Full Text of SB1665 94th General Assembly
SB1665eng 94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
|
|
|
SB1665 Engrossed |
|
LRB094 10745 DRJ 41167 b |
|
| 1 |
| AN ACT concerning aging.
| 2 |
| Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
| 3 |
| represented in the General Assembly:
| 4 |
| Section 5. The Illinois Act on the Aging is amended by | 5 |
| changing Section 4.02 as follows:
| 6 |
| (20 ILCS 105/4.02) (from Ch. 23, par. 6104.02)
| 7 |
| Sec. 4.02. The Department shall establish a program of | 8 |
| services to
prevent unnecessary institutionalization of | 9 |
| persons age 60 and older in
need of long term care or who are | 10 |
| established as persons who suffer from
Alzheimer's disease or a | 11 |
| related disorder under the Alzheimer's Disease
Assistance Act, | 12 |
| thereby enabling them
to remain in their own homes or in other | 13 |
| living arrangements. Such
preventive services, which may be | 14 |
| coordinated with other programs for the
aged and monitored by | 15 |
| area agencies on aging in cooperation with the
Department, may | 16 |
| include, but are not limited to, any or all of the following:
| 17 |
| (a) home health services;
| 18 |
| (b) home nursing services;
| 19 |
| (c) homemaker services;
| 20 |
| (d) chore and housekeeping services;
| 21 |
| (e) day care services;
| 22 |
| (f) home-delivered meals;
| 23 |
| (g) education in self-care;
| 24 |
| (h) personal care services;
| 25 |
| (i) adult day health services;
| 26 |
| (j) habilitation services;
| 27 |
| (k) respite care;
| 28 |
| (k-5) community reintegration services;
| 29 |
| (l) other nonmedical social services that may enable | 30 |
| the person
to become self-supporting; or
| 31 |
| (m) clearinghouse for information provided by senior | 32 |
| citizen home owners
who want to rent rooms to or share |
|
|
|
SB1665 Engrossed |
- 2 - |
LRB094 10745 DRJ 41167 b |
|
| 1 |
| living space with other senior citizens.
| 2 |
| The Department shall establish eligibility standards for | 3 |
| such
services taking into consideration the unique economic and | 4 |
| social needs
of the target population for whom they are to be | 5 |
| provided. Such eligibility
standards shall be based on the | 6 |
| recipient's ability to pay for services;
provided, however, | 7 |
| that in determining the amount and nature of services
for which | 8 |
| a person may qualify, consideration shall not be given to the
| 9 |
| value of cash, property or other assets held in the name of the | 10 |
| person's
spouse pursuant to a written agreement dividing | 11 |
| marital property into equal
but separate shares or pursuant to | 12 |
| a transfer of the person's interest in a
home to his spouse, | 13 |
| provided that the spouse's share of the marital
property is not | 14 |
| made available to the person seeking such services.
| 15 |
| Beginning July 1, 2002, the Department shall require as a | 16 |
| condition of
eligibility that all financially eligible | 17 |
| applicants and recipients apply
for medical assistance
under | 18 |
| Article V of the Illinois Public Aid Code in accordance with | 19 |
| rules
promulgated by the Department.
| 20 |
| The Department shall, in conjunction with the Department of | 21 |
| Public Aid,
seek appropriate amendments under Sections 1915 and | 22 |
| 1924 of the Social
Security Act. The purpose of the amendments | 23 |
| shall be to extend eligibility
for home and community based | 24 |
| services under Sections 1915 and 1924 of the
Social Security | 25 |
| Act to persons who transfer to or for the benefit of a
spouse | 26 |
| those amounts of income and resources allowed under Section | 27 |
| 1924 of
the Social Security Act. Subject to the approval of | 28 |
| such amendments, the
Department shall extend the provisions of | 29 |
| Section 5-4 of the Illinois
Public Aid Code to persons who, but | 30 |
| for the provision of home or
community-based services, would | 31 |
| require the level of care provided in an
institution, as is | 32 |
| provided for in federal law. Those persons no longer
found to | 33 |
| be eligible for receiving noninstitutional services due to | 34 |
| changes
in the eligibility criteria shall be given 60 days | 35 |
| notice prior to actual
termination. Those persons receiving | 36 |
| notice of termination may contact the
Department and request |
|
|
|
SB1665 Engrossed |
- 3 - |
LRB094 10745 DRJ 41167 b |
|
| 1 |
| the determination be appealed at any time during the
60 day | 2 |
| notice period. With the exception of the lengthened notice and | 3 |
| time
frame for the appeal request, the appeal process shall | 4 |
| follow the normal
procedure. In addition, each person affected | 5 |
| regardless of the
circumstances for discontinued eligibility | 6 |
| shall be given notice and the
opportunity to purchase the | 7 |
| necessary services through the Community Care
Program. If the | 8 |
| individual does not elect to purchase services, the
Department | 9 |
| shall advise the individual of alternative services. The target
| 10 |
| population identified for the purposes of this Section are | 11 |
| persons age 60
and older with an identified service need. | 12 |
| Priority shall be given to those
who are at imminent risk of | 13 |
| institutionalization. The services shall be
