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1     AN ACT concerning State government.
 
2     Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
 
4     Section 5. The Children and Family Services Act is amended
5 by changing Section 12 as follows:
 
6     (20 ILCS 505/12)  (from Ch. 23, par. 5012)
7     Sec. 12. (a) To provide supervision, housing
8 accommodations, board or the payment of boarding costs,
9 tuition, and treatment free of charge, except as otherwise
10 specified in this Act, for residents of this State who are
11 cared for in any institution, or for persons receiving services
12 under any program under the jurisdiction of the Department.
13 Residents of other states may be admitted upon payment of the
14 costs of board, tuition, and treatment as determined by the
15 Department; provided, that no resident of another state shall
16 be received or retained to the exclusion of any resident of
17 this State. The Department shall accept any donation for the
18 board, tuition, and treatment of any person receiving service
19 or care.
20     (b) To By July 1, 1994, to make room and board payments to
21 persons providing foster care under this Act at a rate for each
22 child that is up to 100% of the adjusted United States
23 Department of Agriculture Cost of Raising a Child in the Urban

 

 

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1 Midwest/Low Cost Index.
2     By March 1, 2010 and March 1 of each year thereafter, the
3 Department of Children and Family Services shall report to the
4 Governor and General Assembly the estimated cost and additional
5 funding required to establish the rate for each child up to
6 100% of the Foster Care Minimum Adequate Rates for Children
7 (MARC) for expenditures allowable under the federal Title IV-E
8 Foster Care Maintenance Program of the Social Security Act
9 related to the actual costs of providing food, clothing,
10 shelter, daily supervision, school supplies, personal
11 incidentals, and insurance, jointly recommended by the
12 National Foster Parent Association, the University of Maryland
13 School of Social Work, and the organization Children's Rights
14 in a technical report entitled "Hitting the M.A.R.C.:
15 Establishing Foster Care Minimum Adequate Rates for Children",
16 dated October 2007.
17 (Source: P.A. 86-1482.)
 
18     Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
19 becoming law.