Rep. Sara Feigenholtz
Filed: 4/9/2007
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1 | AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 652
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2 | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 652 by replacing | ||||||
3 | everything after the enacting clause with the following:
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4 | "Section 5. The Illinois Act on the Aging is amended by | ||||||
5 | changing Section 4.02 as follows:
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6 | (20 ILCS 105/4.02) (from Ch. 23, par. 6104.02)
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7 | Sec. 4.02. Community Care Program.
The Department shall | ||||||
8 | establish a program of services to
prevent unnecessary | ||||||
9 | institutionalization of persons age 60 and older in
need of | ||||||
10 | long term care or who are established as persons who suffer | ||||||
11 | from
Alzheimer's disease or a related disorder under the | ||||||
12 | Alzheimer's Disease
Assistance Act, thereby enabling them
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13 | remain in their own homes or in other living arrangements. Such
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14 | preventive services, which may be coordinated with other | ||||||
15 | programs for the
aged and monitored by area agencies on aging | ||||||
16 | in cooperation with the
Department, may include, but are not |
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1 | limited to, any or all of the following:
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2 | (a) (blank);
home health services;
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3 | (b) (blank);
home nursing services;
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4 | (c) homemaker services;
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5 | (d) personal assistant services
chore and housekeeping | ||||||
6 | services ;
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7 | (e) adult day services;
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8 | (f) home-delivered meals;
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9 | (g) education in self-care;
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10 | (h) personal care services;
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11 | (i) adult day health services;
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12 | (j) habilitation services;
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13 | (k) respite care;
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14 | (k-5) community reintegration services;
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15 | (K-6) flexible senior services; | ||||||
16 | (K-7) medication management; | ||||||
17 | (K-8) emergency home response;
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18 | (l) other nonmedical social services that may enable | ||||||
19 | the person
to become self-supporting; or
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20 | (m) clearinghouse for information provided by senior | ||||||
21 | citizen home owners
who want to rent rooms to or share | ||||||
22 | living space with other senior citizens.
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23 | The Department shall establish eligibility standards for | ||||||
24 | such
services taking into consideration the unique economic and | ||||||
25 | social needs
of the target population for whom they are to be | ||||||
26 | provided. Such eligibility
standards shall be based on the |
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1 | recipient's ability to pay for services;
provided, however, | ||||||
2 | that in determining the amount and nature of services
for which | ||||||
3 | a person may qualify, consideration shall not be given to the
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4 | value of cash, property or other assets held in the name of the | ||||||
5 | person's
spouse pursuant to a written agreement dividing | ||||||
6 | marital property into equal
but separate shares or pursuant to | ||||||
7 | a transfer of the person's interest in a
home to his spouse, | ||||||
8 | provided that the spouse's share of the marital
property is not | ||||||
9 | made available to the person seeking such services.
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10 | Beginning July 1, 2002, the Department shall require as a | ||||||
11 | condition of
eligibility that all financially eligible | ||||||
12 | applicants and recipients apply
for medical assistance
under | ||||||
13 | Article V of the Illinois Public Aid Code in accordance with | ||||||
14 | rules
promulgated by the Department.
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15 | Beginning July 1, 2007, the Department shall require as a | ||||||
16 | condition of eligibility that all new financially eligible | ||||||
17 | applicants apply for and enroll in medical assistance under | ||||||
18 | Article V of the Illinois Public Aid Code in accordance with | ||||||
19 | rules promulgated by the Department.
