95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2007 and 2008
HB4590

 

Introduced , by Rep. Barbara Flynn Currie - Sara Feigenholtz

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
20 ILCS 505/12   from Ch. 23, par. 5012

    Amends the Children and Family Services Act. Provides that by July 1, 2012, the per child payment rate for various categories of foster care expenditures allowable under federal law shall be up to 100% of the "foster care minimum adequate rates for children", established in a specified October 2007 technical report (now, up to 100% of an adjusted specified federal cost index). Effective immediately.


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FISCAL NOTE ACT MAY APPLY

 

 

A BILL FOR

 

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1     AN ACT concerning State government.
 
2     Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
 
4     Section 5. The Children and Family Services Act is amended
5 by changing Section 12 as follows:
 
6     (20 ILCS 505/12)  (from Ch. 23, par. 5012)
7     Sec. 12. (a) To provide supervision, housing
8 accommodations, board or the payment of boarding costs,
9 tuition, and treatment free of charge, except as otherwise
10 specified in this Act, for residents of this State who are
11 cared for in any institution, or for persons receiving services
12 under any program under the jurisdiction of the Department.
13 Residents of other states may be admitted upon payment of the
14 costs of board, tuition, and treatment as determined by the
15 Department; provided, that no resident of another state shall
16 be received or retained to the exclusion of any resident of
17 this State. The Department shall accept any donation for the
18 board, tuition, and treatment of any person receiving service
19 or care.
20     (b) To By July 1, 1994, to make room and board payments to
21 persons providing foster care under this Act at a rate for each
22 child that is up to 100% of the adjusted United States
23 Department of Agriculture Cost of Raising a Child in the Urban

 

 

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1 Midwest/Low Cost Index, except that by July 1, 2012, the rate
2 for each child shall be up to 100% of the Foster Care Minimum
3 Adequate Rates for Children (MARC) for expenditures allowable
4 under the federal Title IV-E Foster Care Maintenance Program of
5 the Social Security Act related to the actual costs of
6 providing food, clothing, shelter, daily supervision, school
7 supplies, personal incidentals, insurance, and travel for
8 visitation with a child's biological family, jointly
9 recommended by the National Foster Parent Association, the
10 University of Maryland School of Social Work, and the
11 organization Children's Rights in a technical report entitled
12 "Hitting the M.A.R.C.: Establishing Foster Care Minimum
13 Adequate Rates for Children", dated October 2007.
14 (Source: P.A. 86-1482.)
 
15     Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
16 becoming law.