101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2019 and 2020
HB3179

 

Introduced , by Rep. Deanne M. Mazzochi

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
210 ILCS 135/3  from Ch. 91 1/2, par. 1703

    Amends the Community-Integrated Living Arrangements Licensure and Certification Act. Provides that a "community-integrated living arrangement" means a living arrangement certified by a community mental health or developmental services agency where 12 (rather than 8) or fewer recipients with mental illness or recipients with a developmental disability reside under the supervision of the agency. Makes a grammatical change.


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1    AN ACT concerning regulation.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The Community-Integrated Living Arrangements
5Licensure and Certification Act is amended by changing Section
63 as follows:
 
7    (210 ILCS 135/3)  (from Ch. 91 1/2, par. 1703)
8    Sec. 3. As used in this Act, unless the context requires
9otherwise:
10    (a) "Applicant" means a person, group of persons,
11association, partnership or corporation that applies for a
12license as a community mental health or developmental services
13agency under this Act.
14    (b) "Community mental health or developmental services
15agency" or "agency" means a public or private agency,
16association, partnership, corporation or organization which,
17pursuant to this Act, certifies community-integrated living
18arrangements for persons with mental illness or persons with a
19developmental disability.
20    (c) "Department" means the Department of Human Services (as
21successor to the Department of Mental Health and Developmental
22Disabilities).
23    (d) "Community-integrated living arrangement" means a

 

 

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1living arrangement certified by a community mental health or
2developmental services agency under this Act where 12 8 or
3fewer recipients with mental illness or recipients with a
4developmental disability who reside under the supervision of
5the agency. Examples of community integrated living
6arrangements include but are not limited to the following:
7        (1) "Adult foster care", a living arrangement for
8    recipients in residences of families unrelated to them, for
9    the purpose of providing family care for the recipients on
10    a full-time basis;
11        (2) "Assisted residential care", an independent living
12    arrangement where recipients are intermittently supervised
13    by off-site staff;
14        (3) "Crisis residential care", a non-medical living
15    arrangement where recipients in need of non-medical,
16    crisis services are supervised by on-site staff 24 hours a
17    day;
18        (4) "Home individual programs", living arrangements
19    for 2 unrelated adults outside the family home;
20        (5) "Supported residential care", a living arrangement
21    where recipients are supervised by on-site staff and such
22    supervision is provided less than 24 hours a day;
23        (6) "Community residential alternatives", as defined
24    in the Community Residential Alternatives Licensing Act;
25    and
26        (7) "Special needs trust-supported residential care",

 

 

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1    a living arrangement where recipients are supervised by
2    on-site staff and that supervision is provided 24 hours per
3    day or less, as dictated by the needs of the recipients,
4    and determined by service providers. As used in this item
5    (7), "special needs trust" means a trust for the benefit of
6    a beneficiary with a disability as described in Section
7    15.1 of the Trusts and Trustees Act.
8    (e) "Recipient" means a person who has received, is
9receiving, or is in need of treatment or habilitation as those
10terms are defined in the Mental Health and Developmental
11Disabilities Code.
12    (f) "Unrelated" means that persons residing together in
13programs or placements certified by a community mental health
14or developmental services agency under this Act do not have any
15of the following relationships by blood, marriage or adoption:
16parent, son, daughter, brother, sister, grandparent, uncle,
17aunt, nephew, niece, great grandparent, great uncle, great
18aunt, stepbrother, stepsister, stepson, stepdaughter,
19stepparent or first cousin.
20(Source: P.A. 99-143, eff. 7-27-15.)