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Public Act 0003 96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY



 


 
Public Act 096-0003
 
HB1027 Enrolled LRB096 10844 RCE 21073 b

    AN ACT concerning finance.
 
    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
 
    Section 1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the
Interfund Borrowing Act of 2009.
 
    Section 5. Interfund transfers.
    (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of State law to the
contrary, on the effective date of this Act, or as soon
thereafter as practical, for the purpose of making hospital
access payments as set forth in the Title XIX State plan
amendments 08-06 and 08-07 submitted by the Department of
Healthcare and Family Services and approved by the Center for
Medicaid and State Operations as required in 305 ILCS
5/5A-12.2, the State Comptroller shall direct and the State
Treasurer shall transfer amounts into the Hospital Provider
Fund from the designated funds not exceeding the following
totals:
 
    General Obligation Bond Retirement
        and Interest Fund........................$335,000,000
    State Employees' Retirement System Fund......$175,000,000
 
    (b) On and after the effective date of this Act of the 96th
General Assembly through April 14, 2009, if either the General
Obligation Bond Retirement and Interest Fund or the State
Employees' Retirement System Fund has insufficient cash from
which the State Comptroller may make expenditures properly
supported by appropriations from the fund, then the State
Treasurer and State Comptroller shall transfer from the General
Revenue Fund to the fund only such amount as is immediately
necessary to satisfy outstanding expenditure obligations on a
timely basis, subject to the provisions of the State Prompt
Payment Act. All or a portion of the amounts transferred from
the General Revenue Fund to a fund pursuant to this subsection
(b) from time to time may be re-transferred by the State
Comptroller and the State Treasurer from the receiving fund
into the General Revenue Fund as soon as and to the extent that
deposits are made into or receipts are collected by the
receiving fund.
    (c) As soon as practical upon receipt of assessment
payments to the Hospital Provider Fund pursuant to 305 ILCS
5/5A-2 and 5/5A-4, but under no circumstance later than April
14, 2009, any amounts transferred to the Hospital Provider Fund
under the authority of this Section shall be transferred back
and receipted by the specific fund of origin, with the General
Obligation Bond Retirement and Interest Fund first being repaid
in full. These transfers back to the funds of origin shall be
made and receipted notwithstanding any other State law to the
contrary. If, as of April 14, 2009, there is insufficient money
in the Hospital Provider Fund to make the transfers as provided
in this Section, then those transfers shall instead be made
from the General Revenue Fund. Transfers must be made from the
Hospital Provider Fund to the General Revenue Fund to replace
any such transfers made as soon as there is sufficient money in
the Hospital Provider Fund to do so.
 
    Section 10. Interest payable to the General Obligation Bond
Retirement and Interest Fund and the State Employees'
Retirement System Fund. As soon as practical after all amounts
initially transferred from the General Obligation Bond
Retirement and Interest Fund and the State Employees'
Retirement System Fund have been transferred back pursuant to
Section 5 of this Act, the State Treasurer shall calculate the
amounts of interest that would have accrued to both the General
Obligation Bond Retirement and Interest Fund and the State
Employees' Retirement System Fund if those transfers had not
occurred and transfer those amounts from the Hospital Provider
Fund to the General Obligation Bond Retirement and Interest
Fund and the State Employees' Retirement System Fund.
 
    Section 15. Prohibition on payments to contractors. No fees
or expenses shall be paid by the State to any contractual legal
counsel, financial advisor, or other consultant or contractor
in relation to the actions authorized pursuant to this Act.
 
    Section 90. The Illinois Public Aid Code is amended by
changing Section 5A-8 as follows:
 
