96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2009 and 2010
HB0614

 

Introduced 2/6/2009, by Rep. Elizabeth Hernandez

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
305 ILCS 5/5-5.4d new
305 ILCS 5/5-5.4e new
305 ILCS 5/5-5.4f new
305 ILCS 5/5-5.4g new

    Amends the Illinois Public Aid Code. Provides that for child care institutions, group homes, facilities licensed by the Department of Public Health under the Nursing Home Care Act as Intermediate Care for the Developmentally Disabled facilities, or facilities licensed by the Department of Human Services under the Community-Integrated Living Arrangements Licensure and Certification Act, in any calendar year in which there is a cost-of-living increase in federal Supplemental Security Income benefits or Social Security Administration payments, the Department of Healthcare and Family Services (and the Department of Children and Family Services, in the case of child care institutions and group homes) shall increase the Medicaid per diem rate paid to those facilities by an amount equal to the total amount of the increase in Supplemental Security Income benefits or Social Security Administration payments. Effective immediately.


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FISCAL NOTE ACT MAY APPLY

 

 

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 Illinois Public Aid Code is amended by
5 adding Sections 5-5.4d, 5-5.4e, 5-5.4f, and 5-5.4g as follows:
 
6     (305 ILCS 5/5-5.4d new)
7     Sec. 5-5.4d. Child care institutions; pass-through of SSI
8 or Social Security increase. For facilities licensed by the
9 Department of Children and Family Services as child care
10 institutions under the Child Care Act of 1969, in any calendar
11 year in which there is a cost-of-living increase in federal
12 Supplemental Security Income benefits or Social Security
13 Administration payments, the Department of Children and Family
14 Services and the Department of Healthcare and Family Services
15 shall increase the per diem rate paid to those facilities under
16 this Article by an amount equal to the total amount of the
17 increase in Supplemental Security Income benefits or Social
18 Security Administration Payments.
 
19     (305 ILCS 5/5-5.4e new)
20     Sec. 5-5.4e. Group homes; pass-through of SSI or Social
21 Security increase. For facilities licensed by the Department of
22 Children and Family Services as group homes under the Child

 

 

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1 Care Act of 1969, in any calendar year in which there is a
2 cost-of-living increase in federal Supplemental Security
3 Income benefits or Social Security Administration payments,
4 the Department of Children and Family Services and the
5 Department of Healthcare and Family Services shall increase the
6 per diem rate paid to those facilities under this Article by an
7 amount equal to the total amount of the increase in
8 Supplemental Security Income benefits or Social Security
9 Administration Payments.
 
10     (305 ILCS 5/5-5.4f new)
11     Sec. 5-5.4f. ICF/DD; pass-through of SSI or Social Security
12 increase. For facilities licensed by the Department of Public
13 Health under the Nursing Home Care Act as Intermediate Care for
14 the Developmentally Disabled facilities, in any calendar year
15 in which there is a cost-of-living increase in federal
16 Supplemental Security Income benefits or Social Security
17 Administration payments, the Department of Healthcare and
18 Family Services shall increase the per diem rate paid to those
19 facilities under this Article by an amount equal to the total
20 amount of the increase in Supplemental Security Income benefits
21 or Social Security Administration payments.
 
22     (305 ILCS 5/5-5.4g new)
23     Sec. 5-5.4g. CILA; pass-through of SSI or Social Security
24 increase. For facilities licensed by the Department of Human

 

 

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1 Services under the Community-Integrated Living Arrangements
2 Licensure and Certification Act, in any calendar year in which
3 there is a cost-of-living increase in federal Supplemental
4 Security Income benefits or Social Security Administration
5 payments, the Department of Healthcare and Family Services
6 shall increase the per diem rate paid to those facilities under
7 this Article by an amount equal to the total amount of the
8 increase in Supplemental Security Income benefits or Social
9 Security Administration payments.
 
10     Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
11 becoming law.