093_HB3436

 
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 1        AN ACT regarding preventative services administration.

 2        Be  it  enacted  by  the People of the State of Illinois,
 3    represented in the General Assembly:

 4        Section 5.  The Illinois Act on the Aging is  amended  by
 5    changing Section 4.02 as follows:

 6        (20 ILCS 105/4.02) (from Ch. 23, par. 6104.02)
 7        Sec.  4.02.  The  Department shall establish a program of
 8    services  to  prevent  unnecessary  institutionalization   of
 9    persons age 60 and older in need of long term care or who are
10    established as persons who suffer from Alzheimer's disease or
11    a  related  disorder under the Alzheimer's Disease Assistance
12    Act, thereby enabling them to remain in their own homes or in
13    other living arrangements.  Such preventive  services,  which
14    may  be  coordinated  with  other  programs  for the aged and
15    monitored by area agencies on aging in cooperation  with  the
16    Department,  may  include, but are not limited to, any or all
17    of the following:
18             (a)  home health services;
19             (b)  home nursing services;
20             (c)  homemaker services;
21             (d)  chore and housekeeping services;
22             (e)  day care services;
23             (f)  home-delivered meals;
24             (g)  education in self-care;
25             (h)  personal care services;
26             (i)  adult day health services;
27             (j)  habilitation services;
28             (k)  respite care;
29             (l)  other  nonmedical  social  services  that   may
30        enable the person to become self-supporting; or
31             (m)  clearinghouse   for   information  provided  by
 
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 1        senior citizen home owners who want to rent rooms  to  or
 2        share living space with other senior citizens.
 3        The  Department shall establish eligibility standards for
 4    such services taking into consideration the  unique  economic
 5    and  social  needs of the target population for whom they are
 6    to be provided.  Such eligibility standards shall be based on
 7    the  recipient's  ability  to  pay  for  services;  provided,
 8    however,  that  in  determining  the  amount  and  nature  of
 9    services for which a person may qualify, consideration  shall
10    not  be  given to the value of cash, property or other assets
11    held in the name of the person's spouse pursuant to a written
12    agreement dividing marital property into equal  but  separate
13    shares  or pursuant to a transfer of the person's interest in
14    a home to his spouse, provided that the spouse's share of the
15    marital property is not made available to the person  seeking
16    such services.
17        Beginning July 1, 2002, the Department shall require as a
18    condition  of  eligibility that all applicants and recipients
19    apply for medical assistance under Article V of the  Illinois
20    Public  Aid  Code in accordance with rules promulgated by the
21    Department.
22        The Department shall, in conjunction with the  Department
23    of  Public  Aid,  seek  appropriate amendments under Sections
24    1915 and 1924 of the Social Security Act.  The purpose of the
25    amendments shall  be  to  extend  eligibility  for  home  and
26    community  based services under Sections 1915 and 1924 of the
27    Social Security Act to persons who transfer  to  or  for  the
28    benefit  of  a  spouse  those amounts of income and resources
29    allowed under  Section  1924  of  the  Social  Security  Act.
30    Subject  to  the  approval of such amendments, the Department
31    shall extend the provisions of Section 5-4  of  the  Illinois
32    Public Aid Code to persons who, but for the provision of home
33    or  community-based services, would require the level of care
34    provided in an institution, as is  provided  for  in  federal
 
