Amends the Illinois Public Aid Code. Provides that if the Department of Human Services fails to notify a facility licensed under the Nursing Home Care Act or a supportive living facility authorized under the Code that a resident's application for medical assistance or long-term care benefits is rejected or denied, the Department shall reinstate the application effective the date of rejection or denial, the caseworker assigned to process the application shall identify and retrieve all missing information on behalf of the resident, and the facility and resident shall be notified of the reinstatement, any informational requests, and the outcome. Requires the Department to expedite the processing of all reinstated applications. Effective immediately.
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Amends the ID/DD Community Care Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title. Senate Floor Amendment No. 1 Deletes reference to: 210 ILCS 47/1-101 Adds reference to: 215 ILCS 5/355 from Ch. 73, par. 967 215 ILCS 125/4-12 from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 1409.5 Replaces everything after the enacting clause. Amends the Illinois Insurance Code and the Health Maintenance Organization Act. Provides that all individual and small group accident and health policies written subject to certain federal standards must file rates with the Department of Insurance for approval. Provides that unreasonable rate increases or inadequate rates shall be disapproved. Requires the Department to provide a report to the General Assembly on or after January 1, 2021 regarding both on and off exchange individual and small group rates in the Illinois market. Requires that the Department approve or deny rate filings within 45 calendar days of submission unless the Director of Insurance extends the period by following specific procedures. Provides that a rate increase that is not approved or denied by the Department by the applicable deadline shall be automatically approved on the following calendar day. Provides that no less than 30 days after the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has certified the plans described in this Section for the upcoming plan year, the Department shall publish on its website a report explaining the rates for that plan year's certified health care plans. Defines "inadequate rate" and "unreasonable rate increase".
Amends the Illinois Insurance Code. Requires certain group health insurance policies and other specified policies to provide coverage of medically necessary treatment for postpartum complications as determined by the woman's treating physician. Makes conforming changes in the State Employees Group Insurance Act of 1971, the Counties Code, the Illinois Municipal Code, the School Code, the Health Maintenance Organization Act, and the Voluntary Health Services Plans Act. Amends the Department of Public Health Powers and Duties Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Adds provisions regarding birthing facilities and neonatal and maternal care designations. Amends the Department of Human Services Act. Provides that the Department of Human Services may establish the Nurse-Family Partnership Pilot Program. Amends the Illinois Public Aid Code. Provides that women during pregnancy and during a 12-month (rather than 60-day) period are eligible for medical assistance. Provides that otherwise eligible women shall receive coverage for doula services, perinatal depression screenings, and other services. Provides that the Department of Children and Family Services shall seek approval of a State Plan amendment to expand coverage for family planning services to women whose income is at or below 200% of the federal poverty level. Makes other changes. Amends the Adoption Act. Removes a rebuttable presumption regarding a parent's unfitness if, at birth, the urine, blood, or meconium of the parent's child contains any amount of specified controlled substances. Makes conforming changes to the Abused and Neglected Child Reporting Act and the Juvenile Court Act of 1987. Effective immediately. Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 Adds reference to: 20 ILCS 1305/10-23 new 410 ILCS 50/3 from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 5403 Further amends the Department of Human Services Act. Provides that the Department of Human Services' High Risk Infant Follow-Up program shall be expanded to serve any pregnant or post-partum woman identified as high-risk by a Level I, Level II, or Level III hospital. Provides that the services shall be provided by registered nurses. Requires the Department, in conjunction with the Department of Public Health and specified entities, to develop rules and appropriate revisions to the High Risk Infant Follow-Up program to expand existing services provided by registered nurses to pregnant and postpartum women. Provides that such rules shall be adopted no later than January 1, 2021. Amends the Medical Patient Rights Act. Provides that, with the exception of medical emergencies with inadequate time to obtain consent, each patient has the right to specific informed consent, or informed permission in the case of an infant, including information regarding the health and legal benefits and risks regarding biochemical testing for controlled substances. Provides that health care providers shall provide to patients, or patients' representatives, in writing, specified information. Senate Committee Amendment No. 2 Deletes reference to: 20 ILCS 2310/2310-455 new Adds reference to: 410 ILCS 250/11.2 new In provisions expanding the Department of Public Health's High Risk Infant Follow-Up program, provides that the registered nurses may collaborate with other providers, including, but not limited to, obstetricians, gynecologists, and