Illinois Compiled Statutes 20 Executive Branch: Article -

• Illinois Guardianship and Advocacy Act. - 20 ILCS 3955, Section 1
  This Act shall be known and may be cited as the Guardianship and Advocacy Act. (Source: P.A. 80-1487.)
• Illinois Guardianship and Advocacy Act. - 20 ILCS 3955, Section 2
  As used in this Act, unless the context requires otherwise: (a) "Authority" means a Human Rights Authority. (b) "Commission" means the Guardianship and Advocacy...
• Illinois Guardianship and Advocacy Act. - 20 ILCS 3955, Section 3
  The Guardianship and Advocacy Commission is hereby created as an executive agency of state government. The Legal Advocacy Service, Human Rights Authority and the...
• Illinois Guardianship and Advocacy Act. - 20 ILCS 3955, Section 4
  (a) The Commission shall consist of 11 members, one of whom shall be a senior citizen age 60 or over, who shall be appointed...
• Illinois Guardianship and Advocacy Act. - 20 ILCS 3955, Section 5
  (a) The Commission shall establish throughout the State such regions as it considers appropriate to effectuate the purposes of the Authority under this Act, taking...
• Illinois Guardianship and Advocacy Act. - 20 ILCS 3955, Section 6
  (a) The Commission may recommend to any State agency or service provider regulations or procedures for the purpose of safeguarding the rights of eligible...
• Illinois Guardianship and Advocacy Act. - 20 ILCS 3955, Section 7
  The Director shall carry out the policies and programs of the Commission and coordinate the activities of its divisions and may delegate to the Human...
• Illinois Guardianship and Advocacy Act. - 20 ILCS 3955, Section 8
  The Director shall: (1) Organize and administer programs to provide legal counsel and representation for eligible persons so as to ensure that their legal...
• Illinois Guardianship and Advocacy Act. - 20 ILCS 3955, Section 10
  The Legal Advocacy Service shall: (1) Make available legal counsel to eligible persons in judicial proceedings arising out of the "Mental Health and Developmental...
• Illinois Guardianship and Advocacy Act. - 20 ILCS 3955, Section 11
  The Legal Advocacy Service shall make available counsel for eligible persons by referral or by contracting for legal services to the extent practicable. The...
• Illinois Guardianship and Advocacy Act. - 20 ILCS 3955, Section 12
  A Legal Advocacy Service attorney shall: (1) have ready access to view and copy all mental health records pertaining to his client, as provided...
• Illinois Guardianship and Advocacy Act. - 20 ILCS 3955, Section 13
  Nothing in this Act shall be construed to prohibit an eligible person from being represented by privately retained counsel or from waiving his right...
• Illinois Guardianship and Advocacy Act. - 20 ILCS 3955, Section 14
  Each regional authority shall consist of the 9 members appointed by the Director, in accordance with this Section. Each regional authority shall include insofar as...
• Illinois Guardianship and Advocacy Act. - 20 ILCS 3955, Section 15
  A regional authority which receives a complaint alleging that the rights of an eligible person have been violated in the region in which the authority...
• Illinois Guardianship and Advocacy Act. - 20 ILCS 3955, Section 16
  A regional authority may conduct investigations upon its own initiative if it has reason to believe that the rights of an eligible person have been...
• Illinois Guardianship and Advocacy Act. - 20 ILCS 3955, Section 17
  In the course of an investigation, a regional authority may enter and inspect the premises of a service provider or State agency and question...
• Illinois Guardianship and Advocacy Act. - 20 ILCS 3955, Section 18
  In the course of an investigation, a regional authority may inspect and copy any materials relevant to the investigation in the possession of a...
• Illinois Guardianship and Advocacy Act. - 20 ILCS 3955, Section 19
  No regional authority may disclose to any person any materials which identify an eligible person unless the eligible person or legally authorized person consents...
• Illinois Guardianship and Advocacy Act. - 20 ILCS 3955, Section 20
  A regional authority may conduct hearings and compel by subpoena the attendance and testimony of such witnesses and the production of such materials as...
• Illinois Guardianship and Advocacy Act. - 20 ILCS 3955, Section 21
  A regional authority may, subject to the provisions of the Open Meetings Act, conduct closed meetings and hearings when necessary to ensure confidentiality or to...
• Illinois Guardianship and Advocacy Act. - 20 ILCS 3955, Section 22
  During the course of an investigation, the regional authority shall periodically inform the complainant, or provider and any eligible person involved of the status...
• Illinois Guardianship and Advocacy Act. - 20 ILCS 3955, Section 23
  If a regional authority finds that: A. a matter should be further considered; B. an act investigated should be modified or cancelled; C. a...
• Illinois Guardianship and Advocacy Act. - 20 ILCS 3955, Section 24
  If a regional authority determines that further action is required, it may refer a matter to the Commission or another division thereof, any federal, State...
• Illinois Guardianship and Advocacy Act. - 20 ILCS 3955, Section 25
  Within 10 days of the completion of its investigation, the regional authority shall inform the complainant and the eligible person involved of the outcome...
• Illinois Guardianship and Advocacy Act. - 20 ILCS 3955, Section 26
  Subject to the provisions of Section 19, a regional authority may make public its findings and recommendations. It shall include in any such public...
• Illinois Guardianship and Advocacy Act. - 20 ILCS 3955, Section 27
  A regional authority may, by acting through the Director, propose to the Commission legislation for the purpose of safeguarding the rights of eligible persons. (Source:...
• Illinois Guardianship and Advocacy Act. - 20 ILCS 3955, Section 28
  A regional authority may take such other action as may be reasonable and appropriate to carry out the purposes of this Act. (Source: P.A.
• Illinois Guardianship and Advocacy Act. - 20 ILCS 3955, Section 29
  The procedures provided by Sections 15 through 28 are in addition to any other remedies which may be available to any party; and the...
• Illinois Guardianship and Advocacy Act. - 20 ILCS 3955, Section 30
  When appointed by the court pursuant to the "Probate Act of 1975", approved August 7, 1975, as now or hereafter amended, the State Guardian...
• Illinois Guardianship and Advocacy Act. - 20 ILCS 3955, Section 31
  Appointment; availability of State Guardian; available private guardian. The State Guardian shall not be appointed if another suitable person is available and willing to accept...
• Illinois Guardianship and Advocacy Act. - 20 ILCS 3955, Section 32
  The State Guardian shall have the same powers and duties as a private guardian as provided in Article XIa of the Probate Act of...
• Illinois Guardianship and Advocacy Act. - 20 ILCS 3955, Section 33
  The State Guardian may offer guidance and advice, without court appointment as guardian, to persons who request such assistance or to those on whose...
• Illinois Guardianship and Advocacy Act. - 20 ILCS 3955, Section 34
  A person, who in good faith, files a complaint or provides information to the Commission or any division thereof, including private citizens and employees...
• Illinois Guardianship and Advocacy Act. - 20 ILCS 3955, Section 35
  The annual appropriation for the Commission shall not exceed 1% of the total annual appropriation from the General Revenue Fund to the Department of...
• Illinois Guardianship and Advocacy Act. - 20 ILCS 3955, Section 36
  Rules and regulations adopted by the Commission pursuant to authority granted under this Act shall be subject to the provisions of the Illinois Administrative...

Last modified: February 18, 2015