093_SB1569

 
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 1        AN ACT in relation to health.

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

 4        Section 5.  The Community  Services  Act  is  amended  by
 5    changing Section 4 as follows:

 6        (405 ILCS 30/4) (from Ch. 91 1/2, par. 904)
 7        Sec. 4.  Financing for Community Services. The Department
 8    of   Human   Services  is  authorized  to  provide  financial
 9    assistance   to   eligible   private    service    providers,
10    corporations,   local   government   entities   or  voluntary
11    associations for the provision of services  to  persons  with
12    mental  illness,  persons with a developmental disability and
13    alcohol and drug dependent persons living  in  the  community
14    for the purpose of achieving the goals of this Act.
15        The   Department  shall  utilize  the  following  funding
16    mechanisms for community services:
17             (1)  Purchase of Care Contracts: services  purchased
18        on  a  predetermined  fee  per unit of service basis from
19        private  providers  or  governmental  entities.  Fee  per
20        service rates are set by  an  established  formula  which
21        covers  some  portion  of  personnel, supplies, and other
22        allowable costs,  and  which  makes  some  allowance  for
23        geographic  variations in costs as well as for additional
24        program components.
25             (2)  Grants: sums  of  money  which  the  Department
26        grants  to  private  providers  or  governmental entities
27        pursuant to the grant recipient's  agreement  to  provide
28        certain   services,  as  defined  by  departmental  grant
29        guidelines,  to  an   approximate   number   of   service
30        recipients. Grant levels are set through consideration of
31        personnel,  supply  and other allowable costs, as well as
 
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 1        other funds available to the program.
 2             (3)  Other Funding Arrangements: funding  mechanisms
 3        may  be  established on a pilot basis in order to examine
 4        the feasibility of alternative financing arrangements for
 5        the provision of community services.
 6        The Department shall strive to establish and maintain  an
 7    equitable  system  of  payment  which encourages providers to
 8    improve their  clients'  capabilities  for  independence  and
 9    reduces   their   reliance  on  community  or  State-operated
10    services.  The annual  appropriation  to  the  Department  of
11    Human  Services  to fund  community services shall include an
12    increase over the appropriation for the  previous fiscal year
13    that reflects any increase in  the  Implicit  Price  Deflator
14    for State and Local Government Purchases as determined by the
15    United    States  Department  of  Commerce  for  the 12-month
16    calendar year  immediately preceding the fiscal year in which
17    the increase is to be applied.  The increase shall be applied
18    to appropriations beginning July  1,  2003  for    the  State
19    fiscal year 2004 and continued each year thereafter.
20        In  accepting Department funds, providers shall recognize
21    their responsibility to be accountable to the Department  and
22    the  State  for the delivery of services which are consistent
23    with the philosophies and goals of this Act and the rules and
24    regulations promulgated under it.
25    (Source: P.A. 88-380; 89-507, eff. 7-1-97.)

26        Section 99.  Effective date.  This Act takes effect  upon
27    becoming law.