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1    AN ACT concerning health.
  
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
 
3represented in the General Assembly:
  



 
4    Section 5. The Specialized Mental Health Rehabilitation 
5Act of 2013 is amended  by changing Section 1-101.6 as follows:
 
6    (210 ILCS 49/1-101.6)

7    Sec. 1-101.6. Mental health system planning.   The General 
8Assembly finds the services contained in this Act are necessary 
9for the effective delivery of mental health services for the 
10citizens of the State of Illinois.  
11    The General Assembly also finds that the mental health and 
12substance use system in the State requires further review to 
13develop additional needed services.
14      To ensure the adequacy of community-based services and to 
15offer choice to all individuals with serious mental illness and 
16substance use disorders or conditions who choose to live in the  
17community, and for whom the community is the appropriate 
18setting, but are at risk of institutional care, the Governor's 
19Office of Health Innovation and Transformation shall oversee a 
20process for (i)  identifying needed services in the different 
21geographic regions in the State and (ii)  identifying the 
22financing strategies for developing those needed services. 
23Governor shall convene a working group to develop the process 
 
 
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1and procedure for identifying needed services in the different 
2geographic regions of the State.   
3    The process shall address or examine the need and financing 
4strategies for the following:
5        (1) Network adequacy in all 102 counties of the State 
6    for: (i) health homes authorized under Section 2703 of the 
7    federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act; (ii) 
8    systems of care for children; (iii) care coordination; and 
9    (iv) access to a full continuum of quality care, treatment, 
10    services, and supports for persons with serious emotional 
11    disturbance, serious mental illness, or substance use 
12    disorder.
13        (2) Workforce development for the workforce of 
14    community providers of care, treatment, services, and 
15    supports for persons with mental health and substance use 
16    disorders and conditions.
17        (3) Information technology to manage the delivery of  
18    integrated services for persons with mental health and 
19    substance use disorders and medical conditions.
20        (4) The needed continuum of statewide community health 
21    care, treatment, services, and supports for persons with 
22    mental health and substance use disorders and conditions.
23        (5) Reducing health care disparities in access to a 
24    continuum of care, care coordination, and engagement in 
25    networks.
26    The Governor's Office of Health Innovation and 
 
 
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1Transformation shall include the Division of Alcoholism and 
2Substance Abuse and the Division of Mental Health in the 
3Department of Human Services, the Department of Healthcare and 
4Family Services, the Department of Public Health The Governor 
5shall include the Division of Mental Health of the Department 
6of Human Services, the Department of Healthcare and Family 
7Services, the Department of Public Health, community mental 
8health and substance use providers, statewide associations of 
9mental health and substance use providers, mental health and 
10substance use advocacy groups, and any other entity as deemed 
11appropriate for participation in the process of identifying 
12needed services and financing strategies as described in this 
13Section working group.   
14    The Office of Health Innovation and Transformation shall 
15report its findings and recommendations to the General Assembly 
16by July 1, 2015.
17    This Section is repealed on July 1, 2016. 
18    The Department of Human Services shall provide staff and 
19support to this working group.

20(Source: P.A. 98-104, eff. 7-22-13.)
 

21    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon 
22becoming law.