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 1                    AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 3069
 2        AMENDMENT NO.     .  Amend House Bill 3069  by  replacing
 3    everything after the enacting clause with the following:
 4        "Section   5.   The   Mental   Health  and  Developmental
 5    Disabilities Administrative Act is amended by adding  Section
 6    31b as follows:
 7        (20 ILCS 1705/31b new)
 8        Sec.   31b.  Individuals   waiting   for  community-based
 9    services.   The  Department  shall   collect   and   maintain
10    information  on  the number of individuals with developmental
11    disabilities who have requested (either themselves or through
12    a parent or guardian) and  are  waiting  for  community-based
13    services  that  are funded through grants from the Department
14    to, and contracts  with  the  Department  and,  local  school
15    districts, individual service coordination organizations, and
16    community   based   organizations.    The  information  shall
17    include, but is not limited to, the following:
18             (1)  The number of  those  individuals  waiting  for
19        community-based  residential  services  such as Community
20        Integrated  Living  Arrangements,  supported  apartments,
21        supported   living,   and    other    community    living
22        arrangements.
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 1             (2)  The  number  of  those  individuals waiting for
 2        services  from  intermediate  care  facilities  for   the
 3        developmentally disabled.
 4             (3)  The  number  of  those  individuals waiting for
 5        services from day and vocational  programs  such  as  day
 6        activity   programs,   adult   day   care,  developmental
 7        training, sheltered workshops, supported employment,  job
 8        placement, and other day programs.
 9             (4)  The  number  of  those  individuals waiting for
10        family   support   services,   respite   care,   personal
11        assistance  services,  case  management  services,  early
12        intervention services, and other services not included in
13        paragraph (3).
14             (5)  The ages of the those individuals  waiting  for
15        services under paragraphs (1), (2), (3), and (4).
16             (6)  The  ages  of  the parents of those individuals
17        waiting for services under paragraphs (1), (2), (3),  and
18        (4).
19             (7)  The  Representative  Districts  in  which those
20        individuals waiting for services live.
21    The information shall be updated annually.   The  information
22    collected  shall  be limited to information about individuals
23    who are eligible for services at the time of request  or  who
24    will  be  eligible to receive services within 12 months after
25    the date services are requested.  The  Department  shall,  on
26    request,  make  the  information  available to other agencies
27    serving persons with developmental disabilities.".

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