93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2003 and 2004
HB6849

 

Introduced 02/09/04, by Harry Osterman

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
30 ILCS 105/8.27   from Ch. 127, par. 144.27
305 ILCS 5/12-5   from Ch. 23, par. 12-5

    Amends the State Finance Act and the Illinois Public Aid Code. Provides that federal funds received by the Illinois Department of Human Services under Title IV for Temporary Assistance for Needy Families as reimbursement for expenditures made from the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) appropriations for costs of providing services in behalf of DCFS clients shall be deposited quarterly into the DCFS Children's Services Fund in amounts specified by interagency agreement between both agencies and the Governor's Office of Management and Budget. (Under current law, 80% of those federal funds shall be deposited into the DCFS Children's Services Fund.) Effective immediately.


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A BILL FOR

 

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1     AN ACT concerning public aid.
 
2     Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
 
4     Section 5. The State Finance Act is amended by changing
5 Section 8.27 as follows:
 
6     (30 ILCS 105/8.27)  (from Ch. 127, par. 144.27)
7     Sec. 8.27. All receipts from federal financial
8 participation in the Foster Care and Adoption Services program
9 under Title IV-E of the federal Social Security Act, including
10 receipts for related indirect costs, but excluding receipts
11 from federal financial participation in such Title IV-E Foster
12 Care and Adoption Training program, shall be deposited in the
13 DCFS Children's Services Fund.
14     Federal funds received by the Illinois Department of Human
15 Services under Title IV for Temporary Assistance for Needy
16 Families as reimbursement for expenditures made from the
17 Illinois Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS)
18 appropriations for costs of providing services in behalf of
19 DCFS clients shall be deposited quarterly into the DCFS
20 Children's Services Fund in amounts specified by interagency
21 agreement between both agencies and the Governor's Office of
22 Management and Budget. Eighty percent of the federal funds
23 received by the Illinois Department of Human Services under the
24 Title IV-A Emergency Assistance program as reimbursement for
25 expenditures made from the Illinois Department of Children and
26 Family Services appropriations for the costs of services in
27 behalf of Department of Children and Family Services clients
28 shall be deposited into the DCFS Children's Services Fund.
29     All receipts from federal financial participation in the
30 Child Welfare Services program under Title IV-B of the federal
31 Social Security Act, including receipts for related indirect
32 costs, shall be deposited into the DCFS Children's Services

 

 

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1 Fund for those moneys received as reimbursement for services
2 provided on or after July 1, 1994.
3     In addition, as soon as may be practicable after the first
4 day of November, 1994, the Department of Children and Family
5 Services shall request the Comptroller to order transferred and
6 the Treasurer shall transfer the unexpended balance of the
7 Child Welfare Services Fund to the DCFS Children's Services
8 Fund. Upon completion of the transfer, the Child Welfare
9 Services Fund will be considered dissolved and any outstanding
10 obligations or liabilities of that fund will pass to the DCFS
11 Children's Services Fund.
12     Monies in the Fund may be used by the Department, pursuant
13 to appropriation by the General Assembly, for the ordinary and
14 contingent expenses of the Department.
15     In fiscal year 1988 and in each fiscal year thereafter
16 through fiscal year 2000, the Comptroller shall order
17 transferred and the Treasurer shall transfer an amount of
18 $16,100,000 from the DCFS Children's Services Fund to the
19 General Revenue Fund in the following manner: As soon as may be
20 practicable after the 15th day of September, December, March
21 and June, the Comptroller shall order transferred and the
22 Treasurer shall transfer, to the extent that funds are
23 available, 1/4 of $16,100,000, plus any cumulative
24 deficiencies in such transfers for prior transfer dates during
25 such fiscal year. In no event shall any such transfer reduce
26 the available balance in the DCFS Children's Services Fund
27 below $350,000.
28     In accordance with subsection (q) of Section 5 of the
29 Children and Family Services Act, disbursements from
30 individual children's accounts shall be deposited into the DCFS
31 Children's Services Fund.
32 (Source: P.A. 91-712, eff. 7-1-00.)
 
