BROSNAHAN-FLOWERS-RYAN-DAVIS,MONIQUE-JONES,SHIRLEY, COLLINS, MCGUIRE AND YARBROUGH. 20 ILCS 105/4.02 from Ch. 23, par. 6104.02 20 ILCS 1705/50 from Ch. 91 1/2, par. 100-50 305 ILCS 5/5-5d new Amends the Illinois Act on the Aging, the Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Administrative Act, and the Illinois Public Aid Code. With respect to provisions for home and community-based services as an alternative to institutional care, provides that the eligibility standards for those services must include a provision that if eligibility for a particular home or community-based service is based on a person's functional need, every person with a similar functional need is eligible for that service, regardless of the person's age or the nature of the person's disability. Requires the Department on Aging, the Department of Human Services, and the Department of Public Aid to ensure that persons who may be or may become eligible for home or community-based services are notified of their right to receive those services; requires those departments to take other measures. Requires the departments to cooperate in developing transition teams to assist persons in making the transition from institutional care to home or community-based care and to perform other functions. Effective immediately. FISCAL NOTE (Department on Aging) Estimated total initial cost is $41,095,846: Maintenance Home Health $14,722,555 Home-Delivered Meals $ 1,635,582 Home Remodeling $ 694,057 Respite $ 152,327 Equipment and Home Remodeling $ 559,053 Emergency Home Response $ 651,617 Diagnostic Services $ 44,206 De-institutionalization $ 1,272,154 Community Care Program $21,364,296 JAN-23-2001 H FILED WITH CLERK JAN-30-2001 H FIRST READING JAN-30-2001 H REFERRED TO HOUSE RULES COMMITTEE RULES JAN-31-2001 H ASSIGNED TO COMMITTEE HUMAN SERVS FEB-06-2001 H FISCAL NOTE FILED FEB-06-2001 H COMMITTEE HUMAN SERVS FEB-06-2001 H RE-ASSIGNED TO COMMITTEE DISABLED COMM FEB-07-2001 H ADDED AS A CO-SPONSOR FEIGENHOLTZ FEB-08-2001 H ADDED AS A JOINT SPONSOR RYAN FEB-09-2001 H ADDED AS A JOINT SPONSOR DAVIS,MONIQUE FEB-09-2001 H ADDED AS A JOINT SPONSOR JONES,SHIRLEY FEB-09-2001 H ADDED AS A CO-SPONSOR COLLINS FEB-23-2001 H ADDED AS A CO-SPONSOR MCGUIRE FEB-28-2001 H PRIMARY SPONSOR CHANGED TO BROSNAHAN FEB-28-2001 H ADDED AS A JOINT SPONSOR FLOWERS MAR-07-2001 H ADDED AS A CO-SPONSOR YARBROUGH MAR-16-2001 H RE-REFERRED TO RULES COMM/RULE 19(A) RULES HRUL JAN-07-2003 H SESSION SINE DIE END OF INQUIRY Full Text Bill Summary