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20 ILCS 2630/3.2 (2026)

(a) It is the duty of any person conducting or operating a medical facility, or any physician or nurse as soon as treatment permits to notify the local law enforcement agency of that jurisdiction upon the application for treatment of a person who is not accompanied by a law enforcement officer, when it reasonably appears that the person requesting treatment has received:         (1) any injury resulting from the discharge of a     firearm; or         (2) any injury sustained in the commission of or as a     victim of a criminal offense

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(20 ILCS 2630/3.2) (from Ch. 38, par. 206-3.2)
    Sec. 3.2. (a) It is the duty of any person conducting or operating a medical facility, or any physician or nurse as soon as treatment permits to notify the local law enforcement agency of that jurisdiction upon the application for treatment of a person who is not accompanied by a law enforcement officer, when it reasonably appears that the person requesting treatment has received:
        (1) any injury resulting from the discharge of a
    
firearm; or
        (2) any injury sustained in the commission of or as a
    
victim of a criminal offense.
    Any hospital, physician or nurse shall be forever held harmless from any civil liability for their reasonable compliance with the provisions of this Section.
    (b) Notwithstanding subsection (a), nothing in this Section shall be construed to require the reporting of lawful health care activity, whether such activity may constitute a violation of another state's law.
    (c) As used in this Section:
    "Lawful health care" means:
        (1) reproductive health care that is not unlawful
    
under the laws of this State or was not unlawful under the laws of this State as of January 13, 2023 (the effective date of Public Act 102-1117), including on any theory of vicarious, joint, several, or conspiracy liability; or
        (2) the treatment of gender dysphoria or the
    
affirmation of an individual's gender identity or gender expression, including but not limited to, all supplies, care, and services of a medical, behavioral health, mental health, surgical, psychiatric, therapeutic, diagnostic, preventative, rehabilitative, or supportive nature that is not unlawful under the laws of this State or was not unlawful under the laws of this State as of January 13, 2023 (the effective date of Public Act 102-1117), including on any theory of vicarious, joint, several, or conspiracy liability.
    "Lawful health care activity" means seeking, providing, receiving, assisting in seeking, providing, or receiving, providing material support for, or traveling to obtain lawful health care.
(Source: P.A. 102-1117, eff. 1-13-23; 103-551, eff. 8-11-23.)

    
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 8 cases (5 in the last 5 years), 2004–2024 · leading case: People v. Kucharski, 806 N.E.2d 683 (Ill. App. Ct. 2004).
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People v. Kucharski, 806 N.E.2d 683 (Ill. App. Ct. 2004). · cites it 8× “2 of the Criminal Identification Act (20 ILCS 2630/3.2 (West 2000)) in holding that the hospital had a duty to inform the police of defendant’s condition.”
Chicago Sun-Times v. Cook Cnty. Health & Hosp. Sys., 2022 IL 127519 (Ill. 2022). · cites it 2× “20 ILCS 2630/3.2 (West 2018). Plaintiff asked for the “time/date” of each relevant hospital admission and the corresponding “time/date” of law enforcement notification.”
People v. Pearson, 2021 IL App (2d) 190833 (Ill. App. Ct. 2021). · cites it 2× “2 of the Criminal Identification Act (Act) (20 ILCS 2630/3.2 (West 2016)). We reject this argument as well.”
People v. Turner, 2022 IL App (5th) 190329 (Ill. App. Ct. 2022). · cites it 3× “2 of the Criminal Identification Act (20 ILCS 2630/3.2 (West 2016)). The State also argued that based on all the testimony that the bloody clothing was observable as soon as you walked in the room, the detectives legally took the clothes under the plain view exception to the…”
People v. Hillsman, 839 N.E.2d 1116 (Ill. App. Ct. 2005). “In so holding, we reasoned, in part, that the presence of police officers in emergency rooms was an “obvious consequence” of the Illinois law requiring medical personnel to inform authorities of any person seeking treatment whose injuries may have been caused by criminal conduct…”
People v. Turner, 2024 IL 129208 (Ill. 2024). “2 of the Criminal Identification Act (20 ILCS 2630/3.2 (West 2016)) requires medical personnel to alert the police when they are treating someone who has sustained an injury resulting from a firearm.”
Chicago Sun-Times v. Cook Cnty. Health & Hosp. Sys., 2021 IL App (1st) 192551 (Ill. App. Ct. 2021). · cites it 2× “Written policy and/or related policy documents, and/or internal memos or communications setting policy or providing guidelines, instructions and/or directives to staff in the reporting of patients who have suffered gunshot wounds to law enforcement agencies as required by state…”
People v. Kucharski (Ill. App. Ct. 2004). · cites it 8× “2 of the Criminal Identification Act (20 ILCS 2630/3.2 (West 2000)) in holding that the hospital had a duty to inform the police of defendant's condition.”
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