103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2023 and 2024
HB3344

 

Introduced 2/17/2023, by Rep. Suzanne M. Ness

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
210 ILCS 135/13.3 new

    Amends the Community-Integrated Living Arrangements Licensure and Certification Act. Provides that the Division of Developmental Disabilities of the Department of Human Services shall continue, in cases of medically required absences from a community integrated living arrangement, to provide 50% of the per diem reimbursement to providers while the community integrated living arrangement holds the vacancy for the absent resident. Provides that the absent resident shall be able to return to the community integrated living arrangement when the resident is medically able to return. Defines "medically required absences".


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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 adding Section
613.3 as follows:
 
7    (210 ILCS 135/13.3 new)
8    Sec. 13.3. Occupancy factor. The Division of Developmental
9Disabilities of the Department shall continue, in cases of
10medically required absences from a community integrated living
11arrangement, to provide 50% of the per diem reimbursement to
12providers while the community integrated living arrangement
13holds the vacancy for the absent resident. The absent resident
14is authorized to return to the community integrated living
15arrangement when the resident is medically able to return.
16    As used in this Section, "medically required absences"
17means a situation in which a resident is temporarily absent
18from a community integrated living arrangement to receive
19medical treatment or for other reasons that have been
20recommended by medical personnel. Such reasons include, but
21are not limited to, hospitalizations, placements in short-term
22stabilization homes or state-operated facilities, stays in
23nursing facilities, rehabilitation in long-term care

 

 

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1facilities, or other absences for legitimate medical reasons.