Sen. James F. Clayborne, Jr.

Filed: 4/19/2010

 

 


 

 


 
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AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 5998

2     AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 5998 by replacing
3 everything after the enacting clause with the following:
 
4     "Section 5. The Assisted Living and Shared Housing Act is
5 amended by changing Sections 10, 20, 30, and 110 as follows:
 
6     (210 ILCS 9/10)
7     (Text of Section before amendment by P.A. 96-339)
8     Sec. 10. Definitions. For purposes of this Act:
9     "Activities of daily living" means eating, dressing,
10 bathing, toileting, transferring, or personal hygiene.
11     "Advisory Board" means the Assisted Living and Shared
12 Housing Standards and Quality of Life Advisory Board.
13     "Assisted living establishment" or "establishment" means a
14 home, building, residence, or any other place where sleeping
15 accommodations are provided for at least 3 unrelated adults, at
16 least 80% of whom are 55 years of age or older and where the

 

 

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1 following are provided consistent with the purposes of this
2 Act:
3         (1) services consistent with a social model that is
4     based on the premise that the resident's unit in assisted
5     living and shared housing is his or her own home;
6         (2) community-based residential care for persons who
7     need assistance with activities of daily living, including
8     personal, supportive, and intermittent health-related
9     services available 24 hours per day, if needed, to meet the
10     scheduled and unscheduled needs of a resident;
11         (3) mandatory services, whether provided directly by
12     the establishment or by another entity arranged for by the
13     establishment, with the consent of the resident or
14     resident's representative; and
15         (4) a physical environment that is a homelike setting
16     that includes the following and such other elements as
17     established by the Department in conjunction with the
18     Assisted Living and Shared Housing Standards and Quality of
19     Life Advisory Board: individual living units each of which
20     shall accommodate small kitchen appliances and contain
21     private bathing, washing, and toilet facilities, or
22     private washing and toilet facilities with a common bathing
23     room readily accessible to each resident. Units shall be
24     maintained for single occupancy except in cases in which 2
25     residents choose to share a unit. Sufficient common space
26     shall exist to permit individual and group activities.

 

 

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1     "Assisted living establishment" or "establishment" does
2 not mean any of the following:
3         (1) A home, institution, or similar place operated by
4     the federal government or the State of Illinois.
5         (2) A long term care facility licensed under the
6     Nursing Home Care Act. However, a long term care facility
7     may convert distinct parts of the facility to assisted
8     living. If the long term care facility elects to do so, the
9     facility shall retain the Certificate of Need for its
10     nursing and sheltered care beds that were converted.
11         (3) A hospital, sanitarium, or other institution, the
12     principal activity or business of which is the diagnosis,
13     care, and treatment of human illness and that is required
14     to be licensed under the Hospital Licensing Act.
15         (4) A facility for child care as defined in the Child
16     Care Act of 1969.
17         (5) A community living facility as defined in the
18     Community Living Facilities Licensing Act.
19         (6) A nursing home or sanitarium operated solely by and
20     for persons who rely exclusively upon treatment by
21     spiritual means through prayer in accordance with the creed
22     or tenants of a well-recognized church or religious
23     denomination.
24         (7) A facility licensed by the Department of Human
25     Services as a community-integrated living arrangement as
26     defined in the Community-Integrated Living Arrangements

 

 

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1     Licensure and Certification Act.
2         (8) A supportive residence licensed under the
3     Supportive Residences Licensing Act.
4         (9) The portion of a life care facility as defined in
5     the Life Care Facilities Act not licensed as an assisted
6     living establishment under this Act; a life care facility
7     may apply under this Act to convert sections of the
8     community to assisted living.
9         (10) A free-standing hospice facility licensed under
10     the Hospice Program Licensing Act.
11         (11) A shared housing establishment.
12         (12) A supportive living facility as described in
13     Section 5-5.01a of the Illinois Public Aid Code.
14     "Department" means the Department of Public Health.
15     "Director" means the Director of Public Health.
16     "Emergency situation" means imminent danger of death or
17 serious physical harm to a resident of an establishment.
18     "License" means any of the following types of licenses
19 issued to an applicant or licensee by the Department:
20         (1) "Probationary license" means a license issued to an
21     applicant or licensee that has not held a license under
22     this Act prior to its application or pursuant to a license
23     transfer in accordance with Section 50 of this Act.
24         (2) "Regular license" means a license issued by the
25     Department to an applicant or licensee that is in
26     substantial compliance with this Act and any rules