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20 | The Department shall, in conjunction with the Department of | ||||||
21 | Public Aid (now Department of Healthcare and Family Services),
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22 | seek appropriate amendments under Sections 1915 and 1924 of the | ||||||
23 | Social
Security Act. The purpose of the amendments shall be to | ||||||
24 | extend eligibility
for home and community based services under | ||||||
25 | Sections 1915 and 1924 of the
Social Security Act to persons | ||||||
26 | who transfer to or for the benefit of a
spouse those amounts of |
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1 | income and resources allowed under Section 1924 of
the Social | ||||||
2 | Security Act. Subject to the approval of such amendments, the
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3 | Department shall extend the provisions of Section 5-4 of the | ||||||
4 | Illinois
Public Aid Code to persons who, but for the provision | ||||||
5 | of home or
community-based services, would require the level of | ||||||
6 | care provided in an
institution, as is provided for in federal | ||||||
7 | law. Those persons no longer
found to be eligible for receiving | ||||||
8 | noninstitutional services due to changes
in the eligibility | ||||||
9 | criteria shall be given 60 days notice prior to actual
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10 | termination. Those persons receiving notice of termination may | ||||||
11 | contact the
Department and request the determination be | ||||||
12 | appealed at any time during the
60 day notice period. With the | ||||||
13 | exception of the lengthened notice and time
frame for the | ||||||
14 | appeal request, the appeal process shall follow the normal
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15 | procedure. In addition, each person affected regardless of the
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16 | circumstances for discontinued eligibility shall be given | ||||||
17 | notice and the
opportunity to purchase the necessary services | ||||||
18 | through the Community Care
Program. If the individual does not | ||||||
19 | elect to purchase services, the
Department shall advise the | ||||||
20 | individual of alternative services. The target
population | ||||||
21 | identified for the purposes of this Section are persons age 60
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22 | and older with an identified service need. Priority shall be | ||||||
23 | given to those
who are at imminent risk of | ||||||
24 | institutionalization. The services shall be
provided to | ||||||
25 | eligible persons age 60 and older to the extent that the cost
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26 | of the services together with the other personal maintenance
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1 | expenses of the persons are reasonably related to the standards
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2 | established for care in a group facility appropriate to the | ||||||
3 | person's
condition. These non-institutional services, pilot | ||||||
4 | projects or
experimental facilities may be provided as part of | ||||||
5 | or in addition to
those authorized by federal law or those | ||||||
6 | funded and administered by the
Department of Human Services. | ||||||
7 | The Departments of Human Services, Healthcare and Family | ||||||
8 | Services,
Public Health, Veterans' Affairs, and Commerce and | ||||||
9 | Economic Opportunity and
other appropriate agencies of State, | ||||||
10 | federal and local governments shall
cooperate with the | ||||||
11 | Department on Aging in the establishment and development
of the | ||||||
12 | non-institutional services. The Department shall require an | ||||||
13 | annual
audit from all chore/housekeeping and homemaker vendors | ||||||
14 | contracting with
the Department under this Section. The annual | ||||||
15 | audit shall assure that each
audited vendor's procedures are in | ||||||
16 | compliance with Department's financial
reporting guidelines | ||||||
17 | requiring an administrative and employee wage and benefits cost | ||||||
18 | split as defined in administrative rules. The audit is a public | ||||||
19 | record under
the Freedom of Information Act. The Department | ||||||
20 | shall execute, relative to
the nursing home prescreening | ||||||
21 | project, written inter-agency
agreements with the Department | ||||||
22 | of Human Services and the Department
of Healthcare and Family | ||||||
23 | Services, to effect the following: (1) intake procedures and | ||||||
24 | common
eligibility criteria for those persons who are receiving | ||||||
25 | non-institutional
services; and (2) the establishment and | ||||||
26 | development of non-institutional
services in areas of the State |
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1 | where they are not currently available or are
undeveloped. On | ||||||
2 | and after July 1, 1996, all nursing home prescreenings for
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3 | individuals 60 years of age or older shall be conducted by the | ||||||
4 | Department.
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5 | As part of the Department on Aging's routine training of | ||||||
6 | case managers and case manager supervisors, the Department may | ||||||
7 | include information on family futures planning for persons who | ||||||
8 | are age 60 or older and who are caregivers of their adult | ||||||
9 | children with developmental disabilities. The content of the | ||||||
10 | training shall be at the Department's discretion. | ||||||
11 | The Department is authorized to establish a system of | ||||||
12 | recipient copayment
for services provided under this Section, | ||||||
13 | such copayment to be based upon
the recipient's ability to pay | ||||||
14 | but in no case to exceed the actual cost of
the services | ||||||
15 | provided. Additionally, any portion of a person's income which
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16 | is equal to or less than the federal poverty standard shall not | ||||||
17 | be
considered by the Department in determining the copayment. | ||||||
18 | The level of
such copayment shall be adjusted whenever | ||||||
19 | necessary to reflect any change
in the officially designated | ||||||
20 | federal poverty standard.
