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 1                    AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 1302

 2        AMENDMENT NO.     .  Amend House Bill 1302  by  replacing
 3    everything after the enacting clause with the following:

 4        "Section  5.  The Illinois Act on the Aging is amended by
 5    changing Section 4.01 as follows:

 6        (20 ILCS 105/4.01) (from Ch. 23, par. 6104.01)
 7        Sec.  4.01.  Additional  powers   and   duties   of   the
 8    Department.   In  addition  to  powers  and  duties otherwise
 9    provided by law, the  Department  shall  have  the  following
10    powers and duties:
11        (1)  To  evaluate  all programs, services, and facilities
12    for the aged and for  minority  senior  citizens  within  the
13    State  and  determine  the  extent to which present public or
14    private programs, services and facilities meet the  needs  of
15    the aged.
16        (2)  To  coordinate  and evaluate all programs, services,
17    and facilities for the Aging and for minority senior citizens
18    presently furnished by State agencies  and  make  appropriate
19    recommendations   regarding   such   services,  programs  and
20    facilities to the Governor and/or the General Assembly.
21        (3)  To function as the sole State agency  to  develop  a
22    comprehensive  plan  to  meet the needs of the State's senior
 
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 1    citizens and the State's minority senior citizens.
 2        (4)  To receive and disburse State and federal funds made
 3    available directly to the Department  including  those  funds
 4    made  available  under the Older Americans Act and the Senior
 5    Community Service Employment Program for  providing  services
 6    for  senior  citizens  and  minority  senior  citizens or for
 7    purposes related thereto, and shall  develop  and  administer
 8    any State Plan for the Aging required by federal law.
 9        (5)  To  solicit,  accept, hold, and administer in behalf
10    of the State any grants or legacies of money, securities,  or
11    property  to  the  State  of  Illinois for services to senior
12    citizens and minority senior  citizens  or  purposes  related
13    thereto.
14        (6)  To    provide   consultation   and   assistance   to
15    communities, area agencies on aging,  and  groups  developing
16    local  services  for  senior  citizens  and  minority  senior
17    citizens.
18        (7)  To   promote   community   education  regarding  the
19    problems of senior  citizens  and  minority  senior  citizens
20    through  institutes,  publications, radio, television and the
21    local press.
22        (8)  To cooperate with agencies of the federal government
23    in studies and conferences designed to examine the  needs  of
24    senior  citizens  and minority senior citizens and to prepare
25    programs and facilities to meet those needs.
26        (9)  To establish and maintain information  and  referral
27    sources  throughout  the  State  when  not  provided by other
28    agencies.
29        (10)  To provide the staff support as may  reasonably  be
30    required  by  the  Council  and the Coordinating Committee of
31    State Agencies Serving Older Persons.
32        (11)  To make and enforce rules and regulations necessary
33    and proper to the performance of its duties.
34        (12)  To establish  and  fund  programs  or  projects  or
 
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 1    experimental   facilities  that  are  specially  designed  as
 2    alternatives to institutional care.
 3        (13)  To  develop  a  training  program  to   train   the
 4    counselors  presently  employed  by  the  Department's  aging
 5    network to provide Medicare beneficiaries with counseling and
 6    advocacy  in  Medicare, private health insurance, and related
 7    health care coverage plans.  The Department shall  report  to
 8    the  General  Assembly  on the implementation of the training
 9    program on or before December 1, 1986.
10        (14)  To  make  a  grant  to  an  institution  of  higher
11    learning  to  study  the  feasibility  of  establishing   and
12    implementing  an  affirmative  action employment plan for the
13    recruitment, hiring, training and retraining of persons 60 or
14    more years old for jobs for which their employment would  not
15    be precluded by law.
16        (15)  To  present  one  award  annually  in  each  of the
17    categories of community service, education,  the  performance
18    and graphic arts, and the labor force to outstanding Illinois
19    senior  citizens  and minority senior citizens in recognition
20    of  their  individual  contributions  to   either   community
21    service,  education, the performance and graphic arts, or the
22    labor force.  The awards shall be presented  to  four  senior
23    citizens and minority senior citizens selected from a list of
24    44 nominees compiled annually by the Department.  Nominations
25    shall  be  solicited from senior citizens' service providers,
26    area agencies on aging, senior citizens' centers, and  senior
27    citizens'  organizations.  The  Department shall consult with
28    the Coordinating Committee of State  Agencies  Serving  Older
29    Persons  to  determine  which  of  the  nominees shall be the
30    recipient  in  each  category  of  community  service.    The
31    Department  shall  establish  a  central  location within the
32    State to be designated as the Senior Illinoisans Hall of Fame
33    for the public display of all the annual awards, or  replicas
34    thereof.
 
