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 1        AN ACT in relation to mental health.

 2        Be it enacted by the People of  the  State  of  Illinois,
 3    represented in the General Assembly:

 4        Section  5.  The Community-Integrated Living Arrangements
 5    Licensure  and  Certification  Act  is  amended  by  changing
 6    Section 3 as follows:

 7        (210 ILCS 135/3) (from Ch. 91 1/2, par. 1703)
 8        Sec. 3.  As used in this Act, unless the context requires
 9    otherwise:
10        (a)  "Applicant"  means  a  person,  group  of   persons,
11    association,  partnership  or  corporation that applies for a
12    license  as  a  community  mental  health  or   developmental
13    services agency under this Act.
14        (b)  "Community  mental  health or developmental services
15    agency"  or  "agency"  means  a  public  or  private  agency,
16    association, partnership, corporation or organization  which,
17    pursuant  to  this Act, certifies community-integrated living
18    arrangements for persons with mental illness or persons  with
19    a developmental disability.
20        (c)  "Department"  means the Department of Human Services
21    (as  successor  to  the  Department  of  Mental  Health   and
22    Developmental Disabilities).
23        (d)  "Community-integrated  living  arrangement"  means a
24    living arrangement certified by a community mental health  or
25    developmental services agency under this Act where 8 or fewer
26    recipients   with   mental   illness  or  recipients  with  a
27    developmental disability who reside under the supervision  of
28    the   agency.   Examples   of   community  integrated  living
29    arrangements include but are not limited to the following:
30             (1)  "Adult foster care", a living  arrangement  for
31        recipients  in  residences of families unrelated to them,
 
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 1        for  the  purpose  of  providing  family  care  for   the
 2        recipients on a full-time basis;
 3             (2)  "Assisted  residential  care",  an  independent
 4        living  arrangement  where  recipients are intermittently
 5        supervised by off-site staff;
 6             (3)  "Crisis residential care", a non-medical living
 7        arrangement where  recipients  in  need  of  non-medical,
 8        crisis  services are supervised by on-site staff 24 hours
 9        a day;
10             (4)  "Home individual programs", living arrangements
11        for 2 unrelated adults outside the family home;
12             (5)  "Supported   residential   care",   a    living
13        arrangement  where  recipients  are supervised by on-site
14        staff and such supervision is provided less than 24 hours
15        a day; and
16             (6)  "Community   residential   alternatives",    as
17        defined   in   the   Community  Residential  Alternatives
18        Licensing Act; and.
19             (7)  "Special  needs   trust-supported   residential
20        care",   a   living   arrangement  where  recipients  are
21        supervised by  on-site  staff  and  that  supervision  is
22        provided  24  hours  per  day or less, as dictated by the
23        needs  of  the  recipients,  and  determined  by  service
24        providers. As used  in  this  item  (7),  "special  needs
25        trust"  means  a  trust  for  the  benefit  of a disabled
26        beneficiary as described in Section 15.1  of  the  Trusts
27        and Trustees Act.
28        (e)  "Recipient"  means  a  person  who  has received, is
29    receiving, or is in need  of  treatment  or  habilitation  as
30    those   terms   are   defined   in   the  Mental  Health  and
31    Developmental Disabilities Code.
32        (f)  "Unrelated" means that persons residing together  in
33    programs or placements certified by a community mental health
34    or  developmental  services agency under this Act do not have
 
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 1    any of the following  relationships  by  blood,  marriage  or
 2    adoption:    parent,    son,   daughter,   brother,   sister,
 3    grandparent, uncle, aunt, nephew, niece,  great  grandparent,
 4    great  uncle,  great  aunt, stepbrother, stepsister, stepson,
 5    stepdaughter, stepparent or first cousin.
 6    (Source: P.A. 88-380; 89-507, eff. 7-1-97.)