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Short title
Short title. This Act may be cited as the Domestic Violence Fatality Review Act. (Source: P.A. 102-520, eff. 8-20-21.)
Illinois Compiled Statutes 750 ILCS 62 — Domestic Violence Fatality Review Act.
Illinois · statute · 750 ILCS 62 · 24 active provisions
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Definitions
Definitions. As used in this Act: "Board" means the Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority Board. "Case eligible for review" means the case based upon a qualifying relationship that the regional review teams can review under Section 70. "Confidential information" means: (1) oral, written, digital, or electroni…
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Findings
Findings. The General Assembly finds and declares the following: (a) Over 10,000,000 people in the United States experience physical domestic violence by a current or former partner each year. (b) According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention of the United States Department of Health and Human Services, d…
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Purposes
Purposes. The purposes of this Act are: (1) To create the Ad Hoc Statewide Domestic Violence Fatality Review Committee of the Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority Board to support domestic violence fatality review in this State. (2) To establish regional domestic violence fatality review teams that engage in…
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Ad Hoc Statewide Domestic Violence Fatality Review Committee of the Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority Board
Ad Hoc Statewide Domestic Violence Fatality Review Committee of the Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority Board. The Ad Hoc Statewide Domestic Violence Fatality Review Committee of the Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority Board is hereby created to provide guidance, leadership, technical assistance…
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Membership of the Statewide Committee
Membership of the Statewide Committee. (a) The Statewide Committee shall consist of the following voting members and nonvoting ex officio members. The voting membership shall have racial, ethnic, gender, and geographic diversity and include the following: (1) Four members of the General Assembly as follows: 2 members o…
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Statewide Committee terms of members; vacancies
Statewide Committee terms of members; vacancies. (a) Terms of the original voting members shall be staggered as follows: one-half shall be designated for 2-year terms and one-half shall be designated for 3-year terms. The length of the initial terms of each original voting member shall be drawn by lot at the first meet…
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Statewide Committee quorum; meetings; compensation
Statewide Committee quorum; meetings; compensation. (a) A quorum shall consist of 7 of the voting members of the Statewide Committee. (b) The first meeting of the Statewide Committee shall occur by January 15, 2022. At the first meeting and at subsequent meetings when terms expire, the voting members shall elect 2 co-c…
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Duties and responsibilities of the Statewide Committee
Duties and responsibilities of the Statewide Committee. (a) The Statewide Committee shall carry out the following duties and responsibilities: (1) Subject to available funds, hire or assign a full-time Program Manager to carry out the duties and responsibilities of the Statewide Committee and the purposes of this Act.…
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Regional domestic violence fatality review teams
Regional domestic violence fatality review teams. A regional domestic violence fatality review team may be established within the boundaries of each judicial circuit. Once a review team is established within the boundaries of the judicial circuit, the team may establish one or more subteams to efficiently and effective…
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Membership of regional domestic violence fatality review teams
Membership of regional domestic violence fatality review teams. Each regional review team shall, at a minimum, include the following members from within the boundaries of the judicial circuit: (1) a State's Attorney or Assistant State's Attorney; (2) a public defender or other criminal defense lawyer; (3) a coroner or…
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Terms of regional review team members; vacancies
Terms of regional review team members; vacancies. (a) Terms of the original regional team members shall be staggered as follows: one-half of the initial members of the review team shall serve 2-year terms, and one-half of the initial members shall serve 3-year terms. The initial terms shall be drawn by lot at the first…
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Regional review team quorum; meetings; compensation
Regional review team quorum; meetings; compensation. (a) All members of the regional review team are voting members. Five members of the regional review team shall constitute a quorum. (b) At the first meeting and at subsequent meetings when terms expire, the regional review team shall elect 2 co-chairs and a secretary…
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Duties and responsibilities of the regional domestic violence fatality review team
Duties and responsibilities of the regional domestic violence fatality review team. (a) Each regional review team shall carry out the following duties and responsibilities: (1) Form a regional review team in accordance with Sections 50 and 55. (2) Report the names, professional titles, if applicable, and business conta…
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Case eligible for review by regional review team
Case eligible for review by regional review team. A case eligible for review shall include a fatality or near-fatality that occurred within the geographic boundaries of the judicial circuit covered by the regional review team and a qualifying relationship. (a) A fatality or near-fatality includes at least one of the fo…
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Confidentiality of regional review teams, information, and domestic violence fatality reviews
Confidentiality of regional review teams, information, and domestic violence fatality reviews. (a) Meetings in which regional review teams are engaged in a domestic violence fatality review or in which confidential information is shared or disclosed are closed to the public and not subject to Section 2 of the Open Meet…
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Access to records and information
Access to records and information. (a) Upon the oral or written request by a regional review team, records and oral or written information relevant to the purposes of domestic violence fatality review and to the responsibilities of the regional review team shall be provided free of charge by the following: State and lo…
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Storage and destruction of confidential information
Storage and destruction of confidential information. (a) Following a domestic violence fatality review, participants who brought or provided confidential information may return to their possession the confidential information, shall not disclose or share the confidential information unless otherwise allowed by State or…
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Penalty for unlawful disclosure of confidential information
Penalty for unlawful disclosure of confidential information. Anyone who discloses, receives, makes use of, or knowingly permits the use of any confidential information in violation of this Act commits a Class A misdemeanor. (Source: P.A. 102-520, eff. 8-20-21.)
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Immunity
Immunity. If acting in good faith, without malice, and within the protocols established by the Statewide Committee and the regional review team, members of the Statewide Committee and regional review team, and anyone participating in a domestic violence fatality review shall have immunity from administrative, civil, or…
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(Amendatory provisions; text omitted). (Source: P.A. 102-520, eff. 8-20-21; text omitted.)
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(Amendatory provisions; text omitted). (Source: P.A. 102-520, eff. 8-20-21; text omitted.)
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No acceleration or delay
No acceleration or delay. Where this Act makes changes in a statute that is represented in this Act by text that is not yet or no longer in effect (for example, a Section represented by multiple versions), the use of that text does not accelerate or delay the taking effect of (i) the changes made by this Act or (ii) pr…
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Effective date
Effective date. This Act takes effect upon becoming law. (Source: P.A. 102-520, eff. 8-20-21.)