98TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2013 and 2014
SB3124

 

Introduced 2/7/2014, by Sen. Julie A. Morrison

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
305 ILCS 5/5-33 new
305 ILCS 5/5-34 new

    Amends the Medical Assistance Article of the Illinois Public Aid Code. Requires the Department of Healthcare and Family Services to promulgate rules to increase by $10 for State fiscal year 2015 the total monthly personal needs allowance for persons who are inpatients in a facility licensed under the ID/DD Community Care Act for which payments are made under the Medical Assistance Article throughout a month and who are determined to be eligible for medical assistance. Provides that for State fiscal years 2016 and beyond, in any calendar year in which there is a cost-of-living increase in federal Supplemental Security Income benefits or Social Security benefits, the Department shall promulgate rules to increase the total monthly personal needs allowance by an amount that is at least equal to the increase in federal Supplemental Security Income benefits or Social Security benefits. Provides that the Department shall not be prohibited from increasing, by rule, for State fiscal years 2016 and beyond, the personal needs allowance by an amount that is greater than the cost-of-living increase in federal Supplemental Security Income benefits or Social Security benefits for that calander year; and that at no time shall the personal needs allowance for eligible persons be reduced below the rates calculated for State fiscal year 2015. Authorizes the Department to make similar increases, by rule, for persons who reside in a facility licensed under the Community-Integrated Living Arrangements Licensure and Certification Act, who are determined to be eligible for medical assistance, and who are enrolled in the Illinois Home and Community Based Services Medicaid Waiver program for adults with developmental disabilities. Effective immediately.


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FISCAL NOTE ACT MAY APPLY

 

 

A BILL FOR

 

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1    AN ACT concerning public aid.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The Illinois Public Aid Code is amended by
5adding Sections 5-33 and 5-34 as follows:
 
6    (305 ILCS 5/5-33 new)
7    Sec. 5-33. Personal needs allowance; ID/DD facility.
8    (a) The Department shall promulgate rules to increase by
9$10 for State fiscal year 2015 the total monthly personal needs
10allowance for persons who are inpatients in a facility licensed
11under the ID/DD Community Care Act for which payments are made
12under this Article throughout a month and who are determined to
13be eligible for medical assistance under this Article. For
14State fiscal years 2016 and beyond, in any calendar year in
15which there is a cost-of-living increase in federal
16Supplemental Security Income benefits or Social Security
17benefits, the Department shall promulgate rules to increase the
18total monthly personal needs allowance by an amount that is at
19least equal to the increase in federal Supplemental Security
20Income benefits or Social Security benefits. Nothing in this
21Section shall prohibit the Department from increasing, by rule,
22for State fiscal years 2016 and beyond, the personal needs
23allowance by an amount that is greater than the cost-of-living

 

 

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1increase in federal Supplemental Security Income benefits or
2Social Security benefits for that calander year.
3    (b) At no time shall the personal needs allowance for
4persons residing in facilities referenced in this Section be
5reduced below the rates calculated for State fiscal year 2015.
 
6    (305 ILCS 5/5-34 new)
7    Sec. 5-34. Personal needs allowance; CILA.
8    (a) The Department shall promulgate rules to increase by
9$10 for State fiscal year 2015 the total monthly personal needs
10allowance for persons who reside in a facility licensed under
11the Community-Integrated Living Arrangements Licensure and
12Certification Act, who are determined to be eligible for
13medical assistance under this Article, and who are enrolled in
14the Illinois Home and Community Based Services Medicaid Waiver
15program for adults with developmental disabilities. For State
16fiscal years 2016 and beyond, in any calendar year in which
17there is a cost-of-living increase in federal Supplemental
18Security Income benefits or Social Security benefits, the
19Department shall promulgate rules to increase the total monthly
20personal needs allowance by an amount that is at least equal to
21the increase in federal Supplemental Security Income benefits
22or Social Security benefits. Nothing in this Section shall
23prohibit the Department from increasing, by rule, for State
24fiscal years 2016 and beyond, the personal needs allowance by
25an amount that is greater than the cost-of-living increase in

 

 

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1federal Supplemental Security Income benefits or Social
2Security benefits for that calander year.
3    (b) At no time shall the personal needs allowance for
4persons residing in facilities referenced in this Section be
5reduced below the rates calculated for State fiscal year 2015.
 
6    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
7becoming law.