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 1    law.   Those  persons  no  longer  found  to  be eligible for
 2    receiving noninstitutional services due  to  changes  in  the
 3    eligibility  criteria  shall be given 60 days notice prior to
 4    actual  termination.   Those  persons  receiving  notice   of
 5    termination  may  contact  the  Department  and  request  the
 6    determination  be  appealed  at  any  time  during the 60 day
 7    notice period.  With the exception of the  lengthened  notice
 8    and  time  frame  for  the appeal request, the appeal process
 9    shall follow the normal procedure.  In addition, each  person
10    affected  regardless  of  the  circumstances for discontinued
11    eligibility shall be given  notice  and  the  opportunity  to
12    purchase  the  necessary  services through the Community Care
13    Program.  If  the  individual  does  not  elect  to  purchase
14    services,  the  Department  shall  advise  the  individual of
15    alternative services.  The target population  identified  for
16    the  purposes  of  this  Section are persons age 60 and older
17    with an identified service need.  Priority shall be given  to
18    those  who are at imminent risk of institutionalization.  The
19    services shall be provided to eligible  persons  age  60  and
20    older  to  the  extent that the cost of the services together
21    with the other personal maintenance expenses of  the  persons
22    are  reasonably related to the standards established for care
23    in a group facility appropriate to  the  person's  condition.
24    These   non-institutional   services,   pilot   projects   or
25    experimental  facilities  may  be  provided  as part of or in
26    addition to those authorized by federal law or  those  funded
27    and  administered  by  the Department of Human Services.  The
28    Departments of Human Services,  Public  Aid,  Public  Health,
29    Veterans'  Affairs,  and  Commerce  and Community Affairs and
30    other  appropriate  agencies  of  State,  federal  and  local
31    governments shall cooperate with the Department on  Aging  in
32    the  establishment  and  development of the non-institutional
33    services.  The Department shall require an annual audit  from
34    all chore/housekeeping and homemaker vendors contracting with
 
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 1    the  Department  under  this Section.  The annual audit shall
 2    assure  that  each  audited  vendor's   procedures   are   in
 3    compliance  with  Department's financial reporting guidelines
 4    requiring a 27% administrative cost split and a 73%  employee
 5    wages  and benefits cost split.  The audit is a public record
 6    under the Freedom of Information Act.  The  Department  shall
 7    execute,  relative  to the nursing home prescreening project,
 8    written inter-agency agreements with the Department of  Human
 9    Services  and  the  Department  of  Public Aid, to effect the
10    following:  (1)  intake  procedures  and  common  eligibility
11    criteria    for    those    persons    who    are   receiving
12    non-institutional services; and  (2)  the  establishment  and
13    development  of  non-institutional  services  in areas of the
14    State  where  they  are  not  currently  available   or   are
15    undeveloped.   On  and  after  July 1, 1996, all nursing home
16    prescreenings for individuals 60 years of age or older  shall
17    be conducted by the Department.
18        The  Department  is  authorized  to establish a system of
19    recipient copayment for services provided under this Section,
20    such copayment to be based upon the  recipient's  ability  to
21    pay  but in no case to exceed the actual cost of the services
22    provided. Additionally, any  portion  of  a  person's  income
23    which  is  equal to or less than the federal poverty standard
24    shall not be considered by the Department in determining  the
25    copayment.   The  level  of  such copayment shall be adjusted
26    whenever necessary to reflect any change  in  the  officially
27    designated federal poverty standard.
28        The    Department,   or   the   Department's   authorized
29    representative, shall recover the amount of  moneys  expended
30    for  services provided to or in behalf of a person under this
31    Section by a claim against the person's estate or against the
32    estate of the person's surviving spouse, but no recovery  may
33    be had until after the death of the surviving spouse, if any,
34    and  then  only at such time when there is no surviving child
 
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 1    who is under  age  21,  blind,  or  permanently  and  totally
 2    disabled.   This  paragraph, however, shall not bar recovery,
 3    at the death of the person, of moneys for  services  provided
 4    to  the  person or in behalf of the person under this Section
 5    to which the person was  not  entitled;  provided  that  such
 6    recovery  shall not be enforced against any real estate while
 7    it is occupied as a homestead  by  the  surviving  spouse  or
 8    other  dependent,  if  no claims by other creditors have been
 9    filed against the estate, or, if such claims have been filed,
10    they remain dormant for failure of prosecution or failure  of
11    the  claimant  to compel administration of the estate for the
12    purpose of payment.  This paragraph shall  not  bar  recovery
13    from  the estate of a spouse, under Sections 1915 and 1924 of
14    the Social Security Act  and  Section  5-4  of  the  Illinois
15    Public  Aid  Code,  who  precedes a person receiving services
16    under this Section in death.  All moneys for services paid to
17    or in behalf of  the  person  under  this  Section  shall  be
18    claimed  for  recovery  from  the  deceased  spouse's estate.
19    "Homestead", as used in this paragraph,  means  the  dwelling
20    house  and  contiguous  real  estate  occupied by a surviving
21    spouse or relative, as defined by the rules  and  regulations
22    of  the  Illinois Department of Public Aid, regardless of the
23    value of the property.
24        The  Department  shall  develop  procedures  to   enhance
25    availability  of  services  on  evenings, weekends, and on an
26    emergency basis to meet  the  respite  needs  of  caregivers.
27    Procedures  shall  be  developed to permit the utilization of
28    services in successive blocks of 24 hours up to  the  monthly
29    maximum  established  by  the Department.   Workers providing
30    these services shall be appropriately trained.
31        Beginning on the effective date of this Amendatory Act of
32    1991, no person may perform chore/housekeeping and  homemaker
33    services  under  a  program authorized by this Section unless
34    that person has been issued a certificate of  pre-service  to
 
