Sen. Javier L. Cervantes

Filed: 3/28/2023

 

 


 

 


 
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AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 505

2    AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 505 by replacing
3everything after the enacting clause with the following:
 
4    "Section 5. The Rehabilitation of Persons with
5Disabilities Act 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 cooperate with the federal government in the
10    administration of the provisions of the federal
11    Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended by 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

 

 

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1    be necessary for the vocational rehabilitation of persons
2    with one or more disabilities, including the
3    administrative activities under subsection (e) of this
4    Section; to cooperate with State and local school
5    authorities and other recognized agencies engaged in
6    vocational rehabilitation services; and to cooperate with
7    the Department of Children and Family Services, the
8    Illinois State Board of Education, and others regarding
9    the education of children with one or more disabilities.
10        (c) (Blank).
11        (d) To report in writing, to the Governor, annually on
12    or before the first day of December, and at such other
13    times and in such manner and upon such subjects as the
14    Governor may require. The annual report shall contain (1)
15    information on the programs and activities dedicated to
16    vocational rehabilitation, independent living, and other
17    community services and supports administered by the
18    Director; (2) information on the development of vocational
19    rehabilitation services, independent living services, and
20    supporting services administered by the Director in the
21    State; and (3) information detailing the amounts of money
22    received from federal, State, and other sources, and of
23    the objects and purposes to which the respective items of
24    these several amounts have been devoted.
25        (e) (Blank).
26        (f) To establish a program of services to prevent the

 

 

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1    unnecessary institutionalization of persons in need of
2    long term care and who meet the criteria for blindness or
3    disability as defined by the Social Security Act, thereby
4    enabling them to remain in their own homes. Such
5    preventive services include any or all of the following:
6            (1) personal assistant services;
7            (2) homemaker services;
8            (3) home-delivered meals;
9            (4) adult day care services;
10            (5) respite care;
11            (6) home modification or assistive equipment;
12            (7) home health services;
13            (8) electronic home response;
14            (9) brain injury behavioral/cognitive services;
15            (10) brain injury habilitation;
16            (11) brain injury pre-vocational services; or
17            (12) brain injury supported employment.
18        The Department shall establish eligibility standards
19    for such services taking into consideration the unique
20    economic and social needs of the population for whom they
21    are to be provided. Such eligibility standards may be
22    based on the recipient's ability to pay for services;
23    provided, however, that any portion of a person's income
24    that is equal to or less than the "protected income" level
25    shall not be considered by the Department in determining
26    eligibility. The "protected income" level shall be

 

 

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1    determined by the Department, shall never be less than the
2    federal poverty standard, and shall be adjusted each year
3    to reflect changes in the Consumer Price Index For All
4    Urban Consumers as determined by the United States
5    Department of Labor. The standards must provide that a
6    person may not have more than $10,000 in assets to be
7    eligible for the services, and the Department may increase
8    or decrease the asset limitation by rule. The Department
9    may not decrease the asset level below $10,000. Subject to
10    federal approval, the Department shall allow a recipient's
11    spouse, guardian, kin, or siblings to serve as his or her
12    provider of personal care or similar services.
13        The services shall be provided, as established by the
14    Department by rule, to eligible persons to prevent
15    unnecessary or premature institutionalization, to the
16    extent that the cost of the services, together with the
17    other personal maintenance expenses of the persons, are
18    reasonably related to the standards established for care
19    in a group facility appropriate to their condition. These
20    non-institutional services, pilot projects or experimental
21    facilities may be provided as part of or in addition to
22    those authorized by federal law or those funded and
23    administered by the Illinois Department on Aging. The
24    Department shall set rates and fees for services in a fair
25    and equitable manner. Services identical to those offered
26    by the Department on Aging shall be paid at the same rate.

 

 

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1        Except as otherwise provided in this paragraph,
2    personal assistants shall be paid at a rate negotiated
3    between the State and an exclusive representative of
4    personal assistants under a collective bargaining
5    agreement. In no case shall the Department pay personal
6    assistants an hourly wage that is less than the federal
7    minimum wage. Within 30 days after July 6, 2017 (the
8    effective date of Public Act 100-23), the hourly wage paid
9    to personal assistants and individual maintenance home
10    health workers shall be increased by $0.48 per hour. Wages
11    and other benefits for personal assistants shall not count
12    against benefits that guardians receive as outlined in
13    Article XIa of the Probate Act of 1975.
14        Solely for the purposes of coverage under the Illinois
15    Public Labor Relations Act, personal assistants providing
16    services under the Department's Home Services Program
17    shall be considered to be public employees and the State
18    of Illinois shall be considered to be their employer as of
19    July 16, 2003 (the effective date of Public Act 93-204),
20    but not before. Solely for the purposes of coverage under
21    the Illinois Public Labor Relations Act, home care and
22    home health workers who function as personal assistants
23    and individual maintenance home health workers and who
24    also provide services under the Department's Home Services
25    Program shall be considered to be public employees, no
26    matter whether the State provides such services through

 

 

