Sen. Heather A. Steans
Filed: 3/25/2014
 
 

 

 

 
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AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 2586




2    AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 2586 by replacing 
3everything after the enacting clause with the following:

 
4    "Section 5. The Specialized Mental Health Rehabilitation 
5Act of 2013 is amended  by changing Section 1-101.6 as follows:
 
6    (210 ILCS 49/1-101.6)

7    Sec. 1-101.6. Mental health system planning.   The General 
8Assembly finds the services contained in this Act are necessary 
9for the effective delivery of mental health services for the 
10citizens of the State of Illinois.  
11    The General Assembly also finds that the mental health and 
12substance use system in the State requires further review to 
13develop additional needed services.
14      To ensure the adequacy of community-based services and to 
15offer choice to all individuals with serious mental illness and 
16substance use disorders or conditions who choose to live in the  
 
 
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1community, and for whom the community is the appropriate 
2setting, but are at risk of institutional care, the Governor's 
3Office of Health Innovation and Transformation shall oversee a 
4process for (i)  identifying needed services in the different 
5geographic regions in the State and (ii)  identifying the 
6financing strategies for developing those needed services. 
7Governor shall convene a working group to develop the process 
8and procedure for identifying needed services in the different 
9geographic regions of the State.   
10    The process shall address or examine the need and financing 
11strategies for the following:
12        (1) Network adequacy in all 102 counties of the State 
13    for: (i) health homes authorized under Section 2703 of the 
14    federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act; (ii) 
15    systems of care for children; (iii) care coordination; and 
16    (iv) access to a full continuum of quality care, treatment, 
17    services, and supports for persons with serious emotional 
18    disturbance, serious mental illness, or substance use 
19    disorder.
20        (2) Workforce development for the workforce of 
21    community providers of care, treatment, services, and 
22    supports for persons with mental health and substance use 
23    disorders and conditions.
24        (3) Information technology to manage the delivery of  
25    integrated services for persons with mental health and 
26    substance use disorders and medical conditions.
 
 
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1        (4) The needed continuum of statewide community health 
2    care, treatment, services, and supports for persons with 
3    mental health and substance use disorders and conditions.
4        (5) Reducing health care disparities in access to a 
5    continuum of care, care coordination, and engagement in 
6    networks.
7    The Governor's Office of Health Innovation and 
8Transformation shall include the Division of Alcoholism and 
9Substance Abuse and the Division of Mental Health in the 
10Department of Human Services, the Department of Healthcare and 
11Family Services, the Department of Public Health The Governor 
12shall include the Division of Mental Health of the Department 
13of Human Services, the Department of Healthcare and Family 
14Services, the Department of Public Health, community mental 
15health and substance use providers, statewide associations of 
16mental health and substance use providers, mental health and 
17substance use advocacy groups, and any other entity as deemed 
18appropriate for participation in the working groups group.   
19    The Department of Human Services shall provide staff and 
20support to this working group.

21(Source: P.A. 98-104, eff. 7-22-13.)
 

22    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon 
23becoming law.".