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 1    do  so  by his or her employing agency.  Information gathered
 2    to effect such certification shall include (i)  the  person's
 3    name,  (ii)  the  date  the  person  was  hired by his or her
 4    current employer, and (iii) the training, including dates and
 5    levels.  Persons engaged in the program  authorized  by  this
 6    Section  before  the effective date of this amendatory Act of
 7    1991 shall be issued a certificate of all pre- and in-service
 8    training  from  his  or  her  employer  upon  submitting  the
 9    necessary  information.   The  employing  agency   shall   be
10    required  to  retain records of all staff pre- and in-service
11    training, and shall provide such records  to  the  Department
12    upon  request and upon termination of the employer's contract
13    with the Department.  In addition, the  employing  agency  is
14    responsible  for the issuance of certifications of in-service
15    training completed to their employees.
16        The Department is required to develop a system to  ensure
17    that  persons  working  as  homemakers and chore housekeepers
18    receive increases in their wages  when  the  federal  minimum
19    wage  is  increased by requiring vendors to certify that they
20    are meeting the federal minimum wage statute  for  homemakers
21    and  chore housekeepers.  An employer that cannot ensure that
22    the minimum wage increase is being given  to  homemakers  and
23    chore   housekeepers   shall   be   denied  any  increase  in
24    reimbursement costs. Beginning  July  1,  2003,  the  vendors
25    shall receive a rate increase of at least 3% but no more than
26    5%  on  July 1 of each year based on the percentage change in
27    the consumer price  index-u  during  the  preceding  12-month
28    calendar  year.    "Consumer  price  index-u" means the index
29    published by the Bureau of Labor  Statistics  of  the  United
30    States  Department  of Labor that measures the average change
31    in prices of  goods  and  services  purchased  by  all  urban
32    consumers,  United  States  city  average, all items, 1982-84
33    =100.  If this index is no longer published,  the  Department
34    shall  use  a  comparable  substitute  index as determined by
 
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 1    rule.
 2        The Department on  Aging  and  the  Department  of  Human
 3    Services shall cooperate in the development and submission of
 4    an annual report on programs and services provided under this
 5    Section.   Such joint report shall be filed with the Governor
 6    and the General Assembly on or before September 30 each year.
 7        The requirement for reporting  to  the  General  Assembly
 8    shall  be  satisfied  by filing copies of the report with the
 9    Speaker, the Minority Leader and the Clerk of  the  House  of
10    Representatives  and  the  President, the Minority Leader and
11    the Secretary of the  Senate  and  the  Legislative  Research
12    Unit,  as  required  by  Section  3.1 of the General Assembly
13    Organization Act  and filing such additional copies with  the
14    State  Government  Report Distribution Center for the General
15    Assembly as is required under paragraph (t) of Section  7  of
16    the State Library Act.
17        Those  persons  previously  found  eligible for receiving
18    non-institutional services whose services  were  discontinued
19    under  the  Emergency Budget Act of Fiscal Year 1992, and who
20    do not meet the eligibility standards in effect on  or  after
21    July  1,  1992,  shall remain ineligible on and after July 1,
22    1992.  Those persons previously not  required  to  cost-share
23    and  who were required to cost-share effective March 1, 1992,
24    shall continue to meet cost-share requirements on  and  after
25    July  1,  1992.   Beginning July 1, 1992, all clients will be
26    required  to  meet   eligibility,   cost-share,   and   other
27    requirements  and  will have services discontinued or altered
28    when they fail to meet these requirements.
29    (Source: P.A.  91-303,  eff.  1-1-00;  91-798,  eff.  7-9-00;
30    92-597, eff. 6-28-02.)

