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90_HB3286enr
210 ILCS 45/1-113 from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 4151-113
Amends the Nursing Home Care Act to provide that homes,
institutions, or other places operated under the authority of
the Illinois Department of Veterans' Affairs are not excluded
from the definition of long-term care facility.
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1 AN ACT to amend the Nursing Home Care Act by amending
2 Section 1-113.
3 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
4 represented in the General Assembly:
5 Section 5. The Nursing Home Care Act is amended by
6 changing Section 1-113 as follows:
7 (210 ILCS 45/1-113) (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 4151-113)
8 Sec. 1-113. "Facility" or "long-term care facility"
9 means a private home, institution, building, residence, or
10 any other place, whether operated for profit or not, or a
11 county home for the infirm and chronically ill operated
12 pursuant to Division 5-21 or 5-22 of the Counties Code, or
13 any similar institution operated by a political subdivision
14 of the State of Illinois, which provides, through its
15 ownership or management, personal care, sheltered care or
16 nursing for 3 or more persons, not related to the applicant
17 or owner by blood or marriage. It includes skilled nursing
18 facilities and intermediate care facilities as those terms
19 are defined in Title XVIII and Title XIX of the Federal
20 Social Security Act. It also includes homes, institutions, or
21 other places operated by or under the authority of the
22 Illinois Department of Veterans' Affairs.
23 "Facility" does not include the following:
24 (1) A home, institution, or other place operated by the
25 federal government or agency thereof, or by the State of
26 Illinois, other than homes, institutions, or other places
27 operated by or under the authority of the Illinois Department
28 of Veterans' Affairs;
29 (2) A hospital, sanitarium, or other institution whose
30 principal activity or business is the diagnosis, care, and
31 treatment of human illness through the maintenance and
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1 operation as organized facilities therefor, which is required
2 to be licensed under the Hospital Licensing Act;
3 (3) Any "facility for child care" as defined in the
4 Child Care Act of 1969;
5 (4) Any "Community Living Facility" as defined in the
6 Community Living Facilities Licensing Act;
7 (5) Any "community residential alternative" as defined
8 in the Community Residential Alternatives Licensing Act;
9 (6) Any nursing home or sanatorium operated solely by
10 and for persons who rely exclusively upon treatment by
11 spiritual means through prayer, in accordance with the creed
12 or tenets of any well-recognized church or religious
13 denomination. However, such nursing home or sanatorium shall
14 comply with all local laws and rules relating to sanitation
15 and safety;
16 (7) Any facility licensed by the Department of Human
17 Services as a community-integrated living arrangement as
18 defined in the Community-Integrated Living Arrangements
19 Licensure and Certification Act;
20 (8) Any "Supportive Residence" licensed under the
21 Supportive Residences Licensing Act; or
22 (9) Any "supportive living facility" in good standing
23 with the demonstration project established under Section
24 5-5.01a of the Illinois Public Aid Code.
25 (Source: P.A. 89-499, eff. 6-28-96; 89-507, eff. 7-1-97;
26 90-14, eff. 7-1-97.)
27 Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect July
28 1, 1998.