Helping Crime Victims

Sexual Assault Medical Forensic Services Implementation Task Force

Public Act 100-0775 expands the Sexual Assault Survivors Emergency Treatment Act (SASETA) to ensure that all survivors of sexual assault and sexual abuse are treated in a timely manner by health care professionals who are specially trained to conduct medical forensic examinations of sexual assault and sexual abuse survivors. The Act is the product of a yearlong collaboration among the Illinois Department of Public Health, the Office of the Attorney General, child abuse pediatricians, sexual assault nurse examiners, and other medical providers, rape crisis advocates, children’s advocacy centers, hospitals, state’s attorney’s offices, and state agencies.

Public Act 100-0775 established the Sexual Assault Medical Forensic Services Implementation Task Force (Implementation Task Force) and set forth numerous goals to accomplish before December 31, 2023. [410 ILCS 70/9.5] The Implementation Task Force prepared several pieces of educational materials and sample templates to satisfy, in part, this statutory mandate.

Implementation Task Force meetings and committee meetings are open to the public under the Open Meeting Act. Information regarding future meetings can be found at OAG Public Meetings, Policy & Procurement Information or by emailing joleary@ilag.gov.

Public Act 100-0775

Sexual Assault Survivors Emergency Treatment Act, 410 ILCS 70/1a et seq.

Sexual Assault Medical Forensic Services Implementation Task Force Membership

2019 Implementation Task Force Meeting Dates

Medical Forensic Services Fact Sheet
The Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner Program, in consultation with qualified medical providers, has created uniform materials that all treatment hospitals, treatment hospitals with approved pediatric transfer, and approved pediatric health care facilities are required to give patients and non-offending parents or legal guardians, if applicable, regarding the medical forensic exam procedure, laws regarding consenting to medical forensic services, and the benefits and risks of evidence collection, including recommended time frames.

EDUCATIONAL MATERIALS

Hospitals and Approved Pediatric Health Care Facilities

Health Care Providers

Rape Crisis Centers

Children’s Advocacy Centers

State’s Attorney’s Offices

SAMPLE TEMPLATES

Guide to Establishing an On-Call Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner Program

Photo Documentation and Sample Digital Photography Policy

Sample Memorandum of Understanding for Use by Rape Crisis Centers and Hospitals or Approved Pediatric Health Care Facilities

Sample Template - Written Agreement for Acute Adolescent/Adult Sexual Assault Survivor Transfers

Sample Template - Written Agreement for Acute Pediatric Transfers