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1    AN ACT concerning regulation.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The Community-Integrated Living Arrangements
5Licensure and Certification Act is amended by changing Section
610 as follows:
 
7    (210 ILCS 135/10)  (from Ch. 91 1/2, par. 1710)
8    Sec. 10. Community integration State plan.
9    (a) Community-integrated living arrangements shall be
10located so as to enable residents to participate in and be
11integrated into their community or neighborhood. The location
12of such arrangements shall promote community integration of
13persons with mental disabilities. The Department shall adopt a
14plan ("State plan") for the distribution of community living
15arrangements throughout the State, considering the need for
16such arrangements in the various locations in which they are to
17be used. Each agency licensed under this Act must define the
18process of obtaining community acceptance of community living
19arrangements. The State plan shall include guidelines
20regarding the location of community-integrated living
21arrangements within the geographic areas to be served by the
22agencies, and the availability of support services within those
23areas for residents under such arrangements. The Department

 

 

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1shall promulgate such guidelines as rules pursuant to the
2Illinois Administrative Procedure Act.
3    The Department shall require any agency licensed under this
4Act to establish procedures for assuring compliance with such
5criteria, including annual review and comment by
6representatives of local governmental authorities, community
7mental health and developmental disabilities planning and
8service agencies, and other interested civil organizations,
9regarding the impact on their community areas of any living
10arrangements, programs or services to be certified by such
11agency. The Department shall give consideration to the comments
12of such community representatives in determinations of
13compliance with the State plan under this Section, and the
14Department may modify, suspend or withhold funding of such
15programs and services subject to this Act until such times as
16assurance is achieved.
17    (b) Beginning January 1, 1990, no Department of State
18government, as defined in the Civil Administrative Code of
19Illinois, shall place any person in or utilize any services of
20a community-integrated living arrangement which is not
21certified by an agency under this Act.
22(Source: P.A. 98-463, eff. 8-16-13.)
 
23    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
24becoming law.