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90_HB0619
20 ILCS 1305/10-25
Amends the Department of Human Services Act. Provides
that the Department shall include a lactation support
services program for participants in the Women, Infants and
Children program. Provides that the program shall pay for
lactation equipment as well as lactation specialists.
Provides that the Department shall coordinate the Women,
Infants and Children program with the Medicaid program though
an interagency agreement whereby each program provides
information about the other to applicants for services.
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1 AN ACT to amend the Department of Human Services Act by
2 changing Section 10-25.
3 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
4 represented in the General Assembly:
5 Section 5. The Department of Human Services Act is
6 amended by changing Section 10-25 as follows:
7 (20 ILCS 1305/10-25)
8 (Text of Section taking effect July 1, 1997)
9 Sec. 10-25. Women, Infants, and Children Nutrition
10 Program.
11 (a) The Department shall participate in the Women,
12 Infants and Children Nutrition program of the federal
13 government to the maximum extent permitted by the federal
14 appropriation and allocation to the State of Illinois. The
15 Department shall report quarterly to the Governor and the
16 General Assembly the status of obligations and expenditures
17 of the WIC nutrition program appropriation and make
18 recommendations on actions necessary to expend all available
19 federal funds. Other appropriations and funds from any
20 public or private source in addition to federal funds may be
21 used by the Department for the purpose of maximum
22 participation in the WIC nutrition program.
23 (b) The Department shall maintain a drug abuse education
24 program for participants in the Women, Infants and Children
25 Nutrition Program. The program shall include but need not be
26 limited to (1) the provision of information concerning the
27 dangers of drug abuse and (2) the referral of participants
28 who are suspected drug abusers to drug abuse clinics,
29 treatment programs, counselors or other drug abuse treatment
30 providers.
31 (c) The Department shall cooperate with the Department
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1 of Public Health for purposes of the smoking cessation
2 program for participants in the Women, Infants and Children
3 Nutrition Program maintained by the Department of Public
4 Health under Section 55.44 of the Civil Administrative Code
5 of Illinois.
6 (d) The Department may contract with any bank as defined
7 by the Illinois Banking Act to redeem bank drafts issued by
8 the Department under the United States Department of
9 Agriculture Special Supplemental Food Program for Women,
10 Infants and Children (WIC). Any bank with which the
11 Department has entered into a contract to redeem bank drafts
12 may receive, pursuant to an appropriation to the Department,
13 an initial advance and periodic payment of funds for the
14 Women, Infants and Children Program in amounts determined by
15 the Secretary. Notwithstanding any other law, such funds
16 shall be retained in a separate account by the bank. Any
17 interest earned by monies in such account shall accrue to the
18 USDA Women, Infants and Children Fund and shall be used
19 exclusively for the redemption of bank drafts issued by the
20 Department. WIC program food funds received by the bank from
21 the Department shall be used exclusively for the redemption
22 of bank drafts. The bank shall not use such food funds, or
23 interest accrued thereon, for any other purpose including,
24 but not limited to, reimbursement of administrative expenses
25 or payments of administrative fees due the bank pursuant to
26 its contract or contracts with the Department.
27 Such initial and periodic payments by the Department to
28 the bank shall be effected, pursuant to an appropriation, in
29 an amount needed for the redemption of bank drafts issued by
30 the Department under the United States Department of
31 Agriculture Special Supplemental Food Program for Women,
32 Infants and Children in any initial or succeeding period.
33 The State Comptroller shall, upon presentation by the
34 Secretary of adequate certification of funds needed for
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1 redemption of bank drafts, promptly draw a warrant payable to
2 the bank for deposit to the separate account of the bank.
3 Such certification may be in magnetic tape or computer output
4 form, indicating the amount of the total payment made by the
5 bank for the redemption of bank drafts from funds provided to
6 the bank under this Section.
7 The separate account of the bank established under this
8 Section, any payments to that account, and the use of such
9 account and funds shall be subject to (1) audit by the
10 Department or a private contractor authorized by the
11 Department to conduct audits, including but not limited to
12 such audits as may be required by State law, (2) audit by the
13 federal government or a private contractor authorized by the
14 federal government, and (3) post audit pursuant to the
15 Illinois State Auditing Act.
16 (e) The Department shall include a program of lactation
17 support services as part of the benefits and services
18 provided for participants in the Women, Infants and Children
19 Nutrition Program. The program shall include payment for
20 breast pumps, breast shields, or any supply deemed essential
21 for the successful maintenance of lactation, as well as
22 lactation specialists who are registered nurses, licensed
23 dietitians, or persons who have successfully completed the
24 lactation management training sponsored by the United States
25 Department of Agriculture Special Supplemental Food Program
26 for Women, Infants and Children.
27 (f) The Department shall coordinate the operation of the
28 Women, Infants and Children program with the Medicaid program
29 by interagency agreement whereby each program provides
30 information about the services offered by the other to
31 applicants for services.
32 (Source: P.A. 89-507, eff. 7-1-97.)