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90_HB1298
20 ILCS 105/8.07 new
Amends the Illinois Act on the Aging. Provides that the
Department on Aging and the Department of Public Aid shall
have a joint committee, appointed by the Governor, to
establish a process to shift the long term care system from
institutions to the home and community. Provides that the
committee shall submit a report of its findings to the
Governor and General Assembly by January 1, 1999. Effective
immediately.
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1 AN ACT to amend the Illinois Act on the Aging by adding
2 Section 8.07.
3 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
4 represented in the General Assembly:
5 Section 5. The Illinois Act on the Aging is amended by
6 adding Section 8.07 as follows:
7 (20 ILCS 105/8.07 new)
8 Sec. 8.07. Home and Community Based Care Transition
9 Planning Committee.
10 (a) The General Assembly finds that:
11 (1) Independence, dignity, privacy, autonomy, and
12 the appreciation of individuality are essential elements
13 in the maintenance of the health and vitality of
14 individuals in any system of long term care.
15 (2) To keep individuals alive, healthy, and in full
16 partnership with their families, friends, and
17 communities, long term care services for eligible
18 individuals must be of a quality that features
19 integrated, accessible, and responsible services and
20 services that are fully available in home and community
21 settings.
22 (3) Individuals must have free choice in planning
23 and managing their care to optimize the responsiveness
24 and cost effectiveness of long term care service.
25 (4) Access to a full array of long term care
26 service options is needed for individuals to have care
27 that is appropriate for their needs and to enable case
28 managers to have cost effective alternatives available in
29 the construction of care plans and in the delivery of
30 services.
31 (5) Long term care services include, but are not
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1 limited to, home care, community based services, assisted
2 living, congregate care, adult foster care, and
3 institutional care.
4 (6) Maintaining an individual's dignity and
5 self-reliance without exception is necessary to protect
6 the fiscal interests of taxpayers and the State.
7 (7) An individual's independence and rights as a
8 citizen must not be diminished through the provision of
9 long term care.
10 (8) It is in the best interest of the State of
11 Illinois and its citizens that Illinois' long term care
12 system be based on provision of home and community based
13 care or other specified services whenever eligible
14 individuals want and need those services to reduce the
15 State's reliance on institutional care.
16 (b) A joint committee of the Department on Aging's
17 Community Care Program Advisory Committee and the Department
18 of Public Aid's Long Term Care Advisory subcommittee of the
19 Medicaid Advisory Committee shall be established with 6
20 representatives appointed by the Governor from each committee
21 by October 1, 1997.
22 (1) Staffing of the committee shall be provided
23 jointly by the Department on Aging and Department of
24 Public Aid.
25 (2) The Committee shall establish a process based
26 on the findings of the General Assembly to shift the
27 current long term care system from being based on the
28 provision of institutional care to one based on the
29 provision of home and community based care.
30 (3) The committee shall file a report of its
31 findings with the Governor and the General Assembly by
32 January 1, 1999.
33 Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
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1 becoming law.