Public Act 096-0247
 		





HB0726 Enrolled
LRB096 08554 RCE 18676 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 Children and Family Services Act is amended  
by changing Section 12 as follows:
 



    (20 ILCS 505/12)  (from Ch. 23, par. 5012)



    Sec. 12. (a) To provide supervision, housing 
accommodations, board or the
payment of boarding costs, 
tuition, and treatment free of charge, except as
otherwise 
specified in this Act, for residents of this State who are 
cared
for in any institution, or for persons receiving services 
under any program
under the jurisdiction of the Department. 
Residents of other states may be
admitted upon payment of the 
costs of board, tuition, and treatment as
determined by the 
Department; provided, that no resident of another state
shall 
be received or retained to the exclusion of any resident of 
this
State. The Department shall accept any donation for the 
board, tuition, and
treatment of any person receiving service 
or care.

    (b) To By July 1, 1994, to make room and board payments to 
persons
providing foster care under this Act at a rate for each 
child that is up to
100% of the adjusted United States 
Department of Agriculture Cost of
Raising a Child in the Urban 
Midwest/Low Cost Index.

    By March 1, 2010 and March 1 of each year thereafter, the 
Department of Children and Family Services shall report to the 
Governor and General Assembly the estimated cost and additional 
funding required to establish the rate for each child up to 
100% of the Foster Care Minimum Adequate Rates for Children 
(MARC) for expenditures allowable under the federal Title IV-E 
Foster Care Maintenance Program of the Social Security Act 
related to the actual costs  of providing food, clothing, 
shelter, daily supervision, school supplies, personal 
incidentals, and insurance, jointly recommended by the 
National Foster Parent Association, the University of Maryland 
School of Social Work, and the organization Children's Rights 
in a technical report entitled "Hitting the M.A.R.C.: 
Establishing Foster Care Minimum Adequate Rates for Children", 
dated October 2007. 
(Source: P.A. 86-1482.)

 

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