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1    AN ACT concerning State government.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The Rehabilitation of Persons with Disabilities
5Act is amended by changing Section 3 as follows:
 
6    (20 ILCS 2405/3)  (from Ch. 23, par. 3434)
7    Sec. 3. Powers and duties. The Department shall have the
8powers and duties enumerated herein:
9        (a) To co-operate with the federal government in the
10    administration of the provisions of the federal
11    Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended, of the Workforce
12    Innovation and Opportunity Act, and of the federal Social
13    Security Act to the extent and in the manner provided in
14    these Acts.
15        (b) To prescribe and supervise such courses of
16    vocational training and provide such other services as may
17    be necessary for the habilitation and rehabilitation of
18    persons with one or more disabilities, including the
19    administrative activities under subsection (e) of this
20    Section, and to co-operate with State and local school
21    authorities and other recognized agencies engaged in
22    habilitation, rehabilitation and comprehensive
23    rehabilitation services; and to cooperate with the

 

 

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1    Department of Children and Family Services regarding the
2    care and education of children with one or more
3    disabilities.
4        (c) (Blank).
5        (d) To report in writing, to the Governor, annually on
6    or before the first day of December, and at such other
7    times and in such manner and upon such subjects as the
8    Governor may require. The annual report shall contain (1) a
9    statement of the existing condition of comprehensive
10    rehabilitation services, habilitation and rehabilitation
11    in the State; (2) a statement of suggestions and
12    recommendations with reference to the development of
13    comprehensive rehabilitation services, habilitation and
14    rehabilitation in the State; and (3) an itemized statement
15    of the amounts of money received from federal, State and
16    other sources, and of the objects and purposes to which the
17    respective items of these several amounts have been
18    devoted.
19        (e) (Blank).
20        (f) To establish a program of services to prevent the
21    unnecessary institutionalization of persons in need of
22    long term care and who meet the criteria for blindness or
23    disability as defined by the Social Security Act, thereby
24    enabling them to remain in their own homes. Such preventive
25    services include any or all of the following:
26            (1) personal assistant services;

 

 

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1            (2) homemaker services;
2            (3) home-delivered meals;
3            (4) adult day care services;
4            (5) respite care;
5            (6) home modification or assistive equipment;
6            (7) home health services;
7            (8) electronic home response;
8            (9) brain injury behavioral/cognitive services;
9            (10) brain injury habilitation;
10            (11) brain injury pre-vocational services; or
11            (12) brain injury supported employment.
12        The Department shall establish eligibility standards
13    for such services taking into consideration the unique
14    economic and social needs of the population for whom they
15    are to be provided. Such eligibility standards may be based
16    on the recipient's ability to pay for services; provided,
17    however, that any portion of a person's income that is
18    equal to or less than the "protected income" level shall
19    not be considered by the Department in determining
20    eligibility. The "protected income" level shall be
21    determined by the Department, shall never be less than the
22    federal poverty standard, and shall be adjusted each year
23    to reflect changes in the Consumer Price Index For All
24    Urban Consumers as determined by the United States
25    Department of Labor. The standards must provide that a
26    person may not have more than $10,000 in assets to be

 

 

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1    eligible for the services, and the Department may increase
2    or decrease the asset limitation by rule. The Department
3    may not decrease the asset level below $10,000.
4        The services shall be provided, as established by the
5    Department by rule, to eligible persons to prevent
6    unnecessary or premature institutionalization, to the
7    extent that the cost of the services, together with the
8    other personal maintenance expenses of the persons, are
9    reasonably related to the standards established for care in
10    a group facility appropriate to their condition.
11    Notwithstanding this paragraph, medical services shall be
12    provided, including, but not limited to, nursing staff
13    services for basic medical care. These non-institutional
14    services, pilot projects or experimental facilities may be
15    provided as part of or in addition to those authorized by
16    federal law or those funded and administered by the
17    Illinois Department on Aging. The Department shall set
18    rates and fees for services in a fair and equitable manner.
19    Services identical to those offered by the Department on
20    Aging shall be paid at the same rate.
21        Except as otherwise provided in this paragraph,
22    personal assistants shall be paid at a rate negotiated
23    between the State and an exclusive representative of
24    personal assistants under a collective bargaining
25    agreement. In no case shall the Department pay personal
26    assistants an hourly wage that is less than the federal

