Sen. Sara Feigenholtz

Amends the Child Care Act of 1969. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.

Amends the State Officials and Employees Ethics Act. Creates the Offices of Executive Employee Advocacy and the Office of Legislative Employee Advocacy. Provides for the appointment of a Director to head each respective Office of Employee Advocacy. Provides for the qualifications and compensation of the Director. Provides that each respective Office of Employee Advocacy shall provide all employees over which it has jurisdiction with legal assistance, representation, and support concerning any complaint, investigation, or proceeding initiated under specified provisions of the Act, and operate a hotline through which covered employees may contact the Office concerning such matters. Allows the Director to employ and determine the compensation of staff as he or she determines necessary to carry out the functions of the Office. Provides that Executive Inspectors General and the Legislative Inspector General shall have the duty to appoint Directors of Employee Advocacy.

Makes various appropriations to the Department of Children and Family Services for payments for the care of children served by private agencies under contract with the Department and for cost of care reimbursements to foster parents. Effective July 1, 2018.

Amends the Property Tax Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the definition of "taxing district".

Amends the Counties Code, the Township Code, the Illinois Municipal Code, and the Fire Protection District Act. Provides that a nongovernmental entity with which a county, township, municipality, or fire protection district contracts to furnish fire protection services that displays a logo of the unit of local government on the entity's vehicles or uniform shall conspicuously display on all vehicles and uniforms a disclosure with specified information. Defines "vehicle". Provides that a violation is a business offense with a $1,000 fine per occurrence. Limits home rule powers. Effective immediately.

Amends the Medical Assistance Article of the Illinois Public Aid Code. In addition to other specified actions required under the Code, requires a managed care community network that contracts with the Department of Healthcare and Family Services to establish, maintain, and provide a fair and reasonable reimbursement rate to pharmacy providers for pharmaceutical services, prescription drugs and drug products, and pharmacy or pharmacist-provided services. Provides that the reimbursement methodology shall not be less than the current reimbursement rate utilized by the Department for prescription and pharmacy or pharmacist-provided services and shall not be below the actual acquisition cost of the pharmacy provider. Requires a managed care community network to ensure that the pharmacy formulary used by the managed care community network and its contract providers is no more restrictive than the Department's pharmaceutical program. Effective January 1, 2018.

Amends the Child Care Act of 1969. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning definitions.

Amends the Illinois Public Aid Code. In provisions requiring the Department of Healthcare and Family Services, the Department of Human Services, and the Department on Aging to take certain steps to achieve federally established timeframes for eligibility determinations for Medicaid and long-term care benefits, provides that notwithstanding any other provision of the Code or the Illinois Administrative Code to the contrary, for the purpose of determining Medicaid reimbursement, the Department of Healthcare and Family Services shall use the most recent income adjustments entered into the Medical Electronic Data Interchange (MEDI) System, the Recipient Eligibility Verification (REV) System, or the Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) System by a facility, which shall be presumed accurate until the Office of the Inspector General determines to the contrary. Provides that a facility shall, within 10 business days of acquiring knowledge of a change in income, enter such information into the MEDI, REV, or EDI system. Requires the facility to retain verification of the income change information it receives. Provides that in the event of an audit finding that the income adjustment entered was not accurate and that the facility benefited from the inaccuracy, a facility must be found to have entered inaccurate information with the intent to defraud in order to be subject to fines or penalties of any kind. Provides that in all instances, the facility shall be permitted the opportunity to challenge such a finding and provide documentation to the contrary.

Amends the Specialized Mental Health Rehabilitation Act of 2013. Provides that for a specialized mental health rehabilitation facility licensed under the Act by December 1, 2017 or provisionally licensed under the Act by December 1, 2017, a payment shall be made for therapeutic visits that have been indicated by an interdisciplinary team as therapeutically beneficial. Provides that the payment shall be at a rate of 100% of the facility's rate on the effective date of the amendatory Act for the first 5 days. Provides that, thereafter, payment for a therapeutic visit shall be at 75% of the facility's rate on the effective date of the amendatory Act and may not exceed 30 days in a fiscal year and shall not exceed 10 days consecutively. Provides that payment to a facility for a therapeutic visit shall be available to the facility through both fee-for-service and managed care payment arrangements. Effective July 1, 2018.

Amends the Common Interest Community Association Act. Provides that the association shall have one class of voting membership (instead of "one class of membership") unless the declaration, bylaws, or operating agreement provide otherwise. Makes a similar change in the Condominium Property Act. Further amends the Condominium Property Act. Deletes language providing that if the property contains 4 or more units, the owners may agree to sell the property by a vote of 75%. Provides instead that if the property contains at least 4 but not more than 6 units, a vote of 75% of the owners is required to sell the condominium property. Provides that if the property contains 7 or more units, a vote of 85% of the owners is required to sell the condominium property.