 

 

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1     promulgated under this Act.
2     "Licensee" means a person, agency, association,
3 corporation, partnership, or organization that has been issued
4 a license to operate an assisted living or shared housing
5 establishment.
6     "Licensed health care professional" means a registered
7 professional nurse, an advanced practice nurse, a physician
8 assistant, and a licensed practical nurse.
9     "Mandatory services" include the following:
10         (1) 3 meals per day available to the residents prepared
11     by the establishment or an outside contractor;
12         (2) housekeeping services including, but not limited
13     to, vacuuming, dusting, and cleaning the resident's unit;
14         (3) personal laundry and linen services available to
15     the residents provided or arranged for by the
16     establishment;
17         (4) security provided 24 hours each day including, but
18     not limited to, locked entrances or building or contract
19     security personnel;
20         (5) an emergency communication response system, which
21     is a procedure in place 24 hours each day by which a
22     resident can notify building management, an emergency
23     response vendor, or others able to respond to his or her
24     need for assistance; and
25         (6) assistance with activities of daily living as
26     required by each resident.

 

 

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1     "Negotiated risk" is the process by which a resident, or
2 his or her representative, may formally negotiate with
3 providers what risks each are willing and unwilling to assume
4 in service provision and the resident's living environment. The
5 provider assures that the resident and the resident's
6 representative, if any, are informed of the risks of these
7 decisions and of the potential consequences of assuming these
8 risks.
9     "Owner" means the individual, partnership, corporation,
10 association, or other person who owns an assisted living or
11 shared housing establishment. In the event an assisted living
12 or shared housing establishment is operated by a person who
13 leases or manages the physical plant, which is owned by another
14 person, "owner" means the person who operates the assisted
15 living or shared housing establishment, except that if the
16 person who owns the physical plant is an affiliate of the
17 person who operates the assisted living or shared housing
18 establishment and has significant control over the day to day
19 operations of the assisted living or shared housing
20 establishment, the person who owns the physical plant shall
21 incur jointly and severally with the owner all liabilities
22 imposed on an owner under this Act.
23     "Physician" means a person licensed under the Medical
24 Practice Act of 1987 to practice medicine in all of its
25 branches.
26     "Resident" means a person residing in an assisted living or

 

 

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1 shared housing establishment.
2     "Resident's representative" means a person, other than the
3 owner, agent, or employee of an establishment or of the health
4 care provider unless related to the resident, designated in
5 writing by a resident to be his or her representative. This
6 designation may be accomplished through the Illinois Power of
7 Attorney Act, pursuant to the guardianship process under the
8 Probate Act of 1975, or pursuant to an executed designation of
9 representative form specified by the Department.
10     "Self" means the individual or the individual's designated
11 representative.
12     "Shared housing establishment" or "establishment" means a
13 publicly or privately operated free-standing residence for 16
14 or fewer persons, at least 80% of whom are 55 years of age or
15 older and who are unrelated to the owners and one manager of
16 the residence, where the following are provided:
17         (1) services consistent with a social model that is
18     based on the premise that the resident's unit is his or her
19     own home;
20         (2) community-based residential care for persons who
21     need assistance with activities of daily living, including
22     housing and personal, supportive, and intermittent
23     health-related services available 24 hours per day, if
24     needed, to meet the scheduled and unscheduled needs of a
25     resident; and
26         (3) mandatory services, whether provided directly by

 

 

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1     the establishment or by another entity arranged for by the
2     establishment, with the consent of the resident or the
3     resident's representative.
4     "Shared housing establishment" or "establishment" does not
5 mean any of the following:
6         (1) A home, institution, or similar place operated by
7     the federal government or the State of Illinois.
8         (2) A long term care facility licensed under the
9     Nursing Home Care Act. A long term care facility may,
10     however, convert sections of the facility to assisted
11     living. If the long term care facility elects to do so, the
12     facility shall retain the Certificate of Need for its
13     nursing beds that were converted.
14         (3) A hospital, sanitarium, or other institution, the
15     principal activity or business of which is the diagnosis,
16     care, and treatment of human illness and that is required
17     to be licensed under the Hospital Licensing Act.
18         (4) A facility for child care as defined in the Child
19     Care Act of 1969.
20         (5) A community living facility as defined in the
21     Community Living Facilities Licensing Act.
22         (6) A nursing home or sanitarium operated solely by and
23     for persons who rely exclusively upon treatment by
24     spiritual means through prayer in accordance with the creed
25     or tenants of a well-recognized church or religious
26     denomination.

