98TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2013 and 2014
HB4300

 

Introduced , by Rep. Robert F. Martwick

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
305 ILCS 5/5B-2  from Ch. 23, par. 5B-2

    Amends the Long-Term Care Provider Funding Article of the Illinois Public Aid Code. Provides that beginning July 1, 2014 an additional assessment is imposed upon each long-term care provider in an amount equal to $1.00 times the number of occupied bed days due and payable each month, which shall be deposited into the Long Term Care Ombudsman Fund. Provides that these assessments shall each be construed as a tax, but shall not be billed or passed on to any resident of a nursing home operated by the nursing home provider (rather than this assessment shall be construed as a tax, but shall not be billed or passed on to any resident of a nursing home operated by the nursing home provider). Effective immediately.


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FISCAL NOTE ACT MAY APPLY

 

 

A BILL FOR

 

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1    AN ACT concerning public aid.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The Illinois Public Aid Code is amended by
5changing Section 5B-2 as follows:
 
6    (305 ILCS 5/5B-2)  (from Ch. 23, par. 5B-2)
7    Sec. 5B-2. Assessment; no local authorization to tax.
8    (a) For the privilege of engaging in the occupation of
9long-term care provider, beginning July 1, 2011 an assessment
10is imposed upon each long-term care provider in an amount equal
11to $6.07 times the number of occupied bed days due and payable
12each month. Beginning July 1, 2014 an additional assessment is
13imposed upon each long-term care provider in an amount equal to
14$1.00 times the number of occupied bed days due and payable
15each month, which shall be deposited into the Long Term Care
16Ombudsman Fund. Notwithstanding any provision of any other Act
17to the contrary, these assessments this assessment shall each
18be construed as a tax, but shall not be billed or passed on to
19any resident of a nursing home operated by the nursing home
20provider.
21    (b) Nothing in this amendatory Act of 1992 shall be
22construed to authorize any home rule unit or other unit of
23local government to license for revenue or impose a tax or

 

 

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1assessment upon long-term care providers or the occupation of
2long-term care provider, or a tax or assessment measured by the
3income or earnings or occupied bed days of a long-term care
4provider.
5    (c) The assessment imposed by this Section shall not be due
6and payable, however, until after the Department notifies the
7long-term care providers, in writing, that the payment
8methodologies to long-term care providers required under
9Section 5-5.4 of this Code have been approved by the Centers
10for Medicare and Medicaid Services of the U.S. Department of
11Health and Human Services and the waivers under 42 CFR 433.68
12for the assessment imposed by this Section, if necessary, have
13been granted by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
14of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
15(Source: P.A. 96-1530, eff. 2-16-11; 97-10, eff. 6-14-11;
1697-584, eff. 8-26-11.)
 
17    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
18becoming law.