97TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2011 and 2012
HB2856

 

Introduced 2/22/2011, by Rep. Raymond Poe

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
325 ILCS 20/10  from Ch. 23, par. 4160

    Amends the Early Intervention Services System Act. Requires the Department of Human Services, or an entity designated by the Department, to develop and maintain an updated list of all of the State-approved public or private early intervention service providers in each local service area. Provides that the list shall be available on the Department or designated entity's website to allow free access to the list by eligible children and their families. Further provides that the list shall not include any information which would lead to preferential selection of any provider or group of providers over other providers, and that providers may not be included on the list of approved providers if, within the preceding 5 years, the provider has been a service coordinator of a local regional intake entity in a local service area. Effective immediately.


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FISCAL NOTE ACT MAY APPLY

 

 

A BILL FOR

 

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1    AN ACT concerning children.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The Early Intervention Services System Act is
5amended by changing Section 10 as follows:
 
6    (325 ILCS 20/10)  (from Ch. 23, par. 4160)
7    Sec. 10. Standards. The Council and the lead agency, with
8assistance from parents and providers, shall develop and
9promulgate policies and procedures relating to the
10establishment and implementation of program and personnel
11standards to ensure that services provided are consistent with
12any State-approved or recognized certification, licensing,
13registration, or other comparable requirements which apply to
14the area of early intervention program service standards. Only
15State-approved public or private early intervention service
16providers shall be eligible to receive State and federal
17funding for early intervention services. All early childhood
18intervention staff shall hold the highest entry requirement
19necessary for that position.
20    The lead agency, or an entity designated by the lead
21agency, shall develop and maintain an updated list of all of
22the State-approved public or private early intervention
23service providers in each local service area. This list shall

 

 

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1be available on the lead agency or designated entity's website
2and shall also be available in any other manner as determined
3by the lead agency or designated entity to allow free access to
4the list by eligible children and their families. The list
5shall not include any information which would lead to
6preferential selection of any provider or group of providers
7over other providers. Providers may not be included on the list
8of approved providers if, within the preceding 5 years, the
9provider has been a service coordinator of a local regional
10intake entity in a local service area.
11    To be a State-approved early intervention service
12provider, an individual (i) shall not have served or completed,
13within the preceding 5 years, a sentence for conviction of any
14felony that the Department establishes by rule and (ii) shall
15not have been indicated as a perpetrator of child abuse or
16neglect, within the preceding 5 years, in an investigation by
17Illinois (pursuant to the Abused and Neglected Child Reporting
18Act) or another state. The Department is authorized to receive
19criminal background checks for such providers and persons
20applying to be such a provider and to receive child abuse and
21neglect reports regarding indicated perpetrators who are
22applying to provide or currently authorized to provide early
23intervention services in Illinois. Beginning January 1, 2004,
24every provider of State-approved early intervention services
25and every applicant to provide such services must authorize, in
26writing and in the form required by the Department, a criminal

 

 

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1background check and check of child abuse and neglect reports
2regarding the provider or applicant as a condition of
3authorization to provide early intervention services. The
4Department shall use the results of the checks only to
5determine State approval of the early intervention service
6provider and shall not re-release the information except as
7necessary to accomplish that purpose.
8(Source: P.A. 93-147, eff. 1-1-04.)
 
9    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
10becoming law.