Amends the State Employees Group Insurance Act of 1971. Makes technical changes in provisions concerning definitions and premiums.
Appropriates $3,000,000 from the General Revenue Fund to the Department of Human Services to cover the cost of emergency community-integrated living arrangement (CILA) placements in State fiscal year 2006. Effective immediately.
Appropriates $15,000,000 from the General Revenue Fund to the Department of Human Services for emergency Community Integrated Living Arrangement (CILA) placements. Effective July 1, 2006.
Amends the Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Administrative Act. Provides that the Department may perform certain acts for the development of rates for the purchase of fee-for-service care. Adds persons with mental illness and substance abuse as persons the Department may develop the rates for. Provides that in setting rates the Department should consider market factors such as those published by the United States Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics. Authorizes the Department to contract with an independent consulting firm for certain studies of reimbursement rates to service providers. Provides that the Department shall establish and promulgate a policy that precludes applicability of income offsets in rate calculation or payment processes (now, establish and promulgate a policy regarding applicability of these offsets). Makes other changes. Effective July 1, 2005.
Amends the Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Administration Act. Creates the Consumer Advance and Expense Reimbursement Fund. Provides that the Fund shall be used for advancing money for and reimbursing travel expenses in connection with consumers designated by legislators or the Department to participate in Department or legislative work groups, task forces, panel discussions, workshops, or legislative hearings. Provides that transfers shall be made into the Fund, as necessary, upon order of the Director from any applicable appropriation to the Department for travel expenses. Sets forth other provisions for the operation of the Fund. Amends the State Finance Act to create the Fund. Effective July 1, 2005.
Amends the Illinois Clean Indoor Air Act. Provides that a home rule unit of local government or any municipality in this State may regulate smoking in public places. Provides that this regulation must be no less restrictive than the regulation in the Act. Changes the home rule limitation from an absolute preemption to a limitation on the concurrent exercise of home rule power. Maintains the exemption from home rule requirements for home rule units that passed ordinances regulating smoking before October 1, 1989. Limits the concurrent exercise of home rule powers.
Amends the State Finance Act. Excludes moneys received by the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation under the Illinois Credit Union Act from those moneys required to be deposited into the Financial Institution Fund. Makes certain provisions concerning transfers to the General Revenue Fund inapplicable to (i) any fund established under the Illinois Credit Union Act, the Illinois Banking Act, the Illinois Savings and Loan Act of 1985, or the Savings Bank Act and (ii) the Professions Indirect Cost Fund. Limits transfers and expenditures from those funds to specified purposes. Prohibits the allocation or transfer of additional amounts generated by certain fee increases with respect to or from the Credit Union Fund. Amends the Illinois Banking Act, the Illinois Savings and Loan Act of 1985, and the Savings Bank Act. With respect to the moneys in each of the Bank and Trust Company Fund, the Savings and Residential Finance Regulatory Fund, and the Credit Union Fund, (i) exempts those moneys from assignment or transfer except for unappropriated administrative expenses and (ii) provides that the moneys remain the property of and must be held in trust for the financial institutions from which they were collected. For FY08, requires the Commissioner of Banks and Real Estate (now, the Director of the Division of Banks and Real Estate) to adopt rules to adjust regulatory fee rates in the specified manner. Amends the Illinois Credit Union Act. Provides that the regulatory fee paid by a credit union to the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation shall be the lesser of (i) the rate pursuant to the regulatory fee schedule or (ii) a rate established in a manner proportionately consistent with the rates in the regulatory fee schedule and that would fund the actual administrative and operational expenses of the Credit Union Section. Increases rates in the regulatory fee schedule for credit unions with total assets over $5,000,000. Requires the Director of Financial and Professional Regulation to adjust the fee schedule for the next fiscal year. Provides that the fee schedule may be increased by no more than 5% annually if necessary to defray the actual (now, estimated) administrative and operational expenses of the Credit Union Section (now, the Department). Prohibits any increase in the fee schedule if the amount remaining in the Credit Union Fund at the end of the fiscal year is equal to or greater than 25% of the actual administrative and operational expenses for the preceding fiscal year. Requires the Director to base the regulatory fee for the next fiscal year on the credit union's total assets as of December 31 of the preceding calendar year. Beginning on July 1, 2005, requires a credit union to pay the regulatory fee in quarterly installments due and payable on the due date for the call report for the preceding quarter (now, a credit union is required to pay the regulatory fee in full no later than March 1 of each calendar year). Provides for a regulatory fee cap of $125,000 (now, $187,500). Effective immediately.
Amends the Disabilities Services Act of 2003. Provides that the purpose of the Act is to further develop and implement (rather than create an advisory committee to develop and implement) a Disability Services Plan that ensures compliance by the State of Illinois with the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Olmstead decision. Sets forth that services to persons with disabilities shall be provided in the most integrated setting appropriate to the needs and choices of the person with the disability and his or her guardian in accordance with an individual service or treatment plan developed with the person with the disability. Defines "most integrated setting" to mean the setting that enables a person with a disability to interact with nondisabled persons to the fullest extent possible and that is appropriate to meet the needs and choices of the person with the disability and his or her guardian. Requires the comprehensive evaluation and diagnosis of a person determined probably eligible for disability services to include an assessment of skills, abilities, and potential for community residential placement from among a full array of residential options, including in-home supports, job training, and work placement (now, potential for residential and work placement). Changes the requirements for the services provided to persons with disabilities including: family or individual support services, residential services, education, vocational habilitation and rehabilitation, employment, independent service coordination, mental health supports, and assistive technology devices and services for persons with disabilities. Authorizes the advisory committee to consult with other State officials when their expertise and resources are relevant to the resolution of a particular issue. Sets forth that the Governor, with the assistance of the advisory committee and the Secretary of Human Services, shall submit the Disability Services Plan to the General Assembly by March 31, 2006 (now, Governor responsible for the completion of the plan). Provides for annual reports of changes to the Plan to the General Assembly. Sets forth certain requirements for the Disability Services Plan. Provides due process protections for a person claiming to be aggrieved by a determination of an agency regarding eligibility for a disability service, the provision of a disability service, or a change in or termination of a disability service under the Act. Sets forth that a person with a disability shall not be denied a disability service because of sex, race, religion, ethnic origin, marital status, ability to pay (except where contrary to law), or criminal record. Makes other changes. Effective immediately.
Amends the Community-Integrated Living Arrangements Licensure and Certification Act. Provides that if the Department of Human Services arranges for a child to reside in a community-integrated living arrangement that is a private home, then the owner or lessor of the home who resides in the home, the owner or lessor's family members who reside in the home, and persons providing mental health or developmental disability services to the child in the home are not liable for any damages resulting from any act or omission on the part of that owner, lessor, family member, or person providing services that may occur while the child is under the supervision of that owner, lessor, family member, or person providing services.
Amends the Community-Integrated Living Arrangements Licensure and Certification Act. Provides that licensed community mental health or developmental services agencies (instead of licensed community mental health or developmental services agencies "in turn") shall be required to certify to the Department of Human Services that the programs and placements provided in community-integrated living arrangements comply with the Act, the Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Code, and applicable Department rules and regulations.
