Public Act 098-0071
 
SB0032 EnrolledLRB098 00252 RLC 30256 b

    AN ACT concerning State government.
 
    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
 
    Section 5. The Mental Health and Developmental
Disabilities Administrative Act is amended by changing Section
18.3 as follows:
 
    (20 ILCS 1705/18.3)
    Sec. 18.3. Integrated system for services for the mentally
ill. The Department shall develop an effective, integrated
system for delivering State-funded and State-operated services
to persons with mental illness. No later than June 30, 1994,
the Department shall enter into one or more cooperative
arrangements with the Department of Public Aid, the Department
of Rehabilitation Services, the Department of Public Health,
and any other appropriate entities for administration or
supervision by the Department of Mental Health and
Developmental Disabilities of all State programs for services
to persons in community care facilities for persons with mental
illness, including but not limited to intermediate care
facilities, that are supported by State funds or by funding
under Title XIX of the federal Social Security Act. The
Department shall form a medical advisory panel, appointed by
the Secretary, comprised of 5 physicians licensed to practice
medicine in all its branches with a special emphasis in
treating mental illness, to provide advice on care rendered to
patients in any integrated delivery system. The Department of
Human Services shall succeed to the responsibilities of the
Department of Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities and
the Department of Rehabilitation Services under any such
cooperative arrangement in existence on July 1, 1997.
(Source: P.A. 88-388; 89-507, eff. 7-1-97.)
 
    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.