Full Text of HB1533 95th General Assembly
HB1533ren 95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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| AN ACT concerning insurance.
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| Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| represented in the General Assembly:
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| Section 5. The Covering ALL KIDS Health Insurance Act is | 5 |
| amended by changing Sections 30 and 45 and by adding Section 63 | 6 |
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| (215 ILCS 170/30) | 8 |
| (Section scheduled to be repealed on July 1, 2011)
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| Sec. 30. Program outreach and marketing. The Department may | 10 |
| provide grants to application agents and other community-based | 11 |
| organizations to educate the public about the availability of | 12 |
| the Program. The Department shall adopt rules regarding | 13 |
| performance standards and outcomes measures expected of | 14 |
| organizations that are awarded grants under this Section, | 15 |
| including penalties for nonperformance of contract standards.
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| The Department shall annually publish electronically on a | 17 |
| State website and in no less than 2 newspapers in the State the | 18 |
| premiums or other cost sharing requirements of the Program.
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| (Source: P.A. 94-693, eff. 7-1-06 .) | 20 |
| (215 ILCS 170/45) | 21 |
| (Section scheduled to be repealed on July 1, 2011)
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| Sec. 45. Study ; contracts . |
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| (a) The Department shall conduct a study that includes, but | 2 |
| is not limited to, the following: | 3 |
| (1) Establishing estimates, broken down by regions of | 4 |
| the State, of the number of children with and without | 5 |
| health insurance coverage; the number of children who are | 6 |
| eligible for Medicaid or the Children's Health Insurance | 7 |
| Program, and, of that number, the number who are enrolled | 8 |
| in Medicaid or the Children's Health Insurance Program; and | 9 |
| the number of children with access to dependent coverage | 10 |
| through an employer, and, of that number, the number who | 11 |
| are enrolled in dependent coverage through an employer. | 12 |
| (2) Surveying those families whose children have | 13 |
| access to employer-sponsored dependent coverage but who | 14 |
| decline such coverage as to the reasons for declining | 15 |
| coverage. | 16 |
| (3) Ascertaining, for the population of children | 17 |
| accessing employer-sponsored dependent coverage or who | 18 |
| have access to such coverage, the comprehensiveness of | 19 |
| dependent coverage available, the amount of cost-sharing | 20 |
| currently paid by the employees, and the cost-sharing | 21 |
| associated with such coverage. | 22 |
| (4) Measuring the health outcomes or other benefits for | 23 |
| children utilizing the Covering ALL KIDS Health Insurance | 24 |
| Program and analyzing the effects on utilization of | 25 |
| healthcare services for children after enrollment in the | 26 |
| Program compared to the preceding period of uninsured |
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| (b) The studies described in subsection (a) shall be | 3 |
| conducted in a manner that compares a time period preceding or | 4 |
| at the initiation of the program with a later period. | 5 |
| (c) The Department shall submit the preliminary results of | 6 |
| the study to the Governor and the General Assembly no later | 7 |
| than July 1, 2008 and shall submit the final results to the | 8 |
| Governor and the General Assembly no later than July 1, 2010.
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| (d) The Department shall submit copies of all contracts | 10 |
| awarded for the administration of the Program to the Speaker of | 11 |
| the House of Representatives, the Minority Leader of the House | 12 |
| of Representatives, the President of the Senate, and the | 13 |
| Minority Leader of the Senate.
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| (Source: P.A. 94-693, eff. 7-1-06 .) | 15 |
| (215 ILCS 170/63 new) | 16 |
| Sec. 63. Audits by the Auditor General. The Auditor General | 17 |
| shall annually cause an audit to be made of the Program, | 18 |
| beginning June 30, 2008 and each June 30th thereafter. The | 19 |
| audit shall include payments for health services covered by the | 20 |
| Program and contracts entered into by the Department in | 21 |
| relation to the Program.
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