Rep. Cynthia Soto

Amends the School Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the members of the State Board of Education.

Amends the School Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the School Code's construction.

Urges City Colleges of Chicago to negotiate in good faith to reach a new collective bargaining agreement with City Colleges' part-time adjunct union and to provide an equitable and living wage for its part-time adjunct faculty.

Amends the University of Illinois Hospital Act and the Hospital Licensing Act. Requires a hospital to provide notice of a patient's outpatient status to the patient or the patient's designee if: (1) the patient receives onsite services from the hospital for more than 23 consecutive hours; (2) the onsite services received by the patient include a hospital bed and meals that have been provided in an area of the hospital other than the hospital emergency room; and (3) the patient has not been formally admitted as an inpatient at the hospital. Requires the notice to include certain information concerning insurance coverage. Effective immediately.

Creates the Income Threshold Adjustment Act. Provides that to the extent a person's eligibility for benefits or services provided by a State agency is based on income threshold criteria established by the State agency and the person is employed in a municipality that (i) has a population over 500,000 and (ii) has or adopts an ordinance providing for the establishment of a minimum wage rate that is higher than the State minimum wage rate, the State agency shall adjust the income threshold criteria to account for the higher minimum wage rate established by the municipality so as to not affect that person's eligibility for the services provided.

Amends the Medical Assistance Article of the Illinois Public Aid Code. Removes provisions requiring the Department of Healthcare and Family Services to: (i) establish benchmarks for hospitals to measure and align payments to reduce potentially preventable hospital readmissions, inpatient complications, and unnecessary emergency room visits; (ii) consider items, including, but not limited to, historic and current acuity of care and historic and current trends in readmission; (iii) publish provider-specific historical readmission data and anticipated potentially preventable targets 60 days prior to the start of the program; and (iv) in the instance of readmissions, adopt policies and rates of reimbursement for services and other payments provided under the Code to ensure that, by June 30, 2013, expenditures to hospitals are reduced by, at a minimum, $40,000,000. Effective immediately.

Amends the Illinois Educational Labor Relations Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title of the Act.

Amends the Medical Assistance Article of the Illinois Public Aid Code. Requires the Department of Healthcare and Family Services to develop and implement an algorithm that is based on quality scores and other operational proficiency criteria developed, defined, and adopted by the Department, by rule, to automatically assign Medicaid enrollees served under the Family Health Plan and the Integrated Care Program and those Medicaid enrollees eligible for medical assistance pursuant to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act into managed care entities, including Accountable Care Entities, Care Coordination Entities, Children with Special Needs Care Coordination Entities, Managed Care Community Networks, and Managed Care Organizations. Provides that the algorithm developed and implemented shall favor assignment into managed care entities with the highest quality scores and levels of compliance with the operational proficiency criteria established.

Amends the School Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the School Code's construction.

Amends the Illinois Highway Code. Provides that upon receipt of an application, consent to use a highway may be granted to any telecommunications company issued a certificate of public convenience and necessity from the Illinois Commerce Commission. Provides requirements (same as those under current law for a public utility) for telecommunication company use of a highway right-of-way if the highway authority does not have fee ownership of the property to be used. Makes conforming changes.