Sen. Jeffrey M. Schoenberg

Filed: 2/25/2009

 

 


 

 


 
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AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 1027

2     AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 1027 by replacing
3 everything after the enacting clause with the following:
 
4     "Section 1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the
5 Interfund Borrowing Act of 2009.
 
6     Section 5. Interfund transfers.
7     (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of State law to the
8 contrary, on the effective date of this Act, or as soon
9 thereafter as practical, for the purpose of making hospital
10 access payments as set forth in the Title XIX State plan
11 amendments 08-06 and 08-07 submitted by the Department of
12 Healthcare and Family Services and approved by the Center for
13 Medicaid and State Operations as required in 305 ILCS
14 5/5A-12.2, the State Comptroller shall direct and the State
15 Treasurer shall transfer amounts into the Hospital Provider
16 Fund from the designated funds not exceeding the following

 

 

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1 totals:
 
2     General Obligation Bond Retirement
3         and Interest Fund........................$335,000,000
4     State Employees' Retirement System Fund......$175,000,000
 
5     (b) On and after the effective date of this Act of the 96th
6 General Assembly through April 14, 2009, if either the General
7 Obligation Bond Retirement and Interest Fund or the State
8 Employees' Retirement System Fund has insufficient cash from
9 which the State Comptroller may make expenditures properly
10 supported by appropriations from the fund, then the State
11 Treasurer and State Comptroller shall transfer from the General
12 Revenue Fund to the fund only such amount as is immediately
13 necessary to satisfy outstanding expenditure obligations on a
14 timely basis, subject to the provisions of the State Prompt
15 Payment Act. All or a portion of the amounts transferred from
16 the General Revenue Fund to a fund pursuant to this subsection
17 (b) from time to time may be re-transferred by the State
18 Comptroller and the State Treasurer from the receiving fund
19 into the General Revenue Fund as soon as and to the extent that
20 deposits are made into or receipts are collected by the
21 receiving fund.
22     (c) As soon as practical upon receipt of assessment
23 payments to the Hospital Provider Fund pursuant to 305 ILCS
24 5/5A-2 and 5/5A-4, but under no circumstance later than April

 

 

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1 14, 2009, any amounts transferred to the Hospital Provider Fund
2 under the authority of this Section shall be transferred back
3 and receipted by the specific fund of origin, with the General
4 Obligation Bond Retirement and Interest Fund first being repaid
5 in full. These transfers back to the funds of origin shall be
6 made and receipted notwithstanding any other State law to the
7 contrary. If, as of April 14, 2009, there is insufficient money
8 in the Hospital Provider Fund to make the transfers as provided
9 in this Section, then those transfers shall instead be made
10 from the General Revenue Fund. Transfers must be made from the
11 Hospital Provider Fund to the General Revenue Fund to replace
12 any such transfers made as soon as there is sufficient money in
13 the Hospital Provider Fund to do so.
 
14     Section 10. Interest payable to the General Obligation Bond
15 Retirement and Interest Fund and the State Employees'
16 Retirement System Fund. As soon as practical after all amounts
17 initially transferred from the General Obligation Bond
18 Retirement and Interest Fund and the State Employees'
19 Retirement System Fund have been transferred back pursuant to
20 Section 5 of this Act, the State Treasurer shall calculate the
21 amounts of interest that would have accrued to both the General
22 Obligation Bond Retirement and Interest Fund and the State
23 Employees' Retirement System Fund if those transfers had not
24 occurred and transfer those amounts from the Hospital Provider
25 Fund to the General Obligation Bond Retirement and Interest

 

 

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1 Fund and the State Employees' Retirement System Fund.
 
2     Section 15. Prohibition on payments to contractors. No fees
3 or expenses shall be paid by the State to any contractual legal
4 counsel, financial advisor, or other consultant or contractor
5 in relation to the actions authorized pursuant to this Act.
 
6     Section 90. The Illinois Public Aid Code is amended by
7 changing Section 5A-8 as follows:
 
8     (305 ILCS 5/5A-8)  (from Ch. 23, par. 5A-8)
9     Sec. 5A-8. Hospital Provider Fund.
10     (a) There is created in the State Treasury the Hospital
11 Provider Fund. Interest earned by the Fund shall be credited to
12 the Fund. The Fund shall not be used to replace any moneys
13 appropriated to the Medicaid program by the General Assembly.
14     (b) The Fund is created for the purpose of receiving moneys
15 in accordance with Section 5A-6 and disbursing moneys only for
16 the following purposes, notwithstanding any other provision of
17 law:
18         (1) For making payments to hospitals as required under
19     Articles V, VI, and XIV of this Code, under the Children's
20     Health Insurance Program Act, and under the Covering ALL
21     KIDS Health Insurance Act.
22         (2) For the reimbursement of moneys collected by the
23     Illinois Department from hospitals or hospital providers

 

 