pediatricians, when providing the services to the patient. Adds the provisions concerning maternal care designations at birthing facilities to the Developmental Disability Prevention Act (rather than to the Department of Public Health Powers and Duties Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois) and makes the following changes to those provisions: provides that the Department of Public Health shall adopt rules to implement specified provisions; requires the Department to hold multiple public hearings with representatives from diverse geographical regions and professional backgrounds (rather than in diverse geographic regions of the State); Removes language regarding neonatal care; requires the Department to adopt rules to implement the amendatory Act's provisions by June 1, 2021 (rather than January 1, 2021); and removes language requiring a birthing facility to report to the Department its appropriate level of neonatal care designation and maternal care designation. Senate Committee Amendment No. 3 Deletes reference to: 325 ILCS 5/3 410 ILCS 50/3 705 ILCS 405/2-3 705 ILCS 405/2-18 750 ILCS 50/1 Removes Sections amending the Abused and Neglected Child Reporting Act, the Medical Patient Rights Act, the Juvenile Court Act of 1987, and the Adoption Act. Senate Floor Amendment No. 4 Adds reference to: 215 ILCS 5/356z.4a new Replaces everything after the enacting clause with the provisions of the introduced bill as amended by Senate Amendment Nos. 1, 2, and 3 with the following changes: Further amends the Illinois Insurance Code. Provides that insurers shall allow hospitals separate reimbursement for a long-acting reversible contraceptive device provided immediately postpartum in the inpatient hospital setting before hospital discharge. Provides that coverage shall be subject to other general exclusions, limitations, and financial requirements of the policy, including coordination of benefits, participating provider requirements, and utilization review of health care services, including review of medical necessity, case management, experimental and investigational treatments, managed care provisions, and other terms and conditions. Provides that nothing shall prevent an insurer from applying concurrent and post-service utilization review of health care services, including review of medical necessity, case management, experimental and investigational treatments, managed care provisions, and other terms and conditions of the insurance policy. Removes language providing that benefits for days 29 and thereafter of inpatient care, detoxification/withdrawal management, partial hospitalization, intensive outpatient treatment, and outpatient treatment shall be subject to concurrent review. Provides that an independent utilization review organization shall make a determination within 72 (rather than 24) hours. Removes language regarding when the benefits for outpatient prescription drugs to treat mental, emotional, nervous, or substance use disorder or conditions shall be provided. Removes language requiring the first 180 days per plan year of benefits to be computed based on inpatient days. In provisions amending the Department of Human Services Act, provides that the Department of Human Services shall expand and update its maternal child health programs to serve any pregnant or postpartum woman identified as high-risk by her primary care provider or hospital according to the standards developed by the Department of Public Health under the Developmental Disability Prevention Act. Provides that the services shall be provided by registered nurses, licensed social workers, or other staff with behavioral health or medical training, as approved by the Department of Human Services. Provides that the persons providing the services may collaborate with other providers, including, but not limited to, obstetricians, gynecologists, or pediatricians, when providing services to a patient. Amends the Department of Public Health Powers and Duties Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Provides that the Department of Public Health, in collaboration with the Department of Human Services, the Department of Healthcare and Family Services, and other key providers of maternal child health services, shall, on or before June 1, 2021, revise or add to the rules of the Maternal and Child Health Services Code of the Illinois Administrative Code that govern the High Risk Infant Follow-up, using current scientific and national and State outcomes data, to expand existing services to improve both maternal and infant outcomes overall and to reduce racial disparities in outcomes and services provided. House Floor Amendment No. 1 Deletes reference to: 5 ILCS 375/6.11 20 ILCS 1305/10-23 new 20 ILCS 1305/10-24 new 20 ILCS 2310-455 new 55 ILCS 5/5-1069.3 65 ILCS 5/10-4-2.3 105 ILCS 5/10-22.3f 215 ILCS 356z.4a new 215 ILCS 5/356z.33 new 215 ILCS 125/5-3 from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 1411.2 215 ILCS 165/10 from Ch. 32, par. 604 305 ILCS 5/5-2 from Ch. 23, par. 5-2 305 ILCS 5/5-5 from Ch. 23, par. 5-5 305 ILCS 5/5-5.24 410 ILCS 250/11.2 new Adds reference to: 410 ILCS 410/3 from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 6903 410 ILCS 410/3.2 Replaces everything after the enacting clause. Amends the Alzheimer's Disease Research Act. Provides that, if funding is available, moneys in the Alzheimer's Disease Research, Care, and Support Fund shall be used by the Department of Public Health to cover costs associated with executing appropriate modules of the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System and otherwise administering relevant data collection and implementing recommendations outlined in the Alzheimer's Disease State Plan. Makes other changes concerning the Fund. Effective January 1, 2020.
