HB3779sam001 96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

Sen. Dan Rutherford

Filed: 4/17/2009

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AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 3779

AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 3779 on page 1, line 5, by replacing "6.3" with "2.08, 6.3,"; and

on page 1, after line 6, by inserting the following:

"(210 ILCS 55/2.08)

Sec. 2.08. "Home services agency" means an agency that provides services directly, or acts as a placement agency, for the purpose of placing individuals as workers providing home services for consumers in their personal residences. "Home services agency" does not include agencies licensed under the Nurse Agency Licensing Act, the Hospital Licensing Act, the Nursing Home Care Act, or the Assisted Living and Shared Housing Act and does not include an agency that limits its business exclusively to providing housecleaning services. Programs providing services exclusively through the Community Care Program of the Illinois Department on Aging, or the Department of Human Services Office of Rehabilitation Services, or the United States Department of Veterans Affairs are not considered to be a home services agency under this Act.

(Source: P.A. 94-379, eff. 1-1-06.)".