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21 | The Department, or the Department's authorized | ||||||
22 | representative, shall
recover the amount of moneys expended for | ||||||
23 | services provided to or in
behalf of a person under this | ||||||
24 | Section by a claim against the person's
estate or against the | ||||||
25 | estate of the person's surviving spouse, but no
recovery may be | ||||||
26 | had until after the death of the surviving spouse, if
any, and |
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1 | then only at such time when there is no surviving child who
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2 | under age 21, blind, or permanently and totally disabled. This
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3 | paragraph, however, shall not bar recovery, at the death of the | ||||||
4 | person, of
moneys for services provided to the person or in | ||||||
5 | behalf of the person under
this Section to which the person was | ||||||
6 | not entitled;
provided that such recovery shall not be enforced | ||||||
7 | against any real estate while
it is occupied as a homestead by | ||||||
8 | the surviving spouse or other dependent, if no
claims by other | ||||||
9 | creditors have been filed against the estate, or, if such
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10 | claims have been filed, they remain dormant for failure of | ||||||
11 | prosecution or
failure of the claimant to compel administration | ||||||
12 | of the estate for the purpose
of payment. This paragraph shall | ||||||
13 | not bar recovery from the estate of a spouse,
under Sections | ||||||
14 | 1915 and 1924 of the Social Security Act and Section 5-4 of the
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15 | Illinois Public Aid Code, who precedes a person receiving | ||||||
16 | services under this
Section in death. All moneys for services
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17 | paid to or in behalf of the person under this Section shall be | ||||||
18 | claimed for
recovery from the deceased spouse's estate. | ||||||
19 | "Homestead", as used
in this paragraph, means the dwelling | ||||||
20 | house and
contiguous real estate occupied by a surviving spouse
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21 | or relative, as defined by the rules and regulations of the | ||||||
22 | Department of Healthcare and Family Services, regardless of the | ||||||
23 | value of the property.
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24 | The Department shall increase the effectiveness of the | ||||||
25 | existing Community Care Program by: | ||||||
26 | (1) ensuring that in-home services included in the care |
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1 | plan are available on evenings and weekends; | ||||||
2 | (2) ensuring that care plans contain the services that | ||||||
3 | eligible participants' need based on the number of days in | ||||||
4 | a month, not limited to specific blocks of time, as | ||||||
5 | identified by the comprehensive assessment tool selected | ||||||
6 | by the Department for use statewide, not to exceed the | ||||||
7 | total monthly service cost maximum allowed for each | ||||||
8 | service. The Department shall develop administrative rules | ||||||
9 | to implement this item (2); | ||||||
10 | (3) ensuring that the participants have the right to | ||||||
11 | chose the services contained in their care plan and to | ||||||
12 | direct how those services are provided, based on | ||||||
13 | administrative rules established by the Department; | ||||||
14 | (4) ensuring that the determination of need tool is | ||||||
15 | accurate in determining the participants' level of need; to | ||||||
16 | achieve this, the Department, in conjunction with the Older | ||||||
17 | Adult Services Advisory Committee, shall institute a study | ||||||
18 | of the relationship between the Determination of Need | ||||||
19 | scores, level of need, Service Cost Maximums and the | ||||||
20 | development and utilization of service plans no later than | ||||||
21 | May 1, 2008; findings and recommendations shall be | ||||||
22 | presented to the Governor and the General Assembly no later | ||||||
23 | than January 1, 2009; recommendations shall include all | ||||||
24 | needed changes to the service cost maximums schedule and | ||||||
25 | additional covered services; | ||||||
26 | (5) ensuring that homemakers can provide personal care |
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1 | services that may or may not involve contact with clients, | ||||||
2 | including but not limited to: | ||||||
3 | (A) bathing; | ||||||
4 | (B) grooming; | ||||||
5 | (C) toileting; | ||||||
6 | (D) nail care; | ||||||
7 | (E) transferring; | ||||||
8 | (F) respiratory services; | ||||||
9 | (G) exercise; or | ||||||
10 | (H) positioning; | ||||||
11 | (6) ensuring that homemaker program vendors are not | ||||||
12 | restricted from hiring homemakers who are family members of | ||||||
13 | clients or recommended by clients; the Department may not, | ||||||
14 | by rule or policy, require homemakers who are family | ||||||
15 | members of clients or recommended by clients to accept | ||||||
16 | assignments in homes other than the client; and | ||||||
17 | (7) ensuring that the State may access maximum federal | ||||||
18 | matching funds by seeking approval for the Centers for | ||||||
19 | Medicare and Medicaid Services for modifications to the | ||||||
20 | State's home and community based services waiver and | ||||||
21 | additional waiver opportunities in order to maximize | ||||||
22 | federal matching funds; this shall include, but not be | ||||||
23 | limited to, modification that reflects all changes in the | ||||||
24 | Community Care Program services and all increases in the | ||||||
25 | Services Cost Maximum. | ||||||
26 | By January 1, 2009 or as soon after the end of the Cash and |
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1 | Counseling Demonstration Project as is practicable, the | ||||||
2 | Department may, based on its evaluation of the demonstration | ||||||
3 | project, promulgate rules concerning personal assistant | ||||||
4 | services to include, but need not be limited to, | ||||||
5 | qualifications, employment screening, rights under fair labor | ||||||
6 | standards, training, fiduciary agent, and supervision | ||||||
7 | requirements. All applicants shall be subject to the provisions | ||||||
8 | of the Health Care Worker Background Check Act.
