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                                     LRB093 08523 DRJ 13036 a

 1                    AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 809

 2        AMENDMENT NO.     .  Amend Senate Bill 809  by  replacing
 3    everything after the enacting clause with the following:

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