    (305 ILCS 5/5A-8)  (from Ch. 23, par. 5A-8)
    Sec. 5A-8. Hospital Provider Fund.
    (a) There is created in the State Treasury the Hospital
Provider Fund. Interest earned by the Fund shall be credited to
the Fund. The Fund shall not be used to replace any moneys
appropriated to the Medicaid program by the General Assembly.
    (b) The Fund is created for the purpose of receiving moneys
in accordance with Section 5A-6 and disbursing moneys only for
the following purposes, notwithstanding any other provision of
law:
        (1) For making payments to hospitals as required under
    Articles V, VI, and XIV of this Code, under the Children's
    Health Insurance Program Act, and under the Covering ALL
    KIDS Health Insurance Act.
        (2) For the reimbursement of moneys collected by the
    Illinois Department from hospitals or hospital providers
    through error or mistake in performing the activities
    authorized under this Article and Article V of this Code.
        (3) For payment of administrative expenses incurred by
    the Illinois Department or its agent in performing the
    activities authorized by this Article.
        (4) For payments of any amounts which are reimbursable
    to the federal government for payments from this Fund which
    are required to be paid by State warrant.
        (5) For making transfers, as those transfers are
    authorized in the proceedings authorizing debt under the
    Short Term Borrowing Act, but transfers made under this
    paragraph (5) shall not exceed the principal amount of debt
    issued in anticipation of the receipt by the State of
    moneys to be deposited into the Fund.
        (6) For making transfers to any other fund in the State
    treasury, but transfers made under this paragraph (6) shall
    not exceed the amount transferred previously from that
    other fund into the Hospital Provider Fund.
        (7) For State fiscal years 2004 and 2005 for making
    transfers to the Health and Human Services Medicaid Trust
    Fund, including 20% of the moneys received from hospital
    providers under Section 5A-4 and transferred into the
    Hospital Provider Fund under Section 5A-6. For State fiscal
    year 2006 for making transfers to the Health and Human
    Services Medicaid Trust Fund of up to $130,000,000 per year
    of the moneys received from hospital providers under
    Section 5A-4 and transferred into the Hospital Provider
    Fund under Section 5A-6. Transfers under this paragraph
    shall be made within 7 days after the payments have been
    received pursuant to the schedule of payments provided in
    subsection (a) of Section 5A-4.
        (7.5) For State fiscal year 2007 for making transfers
    of the moneys received from hospital providers under
    Section 5A-4 and transferred into the Hospital Provider
    Fund under Section 5A-6 to the designated funds not
    exceeding the following amounts in that State fiscal year:
        Health and Human Services
            Medicaid Trust Fund................. $20,000,000
        Long-Term Care Provider Fund............ $30,000,000
        General Revenue Fund................... $80,000,000.
        Transfers under this paragraph shall be made within 7
    days after the payments have been received pursuant to the
    schedule of payments provided in subsection (a) of Section
    5A-4.
        (7.8) For State fiscal year 2008, for making transfers
    of the moneys received from hospital providers under
    Section 5A-4 and transferred into the Hospital Provider
    Fund under Section 5A-6 to the designated funds not
    exceeding the following amounts in that State fiscal year:
        Health and Human Services
            Medicaid Trust Fund..................$40,000,000
        Long-Term Care Provider Fund..............$60,000,000
        General Revenue Fund...................$160,000,000.
        Transfers under this paragraph shall be made within 7
    days after the payments have been received pursuant to the
    schedule of payments provided in subsection (a) of Section
    5A-4.
        (7.9) For State fiscal years 2009 through 2013, for
    making transfers of the moneys received from hospital
    providers under Section 5A-4 and transferred into the
    Hospital Provider Fund under Section 5A-6 to the designated
    funds not exceeding the following amounts in that State
    fiscal year:
        Health and Human Services
            Medicaid Trust Fund...................$20,000,000
        Long Term Care Provider Fund..............$30,000,000
        General Revenue Fund.....................$80,000,000.
        Except as provided under this paragraph, transfers
    Transfers under this paragraph shall be made within 7
    business days after the payments have been received
    pursuant to the schedule of payments provided in subsection
    (a) of Section 5A-4. For State fiscal year 2009, transfers
    to the General Revenue Fund under this paragraph shall be
    made on or before June 30, 2009, as sufficient funds become
    available in the Hospital Provider Fund to both make the
    transfers and continue hospital payments.
        (8) For making refunds to hospital providers pursuant
    to Section 5A-10.
    Disbursements from the Fund, other than transfers
authorized under paragraphs (5) and (6) of this subsection,
shall be by warrants drawn by the State Comptroller upon
receipt of vouchers duly executed and certified by the Illinois
Department.
    (c) The Fund shall consist of the following:
        (1) All moneys collected or received by the Illinois
    Department from the hospital provider assessment imposed
    by this Article.
        (2) All federal matching funds received by the Illinois
    Department as a result of expenditures made by the Illinois
    Department that are attributable to moneys deposited in the
    Fund.
        (3) Any interest or penalty levied in conjunction with
    the administration of this Article.
        (4) Moneys transferred from another fund in the State
    treasury.
        (5) All other moneys received for the Fund from any
    other source, including interest earned thereon.
    (d) (Blank).
(Source: P.A. 94-242, eff. 7-18-05; 94-839, eff. 6-6-06;
95-707, eff. 1-11-08; 95-859, eff. 8-19-08.)
 
    Section 95. Repeal. The Interfund Borrowing Act of 2009 is
repealed on July 1, 2009.
 
    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.

Effective Date: 02/27/2009