Appropriates $3,000,000 to the Department of Human Services for the First Year at Home Demonstration Program. Effective July 1, 2003.
Amends the Illinois Public Aid Code. In provisions authorizing Medicaid for persons who are disabled and employed, provides that the Department of Public Aid must authorize Medicaid eligibility for persons whose income is less than or equal to 400% of the federal poverty guidelines. Provides that the Department may authorize eligibility for persons whose income is greater than 400% of those poverty guidelines. Effective immediately.
Creates the Small Business Regulatory Flexibility Act. Provides that the requirements of this Act are in addition to any requirements of the Illinois Administrative Procedure Act concerning rulemaking by agencies. Provides that if an agency proposes a rule that may affect small businesses, then the agency must consider certain methods for reducing the impact of the rule on small businesses. Provides that the Agency must provide an opportunity for small businesses to participate in the rulemaking process and sets forth methods for doing so. Requires the agency to notify the Director of Commerce and Economic Opportunity and the Small Business Ombudsman if it proposes to adopt, amend, or repeal a rule affecting small businesses. Provides that each agency must, during the 5-year period beginning with January 1, 2005, review the current rules of the agency that were in effect prior to that date and must consider methods of reducing their impact on small business. Effective January 1, 2005.
Appropriates moneys from the General Revenue Fund to the Illinois Student Assistance Commission for college savings bond grants. Effective immediately.
Appropriates $2,900,000 from the General Revenue Fund to the Illinois Student Assistance Commission for the purposes of the Golden Apple Scholarship Program. Effective July 1, 2004.
Amends the State Finance Act. Creates the Community Services, Disabilities, and Mental Health Fund. Provides that, on and after the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 93rd General Assembly, all moneys received by the Department of Human Services as federal financial participation funds shall be deposited into the Community Services, Disabilities, and Mental Health Fund. Provides that, subject to appropriation, moneys in the Fund shall be used to fund only those programs that generate federal financial participation funds. Effective immediately.
Urges United Airlines to continue to fund the company's defined pension plan.
Amends the Good Samaritan Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning free medical clinics.
Amends the Comprehensive Health Insurance Plan Act. Provides that a person is not eligible for coverage under the Comprehensive Health Insurance Plan if the person has or later receives benefits or funds from a settlement, judgment, or award resulting from an accident or injury and the remaining amount exceeds $500,000 (rather than $100,000).
Amends the Illinois Act on the Aging. Requires the Department on Aging, in cooperation with the Department of Insurance, to promote the provision of employer-sponsored, long-term care insurance and sets forth the duties of the Department in doing so.
