HB1448 94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

LRB094 08798 RSP 39015 b

94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2005 and 2006
HB1448

Introduced 2/10/2005, by Rep. Lee A. Daniels - Raymond Poe - Patricia R. Bellock - Eileen Lyons

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

20 ILCS 1705/11.2

from Ch. 91 1/2, par. 100-11.2

Amends the Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Administrative Act. Provides that the Department shall maintain and operate the Bureau for Mentally Ill and Substance Abusing Children and Adolescents. Sets forth that this Bureau shall develop policies necessary to assure an integrated and comprehensive family and community based system of care for, among others, children or adolescents with mental illness and substance abuse. Sets forth other duties and obligations of the Bureau. Effective July 1, 2005.

FISCAL NOTE ACT MAY APPLY

A BILL FOR

AN ACT concerning State government.

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly:

Section 5. The Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Administrative Act is amended by changing Section 11.2 as follows:

(20 ILCS 1705/11.2) (from Ch. 91 1/2, par. 100-11.2)

Sec. 11.2. To maintain and operate the Bureau for Mentally Ill Children and Adolescents, the Bureau for Mentally Ill and Substance Abusing Children and Adolescents, and the Bureau for Developmentally Disabled Children and Adolescents. Each Bureau shall:

(a) develop the Department policies necessary to assure an integrated and comprehensive family and community based system of care a coherent services system for, and develop and coordinate planning on a Statewide basis for delivery of services to, children or adolescents with mental illness, children or adolescents with mental illness and substance abuse, and children and adolescents with a developmental disability, including:

(1) assessment of the need for various types of programs and services, such as prevention, early intervention, diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation, and family preservation; and

(2) design of a family and community based system of care to integrate additional services, including service alternatives;

(b) provide consultation and technical assistance to the appropriate Department subdivisions and coordinate service planning of a family and community based system of care and development efforts for children and adolescents with a developmental disability, and children or adolescents with mental illness, and children or adolescents with mental illness and substance abuse;

(c) establish and maintain processes for working collaboratively develop cooperative programs with community service providers and other State agencies which serve children;

(d) assist families in the placement of children with mental illness, as specified in Section 7.1; and

(e) develop minimum standards for the operation of both State-provided and contracted family and community-based systems of care, with input from stakeholders, services for promulgation as rules.

(Source: P.A. 88-380.)

Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect July 1, 2005.