Rep. Greg Harris

Filed: 3/18/2014

 

 


 

 


 
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AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 5307

2    AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 5307 by replacing
3everything after the enacting clause with the following:
 
4    "Section 5. The Community-Integrated Living Arrangements
5Licensure and Certification Act is amended by adding Section
69.1 as follows:
 
7    (210 ILCS 135/9.1 new)
8    Sec. 9.1. Recipient's funds; protection.
9    (a) To protect a recipient's funds, a service provider:
10        (1) May accept funds from a recipient for safekeeping
11    and management if the service provider receives written
12    authorization from the recipient or the recipient's
13    guardian.
14        (2) Shall maintain a written record of all financial
15    arrangements and transactions involving each individual
16    recipient's funds and shall allow each recipient, or the

 

 

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1    recipient's guardian, access to that written record.
2        (3) Shall provide, in order of priority, each
3    recipient, or the recipient's guardian, if any, or the
4    recipient's immediate family member, if any, with a written
5    itemized statement of all financial transactions involving
6    the recipient's funds or a copy of the recipient's checking
7    or savings account register for the period. This
8    information shall be provided at least quarterly.
9        (4) Shall purchase and maintain a surety bond or other
10    commercial policy with crime coverage in an amount equal to
11    or greater than all of the recipients' personal funds
12    deposited with the service provider to which employees of
13    the service provider have access to secure against loss,
14    theft, and insolvency. The insurance company that provides
15    the surety bond or commercial policy with crime coverage
16    shall inform the Division of Developmental Disabilities of
17    the Department of Human Services of any reduction or
18    cancellation of the surety bond or commercial policy with
19    crime coverage.
20        (5) Shall keep any funds received from a recipient in
21    an account separate from the service provider's funds for
22    safekeeping, and shall not withdraw all or any part of the
23    recipient's funds unless the service provider is (i)
24    returning the funds to the recipient upon the request of
25    the recipient or any other person entitled to make the
26    request, (ii) paying the recipient his or her allowance, or

 

 

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1    (iii) making any other payment authorized by the recipient
2    or any other person entitled to make that authorization.
3        (6) Shall deposit any funds received from a recipient
4    in excess of $100 in an interest-bearing account insured by
5    agencies of, or corporations chartered by, the State or the
6    federal government. The account shall be in a form that
7    clearly indicates that the service provider has only a
8    fiduciary interest in the funds and that any interest
9    earned on funds in the account shall accrue to the
10    recipient. The service provider may keep up to $100 of a
11    recipient's funds in a non-interest-bearing account or
12    petty cash fund, to be readily available for the
13    recipient's current expenditures.
14        (7) Shall, upon written request of a recipient or the
15    recipient's guardian, return to the recipient or the
16    recipient's guardian of the estate all or any part of the
17    recipient's funds given to the service provider for
18    safekeeping, including the accrued interest earned on the
19    deposits of the recipient's funds.
20        (8) Shall (i) place any monthly allowance that a
21    recipient is entitled to in the recipient's personal
22    account or give the monthly allowance directly to the
23    recipient, unless the service provider has written
24    authorization from the recipient, the recipient's
25    guardian, or the recipient's parent if the recipient is a
26    minor, to handle the monthly allowance differently, (ii)

 

 

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1    take all steps necessary to ensure that a monthly allowance
2    that is placed in a recipient's personal account is used
3    exclusively by the recipient or for the recipient's
4    benefit, and (iii) require any person other than the
5    recipient who withdraws funds from the recipient's
6    personal account that constitute any portion of the
7    recipient's monthly allowance to execute an affidavit that
8    the funds will be used exclusively for the benefit of the
9    recipient.
10        (9) If an adult recipient is incapable of managing his
11    or her funds and does not have a guardian or immediate
12    family member, the service provider shall notify the Office
13    of the State Guardian of the Guardianship and Advocacy
14    Commission.
15    (b) Upon the death of a recipient, unless otherwise
16provided by State law, the service provider shall provide the
17executor or administrator of the recipient's estate with a
18complete accounting of all the recipient's personal property,
19including any funds of the recipient being held by the service
20provider.
21    (c) If a recipient changes service providers, the former
22service provider shall provide the new service provider with a
23written verification by a public accountant of all the
24recipient's money and property being transferred and shall
25obtain a signed receipt for the money and property from the new
26service provider upon transfer of the recipient's money and

 

 

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1property.
2    (d) If a service provider is sold, the service provider
3shall provide the new owner with a written verification by a
4public accountant of all the recipients' money and property
5being transferred and shall obtain a signed receipt for the
6money and property from the new owner upon transfer of the
7recipients' money and property.
 
8    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
9becoming law.".