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91_SB0663

 
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 1        AN  ACT  to  amend the Community Services Act by changing
 2    Section 4.

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

 5        Section  5.   The  Community  Services  Act is amended by
 6    changing Section 4 as follows:

 7        (405 ILCS 30/4) (from Ch. 91 1/2, par. 904)
 8        Sec. 4.  Financing for Community Services. The Department
 9    of  Human  Services  is  authorized  to   provide   financial
10    assistance    to    eligible   private   service   providers,
11    corporations,  local   government   entities   or   voluntary
12    associations  for  the  provision of services to persons with
13    mental illness, persons with a developmental  disability  and
14    alcohol  and  drug  dependent persons living in the community
15    for the purpose of achieving the goals of this Act.
16        The  Department  shall  utilize  the  following   funding
17    mechanisms for community services:
18             (1)  Purchase  of Care Contracts: services purchased
19        on a predetermined fee per unit  of  service  basis  from
20        private  providers  or  governmental  entities.  Fee  per
21        service  rates  are  set  by an established formula which
22        covers some portion of  personnel,  supplies,  and  other
23        allowable  costs,  and  which  makes  some  allowance for
24        geographic variations in costs as well as for  additional
25        program components.
26             (2)  Grants:  sums  of  money  which  the Department
27        grants to  private  providers  or  governmental  entities
28        pursuant  to  the  grant recipient's agreement to provide
29        certain  services,  as  defined  by  departmental   grant
30        guidelines,   to   an   approximate   number  of  service
31        recipients. Grant levels are set through consideration of
 
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 1        personnel, supply and other allowable costs, as  well  as
 2        other funds available to the program.
 3             (3)  Other  Funding Arrangements: funding mechanisms
 4        may be established on a pilot basis in order  to  examine
 5        the feasibility of alternative financing arrangements for
 6        the provision of community services.
 7        The  Department  shall  establish an average compensation
 8    rate or rates  for  direct  care  employees  to  be  used  in
 9    calculating  its  reimbursement  formulas  for private agency
10    providers.  This rate shall include all  compensable  benefit
11    costs.   The  Department  shall inform providers of this rate
12    within 30 days of the effective date of this  amendatory  Act
13    of  the  91st  General  Assembly  and  on July 1 of each year
14    thereafter.  Providers  shall   assure   that   the   average
15    compensation  for  all  direct  care employees shall be, at a
16    minimum, equal to the rate or rates used in the  Department's
17    formula  for  financing  community services.  Any provider of
18    community services that compensates its employees on  average
19    less  than  the  compensation  rate used in the State formula
20    shall have its financing reduced by  a  percentage  equal  to
21    that percentage by which the State financing rate exceeds the
22    compensation paid to employees.
23        Providers   shall   report   to   the  Department  actual
24    compensation levels  for  employee  categories  used  in  the
25    Department's   formula   for  financing  community  services.
26    Compensation rates shall include salary and benefit costs.
27        The Department shall strive to establish and maintain  an
28    equitable  system  of  payment  which encourages providers to
29    improve their  clients'  capabilities  for  independence  and
30    reduces   their   reliance  on  community  or  State-operated
31    services.  In accepting  Department  funds,  providers  shall
32    recognize  their  responsibility  to  be  accountable  to the
33    Department and the State for the delivery of  services  which
34    are  consistent  with  the philosophies and goals of this Act
 
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 1    and the rules and regulations promulgated under it.
 2    (Source: P.A. 88-380; 89-507, eff. 7-1-97.)

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

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