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9 | The Department shall develop procedures to enhance | ||||||
10 | availability of
services on evenings, weekends, and on an | ||||||
11 | emergency basis to meet the
respite needs of caregivers. | ||||||
12 | Procedures shall be developed to permit the
utilization of | ||||||
13 | services in successive blocks of 24 hours up to the monthly
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14 | maximum established by the Department. Workers providing these | ||||||
15 | services
shall be appropriately trained.
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16 | Beginning on the effective date of this Amendatory Act of | ||||||
17 | 1991, no person
may perform chore/housekeeping and homemaker | ||||||
18 | services under a program
authorized by this Section unless that | ||||||
19 | person has been issued a certificate
of pre-service to do so by | ||||||
20 | his or her employing agency. Information
gathered to effect | ||||||
21 | such certification shall include (i) the person's name,
(ii) | ||||||
22 | the date the person was hired by his or her current employer, | ||||||
23 | and
(iii) the training, including dates and levels. Persons | ||||||
24 | engaged in the
program authorized by this Section before the | ||||||
25 | effective date of this
amendatory Act of 1991 shall be issued a | ||||||
26 | certificate of all pre- and
in-service training from his or her |
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1 | employer upon submitting the necessary
information. The | ||||||
2 | employing agency shall be required to retain records of
all | ||||||
3 | staff pre- and in-service training, and shall provide such | ||||||
4 | records to
the Department upon request and upon termination of | ||||||
5 | the employer's contract
with the Department. In addition, the | ||||||
6 | employing agency is responsible for
the issuance of | ||||||
7 | certifications of in-service training completed to their
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8 | employees.
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9 | The Department is required to develop a system to ensure | ||||||
10 | that persons
working as homemakers and chore housekeepers | ||||||
11 | receive increases in their
wages when the federal minimum wage | ||||||
12 | is increased by requiring vendors to
certify that they are | ||||||
13 | meeting the federal minimum wage statute for homemakers
and | ||||||
14 | chore housekeepers. An employer that cannot ensure that the | ||||||
15 | minimum
wage increase is being given to homemakers and chore | ||||||
16 | housekeepers
shall be denied any increase in reimbursement | ||||||
17 | costs.
