SB0622sam001 94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

Sen. Susan Garrett

Filed: 5/13/2005

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AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 622

AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 622 by replacing everything after the enacting clause with the following:

"Section 5. The Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Administrative Act is amended by adding Section 54.5 as follows:

(20 ILCS 1705/54.5 new)

Sec. 54.5. Rates; community-based residential programs for persons with developmental disabilities.

(a) As used in this Section, "community-based residential program" means one of a variety of living arrangements for persons with developmental disabilities in which no more than 4 individuals reside together in a setting designed to promote independence and in which each such individual has his or her own private bedroom. The term includes existing settings, such as community integrated living arrangements, community residential alternatives, assisted residential care, supported residential care, and adult foster care, and may also include newly developed settings that are consistent with this definition.

(b) For the State fiscal year beginning July 1, 2006, the Department shall reimburse each provider of community-based residential program services at a rate equal to 100% of the provider's costs of providing those services. For the State fiscal year beginning July 1, 2007 and for each State fiscal year thereafter, the Department shall add to the reimbursement otherwise paid to each such provider under this Section an annual cost-of-doing-business adjustment in accordance with the most recent Implicit Price Deflator for the Gross Domestic Product as computed and published by the U.S. Department of Commerce.

(c) The purpose of this Section is to broaden consumers' choices of community-based residential program services for persons with developmental disabilities.

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