103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2023 and 2024
HB5781

 

Introduced 3/14/2024, by Rep. Nabeela Syed

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
20 ILCS 505/5.35

    Amends the Children and Family Services Act. In provisions concerning rates for residential services for children licensed and purchased by the Department of Children and Family Services, provides that, for group home providers serving children and youth with intellectual or developmental disabilities, the Department, the Department of Human Services, and the Illinois State Board of Education shall increase payment rates taking effect on and after July 1, 2025 to a rate sufficient to provide a $4 per hour wage increase for frontline personnel. Makes the rate increase subject to federal approval, if required. Effective immediately


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A BILL FOR

 

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1    AN ACT concerning State government.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The Children and Family Services Act is amended
5by changing Section 5.35 as follows:
 
6    (20 ILCS 505/5.35)
7    Sec. 5.35. Residential services; rates.
8    (a) In this Section, "residential services" means child
9care institution care, group home care, independent living
10services, and transitional living services that are licensed
11and purchased by the Department on behalf of children under
12the age of 22 years who are served by the Department and who
13need 24-hour residential care due to emotional and behavior
14problems or severe mental illness and that are services for
15which the Department has rate-setting authority.
16    For the purposes of this Section, "residential services"
17does not include (i) residential alcohol and other drug abuse
18treatment services or (ii) programs serving children primarily
19referred because of a developmental disability or mental
20health needs.
21    (b) The Department shall work with representatives of
22residential services providers with which the Department
23contracts for residential services and with representatives of

 

 

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1other State agencies that purchase comparable residential
2services from agencies for which the Department has
3rate-setting authority to develop a performance-based model
4for these residential services. Other State agencies shall
5include, but not be limited to, the Department of Human
6Services, the Department of Juvenile Justice, and the Illinois
7State Board of Education. The rate paid by the other State
8agencies for comparable residential services shall not be less
9than the performance-based rates set by the Department.
10    (c) The performance-based model to be developed shall
11include required program components and a rate-setting
12methodology that incorporates the reasonable costs of the
13required program components, subject to the provisions and
14limitations prescribed in 89 Illinois Administrative Code,
15Chapter III, Subchapter c, Part 356, Rate-setting.
16    (d) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Section,
17for group home providers serving children and youth with
18intellectual or developmental disabilities, the Department,
19the Department of Human Services, and the Illinois State Board
20of Education shall increase payment rates taking effect on and
21after July 1, 2025 to a rate sufficient to provide a $4 per
22hour wage increase for frontline personnel. Implementation of
23the rate increase under this subsection is contingent upon
24federal approval, if required.
25(Source: P.A. 96-65, eff. 7-23-09.)
 
26    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon

 

 

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1becoming law.