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| 1 | AN ACT concerning regulation.
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| 2 | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| 3 | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | Section 5. The Community-Integrated Living Arrangements | ||||||
| 5 | Licensure and
Certification Act is amended by changing Section | ||||||
| 6 | 10 as follows:
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| 7 | (210 ILCS 135/10) (from Ch. 91 1/2, par. 1710)
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| 8 | Sec. 10. Community integration State plan. | ||||||
| 9 | (a) Community-integrated living arrangements
shall be | ||||||
| 10 | located so as to enable residents to participate in and be
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| 11 | integrated into their community or neighborhood. The location | ||||||
| 12 | of such
arrangements shall promote community integration of | ||||||
| 13 | persons with mental
disabilities. The Department shall adopt a | ||||||
| 14 | plan ("State plan") for the
distribution of community living | ||||||
| 15 | arrangements throughout the State,
considering the need for | ||||||
| 16 | such arrangements in the various locations in
which they are to | ||||||
| 17 | be used. Each agency licensed under this Act must define
the | ||||||
| 18 | process of obtaining community acceptance of community living
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| 19 | arrangements. The State plan shall include guidelines | ||||||
| 20 | regarding the
location of community-integrated living | ||||||
| 21 | arrangements within the geographic
areas to be served by the | ||||||
| 22 | agencies, and the availability of support
services within those | ||||||
| 23 | areas for residents under such arrangements. The
Department | ||||||
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| 1 | shall promulgate such guidelines as rules pursuant to the
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| 2 | Illinois Administrative Procedure Act.
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| 3 | The Department shall require any agency licensed under this | ||||||
| 4 | Act to establish
procedures for assuring compliance with such | ||||||
| 5 | criteria, including annual
review and comment by | ||||||
| 6 | representatives of local governmental authorities,
community | ||||||
| 7 | mental health and developmental disabilities planning and | ||||||
| 8 | service
agencies, and other interested civil organizations, | ||||||
| 9 | regarding the impact on
their community areas of any living | ||||||
| 10 | arrangements, programs or services to
be certified by such | ||||||
| 11 | agency. The Department shall give consideration to
the comments | ||||||
| 12 | of such community representatives in determinations of
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| 13 | compliance with the State plan under this Section, and the | ||||||
| 14 | Department may
modify, suspend or withhold funding of such | ||||||
| 15 | programs and services subject
to this Act until such times as | ||||||
| 16 | assurance is achieved.
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| 17 | (b) Beginning January 1, 1990, no Department of State | ||||||
| 18 | government, as
defined in the Civil
Administrative Code of | ||||||
| 19 | Illinois, shall place any person in or utilize any
services of | ||||||
| 20 | a community-integrated living arrangement which is not
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| 21 | certified by an agency under this Act.
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| 22 | (Source: P.A. 98-463, eff. 8-16-13.)
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| 23 | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | ||||||
| 24 | becoming law.
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