31        Section  10.  The  Disabled Persons Rehabilitation Act is
32    amended by changing Section 3 as follows:
 
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 1        (20 ILCS 2405/3) (from Ch. 23, par. 3434)
 2        Sec. 3.  Powers and duties. The Department shall have the
 3    powers and duties enumerated herein:
 4        (a)  To co-operate with the  federal  government  in  the
 5    administration    of    the   provisions   of   the   federal
 6    Rehabilitation Act of 1973,  as  amended,  of  the  Workforce
 7    Investment  Act  of  1998, and of the federal Social Security
 8    Act to the extent and in the manner provided in these Acts.
 9        (b)  To  prescribe  and   supervise   such   courses   of
10    vocational training and provide such other services as may be
11    necessary  for the habilitation and rehabilitation of persons
12    with one or more disabilities, including  the  administrative
13    activities  under  subsection  (e)  of  this  Section, and to
14    co-operate with State and local school authorities and  other
15    recognized  agencies  engaged in habilitation, rehabilitation
16    and comprehensive rehabilitation services; and  to  cooperate
17    with the Department of Children and Family Services regarding
18    the   care  and  education  of  children  with  one  or  more
19    disabilities.
20        (c)  (Blank).
21        (d)  To report in writing, to the Governor,  annually  on
22    or  before the first day of December, and at such other times
23    and in such manner and upon such subjects as the Governor may
24    require.  The annual report shall contain (1) a statement  of
25    the   existing   condition  of  comprehensive  rehabilitation
26    services, habilitation and rehabilitation in the State; (2) a
27    statement of suggestions and recommendations  with  reference
28    to  the development of comprehensive rehabilitation services,
29    habilitation and rehabilitation in  the  State;  and  (3)  an
30    itemized  statement  of  the  amounts  of money received from
31    federal, State and other sources,  and  of  the  objects  and
32    purposes  to  which  the  respective  items  of these several
33    amounts have been devoted.
34        (e)  (Blank).
 
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 1        (f)  To  establish  a  program  of  services  to  prevent
 2    unnecessary institutionalization of persons with  Alzheimer's
 3    disease and related disorders or persons in need of long term
 4    care  who  are established as blind or disabled as defined by
 5    the Social Security Act, thereby enabling them to  remain  in
 6    their own homes or other living arrangements. Such preventive
 7    services  may  include, but are not limited to, any or all of
 8    the following:
 9             (1)  home health services;
10             (2)  home nursing services;
11             (3)  homemaker services;
12             (4)  chore and housekeeping services;
13             (5)  day care services;
14             (6)  home-delivered meals;
15             (7)  education in self-care;
16             (8)  personal care services;
17             (9)  adult day health services;
18             (10)  habilitation services;
19             (11)  respite care; or
20             (12)  other  nonmedical  social  services  that  may
21        enable the person to become self-supporting.
22        The Department shall establish eligibility standards  for
23    such  services  taking into consideration the unique economic
24    and social needs of the population for whom they  are  to  be
25    provided.   Such  eligibility  standards  may be based on the
26    recipient's ability to pay for services;  provided,  however,
27    that  any  portion  of  a person's income that is equal to or
28    less  than  the  "protected  income"  level  shall   not   be
29    considered by the Department in determining eligibility.  The
30    "protected   income"   level   shall  be  determined  by  the
31    Department, shall never be  less  than  the  federal  poverty
32    standard,  and shall be adjusted each year to reflect changes
33    in the Consumer  Price  Index  For  All  Urban  Consumers  as
34    determined   by   the  United  States  Department  of  Labor.
 
