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 1                    AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 2447

 2        AMENDMENT NO.     .  Amend House Bill 2447,  AS  AMENDED,
 3    by  replacing  everything  after the enacting clause with the
 4    following:

 5        "Section 5. The Community-Integrated Living  Arrangements
 6    Licensure  and  Certification  Act  is  amended  by  changing
 7    Section 3 as follows:

 8        (210 ILCS 135/3) (from Ch. 91 1/2, par. 1703)
 9        Sec. 3.  As used in this Act, unless the context requires
10    otherwise:
11        (a)  "Applicant"   means  a  person,  group  of  persons,
12    association, partnership or corporation that  applies  for  a
13    license   as  a  community  mental  health  or  developmental
14    services agency under this Act.
15        (b)  "Community mental health or  developmental  services
16    agency"  or  "agency"  means  a  public  or  private  agency,
17    association,  partnership, corporation or organization which,
18    pursuant to this Act, certifies  community-integrated  living
19    arrangements  for persons with mental illness or persons with
20    a developmental disability.
21        (c)  "Department" means the Department of Human  Services
22    (as   successor  to  the  Department  of  Mental  Health  and
 
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 1    Developmental Disabilities).
 2        (d)  "Community-integrated living  arrangement"  means  a
 3    living  arrangement certified by a community mental health or
 4    developmental services agency under this Act where 8 or fewer
 5    recipients  with  mental  illness  or   recipients   with   a
 6    developmental  disability who reside under the supervision of
 7    the  agency.  Examples   of   community   integrated   living
 8    arrangements include but are not limited to the following:
 9             (1)  "Adult  foster  care", a living arrangement for
10        recipients in residences of families unrelated  to  them,
11        for   the  purpose  of  providing  family  care  for  the
12        recipients on a full-time basis;
13             (2)  "Assisted  residential  care",  an  independent
14        living arrangement where  recipients  are  intermittently
15        supervised by off-site staff;
16             (3)  "Crisis residential care", a non-medical living
17        arrangement  where  recipients  in  need  of non-medical,
18        crisis services are supervised by on-site staff 24  hours
19        a day;
20             (4)  "Home individual programs", living arrangements
21        for 2 unrelated adults outside the family home;
22             (5)  "Supported    residential   care",   a   living
23        arrangement where recipients are  supervised  by  on-site
24        staff and such supervision is provided less than 24 hours
25        a day; and
26             (6)  "Community    residential   alternatives",   as
27        defined  in  the   Community   Residential   Alternatives
28        Licensing Act; and.
29             (7)  "Special   needs   trust-supported  residential
30        care",  a  living  arrangement   where   recipients   are
31        supervised  by  on-site  staff  and  that  supervision is
32        provided 24 hours per day or less,  as  dictated  by  the
33        needs  of  the  recipients,  and  determined  by  service
34        providers.  As  used  in  this  item  (7), "special needs
 
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 1        trust" means a  trust  for  the  benefit  of  a  disabled
 2        beneficiary  as  described  in Section 15.1 of the Trusts
 3        and Trustees Act.
 4        (e)  "Recipient" means a  person  who  has  received,  is
 5    receiving,  or  is  in  need  of treatment or habilitation as
 6    those  terms  are  defined   in   the   Mental   Health   and
 7    Developmental Disabilities Code.
 8        (f)  "Unrelated"  means that persons residing together in
 9    programs or placements certified by a community mental health
10    or developmental services agency under this Act do  not  have
11    any  of  the  following  relationships  by blood, marriage or
12    adoption:   parent,   son,   daughter,    brother,    sister,
13    grandparent,  uncle,  aunt, nephew, niece, great grandparent,
14    great uncle, great aunt,  stepbrother,  stepsister,  stepson,
15    stepdaughter, stepparent or first cousin.
16    (Source: P.A. 88-380; 89-507, eff. 7-1-97.)".