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 1                     AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 1

 2        AMENDMENT NO.     .  Amend Senate Bill 1 by replacing the
 3    title with the following:
 4        "AN ACT to amend the Senior Citizens and Disabled Persons
 5    Property Tax Relief  and  Pharmaceutical  Assistance  Act  by
 6    changing Sections 3.15 and 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 3.15 and 4 as follows:

12        (320 ILCS 25/3.15) (from Ch. 67 1/2, par. 403.15)
13        Sec. 3.15.  "Covered prescription  drug"  means  (1)  any
14    cardiovascular  agent  or  drug;  (2)  any  insulin  or other
15    prescription  drug  used  in  the  treatment   of   diabetes,
16    including syringe and needles used to administer the insulin;
17    and  (3)  any  prescription  drug  used  in  the treatment of
18    arthritis. The Department shall annually publish a  formulary
19    listing  the  most  commonly  prescribed  products  that  are
20    covered  by the program The specific agents or products to be
21    included under such categories shall be listed in a  handbook
 
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 1    to  be  prepared   and  distributed  by  the Department.  The
 2    general  types  of  covered  prescription  drugs   shall   be
 3    indicated by rule.
 4    (Source: P.A. 85-1176.)

 5        (320 ILCS 25/4) (from Ch. 67 1/2, par. 404)
 6        Sec. 4.  Amount of Grant.
 7        (a)  In  general. Any individual 65 years or older or any
 8    individual who will become 65 years old during  the  calendar
 9    year  in  which a claim is filed, and any surviving spouse of
10    such a claimant, who at the time of  death  received  or  was
11    entitled  to  receive a grant pursuant to this Section, which
12    surviving spouse will become 65 years of age  within  the  24
13    months  immediately  following the death of such claimant and
14    which surviving spouse but for his or her  age  is  otherwise
15    qualified  to  receive  a grant pursuant to this Section, and
16    any disabled person whose annual  household  income  is  less
17    than  $14,000  for grant years before the 1998 grant year and
18    less than $16,000 for the 1998 grant year and thereafter  and
19    whose  household  is  liable  for  payment  of property taxes
20    accrued or has paid rent constituting property taxes  accrued
21    and is domiciled in this State at the time he files his claim
22    is  entitled to claim a grant under this Act. With respect to
23    claims filed by individuals who  will  become  65  years  old
24    during  the  calendar  year  in  which  a claim is filed, the
25    amount of any grant to which that household is entitled shall
26    be an amount equal  to  1/12  of  the  amount  to  which  the
27    claimant  would  otherwise  be  entitled  as provided in this
28    Section, multiplied by the number  of  months  in  which  the
29    claimant  was  65  in the calendar year in which the claim is
30    filed.
31        (b)  Limitation.   Except  as   otherwise   provided   in
32    subsections  (a)  and (f) of this Section, the maximum amount
33    of grant which a claimant is entitled to claim is the  amount
 
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 1    by  which  the  property  taxes  accrued  which  were paid or
 2    payable  during  the  last  preceding  tax   year   or   rent
 3    constituting  property  taxes  accrued  upon  the  claimant's
 4    residence  for the last preceding taxable year exceeds 3 1/2%
 5    of the claimant's household income for that year  but  in  no
 6    event  is the grant to exceed (i) $700 less 4.5% of household
 7    income for that year for those with  a  household  income  of
 8    $14,000 or less or (ii) $70 if household income for that year
 9    is more than $14,000 but less than $16,000.
10        (c)  Public  aid  recipients.  If household income in one
11    or more months during a  year  includes  cash  assistance  in
12    excess  of $55 per month from the Department of Public Aid or
13    the Department of Human Services (acting as successor to  the
14    Department  of  Public  Aid  under  the  Department  of Human
15    Services Act)  which was determined under regulations of that
16    Department on a measure of need that  included  an  allowance
17    for  actual  rent  or property taxes paid by the recipient of
18    that assistance, the amount of grant to which that  household
19    is  entitled, except as otherwise provided in subsection (a),
20    shall be the product of (1) the maximum  amount  computed  as
21    specified in subsection (b) of this Section and (2) the ratio
22    of  the  number  of  months in which household income did not
23    include such cash assistance over $55 to the  number  twelve.
24    If household income did not include such cash assistance over
25    $55  for  any months during the year, the amount of the grant
26    to which the household  is  entitled  shall  be  the  maximum
27    amount  computed  as  specified  in  subsection  (b)  of this
28    Section.   For  purposes  of  this   paragraph   (c),   "cash
29    assistance"  does  not  include any amount received under the
30    federal Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program.
31        (d)  Joint ownership.  If title to the residence is  held
32    jointly  by the claimant with a person who is not a member of
33    his household, the amount of property taxes accrued  used  in
34    computing  the  amount of grant to which he is entitled shall
 