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 1    Additionally,  in  determining  the  amount  and  nature   of
 2    services  for which a person may qualify, consideration shall
 3    not be given to the value of cash, property or  other  assets
 4    held in the name of the person's spouse pursuant to a written
 5    agreement  dividing  marital property into equal but separate
 6    shares or pursuant to a transfer of the person's interest  in
 7    a home to his spouse, provided that the spouse's share of the
 8    marital  property is not made available to the person seeking
 9    such services.
10        The services shall be provided  to  eligible  persons  to
11    prevent unnecessary or premature institutionalization, to the
12    extent that the cost of the services, together with the other
13    personal  maintenance expenses of the persons, are reasonably
14    related to the standards established  for  care  in  a  group
15    facility    appropriate    to    their    condition.    These
16    non-institutional services, pilot  projects  or  experimental
17    facilities may be provided as part of or in addition to those
18    authorized by federal law or those funded and administered by
19    the Illinois Department on Aging.
20        Personal care attendants shall be paid:
21             (i)  A  $5  per  hour minimum rate beginning July 1,
22        1995.
23             (ii)  A $5.30 per hour minimum rate  beginning  July
24        1, 1997.
25             (iii)  A  $5.40 per hour minimum rate beginning July
26        1, 1998.
27        Beginning July 1, 2003, personal  care  attendants  shall
28    receive  an automatic cost of living allowance of at least 3%
29    but no more than 5% on July 1  of  each  year  based  on  the
30    percentage  change  in  the consumer price index-u during the
31    preceding 12-month calendar year.  "Consumer  price  index-u"
32    means  the  index published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics
33    of the United States Department of Labor  that  measures  the
34    average  change  in prices of goods and services purchased by
 
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 1    all urban consumers, United States city average,  all  items,
 2    1982-84  =  100.   If  this index is no longer published, the
 3    Department  shall  use  a  comparable  substitute  index   as
 4    determined by rule.
 5        The  Department  shall  execute,  relative to the nursing
 6    home prescreening project, as authorized by Section  4.03  of
 7    the   Illinois   Act   on  the  Aging,  written  inter-agency
 8    agreements with the Department on Aging and the Department of
 9    Public Aid, to effect the following:  (i)  intake  procedures
10    and  common  eligibility  criteria  for those persons who are
11    receiving   non-institutional   services;   and   (ii)    the
12    establishment  and  development of non-institutional services
13    in areas of the State where they are not currently  available
14    or  are  undeveloped.  On and after July 1, 1996, all nursing
15    home prescreenings for individuals 18 through 59 years of age
16    shall be conducted by 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 shall
21    the recipient's share exceed the actual cost of the  services
22    provided.   Protected  income  shall not be considered by the
23    Department in its determination of the recipient's ability to
24    pay  a  share  of  the  cost  of  services.   The  level   of
25    cost-sharing  shall  be adjusted each year to reflect changes
26    in the "protected income" level.  The Department shall deduct
27    from the recipient's share of the cost of services any  money
28    expended by the recipient for disability-related expenses.
29        The    Department,   or   the   Department's   authorized
30    representative, shall recover the amount of  moneys  expended
31    for  services provided to or in behalf of a person under this
32    Section by a claim against the person's estate or against the
33    estate of the person's surviving spouse, but no recovery  may
34    be had until after the death of the surviving spouse, if any,
 
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 1    and  then  only at such time when there is no surviving child
 2    who is under  age  21,  blind,  or  permanently  and  totally
 3    disabled.   This  paragraph, however, shall not bar recovery,
 4    at the death of the person, of moneys for  services  provided
 5    to  the  person or in behalf of the person under this Section
 6    to which the person was  not  entitled;  provided  that  such
 7    recovery  shall not be enforced against any real estate while
 8    it is occupied as a homestead  by  the  surviving  spouse  or
 9    other  dependent,  if  no claims by other creditors have been
10    filed against the estate, or, if such claims have been filed,
11    they remain dormant for failure of prosecution or failure  of
12    the  claimant  to compel administration of the estate for the
13    purpose of payment.  This paragraph shall  not  bar  recovery
14    from  the estate of a spouse, under Sections 1915 and 1924 of
15    the Social Security Act  and  Section  5-4  of  the  Illinois
16    Public  Aid  Code,  who  precedes a person receiving services
17    under this Section in death.  All moneys for services paid to
18    or in behalf of  the  person  under  this  Section  shall  be
19    claimed  for  recovery  from  the  deceased  spouse's estate.
20    "Homestead", as used in this paragraph,  means  the  dwelling
21    house  and  contiguous  real  estate  occupied by a surviving
22    spouse or relative, as defined by the rules  and  regulations
23    of  the  Illinois Department of Public Aid, regardless of the
24    value of the property.
25        The  Department  and  the  Department  on   Aging   shall
26    cooperate  in  the  development  and  submission of an annual
27    report on programs and services provided under this  Section.
28    Such  joint  report  shall be filed with the Governor and the
29    General Assembly on or before March 30 each year.
30        The requirement for reporting  to  the  General  Assembly
31    shall  be  satisfied  by filing copies of the report with the
32    Speaker, the Minority Leader and the Clerk of  the  House  of
33    Representatives  and  the  President, the Minority Leader and
34    the Secretary of the  Senate  and  the  Legislative  Research
 