 

 

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1         (7) A facility licensed by the Department of Human
2     Services as a community-integrated living arrangement as
3     defined in the Community-Integrated Living Arrangements
4     Licensure and Certification Act.
5         (8) A supportive residence licensed under the
6     Supportive Residences Licensing Act.
7         (9) A life care facility as defined in the Life Care
8     Facilities Act; a life care facility may apply under this
9     Act to convert sections of the community to assisted
10     living.
11         (10) A free-standing hospice facility licensed under
12     the Hospice Program Licensing Act.
13         (11) An assisted living establishment.
14         (12) A supportive living facility as described in
15     Section 5-5.01a of the Illinois Public Aid Code.
16     "Total assistance" means that staff or another individual
17 performs the entire activity of daily living without
18 participation by the resident.
19 (Source: P.A. 95-216, eff. 8-16-07.)
 
20     (Text of Section after amendment by P.A. 96-339)
21     Sec. 10. Definitions. For purposes of this Act:
22     "Activities of daily living" means eating, dressing,
23 bathing, toileting, transferring, or personal hygiene.
24     "Advisory Board" means the Assisted Living and Shared
25 Housing Standards and Quality of Life Advisory Board.

 

 

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1     "Assisted living establishment" or "establishment" means a
2 home, building, residence, or any other place where sleeping
3 accommodations are provided for at least 3 unrelated adults, at
4 least 80% of whom are 55 years of age or older and where the
5 following are provided consistent with the purposes of this
6 Act:
7         (1) services consistent with a social model that is
8     based on the premise that the resident's unit in assisted
9     living and shared housing is his or her own home;
10         (2) community-based residential care for persons who
11     need assistance with activities of daily living, including
12     personal, supportive, and intermittent health-related
13     services available 24 hours per day, if needed, to meet the
14     scheduled and unscheduled needs of a resident;
15         (3) mandatory services, whether provided directly by
16     the establishment or by another entity arranged for by the
17     establishment, with the consent of the resident or
18     resident's representative; and
19         (4) a physical environment that is a homelike setting
20     that includes the following and such other elements as
21     established by the Department in conjunction with the
22     Assisted Living and Shared Housing Standards and Quality of
23     Life Advisory Board: individual living units each of which
24     shall accommodate small kitchen appliances and contain
25     private bathing, washing, and toilet facilities, or
26     private washing and toilet facilities with a common bathing

 

 

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1     room readily accessible to each resident. Units shall be
2     maintained for single occupancy except in cases in which 2
3     residents choose to share a unit. Sufficient common space
4     shall exist to permit individual and group activities.
5     "Assisted living establishment" or "establishment" does
6 not mean any of the following:
7         (1) A home, institution, or similar place operated by
8     the federal government or the State of Illinois.
9         (2) A long term care facility licensed under the
10     Nursing Home Care Act or a facility licensed under the
11     MR/DD Community Care Act. However, a facility licensed
12     under either of those Acts may convert distinct parts of
13     the facility to assisted living. If the facility elects to
14     do so, the facility shall retain the Certificate of Need
15     for its nursing and sheltered care beds that were
16     converted.
17         (3) A hospital, sanitarium, or other institution, the
18     principal activity or business of which is the diagnosis,
19     care, and treatment of human illness and that is required
20     to be licensed under the Hospital Licensing Act.
21         (4) A facility for child care as defined in the Child
22     Care Act of 1969.
23         (5) A community living facility as defined in the
24     Community Living Facilities Licensing Act.
25         (6) A nursing home or sanitarium operated solely by and
26     for persons who rely exclusively upon treatment by

 

 

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1     spiritual means through prayer in accordance with the creed
2     or tenants of a well-recognized church or religious
3     denomination.
4         (7) A facility licensed by the Department of Human
5     Services as a community-integrated living arrangement as
6     defined in the Community-Integrated Living Arrangements
7     Licensure and Certification Act.
8         (8) A supportive residence licensed under the
9     Supportive Residences Licensing Act.
10         (9) The portion of a life care facility as defined in
11     the Life Care Facilities Act not licensed as an assisted
12     living establishment under this Act; a life care facility
13     may apply under this Act to convert sections of the
14     community to assisted living.
15         (10) A free-standing hospice facility licensed under
16     the Hospice Program Licensing Act.
17         (11) A shared housing establishment.
18         (12) A supportive living facility as described in
19     Section 5-5.01a of the Illinois Public Aid Code.
20     "Department" means the Department of Public Health.
21     "Director" means the Director of Public Health.
22     "Emergency situation" means imminent danger of death or
23 serious physical harm to a resident of an establishment.
24     "License" means any of the following types of licenses
25 issued to an applicant or licensee by the Department:
26         (1) "Probationary license" means a license issued to an