 

 

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1    minimum wage. Within 30 days after July 6, 2017 (the
2    effective date of Public Act 100-23), the hourly wage paid
3    to personal assistants and individual maintenance home
4    health workers shall be increased by $0.48 per hour.
5        Solely for the purposes of coverage under the Illinois
6    Public Labor Relations Act, personal assistants providing
7    services under the Department's Home Services Program
8    shall be considered to be public employees and the State of
9    Illinois shall be considered to be their employer as of
10    July 16, 2003 (the effective date of Public Act 93-204),
11    but not before. Solely for the purposes of coverage under
12    the Illinois Public Labor Relations Act, home care and home
13    health workers who function as personal assistants and
14    individual maintenance home health workers and who also
15    provide services under the Department's Home Services
16    Program shall be considered to be public employees, no
17    matter whether the State provides such services through
18    direct fee-for-service arrangements, with the assistance
19    of a managed care organization or other intermediary, or
20    otherwise, and the State of Illinois shall be considered to
21    be the employer of those persons as of January 29, 2013
22    (the effective date of Public Act 97-1158), but not before
23    except as otherwise provided under this subsection (f). The
24    State shall engage in collective bargaining with an
25    exclusive representative of home care and home health
26    workers who function as personal assistants and individual

 

 

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1    maintenance home health workers working under the Home
2    Services Program concerning their terms and conditions of
3    employment that are within the State's control. Nothing in
4    this paragraph shall be understood to limit the right of
5    the persons receiving services defined in this Section to
6    hire and fire home care and home health workers who
7    function as personal assistants and individual maintenance
8    home health workers working under the Home Services Program
9    or to supervise them within the limitations set by the Home
10    Services Program. The State shall not be considered to be
11    the employer of home care and home health workers who
12    function as personal assistants and individual maintenance
13    home health workers working under the Home Services Program
14    for any purposes not specifically provided in Public Act
15    93-204 or Public Act 97-1158, including but not limited to,
16    purposes of vicarious liability in tort and purposes of
17    statutory retirement or health insurance benefits. Home
18    care and home health workers who function as personal
19    assistants and individual maintenance home health workers
20    and who also provide services under the Department's Home
21    Services Program shall not be covered by the State
22    Employees Group Insurance Act of 1971.
23        The Department shall execute, relative to nursing home
24    prescreening, as authorized by Section 4.03 of the Illinois
25    Act on the Aging, written inter-agency agreements with the
26    Department on Aging and the Department of Healthcare and

 

 

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1    Family Services, to effect the intake procedures and
2    eligibility criteria for those persons who may need long
3    term care. On and after July 1, 1996, all nursing home
4    prescreenings for individuals 18 through 59 years of age
5    shall be conducted by the Department, or a designee of the
6    Department.
7        The Department is authorized to establish a system of
8    recipient cost-sharing for services provided under this
9    Section. The cost-sharing shall be based upon the
10    recipient's ability to pay for services, but in no case
11    shall the recipient's share exceed the actual cost of the
12    services provided. Protected income shall not be
13    considered by the Department in its determination of the
14    recipient's ability to pay a share of the cost of services.
15    The level of cost-sharing shall be adjusted each year to
16    reflect changes in the "protected income" level. The
17    Department shall deduct from the recipient's share of the
18    cost of services any money expended by the recipient for
19    disability-related expenses.
20        To the extent permitted under the federal Social
21    Security Act, the Department, or the Department's
22    authorized representative, may recover the amount of
23    moneys expended for services provided to or in behalf of a
24    person under this Section by a claim against the person's
25    estate or against the estate of the person's surviving
26    spouse, but no recovery may be had until after the death of

 

 

