SB0784 97TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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97TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2011 and 2012
SB0784

Introduced 2/8/2011, by Sen. John J. Cullerton

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

305 ILCS 5/5B-2

from Ch. 23, par. 5B-2

Amends the Illinois Public Aid Code. Makes technical changes in a Section concerning long-term care provider assessments.

A BILL FOR

AN ACT concerning public aid.

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

Section 5. The Illinois Public Aid Code is amended by changing Section 5B-2 as follows:

(305 ILCS 5/5B-2) (from Ch. 23, par. 5B-2)

Sec. 5B-2. Assessment; no local authorization to tax.

(a) For the the privilege of engaging in the occupation of long-term care provider, an assessment is imposed upon each long-term care provider for the State fiscal year beginning on July 1, 1992 and ending on June 30, 1993, in an amount equal to $6.30 times the number of occupied bed days for the most recent calendar year ending before the beginning of that State fiscal year. Notwithstanding any provision of any other Act to the contrary, this assessment shall be construed as a tax, but may not be added to the charges of an individual's nursing home care that is paid for in whole, or in part, by a federal, State, or combined federal-state medical care program, except those individuals receiving Medicare Part B benefits solely.

(b) Nothing in this amendatory Act of 1992 shall be construed to authorize any home rule unit or other unit of local government to license for revenue or impose a tax or assessment upon long-term care providers or the occupation of long-term care provider, or a tax or assessment measured by the income or earnings or occupied bed days of a long-term care provider.

(Source: P.A. 87-861.)