Illinois Compiled Statutes
Chapter 405 - MENTAL HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES
405 ILCS 55/ - Mental Health Patient Travel Act.

(405 ILCS 55/0.01) (from Ch. 91 1/2, par. 1450)
Sec. 0.01.
Short title.
This Act may be cited as the
Mental Health Patient Travel Act.

(Source: P.A. 86-1324.)
 
(405 ILCS 55/1) (from Ch. 91 1/2, par. 1451)
Sec. 1.

The Department of Human Services
may establish and maintain a trust fund to be known as the
"Patient Travel Trust Fund". This trust fund shall be used for advancing
money for travel expenses in connection with the travel or transfer of
patients in State mental health and developmental disabilities
facilities, whether such travel or transfer is within this
State or to or from other states, including the travel expenses of
employees designated to accompany the patients. The trust fund shall be
established and reimbursed from any applicable appropriation for travel
expenses of the Department of Human Services (as successor to the Department
of Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities).

(Source: P.A. 89-507, eff. 7-1-97.)

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