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91_SB0001

 
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 1        AN ACT to amend the Senior Citizens and Disabled  Persons
 2    Property  Tax  Relief  and  Pharmaceutical  Assistance Act by
 3    changing Section 9.

 4        Be it enacted by the People of  the  State  of  Illinois,
 5    represented in the General Assembly:

 6        Section  5.   The  Senior  Citizens  and Disabled Persons
 7    Property Tax Relief  and  Pharmaceutical  Assistance  Act  is
 8    amended by changing Section 9 as follows:

 9        (320 ILCS 25/9) (from Ch. 67 1/2, par. 409)
10        Sec.  9.   Any  person who files a fraudulent claim for a
11    grant under this Act, or  who  for  compensation  prepares  a
12    claim for a grant and knowingly enters false information on a
13    claim   form   for  any  claimant  under  this  Act,  or  who
14    fraudulently files multiple claim forms, or who  fraudulently
15    states   that  a  nondisabled  person  is  disabled,  or  who
16    fraudulently    procures    a    pharmaceutical    assistance
17    identification card, or who fraudulently uses the  such  card
18    to  procure  covered prescription drugs, or who, on behalf of
19    an authorized pharmacy, files a fraudulent claim for payment,
20    is guilty of a Class 4 felony for the first  offense  and  is
21    guilty  of  a Class 3 felony for each subsequent offense. The
22    Department  shall  immediately  suspend  the   use   of   the
23    pharmaceutical  assistance  identification card of any person
24    suspected of fraudulent procurement or fraudulent use of  the
25    such  card, and shall revoke the such card upon a conviction.
26    A person convicted of such fraud shall be permanently  barred
27    from  the  program  of  pharmaceutical assistance established
28    under this Act. The Department may recover from  a  claimant,
29    including  an authorized pharmacy, any amount paid under this
30    Act on account of an erroneous or fraudulent claim,  together
31    with  6%  interest per year. A prosecution for a violation of
 
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 1    this Section may be commenced at any time within 3  years  of
 2    the commission of that violation.
 3    (Source: P.A. 85-299.)

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