Full Text of SR0698 95th General Assembly
SR0698 95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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| SENATE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, The 2008 State of the States In Developmental | 3 |
| Disabilities has ranked Illinois 51st in the United States in | 4 |
| funding for community residential developmental disability | 5 |
| (DD) services in settings of 6 or fewer individuals; Illinois | 6 |
| ranked behind the District of Columbia; and
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| WHEREAS, The National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) has | 8 |
| once again given Illinois an 'F' for its lack of funding to | 9 |
| ensure access to community mental health (MH) services; and
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| WHEREAS, The Illinois Council on Developmental | 11 |
| Disabilities recently commissioned a study by the Human | 12 |
| Services Resource Institute, the Blueprint for System Redesign | 13 |
| in Illinois, that further highlights the need for system | 14 |
| change; and
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| WHEREAS, The Illinois General Assembly also commissioned a | 16 |
| study by the University of Illinois, State Funding of Community | 17 |
| Agencies for Services Provided to Illinois Residents with | 18 |
| Mental Illnesses and/or Developmental Disabilities, to | 19 |
| complete a rate study per Public Act 93-0842; and
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| WHEREAS, The low per person costs of services in Illinois | 21 |
| are not so much indicative of economy and efficiency in service |
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| delivery as they are the by-product of problematic payment | 2 |
| policies; there is broad agreement in Illinois that the rates | 3 |
| that are paid for developmental disability services are | 4 |
| insufficient to ensure the delivery of high quality, effective | 5 |
| supports for individuals (Source: Blueprint); and
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| WHEREAS, State payments in 2006 covered on average from 74 | 7 |
| to 79 percent of agency costs, depending on the program area; | 8 |
| current rates, originally based on provider costs for | 9 |
| particular inputs, have not been overhauled in many years | 10 |
| (Source: University of Illinois Rate Study); and
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| WHEREAS, Illinois now has at least four studies that | 12 |
| document underfunding of the community system that provides | 13 |
| services and supports to people with developmental | 14 |
| disabilities and mental illness; and
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| WHEREAS, SB 1664, now Public Act 95-0682, unanimously | 16 |
| passed both the Illinois House and the Illinois Senate in 2007 | 17 |
| and the Governor's amendatory veto was unanimously overridden | 18 |
| in both the House and the Senate; and
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| WHEREAS, PA 95-0682 requires the Governor to create a | 20 |
| Commission by July 1, 2007, or as soon thereafter as possible, | 21 |
| to review funding methodologies, identify gaps in funding, | 22 |
| identify revenue, and prioritize the use of that revenue for |
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| community developmental disability, mental health, alcohol and | 2 |
| substance abuse, rehabilitation, and early intervention | 3 |
| services; and
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| WHEREAS, The rate and reimbursement methodologies must | 5 |
| reflect economic factors inherent in providing services and | 6 |
| supports; and
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| WHEREAS, The Commission will have 13 voting members, | 8 |
| including four members of the General Assembly, one appointed | 9 |
| from each caucus; and
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| WHEREAS, The Governor has not yet made his nine | 11 |
| appointments to the Commission: two members from unions | 12 |
| representing workers in the community, one person or a family | 13 |
| member/guardian with a developmental disability, one person or | 14 |
| family member/guardian of a person with a mental illness, and | 15 |
| five members from statewide associations representing | 16 |
| community providers; and
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| WHEREAS, The Commission will also have three ex-officio, | 18 |
| non-voting members from the Governor's Office of Management and | 19 |
| Budget, the Department of Human Services, and the Department of | 20 |
| Healthcare and Family Services; therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-FIFTH GENERAL |
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| ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we urge the Governor of | 2 |
| the State of Illinois to immediately make his nine appointments | 3 |
| to the Commission, so it can begin its work to review funding | 4 |
| methodologies, identify gaps in funding, identify revenue, and | 5 |
| prioritize the use of that revenue for community developmental | 6 |
| disability, mental health, alcohol and substance abuse, | 7 |
| rehabilitation, and early intervention services; and be it | 8 |
| further
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| RESOLVED, That the Illinois Association of Rehabilitation | 10 |
| Facilities (IARF) wants to highlight these dismal reports of | 11 |
| Illinois' investment in community services and work with the | 12 |
| General Assembly, the Governor and his office, the Department | 13 |
| of Human Services, and the Department of Healthcare and Family | 14 |
| Services to make a change through its "51st and Failing | 15 |
| Advocacy Campaign"; and be it further | 16 |
| RESOLVED, That the Commission begin its work as soon as | 17 |
| members are appointed; and be it further | 18 |
| RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 19 |
| presented to the Governor of Illinois and the Illinois | 20 |
| Association of Rehabilitation Facilities (IARF), as the | 21 |
| initiating organization of SB 1664.
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