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 1    be the same percentage of property taxes accrued  as  is  the
 2    percentage   of   ownership  held  by  the  claimant  in  the
 3    residence.
 4        (e)  More than one residence.  If a claimant has occupied
 5    more than one residence in the taxable  year,  he  may  claim
 6    only  one  residence for any part of a month.  In the case of
 7    property taxes accrued, he shall pro rate 1/12 of  the  total
 8    property taxes accrued on his residence to each month that he
 9    owned  and  occupied that residence; and, in the case of rent
10    constituting property taxes  accrued,  shall  pro  rate  each
11    month's  rent  payments  to  the  residence actually occupied
12    during that month.
13        (f)  There   is   hereby   established   a   program   of
14    pharmaceutical assistance to  the  aged  and  disabled  which
15    shall  be  administered  by the Department in accordance with
16    this Act, to consist of payments to authorized pharmacies, on
17    behalf of beneficiaries of the program,  for  the  reasonable
18    costs  of  covered  prescription drugs.  Each beneficiary who
19    pays $40 for an identification card shall pay the  first  $15
20    of  prescription costs each month.  Each beneficiary who pays
21    $80 for an identification card shall pay  the  first  $25  of
22    prescription   costs   each  month.   In  addition,  after  a
23    beneficiary receives $800 in benefits during a  State  fiscal
24    year,  that beneficiary shall also be charged 20% of the cost
25    of each prescription for  which  payments  are  made  by  the
26    program during the remainder of the fiscal year.  To become a
27    beneficiary  under  this program a person must be: (1) (i) be
28    65 years or older on January 1 of the calendar year in  which
29    a  claim  is filed or become 65 years old during the calendar
30    year in which a claim is filed,  or  (ii)  be  the  surviving
31    spouse  of such a claimant, who at the time of death received
32    or  was  entitled  to  receive  benefits  pursuant  to   this
33    subsection,  which  surviving  spouse will become 65 years of
34    age within the 24 months immediately following the  death  of
 
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 1    such  claimant  and which surviving spouse but for his or her
 2    age is otherwise qualified to receive  benefits  pursuant  to
 3    this  subsection,  or  (iii)  be  disabled,  and  (2)  be  is
 4    domiciled  in  this  State  at  the  time he files his or her
 5    claim, and (3) have has a maximum household  income  of  less
 6    than  $14,000  for grant years before the 1998 grant year and
 7    less than $16,000 for the 1998 grant year and thereafter.  In
 8    addition,   each   eligible   person   must   (1)  obtain  an
 9    identification card from the Department, (2) at the time  the
10    card  is obtained, sign a statement assigning to the State of
11    Illinois benefits which may be otherwise  claimed  under  any
12    private  insurance plans, (3) present the identification card
13    to the dispensing pharmacist.
14        Any  person   otherwise   eligible   for   pharmaceutical
15    assistance  under this Act whose covered drugs are covered by
16    any public program for assistance in purchasing  any  covered
17    prescription  drugs  shall be ineligible for assistance under
18    this Act to the extent such costs are covered by  such  other
19    plan.
20        The   fee  to  be  charged  by  the  Department  for  the
21    identification card shall be equal to $40 for  persons  below
22    the  official  poverty  line  as defined by the United States
23    Department of Health and Human Services and $80 for all other
24    persons.
25        In the event that 2 or more persons are eligible for  any
26    benefit   under  this  Act,  and  are  members  of  the  same
27    household,  (1)  each  such  person  shall  be  entitled   to
28    participate   in   the   pharmaceutical  assistance  program,
29    provided that he or she meets all other requirements  imposed
30    by  this  subsection  and  (2)  each  participating household
31    member contributes the fee required for that  person  by  the
32    preceding   paragraph   for   the  purpose  of  obtaining  an
33    identification card.  Persons eligible for any benefit  under
34    this  Act  due  to  become  65  in  calendar year 1984 or any
 
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 1    subsequent calendar year  in  which  a  claim  is  filed  are
 2    excluded  from  the benefit prescribed in this subsection (g)
 3    for the calendar year in which they become 65.
 4    (Source: P.A. 89-507,  eff.  7-1-97;  90-650,  eff.  7-27-98;
 5    revised 11-18-98.)".

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