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Read. Follow. Verify.Illinois House Bill 187 amends the Adult Protective Services Act regarding reports of elder abuse and neglect
Last action · May 31, 2025: Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules CommitteeSponsor: Chris Welch
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What This Bill Would Do
Illinois House Bill 187 amends the Adult Protective Services Act to update provisions concerning reports of abuse, abandonment, or neglect of eligible adults. The measure details reporting requirements for s, confidentiality protections, immunity provisions, and penalties for willful failure to report.
Changes reporting protocols, institutional obligations, and penalties for mandated professionals under the Adult Protective Services Act, affecting how suspected elder abuse or neglect is documented and investigated.
Who It Would Affect
Groups the bill's text would affect if enacted, as described in the record. Being affected is not a position for or against it.
Mandated reporters
Mandated reporters face strict 24-hour reporting timelines, institutional non-interference protections, and specific disciplinary penalties or misdemeanor charges for willful failure to report.
Eligible adults
Eligible adults are protected by mandatory reporting requirements regarding abuse, abandonment, neglect, financial exploitation, and self-neglect.
Key Facts
- Any person may report suspected abuse, abandonment, neglect, financial exploitation, or self-neglect of an eligible adult to a designated agency or the Department.
- Mandated reporters who believe an eligible adult has been subjected to abuse, abandonment, neglect, or financial exploitation within the previous 12 months must report it within 24 hours.
- Designated agencies or the Department may establish an Internet reporting tool for mandated reporters.
- Persons in charge of an institution, facility, or agency are strictly prohibited from exercising any control, restraint, or modification over a mandated report.
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- The privileged communication between a professional and their patient or client does not apply in situations involving abused or neglected eligible adults.
- If an eligible adult's death may be the result of abuse or neglect, it must be reported for subsequent referral to law enforcement and the coroner or medical examiner.
- Persons making reports in good faith receive immunity from civil, criminal, or professional disciplinary liability.
- The identity of a person making a report is confidential and may only be disclosed with written consent or by court order.
- Physicians who willfully fail to report are referred to the Illinois State Medical Disciplinary Board.
- Dentists, dental hygienists, and optometrists who willfully fail to report are referred to the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation.
- Any other mandated reporter who willfully fails to report is guilty of a Class A misdemeanor.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Votes, people, money & the original sourceWhere This Stands
Currently in committee. The next step in the legislative lifecycle is Floor Vote.
Procedural history
10 actions- May 31, 2025HouseCommitteeRule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee
- Apr 11, 2025HouseFloorThird Reading Deadline Extended-Rule May 31, 2025
- Mar 21, 2025HouseFloorHeld on Calendar Order of Second Reading - Short Debate **
- Mar 21, 2025HouseFloorSecond Reading - Short Debate
- Mar 12, 2025HousePlaced on Calendar 2nd Reading - Short Debate **
- Mar 12, 2025HouseCommitteeDo Pass / Short Debate Executive Committee; 012-000-000
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- Mar 4, 2025HouseCommitteeAssigned to Executive Committee
- Jan 9, 2025HouseCommitteeReferred to Rules Committee
- Jan 9, 2025HouseIntroducedFirst Reading
- Dec 16, 2024HouseIntroducedPrefiled with Clerk by Rep. Emanuel "Chris" Welch
Version history
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Analysis Score
0–100- Significance45How much this matters to a regular citizen
- Controversy10Intensity of disagreement among stakeholders
- Entertainment5Compellingness for a non-policy-wonk reader
- Buzz15Current news / social attention level
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