Public Act 098-0071
 
SB0032 EnrolledLRB098 00252 RLC 30256 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 Mental Health and Developmental 
Disabilities Administrative Act is amended  by changing Section 
18.3 as follows:
 



    (20 ILCS 1705/18.3)



    Sec. 18.3. Integrated system for services for the mentally 
ill. The
Department shall develop an effective, integrated 
system for delivering
State-funded and State-operated services 
to persons with mental illness.  No
later than June 30, 1994, 
the Department shall enter into one or more
cooperative 
arrangements with the Department of Public Aid, the Department 
of
Rehabilitation Services, the Department of Public Health, 
and any other
appropriate entities for administration or 
supervision by the Department of
Mental Health and 
Developmental Disabilities of all State programs for services

to persons in community care facilities for persons with mental 
illness,
including but not limited to intermediate care 
facilities, that are supported
by State funds or by funding 
under Title XIX of the federal Social Security
Act.  The 
Department shall form a medical advisory panel, appointed by 
the
Secretary, comprised of 5 physicians licensed to practice

medicine in all its
branches with a special emphasis in 
treating mental illness, to provide advice
on care rendered to 
patients in any integrated delivery system.
The Department of 
Human Services shall succeed to the responsibilities of the

Department of Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities and 
the Department
of Rehabilitation Services under any such 
cooperative arrangement in existence
on July 1, 1997.

(Source: P.A. 88-388; 89-507, eff. 7-1-97.)

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