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1 AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 1267
2 AMENDMENT NO. . Amend Senate Bill 1267, AS AMENDED,
3 by replacing the title with the following:
4 "AN ACT to amend the Senior Citizen and Disabled Persons
5 Property Tax Relief and Pharmaceutical Assistance Act by
6 changing Section 4."; and
7 by replacing everything after the enacting clause with the
8 following:
9 "Section 5. The Senior Citizens and Disabled Persons
10 Property Tax Relief and Pharmaceutical Assistance Act is
11 amended by changing Section 4 as follows:
12 (320 ILCS 25/4) (from Ch. 67 1/2, par. 404)
13 Sec. 4. Amount of Grant.
14 (a) In general. Any individual 65 years or older or any
15 individual who will become 65 years old during the calendar
16 year in which a claim is filed, and any surviving spouse of
17 such a claimant, who at the time of death received or was
18 entitled to receive a grant pursuant to this Section, which
19 surviving spouse will become 65 years of age within the 24
20 months immediately following the death of such claimant and
21 which surviving spouse but for his or her age is otherwise
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1 qualified to receive a grant pursuant to this Section, and
2 any disabled person whose annual household income is less
3 than $14,000 for grant years before the 1998 grant year and
4 less than $16,000 for the 1998 grant year and thereafter and
5 whose household is liable for payment of property taxes
6 accrued or has paid rent constituting property taxes accrued
7 and is domiciled in this State at the time he files his claim
8 is entitled to claim a grant under this Act. With respect to
9 claims filed by individuals who will become 65 years old
10 during the calendar year in which a claim is filed, the
11 amount of any grant to which that household is entitled shall
12 be an amount equal to 1/12 of the amount to which the
13 claimant would otherwise be entitled as provided in this
14 Section, multiplied by the number of months in which the
15 claimant was 65 in the calendar year in which the claim is
16 filed.
17 (b) Limitation. Except as otherwise provided in
18 subsections (a) and (f) of this Section, the maximum amount
19 of grant which a claimant is entitled to claim is the amount
20 by which the property taxes accrued which were paid or
21 payable during the last preceding tax year or rent
22 constituting property taxes accrued upon the claimant's
23 residence for the last preceding taxable year exceeds 3 1/2%
24 of the claimant's household income for that year but in no
25 event is the grant to exceed (i) $700 less 4.5% of household
26 income for that year for those with a household income of
27 $14,000 or less or (ii) $70 if household income for that year
28 is more than $14,000 but less than $16,000.
29 (c) Public aid recipients. If household income in one
30 or more months during a year includes cash assistance in
31 excess of $55 per month from the Department of Public Aid or
32 the Department of Human Services (acting as successor to the
33 Department of Public Aid under the Department of Human
34 Services Act) which was determined under regulations of that
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1 Department on a measure of need that included an allowance
2 for actual rent or property taxes paid by the recipient of
3 that assistance, the amount of grant to which that household
4 is entitled, except as otherwise provided in subsection (a),
5 shall be the product of (1) the maximum amount computed as
6 specified in subsection (b) of this Section and (2) the ratio
7 of the number of months in which household income did not
8 include such cash assistance over $55 to the number twelve.
9 If household income did not include such cash assistance over
10 $55 for any months during the year, the amount of the grant
11 to which the household is entitled shall be the maximum
12 amount computed as specified in subsection (b) of this
13 Section. For purposes of this paragraph (c), "cash
14 assistance" does not include any amount received under the
15 federal Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program.
16 (d) Joint ownership. If title to the residence is held
17 jointly by the claimant with a person who is not a member of
18 his household, the amount of property taxes accrued used in
19 computing the amount of grant to which he is entitled shall
20 be the same percentage of property taxes accrued as is the
21 percentage of ownership held by the claimant in the
22 residence.
23 (e) More than one residence. If a claimant has occupied
24 more than one residence in the taxable year, he may claim
25 only one residence for any part of a month. In the case of
26 property taxes accrued, he shall pro rate 1/12 of the total
27 property taxes accrued on his residence to each month that he
28 owned and occupied that residence; and, in the case of rent
29 constituting property taxes accrued, shall pro rate each
30 month's rent payments to the residence actually occupied
31 during that month.
32 (f) There is hereby established a program of
33 pharmaceutical assistance to the aged and disabled which
34 shall be administered by the Department in accordance with
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1 this Act, to consist of payments to authorized pharmacies, on
2 behalf of beneficiaries of the program, for the reasonable
3 costs of covered prescription drugs. Each beneficiary who
4 pays $40 for an identification card shall pay the first $15
5 of prescription costs each month. Each beneficiary who pays
6 $80 for an identification card shall pay the first $25 of
7 prescription costs each month. In addition, after a
8 beneficiary receives $800 in benefits during a State fiscal
9 year, that beneficiary shall also be charged 20% of the cost
10 of each prescription for which payments are made by the
11 program during the remainder of the fiscal year. To become a
12 beneficiary under this program a person must be: (1) (i) 65
13 years or older, or (ii) the surviving spouse of such a
14 claimant, who at the time of death received or was entitled
15 to receive benefits pursuant to this subsection, which
16 surviving spouse will become 65 years of age within the 24
17 months immediately following the death of such claimant and
18 which surviving spouse but for his or her age is otherwise
19 qualified to receive benefits pursuant to this subsection, or
20 (iii) disabled, and (2) is domiciled in this State at the
21 time he files his or her claim, and (3) has a maximum
22 household income of less than $14,000 for grant years before
23 the 1998 grant year and less than $16,000 for the 1998 grant
24 year and thereafter. In addition, each eligible person must
25 (1) obtain an identification card from the Department, (2) at
26 the time the card is obtained, sign a statement assigning to
27 the State of Illinois benefits which may be otherwise claimed
28 under any private insurance plans, (3) present the
29 identification card to the dispensing pharmacist.
30 Any person otherwise eligible for pharmaceutical
31 assistance under this Act whose covered drugs are covered by
32 any public program for assistance in purchasing any covered
33 prescription drugs shall be ineligible for assistance under
34 this Act to the extent such costs are covered by such other
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1 plan.
2 The fee to be charged by the Department for the
3 identification card shall be equal to $40 for persons below
4 the official poverty line as defined by the United States
5 Department of Health and Human Services and $80 for all other
6 persons.
7 In the event that 2 or more persons are eligible for any
8 benefit under this Act, and are members of the same
9 household, (1) each such person shall be entitled to
10 participate in the pharmaceutical assistance program,
11 provided that he or she meets all other requirements imposed
12 by this subsection and (2) each participating household
13 member contributes the fee required for that person by the
14 preceding paragraph for the purpose of obtaining an
15 identification card. Persons eligible for any benefit under
16 this Act due to become 65 in calendar year 1984 or any
17 subsequent calendar year in which a claim is filed are
18 excluded from the benefit prescribed in this subsection (g)
19 for the calendar year in which they become 65.
20 (Source: P.A. 88-45; 89-507, eff. 7-1-97.)
21 Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
22 becoming law.".