94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2005 and 2006
HB2446


 
Introduced 02/17/05, by Rep. Ron Stephens - Patricia R. Bellock
 
SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 		















405 ILCS 80/2-4.5 new









    Amends the Developmental Disability and Mental Disability Services Act. Subject to appropriation, requires the Department of Human Services to create a pilot program to provide community-based residential services to individuals with severe autism who are 21 years of age or older. Requires the Department to contract with one service provider to provide alternate residential services to persons with severe autism who would otherwise be served in an institutional setting. Sets forth the Department's responsibilities concerning screening, training and supports, and vocational agricultural opportunities. Effective immediately.
















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HB2446

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    AN ACT concerning regulation.

 
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    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
 
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represented in the General Assembly:


 
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    Section 5.  The Developmental Disability and Mental 
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Disability Services Act
is
amended by adding Section 2-4.5 as 
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follows:


 



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    (405 ILCS 80/2-4.5 new)




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    Sec. 2-4.5. Autism; community-based residential services; 
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pilot program.

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    (a) Subject to appropriation, the Department of Human 
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Services shall create
a
pilot program to provide 
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community-based residential services to individuals
with 
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severe
autism who are 21 years of age or older. The Department 
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shall contract with one
service
provider to provide alternative

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residential services to persons with severe autism who would 
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otherwise be
served in an
institutional setting.

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    (b) The Department shall be responsible for, but not 
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limited to, providing
the
following:

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        (1) Screening of individuals with severe autism who are 
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    21 years of age or
older to determine whether these 
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    individuals could be served in a residential
setting at a 
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    cost that does not exceed the cost of caring for them in an

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    institutional
setting.

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        (2) Training and supports for both adults with severe 
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    autism and the staff
working with those individuals.

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        (3) Vocational agricultural opportunities for those 
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    individuals placed at the
designated
community-based 
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    setting.

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    (c) The Department shall adopt rules to implement this 
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Section.



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