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1 AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 4235
2 AMENDMENT NO. . Amend House Bill 4235 by replacing
3 everything after the enacting clause with the following:
4 "Section 5. The Department of Human Services Act is
5 amended by adding Section 10-30 as follows:
6 (20 ILCS 1305/10-30 new)
7 Sec. 10-30. Disability database. The Department of
8 Human Services shall contract with an entity experienced in
9 applied research to compile a cross-disability database of
10 Illinois residents with a disability who are potential
11 beneficiaries of the "most integrated setting" requirement of
12 the Americans with Disabilities Act as construed by the
13 United States Supreme Court in Olmstead v. L.C. ex rel
14 Zimring, 119 S. Ct. 2176 (1999). Within 30 days after the
15 effective date of this amendatory Act of the 92nd General
16 Assembly, the Secretary of Human Services shall appoint a
17 7-member cross-disability advisory committee to make
18 recommendations to the Department regarding the compilation
19 of the database. The advisory committee members shall
20 receive no compensation but may be reimbursed for reasonable
21 expenses actually incurred in the performance of their
22 duties.
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1 Section 10. The Mental Health and Developmental
2 Disabilities Administrative Act is amended by adding Section
3 31b as follows:
4 (20 ILCS 1705/31b new)
5 Sec. 31b. Individuals waiting for community-based
6 services. The Department shall collect and maintain
7 information on the number of individuals with developmental
8 disabilities who have requested (either themselves or through
9 a parent or guardian) and are waiting for community-based
10 services that are funded through grants from the Department
11 to, and contracts with the Department and, local school
12 districts, individual service coordination organizations, and
13 community-based organizations or funded by the Department of
14 Public Aid. The information shall include, but is not
15 limited to, the following:
16 (1) The number of those individuals waiting for
17 community-based residential services such as Community
18 Integrated Living Arrangements, supported apartments,
19 supported living, intermediate care facilities for the
20 developmentally disabled, and other community living
21 arrangements.
22 (2) The number of those individuals waiting for
23 services from day and vocational programs such as day
24 activity programs, adult day care, developmental
25 training, sheltered workshops, supported employment, job
26 placement, and other day programs.
27 (3) The number of those individuals waiting for
28 family support services, respite care, personal
29 assistance services, case management services, and other
30 services not included in paragraph (2).
31 (4) The ages of those individuals waiting for
32 services under paragraphs (1), (2), and (3).
33 (5) The ages of the parents of those individuals
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1 waiting for services under paragraphs (1), (2), and (3).
2 (6) The Representative Districts in which those
3 individuals waiting for services live.
4 The information shall be updated annually. The
5 information collected shall be limited to information about
6 individuals who are eligible for services at the time of
7 request or who will be eligible to receive services within 12
8 months after the date services are requested.
9 In collecting and maintaining information under this
10 Section, the Department shall give consideration to the
11 cost-effective appropriate care for individuals.
12 The Department shall, on request, make the information
13 available to other agencies serving persons with
14 developmental disabilities.
15 Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
16 becoming law.".