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1 AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 2230
2 AMENDMENT NO. . Amend House Bill 2230 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 disabled Illinois residents who are potential beneficiaries
11 of the "most integrated setting" requirement of the Americans
12 with Disabilities Act as construed by the United States
13 Supreme Court in Olmstead v. L.C. ex rel Zimring, 119 S. Ct.
14 2176 (1999). Within 30 days after the effective date of this
15 amendatory Act of the 92nd General Assembly, the Secretary of
16 Human Services shall appoint a 7-member cross-disability
17 advisory committee to make recommendations to the Department
18 regarding the compilation of the database. The advisory
19 committee members shall receive no compensation but may be
20 reimbursed for reasonable expenses actually incurred in the
21 performance of their 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. The information shall
14 include, but is not limited to, the following:
15 (1) The number of those individuals waiting for
16 community-based residential services such as Community
17 Integrated Living Arrangements, supported apartments,
18 supported living, and other community living
19 arrangements.
20 (2) The number of those individuals waiting for
21 services from intermediate care facilities for the
22 developmentally disabled.
23 (3) The number of those individuals waiting for
24 services from day and vocational programs such as day
25 activity programs, adult day care, developmental
26 training, sheltered workshops, supported employment, job
27 placement, and other day programs.
28 (4) The number of those individuals waiting for
29 family support services, respite care, personal
30 assistance services, case management services, and other
31 services not included in paragraph (3).
32 (5) The ages of those individuals waiting for
33 services under paragraphs (1), (2), (3), and (4).
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1 (6) The ages of the parents of those individuals
2 waiting for services under paragraphs (1), (2), (3), and
3 (4).
4 (7) The Representative Districts in which those
5 individuals waiting for services live.
6 The information shall be updated annually. The information
7 collected shall be limited to information about individuals
8 who are eligible for services at the time of request or who
9 will be eligible to receive services within 12 months after
10 the date services are requested. The Department shall, on
11 request, make the information available to other agencies
12 serving persons with developmental disabilities.
13 Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
14 becoming law.".