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18 | The Community Care Program Advisory Committee is created in | ||||||
19 | the Department on Aging. The Director shall appoint individuals | ||||||
20 | to serve in the Committee, who shall serve at their own | ||||||
21 | expense. Members of the Committee must abide by all applicable | ||||||
22 | ethics laws. The Committee shall advise the Department on | ||||||
23 | issues related to the Department's program of services to | ||||||
24 | prevent unnecessary institutionalization. The Committee shall | ||||||
25 | meet on a bi-monthly basis and shall serve to identify and | ||||||
26 | advise the Department on present and potential issues affecting |
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1 | the service delivery network, the program's clients, and the | ||||||
2 | Department and to recommend solution strategies. Persons | ||||||
3 | appointed to the Committee shall be appointed on, but not | ||||||
4 | limited to, their own and their agency's experience with the | ||||||
5 | program, geographic representation, and willingness to serve. | ||||||
6 | The Committee shall include, but not be limited to, | ||||||
7 | representatives from the following agencies and organizations: | ||||||
8 | (a) at least 4 adult day service representatives; | ||||||
9 | (b) at least 4 case coordination unit representatives; | ||||||
10 | (c) at least 4 representatives from in-home direct care | ||||||
11 | service agencies; | ||||||
12 | (d) at least 2 representatives of statewide trade or | ||||||
13 | labor unions that represent in-home direct care service | ||||||
14 | staff;
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15 | (e) at least 2 representatives of Area Agencies on | ||||||
16 | Aging; | ||||||
17 | (f) at least 2 non-provider representatives from a | ||||||
18 | policy, advocacy, research, or other service organization; | ||||||
19 | (g) at least 2 representatives from a statewide | ||||||
20 | membership organization for senior citizens; and | ||||||
21 | (h) at least 2 citizen members 60 years of age or | ||||||
22 | older. | ||||||
23 | Nominations may be presented from any agency or State | ||||||
24 | association with interest in the program. The Director, or his | ||||||
25 | or her designee, shall serve as the permanent co-chair of the | ||||||
26 | advisory committee. One other co-chair shall be nominated and |
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1 | approved by the members of the committee on an annual basis. | ||||||
2 | Committee members' terms of appointment shall be for 4 years | ||||||
3 | with one-quarter of the appointees' terms expiring each year. | ||||||
4 | At no time may a member serve more than one consecutive term in | ||||||
5 | any capacity on the committee. The Department shall fill | ||||||
6 | vacancies that have a remaining term of over one year, and this | ||||||
7 | replacement shall occur through the annual replacement of | ||||||
8 | expiring terms. The Director shall designate Department staff | ||||||
9 | to provide technical assistance and staff support to the | ||||||
10 | committee. Department representation shall not constitute | ||||||
11 | membership of the committee. All Committee papers, issues, | ||||||
12 | recommendations, reports, and meeting memoranda are advisory | ||||||
13 | only. The Director, or his or her designee, shall make a | ||||||
14 | written report, as requested by the Committee, regarding issues | ||||||
15 | before the Committee.
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16 | The Department on Aging and the Department of Human | ||||||
17 | Services
shall cooperate in the development and submission of | ||||||
18 | an annual report on
programs and services provided under this | ||||||
19 | Section. Such joint report
shall be filed with the Governor and | ||||||
20 | the General Assembly on or before
September 30 each year.
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21 | The requirement for reporting to the General Assembly shall | ||||||
22 | be satisfied
by filing copies of the report with the Speaker, | ||||||
23 | the Minority Leader and
the Clerk of the House of | ||||||
24 | Representatives and the President, the Minority
Leader and the | ||||||
25 | Secretary of the Senate and the Legislative Research Unit,
as | ||||||
26 | required by Section 3.1 of the General Assembly Organization |
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1 | Act and
filing such additional copies with the State Government | ||||||
2 | Report Distribution
Center for the General Assembly as is | ||||||
3 | required under paragraph (t) of
Section 7 of the State Library | ||||||
4 | Act.
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5 | Those persons previously found eligible for receiving | ||||||
6 | non-institutional
services whose services were discontinued | ||||||
7 | under the Emergency Budget Act of
Fiscal Year 1992, and who do | ||||||
8 | not meet the eligibility standards in effect
on or after July | ||||||
9 | 1, 1992, shall remain ineligible on and after July 1,
1992. | ||||||
10 | Those persons previously not required to cost-share and who | ||||||
11 | were
required to cost-share effective March 1, 1992, shall | ||||||
12 | continue to meet
cost-share requirements on and after July 1, | ||||||
13 | 1992. Beginning July 1, 1992,
all clients will be required to | ||||||
14 | meet
eligibility, cost-share, and other requirements and will | ||||||
15 | have services
discontinued or altered when they fail to meet | ||||||
16 | these requirements.
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17 | For the purposes of this Section, "flexible senior | ||||||
18 | services" refers to services that require one-time or periodic | ||||||
19 | expenditures including, but not limited to, respite care, home | ||||||
20 | modification, assistive technology, housing assistance, and | ||||||
21 | transportation.
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22 | (Source: P.A. 93-85, eff. 1-1-04; 93-902, eff. 8-10-04; 94-48, | ||||||
23 | eff. 7-1-05; 94-269, eff. 7-19-05; 94-336, eff. 7-26-05; | ||||||
24 | 94-954, eff. 6-27-06.)".
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