100TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2017 and 2018
HB5537
 
Introduced , by Rep. Sheri Jesiel
 
SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 

 
  
210 ILCS 135/10  from Ch. 91 1/2, par. 1710

     Amends the Community-Integrated Living Arrangements Licensure and Certification Act. Removes language requiring the Department of Human Services to adopt a State plan for the distribution of community-integrated living arrangements throughout the State and makes related changes. Effective immediately.
  


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A BILL FOR
 

  
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1    AN ACT concerning regulation.
  
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
 
3represented in the General Assembly:
  
 
 
4    Section 5. The Community-Integrated Living Arrangements 
5Licensure and
Certification Act is amended  by changing Section 
610 as follows:
 



7    (210 ILCS 135/10)  (from Ch. 91 1/2, par. 1710)



8    Sec. 10. Community integration State plan. 
9    (a) Community-integrated living arrangements
shall be 
10located so as to enable residents to participate in and be

11integrated into their community or neighborhood.  The location 
12of such
arrangements shall promote community integration of 
13persons with mental
disabilities.  The Department shall adopt a 
14plan ("State plan") for the
distribution of community living 
15arrangements throughout the State,
considering the need for 
16such arrangements in the various locations in
which they are to 
17be used.  Each agency licensed under this Act must define
the 
18process of obtaining community acceptance of community living

19arrangements.  The State plan shall include guidelines 
20regarding the
location of community-integrated living 
21arrangements within the geographic
areas to be served by the 
22agencies, and the availability of support
services within those 
23areas for residents under such arrangements.  The
Department 
 
 
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1shall promulgate such guidelines as rules pursuant to the

2Illinois Administrative Procedure Act.

3    The Department shall require any agency licensed under this 
4Act to establish
procedures for assuring compliance with such 
5criteria, including annual
review and comment by 
6representatives of local governmental authorities,
community 
7mental health and developmental disabilities planning and 
8service
agencies, and other interested civil organizations, 
9regarding the impact on
their community areas of any living 
10arrangements, programs or services to
be certified by such 
11agency.  The Department shall give consideration to
the comments 
12of such community representatives in determinations of

13compliance with the State plan under this Section, and the 
14Department may
modify, suspend or withhold funding of such 
15programs and services subject
to this Act until such times as 
16assurance is achieved.

17    (b) Beginning January 1, 1990, no Department of State 
18government, as
defined in the Civil
Administrative Code of 
19Illinois, shall place any person in or utilize any
services of 
20a community-integrated living arrangement which is not

21certified by an agency under this Act.

22(Source: P.A. 98-463, eff. 8-16-13.)

 
 
23    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon 
24becoming law.