provided to | 14 |
| eligible persons age 60 and older to the extent that the cost
| 15 |
| of the services together with the other personal maintenance
| 16 |
| expenses of the persons are reasonably related to the standards
| 17 |
| established for care in a group facility appropriate to the | 18 |
| person's
condition. These non-institutional services, pilot | 19 |
| projects or
experimental facilities may be provided as part of | 20 |
| or in addition to
those authorized by federal law or those | 21 |
| funded and administered by the
Department of Human Services. | 22 |
| The Departments of Human Services, Public Aid,
Public Health, | 23 |
| Veterans' Affairs, and Commerce and Economic Opportunity and
| 24 |
| other appropriate agencies of State, federal and local | 25 |
| governments shall
cooperate with the Department on Aging in the | 26 |
| establishment and development
of the non-institutional | 27 |
| services. The Department shall require an annual
audit from all | 28 |
| chore/housekeeping and homemaker vendors contracting with
the | 29 |
| Department under this Section. The annual audit shall assure | 30 |
| that each
audited vendor's procedures are in compliance with | 31 |
| Department's financial
reporting guidelines requiring a 27% | 32 |
| administrative cost split and a 73%
employee wages and benefits | 33 |
| cost split. The audit is a public record under
the Freedom of | 34 |
| Information Act. The Department shall execute, relative to
the | 35 |
| nursing home prescreening project, written inter-agency
| 36 |
| agreements with the Department of Human Services and the |
|
|
|
SB1665 Engrossed |
- 4 - |
LRB094 10745 DRJ 41167 b |
|
| 1 |
| Department
of Public Aid, to effect the following: (1) intake | 2 |
| procedures and common
eligibility criteria for those persons | 3 |
| who are receiving non-institutional
services; and (2) the | 4 |
| establishment and development of non-institutional
services in | 5 |
| areas of the State where they are not currently available or | 6 |
| are
undeveloped. On and after July 1, 1996, all nursing home | 7 |
| prescreenings for
individuals 60 years of age or older shall be | 8 |
| conducted by the Department.
| 9 |
| As part of the Department on Aging's routine training of | 10 |
| case managers and case manager supervisors, the Department may | 11 |
| include information on family futures planning for persons who | 12 |
| are age 60 or older and who are caregivers of their adult | 13 |
| children with developmental disabilities. The content of the | 14 |
| training shall be at the Department's discretion.
| 15 |
| The Department is authorized to establish a system of | 16 |
| recipient copayment
for services provided under this Section, | 17 |
| such copayment to be based upon
the recipient's ability to pay | 18 |
| but in no case to exceed the actual cost of
the services | 19 |
| provided. Additionally, any portion of a person's income which
| 20 |
| is equal to or less than the federal poverty standard shall not | 21 |
| be
considered by the Department in determining the copayment. | 22 |
| The level of
such copayment shall be adjusted whenever | 23 |
| necessary to reflect any change
in the officially designated | 24 |
| federal poverty standard.
| 25 |
| The Department, or the Department's authorized | 26 |
| representative, shall
recover the amount of moneys expended for | 27 |
| services provided to or in
behalf of a person under this | 28 |
| Section by a claim against the person's
estate or against the | 29 |
| estate of the person's surviving spouse, but no
recovery may be | 30 |
| had until after the death of the surviving spouse, if
any, and | 31 |
| then only at such time when there is no surviving child who
is | 32 |
| under age 21, blind, or permanently and totally disabled. This
| 33 |
| paragraph, however, shall not bar recovery, at the death of the | 34 |
| person, of
moneys for services provided to the person or in | 35 |
| behalf of the person under
this Section to which the person was | 36 |
| not entitled;
provided that such recovery shall not be enforced |
|
|
|
SB1665 Engrossed |
- 5 - |
LRB094 10745 DRJ 41167 b |
|
| 1 |
| against any real estate while
it is occupied as a homestead by | 2 |
| the surviving spouse or other dependent, if no
claims by other | 3 |
| creditors have been filed against the estate, or, if such
| 4 |
| claims have been filed, they remain dormant for failure of | 5 |
| prosecution or
failure of the claimant to compel administration | 6 |
| of the estate for the purpose
of payment. This paragraph shall | 7 |
| not bar recovery from the estate of a spouse,
under Sections | 8 |
| 1915 and 1924 of the Social Security Act and Section 5-4 of the
| 9 |
| Illinois Public Aid Code, who precedes a person receiving | 10 |
| services under this
Section in death. All moneys for services
| 11 |
| paid to or in behalf of the person under this Section shall be | 12 |
| claimed for
recovery from the deceased spouse's estate. | 13 |
| "Homestead", as used
in this paragraph, means the dwelling | 14 |
| house and
contiguous real estate occupied by a surviving spouse
| 15 |
| or relative, as defined by the rules and regulations of the | 16 |
| Illinois Department
of Public Aid, regardless of the value of | 17 |
| the property.