33     Section 10. The Illinois Public Aid Code is amended by
34 changing Section 12-5 as follows:
 

 

 

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1     (305 ILCS 5/12-5)  (from Ch. 23, par. 12-5)
2     Sec. 12-5. Appropriations; uses; federal grants; report to
3 General Assembly. From the sums appropriated by the General
4 Assembly, the Illinois Department shall order for payment by
5 warrant from the State Treasury grants for public aid under
6 Articles III, IV, and V, including grants for funeral and
7 burial expenses, and all costs of administration of the
8 Illinois Department and the County Departments relating
9 thereto. Moneys appropriated to the Illinois Department for
10 public aid under Article VI may be used, with the consent of
11 the Governor, to co-operate with federal, State, and local
12 agencies in the development of work projects designed to
13 provide suitable employment for persons receiving public aid
14 under Article VI. The Illinois Department, with the consent of
15 the Governor, may be the agent of the State for the receipt and
16 disbursement of federal funds or commodities for public aid
17 purposes under Article VI and for related purposes in which the
18 co-operation of the Illinois Department is sought by the
19 federal government, and, in connection therewith, may make
20 necessary expenditures from moneys appropriated for public aid
21 under any Article of this Code and for administration. The
22 Illinois Department, with the consent of the Governor, may be
23 the agent of the State for the receipt and disbursement of
24 federal funds pursuant to the Immigration Reform and Control
25 Act of 1986 and may make necessary expenditures from monies
26 appropriated to it for operations, administration, and grants,
27 including payment to the Health Insurance Reserve Fund for
28 group insurance costs at the rate certified by the Department
29 of Central Management Services. All amounts received by the
30 Illinois Department pursuant to the Immigration Reform and
31 Control Act of 1986 shall be deposited in the Immigration
32 Reform and Control Fund. All amounts received into the
33 Immigration Reform and Control Fund as reimbursement for
34 expenditures from the General Revenue Fund shall be transferred
35 to the General Revenue Fund.
36     All grants received by the Illinois Department for programs

 

 

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1 funded by the Federal Social Services Block Grant shall be
2 deposited in the Social Services Block Grant Fund. All funds
3 received into the Social Services Block Grant Fund as
4 reimbursement for expenditures from the General Revenue Fund
5 shall be transferred to the General Revenue Fund. All funds
6 received into the Social Services Block Grant fund for
7 reimbursement for expenditure out of the Local Initiative Fund
8 shall be transferred into the Local Initiative Fund. Any other
9 federal funds received into the Social Services Block Grant
10 Fund shall be transferred to the Special Purposes Trust Fund.
11 All federal funds received by the Illinois Department as
12 reimbursement for Employment and Training Programs for
13 expenditures made by the Illinois Department from grants,
14 gifts, or legacies as provided in Section 12-4.18 or made by an
15 entity other than the Illinois Department shall be deposited
16 into the Employment and Training Fund, except that federal
17 funds received as reimbursement as a result of the
18 appropriation made for the costs of providing adult education
19 to public assistance recipients under the "Adult Education,
20 Public Assistance Fund" shall be deposited into the General
21 Revenue Fund; provided, however, that all funds, except those
22 that are specified in an interagency agreement between the
23 Illinois Community College Board and the Illinois Department,
24 that are received by the Illinois Department as reimbursement
25 under Title IV-A of the Social Security Act for expenditures
26 that are made by the Illinois Community College Board or any
27 public community college of this State shall be credited to a
28 special account that the State Treasurer shall establish and
29 maintain within the Employment and Training Fund for the
30 purpose of segregating the reimbursements received for
31 expenditures made by those entities. As reimbursements are
32 deposited into the Employment and Training Fund, the Illinois
33 Department shall certify to the State Comptroller and State
34 Treasurer the amount that is to be credited to the special
35 account established within that Fund as a reimbursement for
36 expenditures under Title IV-A of the Social Security Act made

 

 

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1 by the Illinois Community College Board or any of the public
2 community colleges. All amounts credited to the special account
3 established and maintained within the Employment and Training
4 Fund as provided in this Section shall be held for transfer to
5 the TANF Opportunities Fund as provided in subsection (d) of
6 Section 12-10.3, and shall not be transferred to any other fund
7 or used for any other purpose.
8     Any or all federal funds received as reimbursement for food
9 and shelter assistance under the Emergency Food and Shelter
10 Program authorized by Section 12-4.5 may be deposited, with the
11 consent of the Governor, into the Homelessness Prevention Fund.
12     Federal funds received by the Illinois Department of Human
13 Services under Title IV for Temporary Assistance for Needy
14 Families as reimbursement for expenditures made from the
15 Illinois Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS)
16 appropriations for costs of providing services in behalf of
17 DCFS clients shall be deposited quarterly into the DCFS
18 Children's Services Fund in amounts specified by interagency
19 agreement between both agencies and the Governor's Office of
20 Management and Budget. Eighty percent of the federal financial
21 participation funds received by the Illinois Department under
22 the Title IV-A Emergency Assistance program as reimbursement
23 for expenditures made from the Illinois Department of Children
24 and Family Services appropriations for the costs of providing
25 services in behalf of Department of Children and Family
26 Services clients shall be deposited into the DCFS Children's
27 Services Fund.
28     All federal funds, except those covered by the foregoing 3
29 paragraphs, received as reimbursement for expenditures from
30 the General Revenue Fund shall be deposited in the General
31 Revenue Fund for administrative and distributive expenditures
32 properly chargeable by federal law or regulation to aid
33 programs established under Articles III through XII and Titles
34 IV, XVI, XIX and XX of the Federal Social Security Act. Any
35 other federal funds received by the Illinois Department under
36 Sections 12-4.6, 12-4.18 and 12-4.19 that are required by

