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1    AN ACT concerning State government.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The Mental Health and Developmental
5Disabilities Administrative Act is amended by changing Section
67.1 as follows:
 
7    (20 ILCS 1705/7.1)  (from Ch. 91 1/2, par. 100-7.1)
8    Sec. 7.1. For the purposes of this Section 7.1,
9"Department" means the Department of Healthcare and Family
10Services. To assist families in seeking intensive
11community-based services or residential placement for to place
12children with mental illness, for whom no appropriate care is
13available in State-operated Department facilities, in licensed
14private facilities, the Department shall supplement the amount
15a family is able to pay, as determined by the Department and
16the amount available from other sources, provided the
17Department's share shall not exceed a uniform maximum rate to
18be determined from time to time by the Department. The
19Department may exercise the authority under this Section as is
20necessary to implement the provisions of Section 5-5.23 of the
21Illinois Public Aid Code and to administer Individual Care
22Grants. The Department shall work collaboratively with
23stakeholders and family representatives in the implementation

 

 

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1of this Section.
2(Source: P.A. 88-380.)
 
3    Section 10. The Illinois Public Aid Code is amended by
4changing Section 5-5.23 as follows:
 
5    (305 ILCS 5/5-5.23)
6    Sec. 5-5.23. Children's mental health services.
7    (a) The Department of Healthcare and Family Services, by
8rule, shall require the screening and assessment of a child
9prior to any Medicaid-funded admission to an inpatient hospital
10for psychiatric services to be funded by Medicaid. The
11screening and assessment shall include a determination of the
12appropriateness and availability of out-patient support
13services for necessary treatment. The Department, by rule,
14shall establish methods and standards of payment for the
15screening, assessment, and necessary alternative support
16services.
17    (b) The Department of Healthcare and Family Services, to
18the extent allowable under federal law, shall secure federal
19financial participation for Individual Care Grant expenditures
20made by the Department of Healthcare and Family Human Services
21for the Medicaid optional service authorized under Section
221905(h) of the federal Social Security Act, pursuant to the
23provisions of Section 7.1 of the Mental Health and
24Developmental Disabilities Administrative Act. The Department

 

 

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1of Healthcare and Family Services may exercise the authority
2under this Section as is necessary to administer Individual
3Care Grants as authorized under Section 7.1 of the Mental
4Health and Developmental Disabilities Administrative Act.
5    (c) The Department of Healthcare and Family Services shall
6work collaboratively with the Department of Children and Family
7Services and the Division of Mental Health of jointly with the
8Department of Human Services to implement subsections (a) and
9(b).
10    (d) On and after July 1, 2012, the Department shall reduce
11any rate of reimbursement for services or other payments or
12alter any methodologies authorized by this Code to reduce any
13rate of reimbursement for services or other payments in
14accordance with Section 5-5e.
15    (e) All rights, powers, duties, and responsibilities
16currently exercised by the Department of Human Services related
17to the Individual Care Grant program are transferred to the
18Department of Healthcare and Family Services with the transfer
19and transition of the Individual Care Grant program to the
20Department of Healthcare and Family Services to be completed
21and implemented within 6 months after the effective date of
22this amendatory Act of the 99th General Assembly. For the
23purposes of the Successor Agency Act, the Department of
24Healthcare and Family Services is declared to be the successor
25agency of the Department of Human Services, but only with
26respect to the functions of the Department of Human Services

 

 

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1that are transferred to the Department of Healthcare and Family
2Services under this amendatory Act of the 99th General
3Assembly.
4        (1) Each act done by the Department of Healthcare and
5    Family Services in exercise of the transferred powers,
6    duties, rights, and responsibilities shall have the same
7    legal effect as if done by the Department of Human Services
8    or its offices.
9        (2) Any rules of the Department of Human Services that
10    relate to the functions and programs transferred by this
11    amendatory Act of the 99th General Assembly that are in
12    full force on the effective date of this amendatory Act of
13    the 99th General Assembly shall become the rules of the
14    Department of Healthcare and Family Services. All rules
15    transferred under this amendatory Act of the 99th General
16    Assembly are hereby amended such that the term "Department"
17    shall be defined as the Department of Healthcare and Family
18    Services and all references to the "Secretary" shall be
19    changed to the "Director of Healthcare and Family Services
20    or his or her designee". As soon as practicable hereafter,
21    the Department of Healthcare and Family Services shall
22    revise and clarify the rules to reflect the transfer of
23    rights, powers, duties, and responsibilities affected by
24    this amendatory Act of the 99th General Assembly, using the
25    procedures for recodification of rules available under the
26    Illinois Administrative Procedure Act, except that