| 18 |
| The Department shall develop procedures to enhance | 19 |
| availability of
services on evenings, weekends, and on an | 20 |
| emergency basis to meet the
respite needs of caregivers. | 21 |
| Procedures shall be developed to permit the
utilization of | 22 |
| services in successive blocks of 24 hours up to the monthly
| 23 |
| maximum established by the Department. Workers providing these | 24 |
| services
shall be appropriately trained.
| 25 |
| Beginning on the effective date of this Amendatory Act of | 26 |
| 1991, no person
may perform chore/housekeeping and homemaker | 27 |
| services under a program
authorized by this Section unless that | 28 |
| person has been issued a certificate
of pre-service to do so by | 29 |
| his or her employing agency. Information
gathered to effect | 30 |
| such certification shall include (i) the person's name,
(ii) | 31 |
| the date the person was hired by his or her current employer, | 32 |
| and
(iii) the training, including dates and levels. Persons | 33 |
| engaged in the
program authorized by this Section before the | 34 |
| effective date of this
amendatory Act of 1991 shall be issued a | 35 |
| certificate of all pre- and
in-service training from his or her | 36 |
| employer upon submitting the necessary
information. The |
|
|
|
SB1665 Engrossed |
- 6 - |
LRB094 10745 DRJ 41167 b |
|
| 1 |
| employing agency shall be required to retain records of
all | 2 |
| staff pre- and in-service training, and shall provide such | 3 |
| records to
the Department upon request and upon termination of | 4 |
| the employer's contract
with the Department. In addition, the | 5 |
| employing agency is responsible for
the issuance of | 6 |
| certifications of in-service training completed to their
| 7 |
| employees.
| 8 |
| The Department is required to develop a system to ensure | 9 |
| that persons
working as homemakers and chore housekeepers | 10 |
| receive increases in their
wages when the federal minimum wage | 11 |
| is increased by requiring vendors to
certify that they are | 12 |
| meeting the federal minimum wage statute for homemakers
and | 13 |
| chore housekeepers. An employer that cannot ensure that the | 14 |
| minimum
wage increase is being given to homemakers and chore | 15 |
| housekeepers
shall be denied any increase in reimbursement | 16 |
| costs.
| 17 |
| The Department on Aging and the Department of Human | 18 |
| Services
shall cooperate in the development and submission of | 19 |
| an annual report on
programs and services provided under this | 20 |
| Section. Such joint report
shall be filed with the Governor and | 21 |
| the General Assembly on or before
September 30 each year.
| 22 |
| The requirement for reporting to the General Assembly shall | 23 |
| be satisfied
by filing copies of the report with the Speaker, | 24 |
| the Minority Leader and
the Clerk of the House of | 25 |
| Representatives and the President, the Minority
Leader and the | 26 |
| Secretary of the Senate and the Legislative Research Unit,
as | 27 |
| required by Section 3.1 of the General Assembly Organization | 28 |
| Act and
filing such additional copies with the State Government | 29 |
| Report Distribution
Center for the General Assembly as is | 30 |
| required under paragraph (t) of
Section 7 of the State Library | 31 |
| Act.
| 32 |
| Those persons previously found eligible for receiving | 33 |
| non-institutional
services whose services were discontinued | 34 |
| under the Emergency Budget Act of
Fiscal Year 1992, and who do | 35 |
| not meet the eligibility standards in effect
on or after July | 36 |
| 1, 1992, shall remain ineligible on and after July 1,
1992. |
|
|
|
SB1665 Engrossed |
- 7 - |
LRB094 10745 DRJ 41167 b |
|
| 1 |
| Those persons previously not required to cost-share and who | 2 |
| were
required to cost-share effective March 1, 1992, shall | 3 |
| continue to meet
cost-share requirements on and after July 1, | 4 |
| 1992. Beginning July 1, 1992,
all clients will be required to | 5 |
| meet
eligibility, cost-share, and other requirements and will | 6 |
| have services
discontinued or altered when they fail to meet | 7 |
| these requirements.
| 8 |
| (Source: P.A. 92-597, eff. 6-28-02; 93-85, eff. 1-1-04; 93-902, | 9 |
| eff. 8-10-04.)
| 10 |
| Section 10. The Family Caregiver Act is amended by adding | 11 |
| Section 27 as follows: | 12 |
| (320 ILCS 65/27 new) | 13 |
| Sec. 27. Elder caregivers of adult children with | 14 |
| developmental disabilities. Subject to appropriation or to | 15 |
| inclusion of this population in the federal Older Americans | 16 |
| Act, the Department may provide support to caregivers who are | 17 |
| age 60 or older and who are caring for their adult children | 18 |
| with developmental disabilities, in collaboration with the | 19 |
| Department of Human Services.
| 20 |
| Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | 21 |
| becoming law.
|
|