DHS-CILA-TRANSFER OF RESIDENTS

Amends the Community-Integrated Living Arrangements Licensure and Certification Act. Provides that the Department of Human Services may not deny, suspend, or revoke a license under the Act, or refuse to renew a license, on the ground that the licensee or applicant operates or proposes to operate a community-integrated living arrangement located within 800 feet from any other setting licensed or funded to provide residential services for persons with a developmental disability or mental illness, including another community-integrated living arrangement. Provides that neither the State plan for the distribution of community living arrangements throughout the State, nor any rule adopted by the Department, may include a requirement that a community-integrated living arrangement owned or leased by a community mental health or developmental services agency and funded by the Department may not be located within a distance of 800 feet from any other setting licensed or funded to provide residential services for persons with a developmental disability or mental illness, including another community-integrated living arrangement. Provides that the Department must, under the authority granted to it under a specified consent decree, adopt and publish a written plan for compliance with the terms of the consent decree within 3 months after the effective date of the amendatory Act. Sets forth features that the plan must include.