093_HB2220
LRB093 07406 DRJ 07570 b
1 AN ACT in relation to 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 changing Section 5B-2 as follows:
6 (305 ILCS 5/5B-2) (from Ch. 23, par. 5B-2)
7 Sec. 5B-2. Assessment; no local authorization to tax.
8 (a) For the privilege of engaging in the occupation of
9 long-term care provider, an assessment is imposed onupon
10 each long-term care provider for the State fiscal year
11 beginning on July 1, 1992 and ending on June 30, 1993, in an
12 amount equal to $6.30 times the number of occupied bed days
13 for the most recent calendar year ending before the beginning
14 of that State fiscal year. Notwithstanding any provision of
15 any other Act to the contrary, this assessment shall be
16 construed as a tax, but may not be added to the charges of an
17 individual's nursing home care that is paid for in whole, or
18 in part, by a federal, State, or combined federal-state
19 medical care program, except those individuals receiving
20 Medicare Part B benefits solely.
21 (b) Nothing in this amendatory Act of 1992 shall be
22 construed to authorize any home rule unit or other unit of
23 local government to license for revenue or impose a tax or
24 assessment upon long-term care providers or the occupation of
25 long-term care provider, or a tax or assessment measured by
26 the income or earnings or occupied bed days of a long-term
27 care provider.
28 (Source: P.A. 87-861.)