Directs the Auditor General to conduct a management audit of the Department of Children and Family Services' compliance with its rules and procedures for locating and returning missing, runaway, and abducted children.
Urges Congress, the President of the United States, and the U.S. Department of Education to consider communities in this State, including communities in the City of Chicago, as Promise Neighborhoods and award grants as such.
Creates the Medicaid Managed Care Oversight Task Force to monitor how Illinois approaches and manages a new form of health care delivery system based on a managed care model, particularly for people with disabilities and the elderly.
Honors Apostle Richard Daniel Henton on his 64 years in the ministry and 49 as pastor of Monument of Faith Evangelistic Church.
Creates the Task Force on Mental Health Diagnosis within Illinois Law. Describes the duties of the task force and provides that the task force submit a final report by December 31, 2014.
Mourns the death of Willie W. Flowers Jr. of Chicago.
Amends the Department of Human Services Act. In regard to the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC), requires the Department of Human Services to adopt a rule that expressly permits all WIC participants, regardless of their postal zip code, to redeem their WIC food vouchers at any grocery or retail food establishment authorized to accept WIC food vouchers or at any WIC Food Center.
Creates the Consumer Health Insurance Counsel Act. Creates the independent Office of Consumer Health Insurance Counsel for the purpose of representing the interests of health insurance consumers. Sets forth provisions concerning the appointment and qualifications of and prohibited activities regarding the position of Consumer Health Insurance Counsel. Provides that the Consumer Health Insurance Counsel may assess the impact of insurance rates, rules, and forms on consumers and shall advocate positions determined to be most advantageous to a substantial number of insurance consumers. Sets forth additional provisions.
Amends the Illinois Insurance Code. Sets forth legislative findings concerning nutritional support and hydration. Provides that an individual or group policy of accident and health insurance or managed care plan must provide coverage for intravenous feeding and for enteral or tube feeding and that the benefits shall be at least as favorable as for other coverages under the policy and may be subject to the same dollar amount limits, deductibles, and co-insurance requirements applicable generally to other coverages under the policy. Provides that an individual or group policy of accident and health insurance or managed care plan that provides coverage for prescription drugs must provide coverage for reimbursement for medically appropriate prescription nutritional supplements, limited to those products that are issued only by a physician's written order, when ordered by a physician and the insured suffers from a condition that prevents him or her from taking sufficient oral nourishment to sustain life. Amends the State Employees Group Insurance Act of 1971, Counties Code, Illinois Municipal Code, School Code, Health Maintenance Organization Act, and Voluntary Health Services Plans Act to make conforming changes. Amends the State Mandates Act to require implementation without reimbursement by the State.
Creates the Task Force on Mental Health Diagnosis within Illinois Law. Describes the duties of the task force and provides that the task force submit a final report by December 31, 2014.
