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Rep. Raymond Poe
Filed: 3/17/2011
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| 1 | | AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 2856
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| 2 | | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 2856 by replacing |
| 3 | | everything after the enacting clause with the following:
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| 4 | | "Section 5. The Early Intervention Services System Act is |
| 5 | | amended by changing Section 10 as follows:
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| 6 | | (325 ILCS 20/10) (from Ch. 23, par. 4160)
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| 7 | | Sec. 10. Standards. The Council and the lead agency, with |
| 8 | | assistance
from parents and providers, shall develop and |
| 9 | | promulgate policies and
procedures relating to the |
| 10 | | establishment and implementation of program and
personnel |
| 11 | | standards to ensure that services provided are consistent with
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| 12 | | any State-approved or recognized certification, licensing, |
| 13 | | registration, or
other comparable requirements which apply to |
| 14 | | the area of early intervention
program service standards. Only |
| 15 | | State-approved public or private early
intervention service |
| 16 | | providers shall be eligible to receive State and
federal |
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| 1 | | funding for early intervention services. All early childhood
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| 2 | | intervention staff shall hold the highest entry requirement |
| 3 | | necessary for that
position. State-approved public or private |
| 4 | | early intervention providers shall not exceed 30 billable hours |
| 5 | | per 7-day week.
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| 6 | | To be a State-approved early intervention service |
| 7 | | provider, an individual
(i) shall
not have served or completed, |
| 8 | | within the preceding 5 years, a sentence for
conviction of any |
| 9 | | felony that the Department establishes by rule and (ii) shall
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| 10 | | not have been indicated as a perpetrator of child abuse or |
| 11 | | neglect, within the
preceding 5 years, in an investigation by |
| 12 | | Illinois (pursuant to the Abused and
Neglected Child Reporting |
| 13 | | Act) or another state. The Department is authorized
to receive |
| 14 | | criminal background checks for such providers and persons |
| 15 | | applying
to be such a provider and to receive child abuse and |
| 16 | | neglect reports regarding
indicated perpetrators who are |
| 17 | | applying to provide or currently authorized to
provide early |
| 18 | | intervention services in Illinois. Beginning January 1, 2004,
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| 19 | | every provider of State-approved early intervention services |
| 20 | | and every
applicant to provide
such services must authorize, in |
| 21 | | writing and in the form required by the
Department, a criminal |
| 22 | | background check and check of child abuse and neglect
reports |
| 23 | | regarding the provider or applicant as a condition of |
| 24 | | authorization to
provide early intervention services. The |
| 25 | | Department shall use the results of
the checks only to |
| 26 | | determine State approval of the early intervention service
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