Public Act 097-0558
 
HB1488 EnrolledLRB097 07770 KTG 47882 b

    AN ACT concerning State government.
 
    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
 
    Section 5. The Department of Human Services Act is amended
by adding Section 1-37a as follows:
 
    (20 ILCS 1305/1-37a new)
    Sec. 1-37a. Management Improvement Initiative Committee.
    (a) As used in this Section, unless the context indicates
otherwise:
    "Departments" means the Department on Aging, the
Department of Children and Family Services, the Department of
Healthcare and Family Services, the Department of Human
Services, and the Department of Public Health.
    "Management Improvement Initiative Committee" or
"Committee" means the Management Improvement Initiative
Committee created under this Section.
    "Management Improvement Initiative Departmental Leadership
Team" or "Team" means the Management Improvement Initiative
Departmental Leadership Team created under this Section.
    (b) The Governor, or his or her designee, shall create a
Management Improvement Initiative Committee that shall include
the Management Improvement Initiative Departmental Leadership
Team to implement the recommendations made in the report
submitted to the General Assembly on January 1, 2011 as
required under Public Act 96-1141, and to continue the work of
the group formed under the auspices of Public Act 96-1141.
    The Team shall be comprised of a representative from each
of the Departments.
    The Team members shall integrate the Committee's
objectives into their respective departmental operations and
continue the work of the group formed under the auspices of
Public Act 96-1141 including:
        (1) Implementing the recommendations of the report
    submitted to the General Assembly on January 1, 2011 under
    Public Act 96-1141.
        (2) Submitting a progress report to the General
    Assembly by November 1, 2011 on the progress made in
    implementing the recommendations made in the report
    submitted to the General Assembly on January 1, 2011 under
    Public Act 96-1141.
        (3) Reviewing contracts held with community health and
    human service providers on the regulations and work
    processes, including reporting, monitoring, compliance,
    auditing, certification, and licensing processes, required
    by the departments and their divisions.
        (4) Eliminating obsolete, redundant, or unreasonable
    regulations, reporting, monitoring, compliance, auditing,
    certifications, licensing, and work processes.
        (5) Implementing reciprocity across divisions and
    departments. Reciprocity shall be used to accept other
    division or department regulations, reporting, monitoring,
    compliance, auditing, certification, and licensing
    processes.
        (6) Implementing integrated work processes across
    divisions and departments that will be used for efficient
    and effective work processes including regulations,
    reporting, monitoring, compliance, auditing, licensing,
    and certification processes.
        (7) Implementing the deemed status for accredited
    community health and human service providers.
        (8) Reviewing work products meant to address the
    Committee's objectives as set forth in this Section. The
    review shall be done in concert with similar reviews
    conducted by the divisions under the Department of Human
    Services and other department steering committees,
    committees, and work groups as appropriate and necessary to
    eliminate redundant work processes including reporting,
    monitoring, compliance, auditing, licensing, and
    certification processes.
        (9) Describing how improved regulations, reporting,
    monitoring, compliance, auditing, certification,
    licensing, and work processes are measured at the community
    vendor, contractor, and departmental levels, and how they
    have reduced redundant regulations, reporting, monitoring,
    compliance, auditing, certification, licensing, and work
    processes.
    (c) The Team shall examine the entire body of regulations,
reporting, monitoring, compliance, auditing, certification,
licensing, and work processes that guide departmental
operations and contracts to eliminate obsolete, redundant, or
unreasonable regulations, reporting, monitoring, compliance,
auditing, licensing, and certifications.
    (d) The Team shall identify immediate, near-term, and
long-term opportunities to improve accountable, non-redundant,
effective, and efficient accountability, regulations,
reporting, monitoring, compliance, auditing, certification,
and licensing processes that are necessary, appropriate, and
sufficient to determine the success and quality of contracts
with community health and human service vendors and providers.
    (e) The Team shall develop performance measures to assess
progress towards accomplishing the Committee's objectives and
shall develop procedures to provide feedback on the impact of
the State's operational improvements meant to achieve
management improvement initiative objectives.
    (f) The Team shall report operational improvements and
document efforts that address the Committee's objectives.
These reports shall be submitted to the Governor and the
General Assembly semi-annually and shall:
        (1) Include the results made to maintain efficient
    accountability while eliminating obsolete, redundant, or
    unreasonable regulations, reporting, monitoring,
    compliance, auditing, licensing, and certifications.
        (2) Specify improved regulations, reporting,
    monitoring, compliance, auditing, certification,
    licensing, and work processes.
        (3) Describe how improved regulations, reporting,
    monitoring, compliance, auditing, certification,
    licensing, and work processes are measured at the community
    vendor, contractor, and departmental levels, and how they
    have reduced redundant regulations, reporting, monitoring,
    compliance, auditing, certification, licensing, and work
    processes.
        (4) Include the methods used to engage health and human
    service providers in the management improvement initiative
    to improve regulations, reporting, monitoring, compliance,
    auditing, certification, licensing, and work processes.
        (5) Describe how departmental practices have been
    changed to improve non-redundant accountability,
    efficiency, effectiveness, and quality.
    (g) Beginning in State Fiscal Year 2012, regulations,
reporting, monitoring, compliance, auditing, certification,
licensing, and work processes, including each new departmental
initiative, shall be linked directly to non-redundant,
accountable, efficient, and effective outcome indicators which
can be used to evaluate the success of the new initiative.
    (h) The Management Improvement Initiative Committee.
        (1) The Committee shall be comprised of Team members
    from each of the Departments to manage the overall
    implementation process and to ensure that any new
    monitoring and compliance activities are developed as
    recommended in the report submitted to the General Assembly
    on January 1, 2011.
        (2) Team members shall be able to access available
    resources within their respective departments, to set
    priorities, manage the overall implementation process, and
    ensure that any new monitoring and compliance activities
    are developed as recommended in the report submitted to the
    General Assembly on January 1, 2011.
        (3) The Departments shall each designate a member to
    serve as a member of the Committee.
        (4) The Committee shall also consist of the community
    organizations, community providers, associations, and
    private philanthropic organizations appointed under Public
    Act 96-1141, and shall be charged with overseeing
    implementation of the Committee's objectives and ensuring
    that provider prospective is incorporated.
        (5) The Committee shall be co-chaired by department and
    community representatives, with leadership responsibility
    resting with the Governor in order to increase the priority
    and accountability for implementation of the Committee's
    objectives and recommendations.
        (6) The Team shall be responsible for establishing
    within the Committee workgroups consisting of subject
    matter experts necessary to reach the Committee's
    objectives, including the recommendations made in the
    report submitted to the General Assembly on January 1, 2011
    under Public Act 96-1141. Those subject matter experts,
    including those with necessary technological expertise,
    shall include outside experts, departmental, association,
    and community providers.
        (7) Recommendations of the Committee shall be reviewed
    and its efforts integrated into existing as well as ongoing
    initiatives as appropriate, including the implementation
    of Public Act 96-1501, the Illinois Frameworks planning and
    implementation efforts, and any other task force that may
    make proposals that impact community provider work
    processes and contract deliverables.
        (8) The Department of Human Services shall be
    designated as the lead support agency and provide
    administrative staffing for the Committee. Other
    Departments, as defined by this Section, shall provide
    additional administrative staffing in conjunction with the
    Department of Human Services to support the Committee.
    (i) This Section is repealed on December 31, 2014.
 
    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.