Full Text of SB2692 095th General Assembly
SB2692 95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2007 and 2008 SB2692
Introduced 2/15/2008, by Sen. Emil Jones, Jr. SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: |
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Amends the Assisted Living and Shared Housing Act. Makes a technical change
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a Section concerning legislative purpose.
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A BILL FOR
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| AN ACT concerning regulation.
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| Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, | 3 |
| represented in the General Assembly:
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| Section 5. The Assisted Living and Shared Housing Act is | 5 |
| amended by changing Section 5 as follows:
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| (210 ILCS 9/5)
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| Sec. 5. Legislative purpose. The
The purpose of this Act is | 8 |
| to permit the
development and
availability of assisted living | 9 |
| establishments and shared housing
establishments
based on a | 10 |
| social
model that promotes the dignity, individuality, | 11 |
| privacy, independence,
autonomy, and decision-making ability | 12 |
| and the right to negotiated risk of
those persons; to provide
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| for the health, safety,
and welfare of those residents residing | 14 |
| in assisted living and shared housing
establishments in
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| State; to promote continuous quality improvement in assisted | 16 |
| living; and
to encourage the
development of innovative and | 17 |
| affordable assisted living establishments and
shared housing
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| with service establishments for elderly persons of all income | 19 |
| levels. It is
the public policy of
this State that assisted | 20 |
| living is an important part of the continuum of
long term care. | 21 |
| In support
of the goal of aging in place within the parameters | 22 |
| established by this Act,
assisted living
and shared housing | 23 |
| establishments shall be operated as
residential environments
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| with supportive services designed to meet the individual | 2 |
| resident's changing
needs and
preferences. The residential | 3 |
| environment shall be designed to encourage family
and community
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| involvement. The services available to residents, either | 5 |
| directly or through
contracts or
agreements, are intended to | 6 |
| help residents remain as independent as possible.
Assisted | 7 |
| living,
which promotes resident choice, autonomy, and decision | 8 |
| making, should be based
on a contract
model designed to result | 9 |
| in a negotiated agreement between the resident or
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| resident's
representative and the provider, clearly | 11 |
| identifying the services to be
provided. This model
assumes | 12 |
| that residents are able to direct services provided for them | 13 |
| and will
designate a
representative to direct
these services if | 14 |
| they themselves are unable to do so. This model supports
the
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| principle that there is
an acceptable balance between consumer | 16 |
| protection and resident willingness
to accept risk and
that | 17 |
| most consumers are competent to make their own judgments about | 18 |
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services they are
obtaining. Regulation of assisted living | 19 |
| establishments and shared housing
establishments must
be | 20 |
| sufficiently flexible to allow residents to age in place within | 21 |
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parameters of this Act.
The
administration of this Act and | 22 |
| services provided must therefore ensure that the
residents have | 23 |
| the rights and responsibilities to direct the scope of services
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| they
receive and to make individual choices based on their | 25 |
| needs and preferences.
These
establishments shall be operated | 26 |
| in a manner that provides the least
restrictive and
most |
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| homelike environment and that promotes independence, autonomy,
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| individuality,
privacy, dignity, and the right to negotiated | 3 |
| risk in residential
surroundings. It is not the intent of the | 4 |
| State that establishments licensed
under this Act
be used as | 5 |
| halfway houses for alcohol and substance abusers. | 6 |
| (Source: P.A. 91-656, eff. 1-1-01.)
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