	11 "Legal custody" means the relationship created by a court
82	82	12 order in the best interest of a newborn infant that imposes on
83	83	13 the infant's custodian the responsibility of physical
84	84	14 possession of the infant, the duty to protect, train, and
85	85	15 discipline the infant, and the duty to provide the infant with
86	86	16 food, shelter, education, and medical care, except as these
87	87	17 are limited by parental rights and responsibilities.
88	88	18 "Neglected child" has the same meaning as in the Abused
89	89	19 and Neglected Child Reporting Act.
90	90	20 "Newborn infant" means a child who a licensed physician
91	91	21 reasonably believes is 30 days old or less at the time the
92	92	22 child is initially relinquished to a hospital, police station,
93	93	23 fire station, or emergency medical facility, and who is not an
94	94	24 abused or a neglected child.
95	95	25 "Parent" or "biological parent" or "birth parent" means a
96	96	26 person who has established maternity or paternity of the
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107	107	1 newborn infant through genetic testing.
108	108	2 "Police station" means a municipal police station, a
109	109	3 county sheriff's office, a campus police department located on
110	110	4 any college or university owned or controlled by the State or
111	111	5 any private college or private university that is not owned or
112	112	6 controlled by the State when employees of the campus police
113	113	7 department are present, or any of the district headquarters of
114	114	8 the Illinois State Police.
115	115	9 "Relinquish" means to bring a newborn infant, who a
116	116	10 licensed physician reasonably believes is 30 days old or less,
117	117	11 to a hospital, police station, fire station, or emergency
118	118	12 medical facility and to leave the infant with personnel of the
119	119	13 facility, if the person leaving the infant does not express an
120	120	14 intent to return for the infant or states that the person will
121	121	15 not return for the infant. In the case of a person who gives
122	122	16 birth to an infant in a hospital, the person's act of leaving
123	123	17 that newborn infant at the hospital (i) without expressing an
124	124	18 intent to return for the infant or (ii) stating that the person
125	125	19 will not return for the infant is not a "relinquishment" under
126	126	20 this Act.
127	127	21 "Temporary protective custody" means the temporary
128	128	22 placement of a newborn infant within a hospital or other
129	129	23 medical facility out of the custody of the infant's parent.
130	130	24 (Source: P.A. 103-22, eff. 8-8-23; 103-501, eff. 1-1-24;
131	131	25 103-605, eff. 7-1-24.)
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142	142	1 (325 ILCS 2/20)
143	143	2 Sec. 20. Procedures with respect to relinquished newborn
144	144	3 infants.
145	145	4 (a) Hospitals. Every hospital must accept and provide all
146	146	5 necessary emergency services and care to a relinquished
147	147	6 newborn infant, in accordance with this Act. All necessary
148	148	7 emergency services and care may include having a child rescue
149	149	8 pod available for use if the hospital has an emergency
150	150	9 department that is staffed and monitored at all times. The
151	151	10 hospital shall examine a relinquished newborn infant and
152	152	11 perform tests that, based on reasonable medical judgment, are
153	153	12 appropriate in evaluating whether the relinquished newborn
154	154	13 infant was abused or neglected.
155	155	14 The act of relinquishing a newborn infant serves as
156	156	15 implied consent for the hospital and its medical personnel and
157	157	16 physicians on staff to treat and provide care for the infant.
158	158	17 The hospital shall be deemed to have temporary protective
159	159	18 custody of a relinquished newborn infant until the infant is
160	160	19 discharged to the custody of a child welfare agency or the
161	161	20 Department. The hospital shall provide all available medical
162	162	21 records and information to the Department and the child
163	163	22 welfare agency that has accepted the referral of the infant in
164	164	23 accordance with Section 50.
165	165	24 If the person who relinquished or a person claiming to be
166	166	25 the parent of a newborn infant returns to reclaim the infant
167	167	26 within 30 days after the infant was relinquished to a
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178	178	1 hospital, the hospital must inform such person of the name and
179	179	2 contact information of the child welfare agency to whom
180	180	3 custody of the infant was transferred.
181	181	4 (b) Fire stations and emergency medical facilities. Every
182	182	5 fire station and emergency medical facility must accept and
183	183	6 provide all necessary emergency services and care to a
184	184	7 relinquished newborn infant, in accordance with this Act.
185	185	8 The act of relinquishing a newborn infant serves as
186	186	9 implied consent for the fire station or emergency medical
187	187	10 facility and its emergency medical professionals to treat and
188	188	11 provide care for the infant, to the extent that those
189	189	12 emergency medical professionals are trained to provide those
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191	191	14 After the relinquishment of a newborn infant to a fire
192	192	15 station or emergency medical facility, the fire station or
193	193	16 emergency medical facility's personnel must arrange for the
194	194	17 transportation of the infant to the nearest hospital as soon
195	195	18 as transportation can be arranged.
196	196	19 If the person who relinquished or a person claiming to be
197	197	20 the parent of a newborn infant returns to reclaim the infant
198	198	21 within 30 days after the infant was relinquished to a fire
199	199	22 station or emergency medical facility, the fire station or
200	200	23 emergency medical facility must inform such person of the name
201	201	24 and location of the hospital to which the infant was
202	202	25 transported.
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