Amends the Business Corporation Act of 1983. Provides that, no later than the close of the 2020 calendar year, a publicly held domestic or foreign corporation whose principal executive offices, according to the corporation's SEC 10-K form, are located in Illinois shall have a minimum of one female director and one African American director on its board of directors. Provides that the Secretary of State shall publish a report on its website documenting the number of corporations that have at least one female director and one African American director, the number of corporations that were in compliance at one point during the preceding calendar year, the number of corporations that moved to Illinois during the preceding calendar year, and the number of corporations that were previously subject to the requirements during the preceding year but are no longer publicly traded. Provides penalties for violations. House Committee Amendment No. 1 Removes language permitting the Secretary of State to impose penalties against himself or herself for failing to comply with specified reporting requirements. Senate Floor Amendment No. 3 Deletes reference to: 805 ILCS 5/8.10.1 new Adds reference to: 805 ILCS 5/8.12 new 805 ILCS 5/14.05 from Ch. 32, par. 14.05 Replaces everything after the enacting clause. Amends the Business Corporation Act of 1983. Provides that corporations shall report to the Secretary of State: (1) whether the corporation is a publicly held domestic or foreign corporation with its principal executive office located in Illinois; (2) data on specific qualifications, skills, and experience that the corporation considers for its board of directors, nominees for the board of directors, and executive officers; (3) whether each member of the corporation's board of directors self-identifies as a minority person and, if so, which race or ethnicity to which the member belongs; and (4) other information. Requires the Secretary to State to make the information public. Requires the University of Illinois System to review the reported information and publish on its website a report that provides aggregate data on the demographic characteristics of the boards of directors and executive officers of corporations filing an annual report for the preceding year along with an individualized rating for each corporation. Requires the establishment of a rating system assessing the representation of women and minorities on corporate boards. Provides that the report shall also identify strategies for promoting diversity and inclusion among boards of directors and corporate executive officers. Effective immediately.
