Illinois General Assembly - Bill Status for SB0822

Replaces everything after the enacting clause. Amends the Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Administrative Act. Provides that whenever a State mental health facility operated by the Department is closed and the real estate on which the facility is located is sold by the State, the net proceeds of the sale of the real estate shall be deposited into the Community Mental Health Medicaid Trust Fund and used for specified purposes described in the Community Services Act. Provides that the net proceeds from the sale of a State mental health facility may be spent over a number of fiscal years and are not required to be spent in the same fiscal year in which they are deposited. Provides that the Community Mental Health Medicaid Trust Fund is not subject to sweeps, administrative charges, or charge-backs, or any other fiscal or budgetary maneuver that would transfer any amount from the Fund into any other Fund of the State unless specifically authorized by law prior to the effective date of the amendatory Act. Provides that it is not lawful to circumvent this limitation by governmental reorganization or other methods. Amends the Community Services Act. Provides that whenever a State mental health facility operated by the Department of Human Services is closed and the real estate on which the facility is located is sold by the State, then, to the extent that net proceeds are realized from the sale of that real estate, those net proceeds must be used for mental health services. Provides that to the extent that a State mental health facility which has been closed served a specific geographical area, at minimum, 50% of the resulting net proceeds of its sale shall be made exclusively in the facility's geographical area and shall be used for certain specified mental health services. Effective immediately.

Replaces everything after the enacting clause. Amends the Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Administrative Act, the State Finance Act, and the Community Services Act. Provides that the Department of Human Services may set aside a portion of the net proceeds of the sale of a State mental health facility for deposit into the Human Services Priority Capital Program Fund. Provides that moneys from the sale shall be used to make grants to the Illinois Facilities Fund, a not-for-profit corporation, to make long term below market rate loans to nonprofit human service providers working under contract to the State of Illinois to assist those providers in meeting their capital needs. Provides that the net proceeds from the sale of a State mental health or developmental disabilities facility may be spent over a number of fiscal years and are not required to be spent in the same fiscal year in which they are deposited. Provides that to the extent that a State mental health facility which has been closed served a geographical area, at minimum, 40% of the resulting net proceeds of its sale shall be made exclusively in the facility's geographical area. Provides that if any other State-operated mental health facility which served a specific geographic area was closed within one year before or after the closure of the facility whose sale has resulted in net proceeds, 20% of the proceeds shall be used to provide services in the geographic area of this facility. Provides the minimum level of mental health services and supports that may be supported by net proceeds from the sale of State mental health facilities. Effective immediately.

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