 

 

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1     applicant or licensee that has not held a license under
2     this Act prior to its application or pursuant to a license
3     transfer in accordance with Section 50 of this Act.
4         (2) "Regular license" means a license issued by the
5     Department to an applicant or licensee that is in
6     substantial compliance with this Act and any rules
7     promulgated under this Act.
8     "Licensee" means a person, agency, association,
9 corporation, partnership, or organization that has been issued
10 a license to operate an assisted living or shared housing
11 establishment.
12     "Licensed health care professional" means a registered
13 professional nurse, an advanced practice nurse, a physician
14 assistant, and a licensed practical nurse.
15     "Mandatory services" include the following:
16         (1) 3 meals per day available to the residents prepared
17     by the establishment or an outside contractor;
18         (2) housekeeping services including, but not limited
19     to, vacuuming, dusting, and cleaning the resident's unit;
20         (3) personal laundry and linen services available to
21     the residents provided or arranged for by the
22     establishment;
23         (4) security provided 24 hours each day including, but
24     not limited to, locked entrances or building or contract
25     security personnel;
26         (5) an emergency communication response system, which

 

 

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1     is a procedure in place 24 hours each day by which a
2     resident can notify building management, an emergency
3     response vendor, or others able to respond to his or her
4     need for assistance; and
5         (6) assistance with activities of daily living as
6     required by each resident.
7     "Negotiated risk" is the process by which a resident, or
8 his or her representative, may formally negotiate with
9 providers what risks each are willing and unwilling to assume
10 in service provision and the resident's living environment. The
11 provider assures that the resident and the resident's
12 representative, if any, are informed of the risks of these
13 decisions and of the potential consequences of assuming these
14 risks.
15     "Owner" means the individual, partnership, corporation,
16 association, or other person who owns an assisted living or
17 shared housing establishment. In the event an assisted living
18 or shared housing establishment is operated by a person who
19 leases or manages the physical plant, which is owned by another
20 person, "owner" means the person who operates the assisted
21 living or shared housing establishment, except that if the
22 person who owns the physical plant is an affiliate of the
23 person who operates the assisted living or shared housing
24 establishment and has significant control over the day to day
25 operations of the assisted living or shared housing
26 establishment, the person who owns the physical plant shall

 

 

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1 incur jointly and severally with the owner all liabilities
2 imposed on an owner under this Act.
3     "Physician" means a person licensed under the Medical
4 Practice Act of 1987 to practice medicine in all of its
5 branches.
6     "Resident" means a person residing in an assisted living or
7 shared housing establishment.
8     "Resident's representative" means a person, other than the
9 owner, agent, or employee of an establishment or of the health
10 care provider unless related to the resident, designated in
11 writing by a resident to be his or her representative. This
12 designation may be accomplished through the Illinois Power of
13 Attorney Act, pursuant to the guardianship process under the
14 Probate Act of 1975, or pursuant to an executed designation of
15 representative form specified by the Department.
16     "Self" means the individual or the individual's designated
17 representative.
18     "Shared housing establishment" or "establishment" means a
19 publicly or privately operated free-standing residence for 16
20 or fewer persons, at least 80% of whom are 55 years of age or
21 older and who are unrelated to the owners and one manager of
22 the residence, where the following are provided:
23         (1) services consistent with a social model that is
24     based on the premise that the resident's unit is his or her
25     own home;
26         (2) community-based residential care for persons who

 

 

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1     need assistance with activities of daily living, including
2     housing and personal, supportive, and intermittent
3     health-related services available 24 hours per day, if
4     needed, to meet the scheduled and unscheduled needs of a
5     resident; and
6         (3) mandatory services, whether provided directly by
7     the establishment or by another entity arranged for by the
8     establishment, with the consent of the resident or the
9     resident's representative.
10     "Shared housing establishment" or "establishment" does not
11 mean any of the following:
12         (1) A home, institution, or similar place operated by
13     the federal government or the State of Illinois.
14         (2) A long term care facility licensed under the
15     Nursing Home Care Act or a facility licensed under the
16     MR/DD Community Care Act. A facility licensed under either
17     of those Acts may, however, convert sections of the
18     facility to assisted living. If the facility elects to do
19     so, the facility shall retain the Certificate of Need for
20     its nursing beds that were converted.
21         (3) A hospital, sanitarium, or other institution, the
22     principal activity or business of which is the diagnosis,
23     care, and treatment of human illness and that is required
24     to be licensed under the Hospital Licensing Act.
25         (4) A facility for child care as defined in the Child
26     Care Act of 1969.