Amends the Public Utilities Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title and applicability of the Electric Service Customer Choice and Rate Relief Law of 1997. Senate Floor Amendment No. 2 Deletes reference to: 220 ILCS 5/16-101 Adds reference to: 220 ILCS 5/16-115A 220 ILCS 5/16-115E new 220 ILCS 5/16-118 220 ILCS 5/16-123 220 ILCS 5/19-115 220 ILCS 5/19-116 new 220 ILCS 5/19-130 220 ILCS 5/19-135 220 ILCS 5/20-110 815 ILCS 505/2EE 815 ILCS 505/2DDD Replaces everything after the enacting clause. Amends the Public Utilities Act. Adds additional requirements concerning the obligations of alternative retail electric suppliers and alternative gas suppliers. Provides requirements concerning alternative retail electric and gas supplier utility assistance recipients. Provides additional requirements concerning alternative retail electric and gas supplier utility single billing. Authorizes electric utilities to disclose and furnish specified information to customers concerning supply price and electric power and energy supply rate offers. Provides for additional information concerning electric and gas utilities to be submitted to the Illinois Commerce Commission in specified reports. Provides that the utility electric supply price to compare shall be the sum of the electric supply charge and the transmission services charge and shall not include the purchased electricity adjustment. Amends the Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act. Provides additional requirements concerning alternative retail electric supplier and alternative gas supplier selection and solicitation of services. Makes other changes. Senate Floor Amendment No. 3 In marketing materials, requires the price to compare or utility gas supply cost rate beginning on (rather than on) the effective date of the price to compare. Makes grammatical changes in references to the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program and the Percentage of Income Payment Plan. Provides that an agreement between an alternative retail electric supplier and a consumer who either received financial assistance in the last 12 months from the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program or, at the time of enrollment, is participating in the Percentage of Income Payment Plan is void and unenforceable. Requires that alternative gas suppliers submit to the Illinois Commerce Commission and the Office of the Attorney General the rates the retail gas supplier charged to residential customers in the prior year (rather than prior quarter). In provisions requiring alternative gas suppliers to disclose the utility gas supply cost rates per therm price to compare, requires the alternative gas supplier to disclose the date on which the utility gas supply cost rates per therm became effective and the date on which they will expire. Requires that certain written information provided by an alternative retail gas supplier to a customer switching from another supplier shall be provided in a language in which the customer subject to the marketing or solicitation is able to understand and communicate, and the alternative retail gas supplier shall comply with specified provisions of the Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act. Makes changes in provisions concerning alternative retail gas supplier and utility assistance recipients. Makes other changes. House Committee Amendment No. 1 Adds reference to: 220 ILCS 5/16-115 220 ILCS 5/16-115A 220 ILCS 5/16-115B 220 ILCS 5/16-115E new 220 ILCS 5/16-118 220 ILCS 5/16-119 220 ILCS 5/16-123 220 ILCS 5/19-110 220 ILCS 5/19-115 220 ILCS 5/19-116 new 220 ILCS 5/19-120 220 ILCS 5/19-130 220 ILCS 5/19-135 220 ILCS 5/20-110 815 ILCS 505/2EE 815 ILCS 505/2DDD Replaces everything after the enacting clause. Reinserts the provisions of the engrossed bill with additions and changes. Adds provisions concerning certification of alternative retail electric suppliers and alternative gas suppliers, and provides additional requirements for the granting of a certificate of service authority. Makes changes in provisions concerning the obligations of alternative retail electric suppliers and alternative gas suppliers. Provides additional oversight requirements by the Illinois Commerce Commission of alternative retail electric suppliers and alternative gas suppliers. Makes changes in provisions concerning financial assistance recipients. Provides additional requirements concerning alternative retail electric supplier and alternative gas supplier selection and services. Makes other changes. House Floor Amendment No. 3 In a Section of the Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act relating to alternative retail electric suppliers, limits the disclosure of comparison prices and a related explanatory statement to consumers who are either small commercial retail customers or residential consumer (currently, these disclosures are made to all consumers).
Amends the Counties Code, the Illinois Municipal Code, Illinois Insurance Code, the Health Maintenance Organization Act, and the Illinois Public Aid Code. In provisions concerning coverage for mammograms, provides that coverage shall also include a diagnostic mammogram when medically necessary, as determined by a physician licensed to practice medicine in all its branches, advanced practice registered nurse, or physician assistant. Makes changes to coverage for a comprehensive ultrasound screening and MRI. Effective immediately. Senate Floor Amendment No. 1 Provides that if an insurance policy or medical assistance coverage includes mammogram coverage, the coverage shall not impose a deductible, coinsurance, copayment, or any other cost-sharing requirement on the coverage provided. Exempts coverage of diagnostic mammograms to the extent such coverage would disqualify a high-deductible health plan from eligibility for a health savings account. Defines "diagnostic mammogram" and "diagnostic mammography". Corrects a typographical error. House Floor Amendment No. 1 Changes the immediate effective date to January 1, 2020.
Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Provides that an applicant for a school bus permit cannot be convicted of committing or attempting to commit the following offenses: (1) solicitation or solicitation of murder; (2) permitting sexual abuse of a child; (3) presence or loitering of a sexual predator or child sex offender in or near a public park; (4) aggravated battery; and (5) use of a dangerous place for the commission of a controlled substance or cannabis offense. Provides that an applicant for a school bus driver permit may not have been convicted of committing or attempting to commit a misdemeanor offense defined in specified Sections of the Cannabis Control Act within the last 20 years, or an offense in any other state or against the laws of the United States, which if committed or attempted in this State would be punishable as one or more of the foregoing offenses. From the list of offenses disqualifying the issuance of a school bus driver permit, removes specified offenses under the Wrongs to Children Act, the Criminal Code of 2012, the Liquor Control Act of 1934, and the Methamphetamine Precursor Control Act. House Committee Amendment No. 1 Restores the prohibition on school bus driver licensure of applicants who have been convicted of specified offenses under the Wrongs to Children Act, the Criminal Code of 2012, the Liquor Control Act of 1934, and the Methamphetamine Precursor Control Act. Deletes language providing that an applicant for a school bus driver permit may not have been convicted of committing or attempting to commit a misdemeanor offense defined in specified Sections of the Cannabis Control Act within the last 20 years. Provides instead that an applicant must not have been convicted of committing or attempting to commit within the last 20 years specified Class A misdemeanors under the Cannabis Control Act.
Amends the Metropolitan Transit Authority Act and Regional Transportation Authority Act. Establishes procedures for repayment of defaulted interim financing notes issued by the Chicago Transit Authority and defaulted working cash notes issued by the Regional Transportation Authority, in which State money in the State treasury was invested. Provides that the Regional Transportation Authority may issue, sell, and deliver additional working cash notes and establish lines of credit (rather than only working cash notes) before July 1, 2022 (rather than July 1, 2018) that are over and above and in addition to the $100,000,000 bond or note authorization. Establishes procedures for establishment of lines of credit. Requires notice to the Governor's Office of Management and Budget and State Comptroller before establishing a line of credit and provides that money borrowed under a line of credit are general obligations of the Authority that are secured by the full faith and credit of the Authority. Effective immediately.
Amends the Attorney General Act. Creates the Worker Protection Unit within the Office of the Illinois Attorney General to intervene in, initiate, enforce, and defend all criminal or civil legal proceedings on matters and violations relating to specified statutes. Provides further powers and requirements of the Attorney General in the Worker Protection Unit. Creates the Worker Protection Task Force. Provides for the purposes and composition of the Task Force. Provides that the Task Force shall submit a report to the Governor and the General Assembly regarding its progress no later than December 1, 2020. Repeals the Task Force December 1, 2021. Senate Floor Amendment No. 1 Replaces everything after the enacting clause. Reinserts the provisions of the introduced bill with additions and changes. Modifies provisions concerning the Worker Protection Unit. Specifies that the Unit shall be dedicated to combating businesses that underpay their employees, force their employees to work in unsafe conditions, and gain an unfair economic advantage by avoiding their tax and labor responsibilities. Specifies that the Unit shall have the power and duty to intervene in, initiate, and enforce all legal proceedings on matters related to the payment of wages, the safety of the workplace, and fair employment practices. Provides that the Office of the Attorney General may use information obtained by the Worker Protection Unit for law enforcement purposes only. Modifies provisions concerning the Worker Protection Unit Task Force. Provides that the Task Force shall be coordinated by the Office of the Attorney General to promote a statewide outreach and enforcement effort to target businesses that violate the State's worker protection laws (currently, to target Illinois' underground economy). Adds members to the Task Force. Makes other changes concerning the purposes and duties of the Unit and Task Force.
Amends the Hospital Report Card Act to require that each hospital include in its quarterly report instances of preterm infants, infant mortality, and maternal mortality. Requires the reporting of racial and ethnic information of the infants' mothers, along with the disparity of occurrences across different racial and ethnic groups. Effective immediately. Senate Floor Amendment No. 3 Replaces everything after the enacting clause with the provisions of the engrossed bill with the following changes: Requires the Department to collect information that is reported regarding preterm birth, infant mortality, and maternal mortality and to use it to illustrate the disparity of those occurrences across different racial and ethnic groups. Removes a provision that requires hospitals to report that disparity.