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| 1 | AN ACT concerning regulation. | |||||||||||||||||||
| 2 | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, | |||||||||||||||||||
| 3 | represented in the General Assembly: | |||||||||||||||||||
| 4 | Section 5. The Community-Integrated Living Arrangements | |||||||||||||||||||
| 5 | Licensure and Certification Act is amended by changing Section | |||||||||||||||||||
| 6 | 3 as follows: | |||||||||||||||||||
| 7 | (210 ILCS 135/3) (from Ch. 91 1/2, par. 1703) | |||||||||||||||||||
| 8 | Sec. 3. As used in this Act, unless the context requires | |||||||||||||||||||
| 9 | otherwise: | |||||||||||||||||||
| 10 | (a) "Applicant" means a person, group of persons, | |||||||||||||||||||
| 11 | association, partnership or corporation that applies for a | |||||||||||||||||||
| 12 | license as a community developmental services agency under | |||||||||||||||||||
| 13 | this Act. | |||||||||||||||||||
| 14 | (b) "Community developmental services agency" or "agency" | |||||||||||||||||||
| 15 | means a public or private agency, association, partnership, | |||||||||||||||||||
| 16 | corporation or organization which, pursuant to this Act, | |||||||||||||||||||
| 17 | certifies community-integrated living arrangements for persons | |||||||||||||||||||
| 18 | with a developmental disability. | |||||||||||||||||||
| 19 | (c) "Department" means the Department of Human Services | |||||||||||||||||||
| 20 | (as successor to the Department of Mental Health and | |||||||||||||||||||
| 21 | Developmental Disabilities). | |||||||||||||||||||
| 22 | (d) "Community-integrated living arrangement" means a | |||||||||||||||||||
| 23 | living arrangement certified by a community developmental | |||||||||||||||||||
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| 1 | services agency under this Act where 12 8 or fewer recipients | ||||||
| 2 | with a developmental disability who reside under the | ||||||
| 3 | supervision of the agency. Examples of community-integrated | ||||||
| 4 | living arrangements include but are not limited to the | ||||||
| 5 | following: | ||||||
| 6 | (1) "Adult foster care", a living arrangement for | ||||||
| 7 | recipients in residences of families unrelated to them, | ||||||
| 8 | for the purpose of providing family care for the | ||||||
| 9 | recipients on a full-time basis; | ||||||
| 10 | (2) "Assisted residential care", an independent living | ||||||
| 11 | arrangement where recipients are intermittently supervised | ||||||
| 12 | by off-site staff; | ||||||
| 13 | (3) "Crisis residential care", a non-medical living | ||||||
| 14 | arrangement where recipients in need of non-medical, | ||||||
| 15 | crisis services are supervised by on-site staff 24 hours a | ||||||
| 16 | day; | ||||||
| 17 | (4) "Home individual programs", living arrangements | ||||||
| 18 | for 2 unrelated adults outside the family home; | ||||||
| 19 | (5) "Supported residential care", a living arrangement | ||||||
| 20 | where recipients are supervised by on-site staff and such | ||||||
| 21 | supervision is provided less than 24 hours a day; | ||||||
| 22 | (6) "Community residential alternatives", as defined | ||||||
| 23 | in the Community Residential Alternatives Licensing Act; | ||||||
| 24 | and | ||||||
| 25 | (7) "Special needs trust-supported residential care", | ||||||
| 26 | a living arrangement where recipients are supervised by | ||||||
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| 1 | on-site staff and that supervision is provided 24 hours | ||||||
| 2 | per day or less, as dictated by the needs of the | ||||||
| 3 | recipients, and determined by service providers. As used | ||||||
| 4 | in this item (7), "special needs trust" means a trust for | ||||||
| 5 | the benefit of a beneficiary with a disability as | ||||||
| 6 | described in Section 1213 of the Illinois Trust Code. | ||||||
| 7 | (e) "Recipient" means a person who has received, is | ||||||
| 8 | receiving, or is in need of treatment or habilitation as those | ||||||
| 9 | terms are defined in the Mental Health and Developmental | ||||||
| 10 | Disabilities Code. | ||||||
| 11 | (f) "Unrelated" means that persons residing together in | ||||||
| 12 | programs or placements certified by a community developmental | ||||||
| 13 | services agency under this Act do not have any of the following | ||||||
| 14 | relationships by blood, marriage or adoption: parent, son, | ||||||
| 15 | daughter, brother, sister, grandparent, uncle, aunt, nephew, | ||||||
| 16 | niece, great grandparent, great uncle, great aunt, | ||||||
| 17 | stepbrother, stepsister, stepson, stepdaughter, stepparent or | ||||||
| 18 | first cousin. | ||||||
| 19 | (Source: P.A. 104-270, eff. 8-15-25.) | ||||||