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 Bill Status of EO2219  102nd General Assembly


Short Description:  USE OF OPIOID SETTLEMENT FUNDS

Sponsor: Governor


Last Action
DateChamber Action
  8/30/2022SenateFiled with the Secretary of State

Synopsis As Introduced
Contains a preamble describing the opioid epidemic, the State’s participation in lawsuits against the distributors and producers of opioids, the national opioid settlement agreements reached with opioid producers and distributors, and the allocation and use of opioid settlement funding. Orders the creation of the Office of Opioid Settlement Administration within the Illinois Department of Human Services. Directs the Office to reside within the Department’s Division of Substance Use, Prevention, and Recovery. Specifies that the Governor will hire a Statewide Opioid Settlement Administrator to oversee the Office and that, in the interim, a designee named by the Secretary of the Department of Human Services shall serve in that role and report on actions taken by the Office. Authorizes the Office to select fiscal and administrative agents to assist with the planning, management, and distribution of settlement funds. Establishes the Illinois Opioid Remediation Advisory Board as a subcommittee of the Opioid Overdose Prevention and Recovery Steering Committee. Directs the Board to make advisory recommendations to the Committee regarding certain uses of moneys in the Illinois Opioid Remediation State Trust Fund. Directs the Committee to consider the Board’s recommendations. Describes the composition of the Board. Specifies that the Board is to seek to ensure an equitable allocation of resources based on certain factors and to advise the Committee on the highest and best use of moneys in the Fund. Directs the Office to engage technical service providers to develop a comprehensive plan to address opioid abatement. Authorizes the Board to establish one or more working groups chaired by Board members. Directs the Office to engage with other State agencies, municipalities, and other units of local and regional government to identify and present certain information to the Board. Authorizes the Department to contract with academic institutions for research and administrative purposes. Allows the Department to redirect employees and hire additional employees. Authorizes the Department to leverage existing resources to assist with the recovery of individuals experiencing substance use disorder. Provides that the Department may create and deploy education and training resources to those areas of the State that it determines are affected by the opioid epidemic. Specifies that the executive order supersedes contrary provisions in other executive orders but is not to be construed to contravene any federal or State law or regulation. Provides that the provisions of the executive order are severable. Specifies that the Board and its working groups are subject to the Open Meetings Act and the Freedom of Information Act and that members of the Board and members of its working groups are subject to applicable laws, including, but not limited to, the State Officials and Employees Ethics Act. Effective upon being filed with the Secretary of State on August 30, 2022.

Actions 
DateChamber Action
  8/30/2022SenateFiled with the Secretary of State

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