Hormone or Anti-Androgen Pilot Treatment Program - Establishment, Eligibility

(a)The Department of Corrections shall establish a pilot treatment program for persons convicted of a sex crime who are eligible for, or sentenced to, parole or post-prison supervision. Evaluation of this pilot treatment program will be completed no later than three

(3)years after the date of implementation of the program, and an evaluation report shall be transmitted to the Parole Board upon completion. The purpose of the program is to reduce the risk of reoffending after release on parole or post-prison supervision by providing certain persons, convicted of sex crimes who are deemed medically appropriate for the treatment program, with hormone or anti-androgen, such as medroxyprogesterone acetate, each year.

(b)Under the program, the Department of Corrections shall:

(1)screen persons convicted of sex crimes who are eligible for release within six

(6)months on parole or post-prison supervision to determine their suitability for hormone or anti-androgen treatment upon release; CH. 80 DISPOSITION OF OFFENDERS

(2)refer persons found most likely to benefit from hormone or anti-androgen treatment to a competent physician for medical evaluation, and a competent psychologist for psychological evaluation; and

(3)refer those persons, unless medically contraindicated after the evaluation by a competent physician, to a community physician to begin hormone or anti-androgen treatment one

(1)week prior to release on parole or post-prison supervision.

(c)The Parole Board may require, as a condition of parole or post-prison supervision, hormone or antiandrogen treatment during all or a portion of parole or post-prison supervision of persons required to participate in the hormone or anti-androgen treatment program described in Subsection

(b)of this Section.

(d)A person required to undergo a treatment program under Subsection

(b)of this Section violates a condition of parole or post-prison supervision, and is subject to sanctions, if the person:

(1)fails to cooperate in the treatment program required under Subsection

(b)of this Section; or

(2)takes any steroid or other chemical to counteract the treatment required under Subsection

(b)of this Section.

(e)If a person voluntarily undergoes a permanent surgical alternative to treatment under Subsection

(b)of this Section, he or she shall not be subject to hormone or anti-androgen treatment under this Section. All costs of such permanent surgical alternative shall be paid by the person undergoing such procedure.

(f)Any physician who acts in good faith under this Section in the administration of hormone or antiandrogen treatment, or the evaluation of persons for hormone or anti-androgen treatment, shall be immune from civil or criminal liability in connection with such treatment or evaluation.