HB5463eng 100TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

HB5463 Engrossed LRB100 18949 RLC 34199 b

AN ACT concerning State government.

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

Section 5. The Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Administrative Act is amended by changing Section 53 as follows:

(20 ILCS 1705/53) (from Ch. 91 1/2, par. 100-53)

Sec. 53. The Department shall create a consistent case coordination system for persons with a developmental disability who receive services provided or funded by the Department. The objectives of this system shall be to ensure that a full range of an individual's needs is identified and assessed through statewide use of an individual client assessment tool; to ensure that each individual actually receives, in the most effective and efficient combination and sequence, the full range and continuum of services needed; to ensure that all available resources are applied appropriately to each individual served; and to provide a systematic procedure for serving individuals which generates among and within the local service delivery agencies information required for effective system management.

Specific to the individual client assessment tool, each individual living in a community integrated living arrangement shall receive an annual client assessment. The annual client assessment shall be completed using the Health Risk Screening Tool. Beginning January 1, 2019, each individual shall receive his or her annual client assessment via the web-based Health Risk Screening Tool. The Health Risk Screening Tool shall replace the current paper-based version of the assessment. The Department shall make changes to the Illinois Administrative Code to correspond with this online version of the Health Risk Screening Tool.

"Case coordination" means a mechanism for linking and coordinating segments of the service delivery system to ensure the most comprehensive program for meeting an individual client's needs. It facilitates client movement through an array of services so that at any given time, services received are matched to the needs of the individual.

(Source: P.A. 88-380.)

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