Rep. Greg Harris

Amends the Public Health Standing Orders Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.

Amends the Illinois Act on the Aging. Expands the Department on Aging's Long Term Care Ombudsman Program to include advocacy services for residents of community-integrated living arrangements. Makes changes to provisions concerning access and visitation rights. Defines "community-integrated living arrangements". Effective immediately.

Amends the Community Services Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.

Amends the University of Illinois Act, Southern Illinois University Management Act, Chicago State University Law, Eastern Illinois University Law, Governors State University Law, Illinois State University Law, Northeastern Illinois University Law, Northern Illinois University Law, and Western Illinois University Law. Provides that notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, a student who meets the requisite requirements concerning being deemed an Illinois resident for tuition purposes is eligible to apply or receive consideration for any student aid or benefit funded or administered by the State, State agencies, public institutions, or the university, including scholarships, grants, awards, stipends, room and board, tuition waivers, or other financial or in-kind assistance, but excluding Monetary Award Program grants.

Amends the Family Caregiver Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title of the Act.

Amends the Illinois Public Aid Code. Prohibits the State from accepting any special terms and conditions for federal approval of any Medicaid research and demonstration project waiver proposal submitted to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on June 4, 2014. Effective immediately.

Amends the Uniform Act for the Extradition of Persons of Unsound Mind. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.

Amends the Kinship Navigator Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.

Amends the Children and Family Services Act. Provides that by January 1, 2016, the Department of Children and Family Services shall convene a multi-disciplinary workgroup to review treatment programs for youth in the Department's care who are victims of sex trafficking and to make recommendations regarding a continuum of care for these vulnerable youth. Requires the workgroup to: (1) review existing models of treatment programs available in the State and outside the State for youth in the Department's care who are victims of sex trafficking and consider whether the programs have been subject to evaluation; (2) evaluate the need for new programs in the State; (3) review existing State laws and rules that permit children to be placed in secured therapeutic residential care; and (4) make recommendations regarding a continuum of care for children in the Department's care who are victims of sex trafficking. Contains provisions concerning the composition of the workgroup and the workgroup's access to certain records and information held by the Department. Requires the workgroup to submit a report on its findings and recommendations to the General Assembly by January 1, 2017. Requires the Department to implement the workgroup's recommendations, as feasible and appropriate, by March 1, 2017 and to submit a report to the General Assembly explaining its decision to implement or to not implement each of the workgroup's recommendations.

Amends the Respite Program Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning a program of assistance to persons in need and to deter the institutionalization of frail adults or adults with disabilities.