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1     through error or mistake in performing the activities
2     authorized under this Article and Article V of this Code.
3         (3) For payment of administrative expenses incurred by
4     the Illinois Department or its agent in performing the
5     activities authorized by this Article.
6         (4) For payments of any amounts which are reimbursable
7     to the federal government for payments from this Fund which
8     are required to be paid by State warrant.
9         (5) For making transfers, as those transfers are
10     authorized in the proceedings authorizing debt under the
11     Short Term Borrowing Act, but transfers made under this
12     paragraph (5) shall not exceed the principal amount of debt
13     issued in anticipation of the receipt by the State of
14     moneys to be deposited into the Fund.
15         (6) For making transfers to any other fund in the State
16     treasury, but transfers made under this paragraph (6) shall
17     not exceed the amount transferred previously from that
18     other fund into the Hospital Provider Fund.
19         (7) For State fiscal years 2004 and 2005 for making
20     transfers to the Health and Human Services Medicaid Trust
21     Fund, including 20% of the moneys received from hospital
22     providers under Section 5A-4 and transferred into the
23     Hospital Provider Fund under Section 5A-6. For State fiscal
24     year 2006 for making transfers to the Health and Human
25     Services Medicaid Trust Fund of up to $130,000,000 per year
26     of the moneys received from hospital providers under

 

 

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1     Section 5A-4 and transferred into the Hospital Provider
2     Fund under Section 5A-6. Transfers under this paragraph
3     shall be made within 7 days after the payments have been
4     received pursuant to the schedule of payments provided in
5     subsection (a) of Section 5A-4.
6         (7.5) For State fiscal year 2007 for making transfers
7     of the moneys received from hospital providers under
8     Section 5A-4 and transferred into the Hospital Provider
9     Fund under Section 5A-6 to the designated funds not
10     exceeding the following amounts in that State fiscal year:
11         Health and Human Services
12             Medicaid Trust Fund................. $20,000,000
13         Long-Term Care Provider Fund............ $30,000,000
14         General Revenue Fund................... $80,000,000.
15         Transfers under this paragraph shall be made within 7
16     days after the payments have been received pursuant to the
17     schedule of payments provided in subsection (a) of Section
18     5A-4.
19         (7.8) For State fiscal year 2008, for making transfers
20     of the moneys received from hospital providers under
21     Section 5A-4 and transferred into the Hospital Provider
22     Fund under Section 5A-6 to the designated funds not
23     exceeding the following amounts in that State fiscal year:
24         Health and Human Services
25             Medicaid Trust Fund..................$40,000,000
26         Long-Term Care Provider Fund..............$60,000,000

 

 

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1         General Revenue Fund...................$160,000,000.
2         Transfers under this paragraph shall be made within 7
3     days after the payments have been received pursuant to the
4     schedule of payments provided in subsection (a) of Section
5     5A-4.
6         (7.9) For State fiscal years 2009 through 2013, for
7     making transfers of the moneys received from hospital
8     providers under Section 5A-4 and transferred into the
9     Hospital Provider Fund under Section 5A-6 to the designated
10     funds not exceeding the following amounts in that State
11     fiscal year:
12         Health and Human Services
13             Medicaid Trust Fund...................$20,000,000
14         Long Term Care Provider Fund..............$30,000,000
15         General Revenue Fund.....................$80,000,000.
16         Except as provided under this paragraph, transfers
17     Transfers under this paragraph shall be made within 7
18     business days after the payments have been received
19     pursuant to the schedule of payments provided in subsection
20     (a) of Section 5A-4. For State fiscal year 2009, transfers
21     to the General Revenue Fund under this paragraph shall be
22     made on or before June 30, 2009, as sufficient funds become
23     available in the Hospital Provider Fund to both make the
24     transfers and continue hospital payments.
25         (8) For making refunds to hospital providers pursuant
26     to Section 5A-10.

 

 

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1     Disbursements from the Fund, other than transfers
2 authorized under paragraphs (5) and (6) of this subsection,
3 shall be by warrants drawn by the State Comptroller upon
4 receipt of vouchers duly executed and certified by the Illinois
5 Department.
6     (c) The Fund shall consist of the following:
7         (1) All moneys collected or received by the Illinois
8     Department from the hospital provider assessment imposed
9     by this Article.
10         (2) All federal matching funds received by the Illinois
11     Department as a result of expenditures made by the Illinois
12     Department that are attributable to moneys deposited in the
13     Fund.
14         (3) Any interest or penalty levied in conjunction with
15     the administration of this Article.
16         (4) Moneys transferred from another fund in the State
17     treasury.
18         (5) All other moneys received for the Fund from any
19     other source, including interest earned thereon.
20     (d) (Blank).
21 (Source: P.A. 94-242, eff. 7-18-05; 94-839, eff. 6-6-06;
22 95-707, eff. 1-11-08; 95-859, eff. 8-19-08.)
 
23     Section 95. Repeal. The Interfund Borrowing Act of 2009 is
24 repealed on July 1, 2009.
 

 

 

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1     Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
2 becoming law.".