Amends the Right to Privacy in the School Setting Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
Amends the Speech Rights of Student Journalists Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
Amends the Board of Higher Education Act. Provides that beginning in Fiscal Year 2020, allocations to public universities based upon performance metrics shall not amount to less than 5% of the overall higher education budget amount for public universities from the General Revenue Fund. Effective immediately.
Amends the Illinois Municipal Code. Defines "underground" and "undergrounding". Provides that public utilities shall underground specified electric transmission lines under certain conditions. Provides that the Illinois Commerce Commission shall allow a public utility to recover from all retail customers in its service territory all reasonable and prudent costs that it incurs related to the undergrounding of such transmission lines. Provides that a public utility shall record and defer such costs as a regulatory asset to be included in the public utility's total rate base and amortized over a reasonable period that is equal to the expected life of such transmission line. Effective immediately.
Amends the Nurse Agency Licensing Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning legislative intent.
Amends the Community Service Education Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
Amends the Student Online Personal Protection Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
Amends the Medical Assistance Article of the Illinois Public Aid Code. Requires managed care organizations (MCOs) to publish, at least quarterly for the preceding quarter, on their websites: (1) the total number of claims received by the MCO; (2) the number and monetary amount of claims payments made to a service provider; (3) the dates of services rendered for the claims payments made under item (2); (4) the dates the claims were received by the MCO for the claims payments made under item (2); and (5) the dates on which claims payments under item (2) were released. Effective July 1, 2019.
Amends the Property Tax Code. Creates the School District Extension Freeze Law. Provides that, if at the end of any levy year, a school district has reserves of 50% or more of its operating budget, then the school district's extension for all purposes may not exceed its extension for the previous levy year. Provides that, if the school district has reserves of 60% or more at the end of the immediately preceding levy year, then the district's extension shall be reduced by an amount equal to the difference between the district's reserve amount for the immediately preceding levy year and a reserve amount of 60% for that levy year. Effective July 1, 2019.
Amends the Medical Assistance Article of the Illinois Public Aid Code. Requires the Department of Healthcare and Family Services to calculate the payout ratios reported by managed care organizations no less frequently than annually and to post these calculations on its website. Provides that the minimum payout ratio shall be 85% and that a managed care organization not meeting the 85% threshold must refund to the State, for each coverage year, an amount equal to the difference between the calculated payout ratio and 85% multiplied by coverage year revenue for that managed care organization. Requires the Department to exclusively use paid claims data submitted by managed care organizations in establishing managed care capitation rates. Provides that managed care organizations shall not be reimbursed by the State for any costs associated with health insurance fees. Provides that beginning July 1, 2019, in addition to any other payments made for inpatient Medicaid inpatient services, the Department must make the following add-on enhancement payments for each covered inpatient day for any patient covered by any medical assistance program administered by the Department: (i) for each general acute care hospital with a rate year 2017 Medicaid inpatient utilization rate equal to or greater than 47%, an additional $172 per inpatient day; (ii) for each hospital defined as a children's hospital under the Code with a rate year 2017 Medicaid inpatient utilization rate equal to or greater than 59%, an additional $200 per inpatient day; and (iii) for each critical access hospital, an additional $600 per inpatient day. Provides that the Department must require managed care organizations to make the same inpatient high-volume add-on enhancements for inpatient days of care. Effective July 1, 2019.
