Amends the Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Confidentiality Act. Makes a technical change in a Section regarding the short title of the Act.
Amends the Children and Family Services Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
Amends the Assisted Living and Shared Housing Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning conversion of facilities.
Amends the Property Tax Code. Provides that, if there is excess money remaining in a special service area fund at the end of a fiscal year, then the corporate authorities may use that excess money to provide special services within the special service area in the next fiscal year, provided that the total amount used may not exceed 25% of the previous fiscal year's budget for the special service area. Effective immediately.
Amends the Illinois Insurance Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
Amends the Illinois Public Aid Code. In a provision concerning certain requirements care coordination services must conform to when such services are provided to enrollees participating in the Medicare-Medicaid Alignment Initiative Demonstration Project, adds the requirement that all rights guaranteed an enrollee under federal and State law be protected, including the right of an enrollee to select his or her own physician. In a provision concerning continuity of care for nursing home residents transitioning to a managed care organization, provides that the managed care organization shall, within 24 hours of receiving a request, change an enrollee's primary care provider and notify the enrollee in writing. Provides that if the enrollee states that a medical emergency exists, the managed care organization shall make the necessary changes immediately and notify by phone all involved parties followed by a written confirmation. Effective immediately.
Amends the Medical Assistance Article of the Illinois Public Aid Code. In a provision concerning access to psychiatric mental health services, provides that the Department of Healthcare and Family Services shall reimburse "qualified mental health professionals as defined by the Department" (rather than psychiatrists) and federally qualified health centers as defined in the federal Social Security Act for mental health services provided by "qualified mental health professionals" (rather than psychiatrists), as authorized by Illinois law, to recipients "under the age of 21" via telepsychiatry (rather than to recipients via telepsychiatry).
Amends the Juvenile Court Act of 1987. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
Amends the Adoption Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning who may adopt a child.
Amends the State Employees Group Insurance Act of 1971. Removes a provision prohibiting the non-contributory portion of a health-benefits program from including the expenses of obtaining an abortion, induced miscarriage or induced premature birth unless, in the opinion of a physician, such procedures are necessary for the preservation of the life of the woman seeking such treatment, or except an induced premature birth intended to produce a live viable child and such procedure is necessary for the health of the mother or the unborn child. Amends the Illinois Public Aid Code. Removes a provision excluding abortions, or induced miscarriages or premature births, from the list of services provided under the State's medical assistance program and removes language providing that the Department of Healthcare and Family Services or the Department of Human Services shall, by rule, prohibit any physician from providing medical assistance to anyone eligible under the Code where such physician has been found guilty of performing an abortion procedure in a wilful and wanton manner upon a woman who was not pregnant at the time such abortion procedure was performed. Removes a provision requiring that a written statement including the required opinion of a physician shall accompany any claim for reimbursement for abortions, or induced miscarriages or premature births. Removes other provisions concerning abortion procedures. Amends the Problem Pregnancy Health Services and Care Act. Removes language prohibiting the Department of Human Services from making grants to nonprofit agencies and organizations that use such grants to refer or counsel for, or perform, abortions.