 

 

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1         (5) A community living facility as defined in the
2     Community Living Facilities Licensing Act.
3         (6) A nursing home or sanitarium operated solely by and
4     for persons who rely exclusively upon treatment by
5     spiritual means through prayer in accordance with the creed
6     or tenants of a well-recognized church or religious
7     denomination.
8         (7) A facility licensed by the Department of Human
9     Services as a community-integrated living arrangement as
10     defined in the Community-Integrated Living Arrangements
11     Licensure and Certification Act.
12         (8) A supportive residence licensed under the
13     Supportive Residences Licensing Act.
14         (9) A life care facility as defined in the Life Care
15     Facilities Act; a life care facility may apply under this
16     Act to convert sections of the community to assisted
17     living.
18         (10) A free-standing hospice facility licensed under
19     the Hospice Program Licensing Act.
20         (11) An assisted living establishment.
21         (12) A supportive living facility as described in
22     Section 5-5.01a of the Illinois Public Aid Code.
23     "Total assistance" means that staff or another individual
24 performs the entire activity of daily living without
25 participation by the resident.
26 (Source: P.A. 95-216, eff. 8-16-07; 96-339, eff. 7-1-10.)
 

 

 

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1     (210 ILCS 9/20)
2     Sec. 20. Construction and operating standards. The
3 Department, in consultation with the Advisory Board, shall
4 prescribe minimum standards for establishments. These
5 standards shall include:
6         (1) the location and construction of the
7     establishment, including plumbing, heating, lighting,
8     ventilation, and other physical conditions which shall
9     ensure the health, safety, and comfort of residents and
10     their protection from fire hazards; these standards shall
11     include, at a minimum, compliance with the residential
12     board and care occupancies chapter of the National Fire
13     Protection Association's Life Safety Code, local and State
14     building codes for the building type, and accessibility
15     standards of the Americans with Disabilities Act;
16         (2) the number and qualifications of all personnel
17     having responsibility for any part of the services provided
18     for residents;
19         (3) all sanitary conditions within the establishment
20     and its surroundings, including water supply, sewage
21     disposal, food handling, infection control, and general
22     hygiene, which shall ensure the health and comfort of
23     residents;
24         (4) a program for adequate maintenance of physical
25     plant and equipment;

 

 

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1         (5) adequate accommodations, staff, and services for
2     the number and types of residents for whom the
3     establishment is licensed;
4         (6) the development of evacuation and other
5     appropriate safety plans for use during weather, health,
6     fire, physical plant, environmental, and national defense
7     emergencies; and
8         (7) the maintenance of minimum financial and other
9     resources necessary to meet the standards established
10     under this Section and to operate the establishment in
11     accordance with this Act.
12 (Source: P.A. 91-656, eff. 1-1-01.)
 
13     (210 ILCS 9/30)
14     Sec. 30. Licensing.
15     (a) The Department, in consultation with the Advisory
16 Board, shall establish by rule forms, procedures, and fees for
17 the annual licensing of assisted living and shared housing
18 establishments; shall establish and enforce sanctions and
19 penalties for operating in violation of this Act, as provided
20 in Section 135 of this Act and rules adopted under Section 110
21 of this Act. The Department shall conduct an annual on-site
22 review for each establishment covered by this Act, which shall
23 include, but not be limited to, compliance with this Act and
24 rules adopted hereunder, focus on solving resident issues and
25 concerns, and the quality improvement process implemented by

 

 

