Full Text of SB0051 95th General Assembly
SB0051eng 95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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| AN ACT concerning public aid.
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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 Department of Human Services Act is amended | 5 |
| by changing Section 10-26 as follows:
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| (20 ILCS 1305/10-26)
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| Sec. 10-26. Disability database.
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| (a) The Department of Human Services shall compile and | 9 |
| maintain a
cross-disability database of Illinois residents | 10 |
| with a disability who are
potentially
in need of disability | 11 |
| services funded by the Department. The database shall
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| of individuals with mental illness, physical disabilities, and
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| developmental
disabilities, and autism spectrum disorders and | 14 |
| shall include, but not be limited to, individuals
transitioning | 15 |
| from
special education to adulthood, individuals in | 16 |
| State-operated facilities, individuals
in private nursing and | 17 |
| residential facilities, and individuals in community
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| integrated living arrangements. Within 30 days after the | 19 |
| effective date of this
amendatory Act of the 93rd General | 20 |
| Assembly, the Secretary of Human Services
shall seek input from | 21 |
| advisory bodies to the Department, including advisory
councils | 22 |
| and committees working with the Department in the areas of | 23 |
| mental
illness, physical disabilities, and developmental |
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| disabilities. The database
shall be
operational by July 1, | 2 |
| 2004. The information collected and maintained for the
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| disability database shall include, but is not limited to, the | 4 |
| following: (i)
the types of
services of which the individual is | 5 |
| potentially in need; (ii) demographic and
identifying | 6 |
| information about the individual; (iii) factors indicating | 7 |
| need,
including
diagnoses, assessment information, age of | 8 |
| primary caregivers, and current
living
situation; (iv) if | 9 |
| applicable, the date information about the individual is
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| submitted for inclusion in the database and
the
types of | 11 |
| services sought by the individual; and (v) the representative
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| district
in which the individual resides. In collecting and | 13 |
| maintaining information
under
this Section, the Department | 14 |
| shall give consideration to cost-effective
appropriate | 15 |
| services for individuals.
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| (b) This amendatory Act of the 93rd General Assembly does | 17 |
| not create
any new entitlement to a service, program, or | 18 |
| benefit, but shall not affect any
entitlement to a service, | 19 |
| program, or benefit created by any other law. Except
for
a | 20 |
| service, program, or benefit that is an entitlement, a service, | 21 |
| program, or
benefit provided as a result of the collection and | 22 |
| maintenance of the
disability
database shall be subject to | 23 |
| appropriations made by the General Assembly.
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| (c) The Department, consistent with applicable federal and | 25 |
| State law, shall
make general information from the disability
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| database available to the public such as: (i) the number of |
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| individuals
potentially
in need of each type of service, | 2 |
| program, or benefit and (ii) the general
characteristics of | 3 |
| those individuals. The Department shall protect the
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| confidentiality of each individual in the database when | 5 |
| releasing database
information by
not disclosing any | 6 |
| personally identifying information.
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| (Source: P.A. 93-503, eff. 8-11-03.)
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| Section 10. The Developmental Disability and Mental | 9 |
| Disability Services Act is amended by adding Section 5-4 as | 10 |
| follows: | 11 |
| (405 ILCS 80/5-4 new) | 12 |
| Sec. 5-4. Home and Community-Based Services Waivers; | 13 |
| autism spectrum disorder. A person diagnosed with an autism | 14 |
| spectrum disorder may be assessed for eligibility for services | 15 |
| under Home and Community-Based Services Waivers for persons | 16 |
| with developmental disabilities, without regard to whether | 17 |
| that person is also diagnosed with mental retardation, so long | 18 |
| as the person otherwise meets applicable level-of-care | 19 |
| criteria under those waivers. This amendatory Act of the 95th | 20 |
| General Assembly does not create any new entitlement to a | 21 |
| service, program, or benefit, but shall not affect any | 22 |
| entitlement to a service, program, or benefit created
by any | 23 |
| other law.
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| Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon |
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| becoming law.
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