95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2007 and 2008
HB4590


 
Introduced , by Rep. Barbara Flynn Currie - Sara Feigenholtz
 
SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 		














20 ILCS 505/12
  from Ch. 23, par. 5012







    Amends the Children and Family Services Act.  Provides that by July 1, 2012, the per child payment rate for various categories of foster care expenditures allowable under federal law shall be up to 100% of the "foster care minimum adequate rates for children", established in a specified October 2007 technical report (now, up to 100% of an adjusted specified federal cost index).  Effective immediately.
















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    AN ACT concerning State government.

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


 
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    Section 5. The Children and Family Services Act is amended  
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by changing Section 12 as follows:
 



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    (20 ILCS 505/12)  (from Ch. 23, par. 5012)



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    Sec. 12. (a) To provide supervision, housing 
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accommodations, board or the
payment of boarding costs, 
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tuition, and treatment free of charge, except as
otherwise 
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specified in this Act, for residents of this State who are 
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cared
for in any institution, or for persons receiving services 
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under any program
under the jurisdiction of the Department. 
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Residents of other states may be
admitted upon payment of the 
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costs of board, tuition, and treatment as
determined by the 
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Department; provided, that no resident of another state
shall 
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be received or retained to the exclusion of any resident of 
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this
State. The Department shall accept any donation for the 
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board, tuition, and
treatment of any person receiving service 
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or care.

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    (b) To By July 1, 1994, to make room and board payments to 
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persons
providing foster care under this Act at a rate for each 
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child that is up to
100% of the adjusted United States 
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Department of Agriculture Cost of
Raising a Child in the Urban 
 


 






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Midwest/Low Cost Index, except that by July 1, 2012, the rate 
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for each child shall be up to 100% of the Foster Care Minimum 
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Adequate Rates for Children (MARC) for expenditures allowable 
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under the federal Title IV-E Foster Care Maintenance Program of 
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the Social Security Act related to the actual costs of 
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providing food, clothing, shelter, daily supervision, school 
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supplies, personal incidentals, insurance, and travel for 
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visitation with a child's biological family, jointly 
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recommended by the National Foster Parent Association, the 
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University of Maryland School of Social Work, and the 
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organization Children's Rights in a technical report entitled 
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"Hitting the M.A.R.C.: Establishing Foster Care Minimum 
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Adequate Rates for Children", dated October 2007.

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(Source: P.A. 86-1482.)

 

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