(20 ILCS 303/1-5)

Sec. 1-5. Funding for licensed or certified community-based substance use disorder treatment providers. Subject to federal approval, beginning on January 1, 2024 for State Fiscal Year 2024, and for each State fiscal year thereafter, the General Assembly shall appropriate sufficient funds to the Department of Human Services to ensure reimbursement rates will be increased and subsequently adjusted upward by an amount equal to the Consumer Price Index-U from the previous year, not to exceed 5% in any State fiscal year, for licensed or certified substance use disorder treatment providers of ASAM Level 3 residential/inpatient services under community service grant programs for persons with substance use disorders.

If there is a decrease in the Consumer Price Index-U, rates shall remain unchanged for that State fiscal year. The Department of Human Services shall increase the grant contract amount awarded to each eligible community-based substance use disorder treatment provider to ensure that the level and number of services provided under community service grant programs shall not be reduced by increasing the amount available to each provider under the community service grant programs to address the increased rate for each such service.

The Department shall adopt rules, including emergency rules in accordance with Section 5-45 of the Illinois Administrative Procedure Act, to implement the provisions of this Act.

As used in this Act, "Consumer Price Index-U" means the index published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the United States Department of Labor that measures the average change in prices of goods and services purchased by all urban consumers, United States city average, all items, 1982-84 = 100.

(Source: P.A. 103-102, eff. 6-16-23.)