Full Text of SB1779 096th General Assembly
SB1779 96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2009 and 2010 SB1779
Introduced 2/20/2009, by Sen. Mattie Hunter SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: |
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305 ILCS 5/12-9 |
from Ch. 23, par. 12-9 |
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Amends the Illinois Public Aid Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the Public Aid Recoveries Trust Fund.
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A BILL FOR
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| AN ACT concerning public aid.
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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 Illinois Public Aid Code is amended by | 5 |
| changing Section 12-9 as follows:
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| (305 ILCS 5/12-9) (from Ch. 23, par. 12-9)
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| Sec. 12-9. Public Aid Recoveries Trust Fund; uses. The The | 8 |
| Public Aid Recoveries Trust Fund shall consist of (1)
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| recoveries by the Department of Healthcare and Family Services | 10 |
| (formerly Illinois Department of Public Aid) authorized by this | 11 |
| Code
in respect to applicants or recipients under Articles III, | 12 |
| IV, V, and VI,
including recoveries made by the Department of | 13 |
| Healthcare and Family Services (formerly Illinois Department | 14 |
| of Public
Aid) from the estates of deceased recipients, (2) | 15 |
| recoveries made by the
Department of Healthcare and Family | 16 |
| Services (formerly Illinois Department of Public Aid) in | 17 |
| respect to applicants and recipients under
the Children's | 18 |
| Health Insurance Program, and (3) federal funds received on
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| behalf of and earned by State universities and local | 20 |
| governmental entities
for services provided to
applicants or | 21 |
| recipients covered under this Code. The Fund shall be held
as a | 22 |
| special fund in the State Treasury.
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| Disbursements from this Fund shall be only (1) for the |
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| reimbursement of
claims collected by the Department of | 2 |
| Healthcare and Family Services (formerly Illinois Department | 3 |
| of Public Aid) through error
or mistake, (2) for payment to | 4 |
| persons or agencies designated as payees or
co-payees on any | 5 |
| instrument, whether or not negotiable, delivered to the
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| Department of Healthcare and Family Services (formerly
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| Illinois Department of Public Aid) as a recovery under this | 8 |
| Section, such
payment to be in proportion to the respective | 9 |
| interests of the payees in the
amount so collected, (3) for | 10 |
| payments to the Department of Human Services
for collections | 11 |
| made by the Department of Healthcare and Family Services | 12 |
| (formerly Illinois Department of Public Aid) on behalf of
the | 13 |
| Department of Human Services under this Code, (4) for payment | 14 |
| of
administrative expenses incurred in performing the
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| activities authorized under this Code, (5)
for payment of fees | 16 |
| to persons or agencies in the performance of activities
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| pursuant to the collection of monies owed the State that are | 18 |
| collected
under this Code, (6) for payments of any amounts | 19 |
| which are
reimbursable to the federal government which are | 20 |
| required to be paid by State
warrant by either the State or | 21 |
| federal government, and (7) for payments
to State universities | 22 |
| and local governmental entities of federal funds for
services | 23 |
| provided to
applicants or recipients covered under this Code. | 24 |
| Disbursements
from this Fund for purposes of items (4) and (5) | 25 |
| of this
paragraph shall be subject to appropriations from the | 26 |
| Fund to the Department of Healthcare and Family Services |
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| (formerly Illinois
Department of Public Aid).
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| The balance in this Fund on the first day of each calendar | 3 |
| quarter, after
payment therefrom of any amounts reimbursable to | 4 |
| the federal government, and
minus the amount reasonably | 5 |
| anticipated to be needed to make the disbursements
during that | 6 |
| quarter authorized by this Section, shall be certified by the
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| Director of Healthcare and Family Services and transferred by | 8 |
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State Comptroller to the Drug Rebate Fund or the General | 9 |
| Revenue Fund in
the State Treasury, as appropriate, within 30 | 10 |
| days of the first day of
each calendar quarter.
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| On July 1, 1999, the State Comptroller shall transfer the | 12 |
| sum of $5,000,000
from the Public Aid Recoveries Trust Fund | 13 |
| (formerly the Public Assistance
Recoveries Trust Fund) into the | 14 |
| DHS Recoveries Trust Fund.
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| (Source: P.A. 95-331, eff. 8-21-07.)
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