Amends the Unified Code of Corrections. Provides that the Department of Corrections shall make information about the availability of referral services to any other State or local agencies known to a parolee or releasee prior to his or her release from the correctional facility where the parolee or releasee has been residing. Effective immediately.
Creates the Program Integrity for Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program Act. Provides that it is the intent of the General Assembly to implement waste, fraud, and abuse detection, prevention, and recovery solutions to improve program integrity for Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program in the State and create efficiency and cost savings through a shift from a retrospective "pay and chase" model to a prospective pre-payment model; and to comply with program integrity provisions of the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010. In furtherance of these goals, requires the State to implement several technologies and services including (i) provider data verification and provider screening technology; (ii) state-of-the-art clinical code editing technology; (iii) state-of-the-art predictive modeling and analytics technologies; (iv) fraud investigative services; and (v) Medicaid and CHIP claims audit and recovery services. Requires the State to either contract with The Cooperative Purchasing Network (TCPN) to issue a request for proposals (RFP) when selecting a contractor or use the specified contractor selection process. Contains provisions concerning contracts, reporting requirements, and savings. Effective immediately.
Amends the School Code and the Critical Health Problems and Comprehensive Health Education Act. Makes changes concerning the instruction provided in a class or course in comprehensive sex education offered in any of grades 6 through 12. Makes changes concerning what must be emphasized in all classes in grades 6 through 12 (instead of all elementary, junior high, and senior high school classes) that teach sex education and discuss sexual intercourse. Provides that all classes that teach sex education and discuss sexual intercourse in grades 6 through 12 shall satisfy specified criteria (instead of all sex education courses that discuss sexual intercourse shall satisfy specified criteria); makes changes to that criteria. Provides that an opportunity shall be afforded to individuals (not just parents or guardians) to examine the instructional materials to be used in a class or course. Provides that the State Board of Education shall make available resource materials for educating children regarding sex education. Provides that school districts that do not currently provide sex education are not required to teach sex education. Provides that if a sex education class or course is offered in any of grades 6 through 12, the school district may choose and adapt the developmentally and age-appropriate, medically accurate, evidence-based, and complete sex education curriculum that meets the specific needs of its community. Provides that the Comprehensive Health Education Program shall include the educational area of evidence-based and medically accurate information regarding sexual abstinence (instead of the area of sexual abstinence until marriage).
Amends the Illinois Public Aid Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the classes of persons eligible for Medicaid.
Amends the Alternative Health Care Delivery Act. Makes a technical change in the Section concerning definitions.
Amends the Hospital Provider Funding Article of the Illinois Public Aid Code. Extends the imposition of annual assessments on hospital inpatient services through State fiscal year 2016 (rather than State fiscal year 2013). Effective immediately.
Amends the Illinois Oil and Gas Act. Provides that the Director of Natural Resources shall adopt rules that require, prior to such hydraulic fracturing, the owner or operator to perform a suitable mechanical integrity test of the casing or of the casing-tubing annulus or other mechanical integrity test methods using procedures that are established by administrative rule. Provides that each owner or operator that begins extracting natural gas from shale shall report to the Department specified information within 30 days after the completion of all stages of the hydraulic fracturing stimulation. Requires that the owner or operator shall post the chemical disclosure information on certain specified websites. Provides that the owner or operator shall provide information to the Director as to the amounts, handling, and, if necessary, disposal at an identified appropriate disposal facility, or reuse of the well stimulation fluid load recovered during flow back, swabbing, or recovery from production facility vessels. Provides that the storage of the well stimulation fluid load shall be protective of an underground source of drinking water by the use of either tanks or lined pits. Provides that nothing in the provision shall be construed to require or allow disclosure of trade secrets or commercial information that is exempt from inspection or copying when provided to the Department together with a claim made pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act that such information is proprietary, privileged, or confidential and that disclosure may cause competitive harm to the person or business. Provides that the provision only applies to the extraction of natural gas from shale.
Mourns the death of Rhoda Blanchard.
Mourns the death of Verna Lisa Baker.
Amends the Illinois Income Tax Act. In a Section concerning estimated taxes, provides that, if a taxpayer is entitled to a refund after the payment of the fourth installment, then he or she may apply the amount of the refund to the first installment due in the next taxable year.