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1    direct fee-for-service arrangements, with the assistance
2    of a managed care organization or other intermediary, or
3    otherwise, and the State of Illinois shall be considered
4    to be the employer of those persons as of January 29, 2013
5    (the effective date of Public Act 97-1158), but not before
6    except as otherwise provided under this subsection (f).
7    The State shall engage in collective bargaining with an
8    exclusive representative of home care and home health
9    workers who function as personal assistants and individual
10    maintenance home health workers working under the Home
11    Services Program concerning their terms and conditions of
12    employment that are within the State's control. Nothing in
13    this paragraph shall be understood to limit the right of
14    the persons receiving services defined in this Section to
15    hire and fire home care and home health workers who
16    function as personal assistants and individual maintenance
17    home health workers working under the Home Services
18    Program or to supervise them within the limitations set by
19    the Home Services Program. The State shall not be
20    considered to be the employer of home care and home health
21    workers who function as personal assistants and individual
22    maintenance home health workers working under the Home
23    Services Program for any purposes not specifically
24    provided in Public Act 93-204 or Public Act 97-1158,
25    including but not limited to, purposes of vicarious
26    liability in tort and purposes of statutory retirement or

 

 

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1    health insurance benefits. Home care and home health
2    workers who function as personal assistants and individual
3    maintenance home health workers and who also provide
4    services under the Department's Home Services Program
5    shall not be covered by the State Employees Group
6    Insurance Act of 1971.
7        The Department shall execute, relative to nursing home
8    prescreening, as authorized by Section 4.03 of the
9    Illinois Act on the Aging, written inter-agency agreements
10    with the Department on Aging and the Department of
11    Healthcare and Family Services, to effect the intake
12    procedures and eligibility criteria for those persons who
13    may need long term care. On and after July 1, 1996, all
14    nursing home prescreenings for individuals 18 through 59
15    years of age shall be conducted by the Department, or a
16    designee of the Department.
17        The Department is authorized to establish a system of
18    recipient cost-sharing for services provided under this
19    Section. The cost-sharing shall be based upon the
20    recipient's ability to pay for services, but in no case
21    shall the recipient's share exceed the actual cost of the
22    services provided. Protected income shall not be
23    considered by the Department in its determination of the
24    recipient's ability to pay a share of the cost of
25    services. The level of cost-sharing shall be adjusted each
26    year to reflect changes in the "protected income" level.

 

 

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1    The Department shall deduct from the recipient's share of
2    the cost of services any money expended by the recipient
3    for disability-related expenses.
4        To the extent permitted under the federal Social
5    Security Act, the Department, or the Department's
6    authorized representative, may recover the amount of
7    moneys expended for services provided to or in behalf of a
8    person under this Section by a claim against the person's
9    estate or against the estate of the person's surviving
10    spouse, but no recovery may be had until after the death of
11    the surviving spouse, if any, and then only at such time
12    when there is no surviving child who is under age 21 or
13    blind or who has a permanent and total disability. This
14    paragraph, however, shall not bar recovery, at the death
15    of the person, of moneys for services provided to the
16    person or in behalf of the person under this Section to
17    which the person was not entitled; provided that such
18    recovery shall not be enforced against any real estate
19    while it is occupied as a homestead by the surviving
20    spouse or other dependent, if no claims by other creditors
21    have been filed against the estate, or, if such claims
22    have been filed, they remain dormant for failure of
23    prosecution or failure of the claimant to compel
24    administration of the estate for the purpose of payment.
25    This paragraph shall not bar recovery from the estate of a
26    spouse, under Sections 1915 and 1924 of the Social

 

 

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1    Security Act and Section 5-4 of the Illinois Public Aid
2    Code, who precedes a person receiving services under this
3    Section in death. All moneys for services paid to or in
4    behalf of the person under this Section shall be claimed
5    for recovery from the deceased spouse's estate.
6    "Homestead", as used in this paragraph, means the dwelling
7    house and contiguous real estate occupied by a surviving
8    spouse or relative, as defined by the rules and
9    regulations of the Department of Healthcare and Family
10    Services, regardless of the value of the property.
11        (g) To establish such subdivisions of the Department
12    as shall be desirable and assign to the various
13    subdivisions the responsibilities and duties placed upon
14    the Department by law.
15        (h) To cooperate and enter into any necessary
16    agreements with the Department of Employment Security for
17    the provision of job placement and job referral services
18    to clients of the Department, including job service
19    registration of such clients with Illinois Employment
20    Security offices and making job listings maintained by the
21    Department of Employment Security available to such
22    clients.
23        (i) To possess all powers reasonable and necessary for
24    the exercise and administration of the powers, duties and
25    responsibilities of the Department which are provided for
26    by law.

 

 

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

 

 

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1    to the general public. Those case records and reports or
2    the information contained in those records and reports
3    shall be disclosed by the Director only to proper law
4    enforcement officials, individuals authorized by a court,
5    the General Assembly or any committee or commission of the
6    General Assembly, and other persons and for reasons as the
7    Director designates by rule. Disclosure by the Director
8    may be only in accordance with other applicable law.
9(Source: P.A. 102-264, eff. 8-6-21; 102-826, eff. 5-13-22.)".