 

 

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1 Section 12-10 of this Code to be paid into the Special Purposes
2 Trust Fund shall be deposited into the Special Purposes Trust
3 Fund. Any other federal funds received by the Illinois
4 Department pursuant to the Child Support Enforcement Program
5 established by Title IV-D of the Social Security Act shall be
6 deposited in the Child Support Enforcement Trust Fund as
7 required under Section 12-10.2 of this Code. Any other federal
8 funds received by the Illinois Department for medical
9 assistance program expenditures made under Title XIX of the
10 Social Security Act and Article V of this Code that are
11 required by Section 5-4.21 of this Code to be paid into the
12 Medicaid Developmentally Disabled Provider Participation Fee
13 Trust Fund shall be deposited into the Medicaid Developmentally
14 Disabled Provider Participation Fee Trust Fund. Any other
15 federal funds received by the Illinois Department for medical
16 assistance program expenditures made under Title XIX of the
17 Social Security Act and Article V of this Code that are
18 required by Section 5-4.31 of this Code to be paid into the
19 Medicaid Long Term Care Provider Participation Fee Trust Fund
20 shall be deposited into the Medicaid Long Term Care Provider
21 Participation Fee Trust Fund. Any other federal funds received
22 by the Illinois Department for hospital inpatient, hospital
23 ambulatory care, and disproportionate share hospital
24 expenditures made under Title XIX of the Social Security Act
25 and Article V of this Code that are required by Section 14-2 of
26 this Code to be paid into the Hospital Services Trust Fund
27 shall be deposited into the Hospital Services Trust Fund. Any
28 other federal funds received by the Illinois Department for
29 expenditures made under Title XIX of the Social Security Act
30 and Articles V and VI of this Code that are required by Section
31 15-2 of this Code to be paid into the County Provider Trust
32 Fund shall be deposited into the County Provider Trust Fund.
33 Any other federal funds received by the Illinois Department for
34 hospital inpatient, hospital ambulatory care, and
35 disproportionate share hospital expenditures made under Title
36 XIX of the Social Security Act and Article V of this Code that

 

 

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1 are required by Section 5A-8 of this Code to be paid into the
2 Hospital Provider Fund shall be deposited into the Hospital
3 Provider Fund. Any other federal funds received by the Illinois
4 Department for medical assistance program expenditures made
5 under Title XIX of the Social Security Act and Article V of
6 this Code that are required by Section 5B-8 of this Code to be
7 paid into the Long-Term Care Provider Fund shall be deposited
8 into the Long-Term Care Provider Fund. Any other federal funds
9 received by the Illinois Department for medical assistance
10 program expenditures made under Title XIX of the Social
11 Security Act and Article V of this Code that are required by
12 Section 5C-7 of this Code to be paid into the Developmentally
13 Disabled Care Provider Fund shall be deposited into the
14 Developmentally Disabled Care Provider Fund. Any other federal
15 funds received by the Illinois Department for trauma center
16 adjustment payments that are required by Section 5-5.03 of this
17 Code and made under Title XIX of the Social Security Act and
18 Article V of this Code shall be deposited into the Trauma
19 Center Fund. Any other federal funds received by the Illinois
20 Department as reimbursement for expenses for early
21 intervention services paid from the Early Intervention
22 Services Revolving Fund shall be deposited into that Fund.
23     The Illinois Department shall report to the General
24 Assembly at the end of each fiscal quarter the amount of all
25 funds received and paid into the Social Service Block Grant
26 Fund and the Local Initiative Fund and the expenditures and
27 transfers of such funds for services, programs and other
28 purposes authorized by law. Such report shall be filed with the
29 Speaker, Minority Leader and Clerk of the House, with the
30 President, Minority Leader and Secretary of the Senate, with
31 the Chairmen of the House and Senate Appropriations Committees,
32 the House Human Resources Committee and the Senate Public
33 Health, Welfare and Corrections Committee, or the successor
34 standing Committees of each as provided by the rules of the
35 House and Senate, respectively, with the Legislative Research
36 Unit and with the State Government Report Distribution Center

 

 

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1 for the General Assembly as is required under paragraph (t) of
2 Section 7 of the State Library Act shall be deemed sufficient
3 to comply with this Section.
4 (Source: P.A. 92-111, eff. 1-1-02; 93-632, eff. 2-1-04.)
 
5     Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
6 becoming law.