HB3635eng 97TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

HB3635 Engrossed LRB097 07244 KTG 47352 b

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 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 shall not be billed or passed on to any resident of a nursing home operated by the nursing home provider 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.)

Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon becoming law.