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1 the establishment to address resident issues. The quality
2 improvement process implemented by the establishment must
3 benchmark performance, be customer centered, be data driven,
4 and focus on resident satisfaction.
5     (b) An establishment shall provide the following
6 information to the Department to be considered for licensure:
7         (1) the business name, street address, mailing
8     address, and telephone number of the establishment;
9         (2) the name and mailing address of the owner or owners
10     of the establishment and if the owner or owners are not
11     natural persons, identification of the type of business
12     entity of the owners, and the names and addresses of the
13     officers and members of the governing body, or comparable
14     persons for partnerships, limited liability companies, or
15     other types of business organizations;
16         (3) financial information, content and form to be
17     determined by rules which may provide different standards
18     for assisted living establishments and shared housing
19     establishments, establishing that the project is
20     financially feasible;
21         (4) the name and mailing address of the managing agent
22     of the establishment, whether hired under a management
23     agreement or lease agreement, if different from the owner
24     or owners, and the name of the full-time director;
25         (5) verification that the establishment has entered or
26     will enter into a service delivery contract as provided in

 

 

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1     Section 90, as required under this Act, with each resident
2     or resident's representative;
3         (6) the name and address of at least one natural person
4     who shall be responsible for dealing with the Department on
5     all matters provided for in this Act, on whom personal
6     service of all notices and orders shall be made, and who
7     shall be authorized to accept service on behalf of the
8     owner or owners and the managing agent. Notwithstanding a
9     contrary provision of the Code of Civil Procedure, personal
10     service on the person identified pursuant to this
11     subsection shall be considered service on the owner or
12     owners and the managing agent, and it shall not be a
13     defense to any action that personal service was not made on
14     each individual or entity;
15         (7) the signature of the authorized representative of
16     the owner or owners;
17         (8) proof of an ongoing quality improvement program in
18     accordance with rules adopted by the Department in
19     collaboration with the Advisory Board;
20         (9) information about the number and types of units,
21     the maximum census, and the services to be provided at the
22     establishment, proof of compliance with applicable State
23     and local residential standards, and a copy of the standard
24     contract offered to residents;
25         (10) documentation of adequate liability insurance;
26     and

 

 

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1         (11) other information necessary to determine the
2     identity and qualifications of an applicant or licensee to
3     operate an establishment in accordance with this Act as
4     required by the Department by rule.
5     (c) The information in the statement of ownership shall be
6 public information and shall be available from the Department.
7 (Source: P.A. 91-656, eff. 1-1-01.)
 
8     (210 ILCS 9/110)
9     Sec. 110. Powers and duties of the Department.
10     (a) The Department shall conduct an annual unannounced
11 on-site visit at each assisted living and shared housing
12 establishment to determine compliance with applicable
13 licensure requirements and standards. Additional visits may be
14 conducted without prior notice to the assisted living or shared
15 housing establishment.
16     (b) Upon receipt of information that may indicate the
17 failure of the assisted living or shared housing establishment
18 or a service provider to comply with a provision of this Act,
19 the Department shall investigate the matter or make appropriate
20 referrals to other government agencies and entities having
21 jurisdiction over the subject matter of the possible violation.
22 The Department may also make referrals to any public or private
23 agency that the Department considers available for appropriate
24 assistance to those involved. The Department may oversee and
25 coordinate the enforcement of State consumer protection

 

 

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1 policies affecting residents residing in an establishment
2 licensed under this Act.
3     (c) The Department shall establish by rule complaint
4 receipt, investigation, resolution, and involuntary residency
5 termination procedures. Resolution procedures shall provide
6 for on-site review and evaluation of an assisted living or
7 shared housing establishment found to be in violation of this
8 Act within a specified period of time based on the gravity and
9 severity of the violation and any pervasive pattern of
10 occurrences of the same or similar violations.
11     (d) (Blank). The Governor shall establish an Assisted
12 Living and Shared Housing Standards and Quality of Life
13 Advisory Board.
14     (e) The Department shall by rule establish penalties and
15 sanctions, which shall include, but need not be limited to, the
16 creation of a schedule of graduated penalties and sanctions to
17 include closure.
18     (f) The Department shall by rule establish procedures for
19 disclosure of information to the public, which shall include,
20 but not be limited to, ownership, licensure status, frequency
21 of complaints, disposition of substantiated complaints, and
22 disciplinary actions.
23     (g) (Blank).
24     (h) Beginning January 1, 2000, the Department shall begin
25 drafting rules necessary for the administration of this Act.
26 (Source: P.A. 93-1003, eff. 8-23-04.)
 

 

 

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1     (210 ILCS 9/125 rep.)
2     Section 10. The Assisted Living and Shared Housing Act is
3 amended by repealing Section 125.
 
4     Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
5 becoming law.".