Illinois General Assembly - Bill Status for HB5927

Amends the Community-Integrated Living Arrangements Licensure and Certification Act. Provides that the Department of Human Services may not deny, suspend, or revoke a license under the Act, or refuse to renew a license, on the ground that the licensee or applicant operates or proposes to operate a community-integrated living arrangement located within 800 feet from any other setting licensed or funded to provide residential services for persons with a developmental disability or mental illness, including another community-integrated living arrangement. Provides that neither the State plan for the distribution of community living arrangements throughout the State, nor any rule adopted by the Department, may include a requirement that a community-integrated living arrangement owned or leased by a community mental health or developmental services agency and funded by the Department may not be located within a distance of 800 feet from any other setting licensed or funded to provide residential services for persons with a developmental disability or mental illness, including another community-integrated living arrangement. Provides that the Department must, under the authority granted to it under a specified consent decree, adopt and publish a written plan for compliance with the terms of the consent decree within 3 months after the effective date of the amendatory Act. Sets forth features that the plan must include.

Replaces the bill's amendatory changes concerning the Department of Human Services' denial, suspension, or revocation of a license or refusal to renew a license. Provides that the Department may not deny, suspend, or revoke a license or refuse to renew a license on any ground relating to the distance between a community-integrated living arrangement that the licensee or applicant operates or proposes to operate and any other setting licensed or funded to provide residential services for persons with a developmental disability or mental illness, including another community-integrated living arrangement. Replaces the bill's amendatory changes concerning the Department of Human Services' State plan for the distribution of community living arrangements throughout the State. Provides that neither the State plan nor any rule adopted by the Department may include any restriction or other requirement as to the distance that a community-integrated living arrangement owned or leased by a community mental health or developmental services agency and funded by the Department may or must be located from any other setting licensed or funded to provide residential services for persons with a developmental disability or mental illness, including another community-integrated living arrangement.

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