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 1        (16)  To  establish  multipurpose  senior centers through
 2    area agencies on aging and to fund  those  new  and  existing
 3    multipurpose  senior  centers through area agencies on aging,
 4    the establishment and funding to begin in such areas  of  the
 5    State  as  the  Department  shall  designate  by  rule and as
 6    specifically appropriated funds become available.
 7        (17)  To  develop  the  content   and   format   of   the
 8    acknowledgment  regarding non-recourse reverse mortgage loans
 9    under Section 6.1 of the Illinois  Banking  Act;  to  provide
10    independent  consumer  information  on  reverse mortgages and
11    alternatives;  and  to   refer   consumers   to   independent
12    counseling services with expertise in reverse mortgages.
13        (18)  To  develop a pamphlet in English and Spanish which
14    may be used by physicians licensed to  practice  medicine  in
15    all  of  its branches pursuant to the Medical Practice Act of
16    1987, pharmacists licensed pursuant to the Pharmacy  Practice
17    Act  and  Illinois residents 65 years of age or older for the
18    purpose of assisting physicians, pharmacists, and patients in
19    monitoring prescriptions provided by various  physicians  and
20    to  aid  persons  65  years of age or older in complying with
21    directions for proper use  of  pharmaceutical  prescriptions.
22    The  pamphlet  may  provide  space  for recording information
23    including but not limited to the following:
24             (a)  name and telephone number of the patient;
25             (b)  name and telephone number  of  the  prescribing
26        physician;
27             (c)  date of prescription;
28             (d)  name of drug prescribed;
29             (e)   directions for patient compliance; and
30             (f)  name   and   telephone   number  of  dispensing
31        pharmacy.
32        In developing the pamphlet, the Department shall  consult
33    with  the  Illinois  State  Medical  Society,  the Center for
34    Minority   Health   Services,   the   Illinois    Pharmacists
 
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 1    Association   and   senior   citizens   organizations.    The
 2    Department  shall  distribute  the  pamphlets  to physicians,
 3    pharmacists and persons 65 years of age or older  or  various
 4    senior citizen organizations throughout the State.
 5        (19)  To  conduct  a  study  by  April  1,  1994  of  the
 6    feasibility  of  implementing  the  Senior  Companion Program
 7    throughout the State for the fiscal year  beginning  July  1,
 8    1994.
 9        (20)  With  respect  to  contracts  in  effect on July 1,
10    1994, the Department shall increase the grant amounts so that
11    the reimbursement  rates  paid  through  the  community  care
12    program for chore housekeeping services and homemakers are at
13    the  same  rate,  which  shall  be  the higher of the 2 rates
14    currently paid.  With respect to all contracts entered  into,
15    renewed,   or   extended  on  or  after  July  1,  1994,  the
16    reimbursement rates paid through the community  care  program
17    for  chore  housekeeping services and homemakers shall be the
18    same.
19        (21)  From funds appropriated to the Department from  the
20    Meals  on  Wheels  Fund, a special fund in the State treasury
21    that is hereby created, and  in  accordance  with  State  and
22    federal  guidelines  and  the  intrastate funding formula, to
23    make grants to area agencies  on  aging,  designated  by  the
24    Department,  for  the  sole  purpose  of  delivering meals to
25    homebound persons 60 years of age and older.
26        (21.1)  Beginning July 1, 2001,  to  distribute  any  new
27    funds  to  the  area agencies on aging, with the exception of
28    legislatively  directed  programs  requiring  funding  at   a
29    designated  level  for a defined target population, according
30    to the intrastate funding formula.
31        (22)  To distribute, through its area agencies on  aging,
32    information  alerting  seniors  on  safety  issues  regarding
33    emergency  weather  conditions,  including  extreme  heat and
34    cold,  flooding,  tornadoes,  electrical  storms,  and  other
 
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 1    severe storm weather.   The  information  shall  include  all
 2    necessary instructions for safety and all emergency telephone
 3    numbers   of   organizations  that  will  provide  additional
 4    information and assistance.
 5        (23)  To develop  guidelines  for  the  organization  and
 6    implementation  of  Volunteer  Services Credit Programs to be
 7    administered by Area Agencies on  Aging  or  community  based
 8    senior  service  organizations.   The  Department  shall hold
 9    public  hearings  on  the  proposed  guidelines  for   public
10    comment,  suggestion,  and  determination of public interest.
11    The guidelines shall be based on the findings of other states
12    and of community organizations in Illinois that are currently
13    operating volunteer services credit programs or demonstration
14    volunteer services credit  programs.   The  Department  shall
15    offer  guidelines  for all aspects of the programs including,
16    but not limited to, the following:
17             (a)  types of services to be offered by volunteers;
18             (b)  types of  services  to  be  received  upon  the
19        redemption of service credits;
20             (c)  issues  of liability for the volunteers and the
21        administering organizations;
22             (d)  methods of tracking service credits earned  and
23        service credits redeemed;
24             (e)  issues of time limits for redemption of service
25        credits;
26             (f)  methods of recruitment of volunteers;
27             (g)  utilization  of community volunteers, community
28        service  groups,  and  other  resources  for   delivering
29        services   to  be  received  by  service  credit  program
30        clients;
31             (h)  accountability and assurance that services will
32        be available  to  individuals  who  have  earned  service
33        credits; and
34             (i)  volunteer screening and qualifications.
 
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 1    The  Department shall submit a written copy of the guidelines
 2    to the General Assembly by July 1, 1998.
 3    (Source: P.A.  89-249,  eff.  8-4-95;  89-580,  eff.  1-1-97;
 4    90-251, eff. 1-1-98.)

 5        Section  99.  Effective date.  This Act takes effect upon
 6    becoming law.".

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