Amends the Illinois Public Aid Code. Adds a provision to the medical assistance Article of the Code concerning pediatric physician rates; contains only a Section caption.
Amends the Children's Health Insurance Program Act. Creates the Children's Health Insurance Task Force. Sets forth membership in the Task Force. Requires the Task Force to gather information and make recommendations relating to access to quality, affordable health insurance for children in Illinois. Requires the Task Force to conduct public hearings at locations throughout the State at least every other month during the first year after the appointment of a majority of its voting members and as determined by a majority of its voting members in each year thereafter. Requires the Task Force to submit an annual report to the General Assembly. Provides that the Task Force is abolished and the Section is repealed on January 1, 2012. Effective immediately.
Amends the Illinois Public Aid Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning an assessment on inpatient services that is imposed on hospital providers.
Amends the Illinois Public Aid Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning hospital access improvement payments.
Amends the Pharmacy Practice Act of 1987. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning licensure without examination.
Amends the School Code. In school districts other than the Chicago school district, reduces the probationary period of time before a teacher enters upon contractual continued service. Amends the State Mandates Act to require implementation without reimbursement. Effective immediately.
Congratulates Harriet Dorothea (Zorn) Scharringhausen of Arlington Heights on her 100th birthday.
Amends the School Code. Provides that each school district may make suitable provisions for instruction in bullying prevention in all grades and include such instruction in the courses of study regularly taught therein. Provides that a school board may collaborate with a community-based agency providing specialized curricula in bullying prevention whose ultimate outcome is to prevent sexual violence. Allows the State Board of Education to assist in the development of instructional materials and teacher training in relation to bullying prevention. Effective immediately.
Amends the School Code and the Critical Health Problems and Comprehensive Health Education Act. Removes a provision that requires a sex education course that discusses sexual intercourse to have course material and instruction to advise pupils of the Abandoned Newborn Infant Protection Act and to provide information about responsible parenting and the availability of confidential adoption services. Provides instead that the Comprehensive Health Education Program must provide course material and instruction to advise pupils of the Abandoned Newborn Infant Protection Act and to provide information about responsible parenting and the availability of confidential adoption services. Amends the State Mandates Act to require implementation without reimbursement. Effective immediately.
Amends the Illinois Public Aid Code. Provides that no later than July 1, 2007, subject to federal approval of a State Medicaid Plan amendment, which shall be sought by the Department of Healthcare and Family Services or its successor agency, persons who fail to qualify for basic maintenance under the Aid to the Aged, Blind or Disabled (AABD) program on the basis of need because of excess income or assets, or both, may establish prospective eligibility for that basic maintenance by paying their monthly Medicaid spend-down amount to the Department of Healthcare and Family Services or by having a third party pay that amount to the Department.