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 1    Unit,  as  required  by  Section  3.1 of the General Assembly
 2    Organization Act, and filing additional copies with the State
 3    Government  Report  Distribution  Center  for   the   General
 4    Assembly  as required under paragraph (t) of Section 7 of the
 5    State Library Act.
 6        (g)  To establish such subdivisions of the Department  as
 7    shall be desirable and assign to the various subdivisions the
 8    responsibilities  and  duties  placed  upon the Department by
 9    law.
10        (h)  To cooperate and enter into any necessary agreements
11    with the Department of Employment Security for the  provision
12    of  job placement and job referral services to clients of the
13    Department,  including  job  service  registration  of   such
14    clients  with Illinois Employment Security offices and making
15    job listings  maintained  by  the  Department  of  Employment
16    Security available to such clients.
17        (i)  To  possess  all powers reasonable and necessary for
18    the exercise and administration of  the  powers,  duties  and
19    responsibilities  of the Department which are provided for by
20    law.
21        (j)  To establish a procedure whereby  new  providers  of
22    personal care attendant services shall submit vouchers to the
23    State  for  payment  two  times  during  their first month of
24    employment and one time per month  thereafter.   In  no  case
25    shall  the  Department pay personal care attendants an hourly
26    wage that is less than the federal minimum wage.
27        (k)  To provide adequate notice to providers of chore and
28    housekeeping services informing them that they  are  entitled
29    to  an  interest payment on bills which are not promptly paid
30    pursuant to Section 3 of the State Prompt Payment Act.
31        (l)  To  establish,  operate  and  maintain  a  Statewide
32    Housing Clearinghouse of information on available, government
33    subsidized  housing  accessible  to  disabled   persons   and
34    available  privately  owned  housing  accessible  to disabled
 
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 1    persons.  The information shall include but not be limited to
 2    the  location,  rental  requirements,  access  features   and
 3    proximity to public transportation of available housing.  The
 4    Clearinghouse  shall  consist  of  at  least  a  computerized
 5    database  for  the storage and retrieval of information and a
 6    separate or shared toll free  telephone  number  for  use  by
 7    those seeking information from the Clearinghouse.  Department
 8    offices  and personnel throughout the State shall also assist
 9    in the operation  of  the  Statewide  Housing  Clearinghouse.
10    Cooperation  with  local,  State and federal housing managers
11    shall be sought and  extended  in  order  to  frequently  and
12    promptly update the Clearinghouse's information.
13        (m)  To assure that the names and case records of persons
14    who  received  or are receiving services from the Department,
15    including persons receiving vocational  rehabilitation,  home
16    services,  or  other services, and those attending one of the
17    Department's schools or other supervised  facility  shall  be
18    confidential  and  not  be open to the general public.  Those
19    case records and reports  or  the  information  contained  in
20    those  records and reports shall be disclosed by the Director
21    only  to  proper  law  enforcement   officials,   individuals
22    authorized  by a court, the General Assembly or any committee
23    or commission of the General Assembly, and other persons  and
24    for  reasons  as the Director designates by rule.  Disclosure
25    by  the  Director  may  be  only  in  accordance  with  other
26    applicable law.
27    (Source: P.A. 91-540, eff. 8-13-99; 92-84, eff. 7-1-02.)

28        Section 99.  Effective date.  This Act takes effect  July
29    1, 2003.