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1    the surviving spouse, if any, and then only at such time
2    when there is no surviving child who is under age 21 or
3    blind or who has a permanent and total disability. This
4    paragraph, however, shall not bar recovery, at the death of
5    the person, of moneys for services provided to the person
6    or in behalf of the person under this Section to which the
7    person was not entitled; provided that such recovery shall
8    not be enforced against any real estate while it is
9    occupied as a homestead by the surviving spouse or other
10    dependent, if no claims by other creditors have been filed
11    against the estate, or, if such claims have been filed,
12    they remain dormant for failure of prosecution or failure
13    of the claimant to compel administration of the estate for
14    the purpose of payment. This paragraph shall not bar
15    recovery from the estate of a spouse, under Sections 1915
16    and 1924 of the Social Security Act and Section 5-4 of the
17    Illinois Public Aid Code, who precedes a person receiving
18    services under this Section in death. All moneys for
19    services paid to or in behalf of the person under this
20    Section shall be claimed for recovery from the deceased
21    spouse's estate. "Homestead", as used in this paragraph,
22    means the dwelling house and contiguous real estate
23    occupied by a surviving spouse or relative, as defined by
24    the rules and regulations of the Department of Healthcare
25    and Family Services, regardless of the value of the
26    property.

 

 

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1        The Department shall submit an annual report on
2    programs and services provided under this Section. The
3    report shall be filed with the Governor and the General
4    Assembly on or before March 30 each year.
5        The requirement for reporting to the General Assembly
6    shall be satisfied by filing copies of the report as
7    required by Section 3.1 of the General Assembly
8    Organization Act, and filing additional copies with the
9    State Government Report Distribution Center for the
10    General Assembly as required under paragraph (t) of Section
11    7 of the State Library Act.
12        (g) To establish such subdivisions of the Department as
13    shall be desirable and assign to the various subdivisions
14    the responsibilities and duties placed upon the Department
15    by law.
16        (h) To cooperate and enter into any necessary
17    agreements with the Department of Employment Security for
18    the provision of job placement and job referral services to
19    clients of the Department, including job service
20    registration of such clients with Illinois Employment
21    Security offices and making job listings maintained by the
22    Department of Employment Security available to such
23    clients.
24        (i) To possess all powers reasonable and necessary for
25    the exercise and administration of the powers, duties and
26    responsibilities of the Department which are provided for

 

 

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1    by law.
2        (j) (Blank).
3        (k) (Blank).
4        (l) To establish, operate, and maintain a Statewide
5    Housing Clearinghouse of information on available
6    government subsidized housing accessible to persons with
7    disabilities and available privately owned housing
8    accessible to persons with disabilities. The information
9    shall include, but not be limited to, the location, rental
10    requirements, access features and proximity to public
11    transportation of available housing. The Clearinghouse
12    shall consist of at least a computerized database for the
13    storage and retrieval of information and a separate or
14    shared toll free telephone number for use by those seeking
15    information from the Clearinghouse. Department offices and
16    personnel throughout the State shall also assist in the
17    operation of the Statewide Housing Clearinghouse.
18    Cooperation with local, State, and federal housing
19    managers shall be sought and extended in order to
20    frequently and promptly update the Clearinghouse's
21    information.
22        (m) To assure that the names and case records of
23    persons who received or are receiving services from the
24    Department, including persons receiving vocational
25    rehabilitation, home services, or other services, and
26    those attending one of the Department's schools or other

 

 

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1    supervised facility shall be confidential and not be open
2    to the general public. Those case records and reports or
3    the information contained in those records and reports
4    shall be disclosed by the Director only to proper law
5    enforcement officials, individuals authorized by a court,
6    the General Assembly or any committee or commission of the
7    General Assembly, and other persons and for reasons as the
8    Director designates by rule. Disclosure by the Director may
9    be only in accordance with other applicable law.
10(Source: P.A. 99-143, eff. 7-27-15; 100-23, eff. 7-6-17;
11100-477, eff. 9-8-17; 100-587, eff. 6-4-18; 100-863, eff.
128-14-18; 100-1148, eff. 12-10-18.)