 

 

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1    existing title, part, and section numbering for the
2    affected rules may be retained. The Department of
3    Healthcare and Family Services, consistent with its
4    authority to do so as granted by this amendatory Act of the
5    99th General Assembly, shall propose and adopt any other
6    rules under the Illinois Administrative Procedure Act as
7    necessary to administer the Individual Care Grant program.
8    These rules may include, but are not limited to, the
9    application process and eligibility requirements for
10    recipients.
11        (3) All unexpended appropriations and balances and
12    other funds available for use in connection with any
13    functions of the Individual Care Grant program shall be
14    transferred for the use of the Department of Healthcare and
15    Family Services to operate the Individual Care Grant
16    program. Unexpended balances shall be expended only for the
17    purpose for which the appropriation was originally made.
18    The Department of Healthcare and Family Services shall
19    exercise all rights, powers, duties, and responsibilities
20    for operation of the Individual Care Grant program.
21        (4) Existing personnel and positions of the Department
22    of Human Services pertaining to the administration of the
23    Individual Care Grant program shall be transferred to the
24    Department of Healthcare and Family Services with the
25    transfer and transition of the Individual Care Grant
26    program to the Department of Healthcare and Family

 

 

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1    Services. The status and rights of Department of Human
2    Services employees engaged in the performance of the
3    functions of the Individual Care Grant program shall not be
4    affected by this amendatory Act of the 99th General
5    Assembly. The rights of the employees, the State of
6    Illinois, and its agencies under the Personnel Code and
7    applicable collective bargaining agreements or under any
8    pension, retirement, or annuity plan shall not be affected
9    by this amendatory Act of the 99th General Assembly. All
10    transferred employees who are members of collective
11    bargaining units shall retain their seniority, continuous
12    service, salary, and accrued benefits.
13        (5) All books, records, papers, documents, property
14    (real and personal), contracts, and pending business
15    pertaining to the powers, duties, rights, and
16    responsibilities related to the functions of the
17    Individual Care Grant program, including, but not limited
18    to, material in electronic or magnetic format and necessary
19    computer hardware and software, shall be delivered to the
20    Department of Healthcare and Family Services; provided,
21    however, that the delivery of this information shall not
22    violate any applicable confidentiality constraints.
23        (6) Whenever reports or notices are now required to be
24    made or given or papers or documents furnished or served by
25    any person to or upon the Department of Human Services in
26    connection with any of the functions transferred by this

 

 

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1    amendatory Act of the 99th General Assembly, the same shall
2    be made, given, furnished, or served in the same manner to
3    or upon the Department of Healthcare and Family Services.
4        (7) This amendatory Act of the 99th General Assembly
5    shall not affect any act done, ratified, or canceled or any
6    right occurring or established or any action or proceeding
7    had or commenced in an administrative, civil, or criminal
8    cause regarding the Department of Human Services before the
9    effective date of this amendatory Act of the 99th General
10    Assembly; and those actions or proceedings may be defended,
11    prosecuted, and continued by the Department of Human
12    Services.
13    (f) The Individual Care Grant program shall be inoperative
14during the calendar year in which implementation begins of any
15remedies in response to litigation against the Department of
16Healthcare and Family Services related to children's
17behavioral health and the general status of children's
18behavioral health in this State. Individual Care Grant
19recipients in the program the year it becomes inoperative shall
20continue to remain in the program until it is clinically
21appropriate for them to step down in level of care.
22(Source: P.A. 97-689, eff. 6-14-12.)
 
23    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
24becoming law.