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      20 ILCS 1305/10-25
          Amends the Department of Human  Services  Act.   Provides
      that   the  Department  shall  include  a  lactation  support
      services program for participants in the Women,  Infants  and
      Children  program.    Provides that the program shall pay for
      lactation  equipment  as  well  as   lactation   specialists.
      Provides  that  the  Department  shall  coordinate the Women,
      Infants and Children program with the Medicaid program though
      an  interagency  agreement  whereby  each  program   provides
      information about the other to applicants for services.
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 1        AN  ACT  to amend the Department of Human Services Act by
 2    changing Section 10-25.
 3        Be it enacted by the People of  the  State  of  Illinois,
 4    represented in the General Assembly:
 5        Section  5.   The  Department  of  Human  Services Act is
 6    amended by changing Section 10-25 as follows:
 7        (20 ILCS 1305/10-25)
 8        (Text of Section taking effect July 1, 1997)
 9        Sec.  10-25.   Women,  Infants,  and  Children  Nutrition
10    Program.
11        (a)  The  Department  shall  participate  in  the  Women,
12    Infants  and  Children  Nutrition  program  of  the   federal
13    government  to  the  maximum  extent permitted by the federal
14    appropriation and allocation to the State of  Illinois.   The
15    Department  shall  report  quarterly  to the Governor and the
16    General Assembly the status of obligations  and  expenditures
17    of   the   WIC   nutrition  program  appropriation  and  make
18    recommendations on actions necessary to expend all  available
19    federal  funds.   Other  appropriations  and  funds  from any
20    public or private source in addition to federal funds may  be
21    used   by   the   Department   for  the  purpose  of  maximum
22    participation in the WIC nutrition program.
23        (b)  The Department shall maintain a drug abuse education
24    program for participants in the Women, Infants  and  Children
25    Nutrition Program.  The program shall include but need not be
26    limited  to  (1)  the provision of information concerning the
27    dangers of drug abuse and (2) the  referral  of  participants
28    who  are  suspected  drug  abusers  to  drug  abuse  clinics,
29    treatment  programs, counselors or other drug abuse treatment
30    providers.
31        (c)  The Department shall cooperate with  the  Department
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 1    of  Public  Health  for  purposes  of  the  smoking cessation
 2    program for participants in the Women, Infants  and  Children
 3    Nutrition  Program  maintained  by  the  Department of Public
 4    Health under Section 55.44 of the Civil  Administrative  Code
 5    of Illinois.
 6        (d)  The Department may contract with any bank as defined
 7    by  the  Illinois Banking Act to redeem bank drafts issued by
 8    the  Department  under  the  United  States   Department   of
 9    Agriculture  Special  Supplemental  Food  Program  for Women,
10    Infants  and  Children  (WIC).   Any  bank  with  which   the
11    Department  has entered into a contract to redeem bank drafts
12    may receive, pursuant to an appropriation to the  Department,
13    an  initial  advance  and  periodic  payment of funds for the
14    Women, Infants and Children Program in amounts determined  by
15    the  Secretary.   Notwithstanding  any  other law, such funds
16    shall be retained in a separate account  by  the  bank.   Any
17    interest earned by monies in such account shall accrue to the
18    USDA  Women,  Infants  and  Children  Fund  and shall be used
19    exclusively for the redemption of bank drafts issued  by  the
20    Department.  WIC program food funds received by the bank from
21    the  Department  shall be used exclusively for the redemption
22    of bank drafts. The bank shall not use such  food  funds,  or
23    interest  accrued  thereon,  for any other purpose including,
24    but not limited to, reimbursement of administrative  expenses
25    or  payments  of administrative fees due the bank pursuant to
26    its contract or contracts with the Department.
27        Such initial and periodic payments by the  Department  to
28    the  bank shall be effected, pursuant to an appropriation, in
29    an amount needed for the redemption of bank drafts issued  by
30    the   Department   under  the  United  States  Department  of
31    Agriculture Special  Supplemental  Food  Program  for  Women,
32    Infants  and  Children  in  any initial or succeeding period.
33    The  State  Comptroller  shall,  upon  presentation  by   the
34    Secretary  of  adequate  certification  of  funds  needed for
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 1    redemption of bank drafts, promptly draw a warrant payable to
 2    the bank for deposit to the separate  account  of  the  bank.
 3    Such certification may be in magnetic tape or computer output
 4    form,  indicating the amount of the total payment made by the
 5    bank for the redemption of bank drafts from funds provided to
 6    the bank under this Section.
 7        The separate account of the bank established  under  this
 8    Section,  any  payments  to that account, and the use of such
 9    account and funds shall  be  subject  to  (1)  audit  by  the
10    Department   or   a  private  contractor  authorized  by  the
11    Department to conduct audits, including but  not  limited  to
12    such audits as may be required by State law, (2) audit by the
13    federal  government or a private contractor authorized by the
14    federal government,  and  (3)  post  audit  pursuant  to  the
15    Illinois State Auditing Act.
16        (e)  The  Department  may  include a program of lactation
17    support  services  as  part  of  the  benefits  and  services
18    provided for pregnant and breast feeding participants in  the
19    Women,  Infants  and Children Nutrition Program.  The program
20    may include payment for breast pumps, breast shields, or  any
21    supply  deemed  essential  for  the successful maintenance of
22    lactation,  as  well  as  lactation   specialists   who   are
23    registered  nurses,  licensed dietitians, or persons who have
24    successfully  completed  a  lactation   management   training
25    program.
26        (f)  The Department shall coordinate the operation of the
27    Women, Infants and Children program with the Medicaid program
28    by   interagency  agreement  whereby  each  program  provides
29    information about  the  services  offered  by  the  other  to
30    applicants for services.
31    (Source: P.A. 89-507, eff. 7-1-97.)

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