Public Act 096-1127
 
SB3420 EnrolledLRB096 16379 HLH 31643 b



    AN ACT concerning finance.

 
    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
 
represented in the General Assembly:


 
    Section 5. The State Finance Act is amended  by changing 
Section 8.27 as follows:
 



    (30 ILCS 105/8.27)  (from Ch. 127, par. 144.27)


    Sec. 8.27. All receipts from federal financial 
participation in the
Foster Care and Adoption Services program 
under Title IV-E of the federal
Social Security Act, including 
receipts
for related indirect costs,
shall be deposited in the 
DCFS Children's Services Fund.

    Beginning on the effective date of this amendatory Act of 
the 96th General Assembly, any funds paid to the State by the 
federal government under Title XIX and Title XXI of the Social 
Security Act for child welfare services delivered by community 
mental health providers, certified and paid as Medicaid 
providers by the Department of Children and Family Services, 
for child welfare services relating to Medicaid-eligible 
clients and families served consistent with the purposes of the 
Department of
Children and Family Services, including services 
delivered as a result of the conversion of such providers from 
a comprehensive rate to a fee-for-service payment methodology, 
and any subsequent revenue maximization initiatives performed 
by such providers, and any interest earned thereon, shall be 
deposited directly into the DCFS Children's Services Fund.  Such 
funds shall be used for the provision of child welfare services 
provided to eligible individuals identified by the Department 
of Children and Family Services.  Child welfare services are 
defined in Section 5 of the Children and Family Services Act 
(20 ILCS 505/5). 
    Eighty percent of the federal funds received by the 
Illinois Department
of Human Services under the Title IV-A 
Emergency Assistance program as
reimbursement for expenditures 
made from the Illinois Department of Children
and Family 
Services appropriations for the costs of services in behalf of

Department of Children and Family Services clients shall be 
deposited into
the DCFS Children's Services Fund.

    All receipts from federal financial participation in the 
Child Welfare
Services program under Title IV-B of the federal 
Social Security Act,
including receipts for related indirect 
costs, shall be deposited into the
DCFS Children's Services 
Fund for those moneys received as reimbursement for
services 
provided on or after July 1, 1994.

    In addition, as soon as may be practicable after the first 
day of November,
1994, the Department of Children and Family 
Services shall request the
Comptroller to order transferred and 
the Treasurer shall transfer the
unexpended balance of the 
Child Welfare Services Fund to the DCFS Children's
Services 
Fund.  Upon completion of the transfer, the Child Welfare 
Services
Fund will be considered dissolved and any outstanding 
obligations or
liabilities of that fund will pass to the DCFS 
Children's Services Fund.

    For services provided on or after July 1, 2007, all federal 
funds received pursuant to the John H. Chafee Foster Care 
Independence Program shall be deposited into the DCFS 
Children's Services Fund. 
    Except as otherwise provided in this Section, moneys Monies 
in the Fund may be used by the Department, pursuant to

appropriation by the General Assembly, for the ordinary and 
contingent
expenses of the Department.

    In fiscal year 1988 and in each fiscal year thereafter 
through fiscal
year 2000, the Comptroller
shall order 
transferred and the Treasurer shall transfer an amount of

$16,100,000 from the DCFS Children's Services Fund to the 
General Revenue
Fund in the following manner:  As soon as may be 
practicable after the 15th
day of September, December, March 
and June, the Comptroller shall order
transferred and the 
Treasurer shall transfer, to the extent that funds are

available, 1/4 of $16,100,000, plus any cumulative 
deficiencies in such
transfers for prior transfer dates during 
such fiscal year.  In no event
shall any such transfer reduce 
the available balance in the DCFS Children's
Services Fund 
below $350,000.

    In accordance with subsection (q) of Section 5 of the 
Children and Family
Services Act, disbursements from 
individual children's accounts shall be
deposited into the DCFS 
Children's Services Fund.

    Receipts from public and unsolicited private grants, fees 
for training, and royalties earned from the publication of 
materials owned by or licensed to the Department of Children 
and Family Services shall be deposited into the DCFS Children's 
Services Fund.
    As soon as may be practical after September 1, 2005, upon 
the request of the Department of Children and Family Services, 
the Comptroller shall order transferred and the Treasurer shall 
transfer the unexpended balance of the Department of Children 
and Family Services Training Fund into the DCFS Children's 
Services Fund. Upon completion of the transfer, the Department 
of Children and Family Services Training Fund is dissolved and 
any outstanding obligations or liabilities of that Fund pass to 
the DCFS Children's Services Fund.

(Source: P.A. 94-91, eff. 7-1-05; 95-707, eff. 1-11-08.)

 

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