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90_HB2225

      20 ILCS 2805/2            from Ch. 126 1/2, par. 67
      20 ILCS 2805/2.01a        from Ch. 126 1/2, par. 67.01a
      20 ILCS 2805/2.03         from Ch. 126 1/2, par. 67.03
      20 ILCS 2805/2.10 new
      30 ILCS 105/25            from Ch. 127, par. 161
      210 ILCS 45/2-215 new
          Amends the Department of Veterans Affairs Act.   Provides
      that the Department may expend grants for the general benefit
      of  Illinois  veterans.   Provides  that  the  Department may
      accept and hold  grants  made  in  trust  for  support  of  a
      resident  in  an  Illinois  Veterans  Home  or  for any other
      legitimate purpose (now  for  any  other  legitimate  purpose
      connected  with  a  Home).  Deletes provisions concerning the
      power to make grants to private organizations for  the  costs
      of erecting a Korean War Memorial. Provides that restrictions
      on  the  members  benefit fund apply to  an Illinois Veterans
      Home operated by the Department of Veterans' Affairs (now  an
      Illinois  Veterans Home).   Amends the Department of Veterans
      Affairs Act and the Nursing Home Care Act to provide that  if
      there  is  a  conflict  between  the  provisions  of the Acts
      concerning an Illinois Veterans  Home  not  operated  by  the
      Department  of  Veterans' Affairs, then the provisions of the
      Nursing Home Care Act shall apply. Amends the  State  Finance
      Act.  Provides  that  the Department of Veterans' Affairs may
      make  medical  payments   from   the   Department's   current
      appropriations although the medical services were rendered in
      a prior fiscal year. Effective immediately.
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 1        AN ACT concerning the Department of Veterans' Affairs.
 2        Be  it  enacted  by  the People of the State of Illinois,
 3    represented in the General Assembly:
 4        Section 5.  The Department of  Veterans  Affairs  Act  is
 5    amended  by  changing  Sections  2,  2.01a,  2.03  and adding
 6    Section 2.10 as follows:
 7        (20 ILCS 2805/2) (from Ch. 126 1/2, par. 67)
 8        Sec. 2.  Powers and duties.  The  Department  shall  have
 9    the following powers and duties:
10        To  perform  such  acts at the request of any veteran, or
11    his or her spouse, surviving spouse or dependents as shall be
12    reasonably necessary or reasonably incident to  obtaining  or
13    endeavoring  to  obtain  for  the  requester  any  advantage,
14    benefit or emolument accruing or due to such person under any
15    law  of the United States, the State of Illinois or any other
16    state or governmental agency by reason of the service of such
17    veteran, and in pursuance thereof shall:
18             1.  Contact veterans, their survivors and dependents
19        and advise them of the benefits of state and federal laws
20        and assist them in obtaining such benefits;
21             2.  Establish   field   offices   and   direct   the
22        activities of the personnel assigned to such offices;
23             3.  Create a volunteer  field  force  of  accredited
24        representatives,  representing  educational institutions,
25        labor organizations, veterans  organizations,  employers,
26        churches, and farm organizations;
27             4.  Conduct informational and training services;
28             5.  Conduct educational programs through newspapers,
29        periodicals   and  radio  for  the  specific  purpose  of
30        disseminating information affecting  veterans  and  their
31        dependents;
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 1             6.  Coordinate  the  services  and activities of all
 2        state departments having services and resources affecting
 3        veterans and their dependents;
 4             7.  Encourage and  assist  in  the  coordination  of
 5        agencies  within  counties giving service to veterans and
 6        their dependents;
 7             8.  Cooperate with veterans organizations and  other
 8        governmental agencies;
 9             9.  Make,  alter,  amend  and  promulgate reasonable
10        rules and procedures for the administration of this  Act;
11        and
12             10.  Make and publish annual reports to the Governor
13        regarding the administration and general operation of the
14        Department.
15        The  Department  may  accept  and  hold  on behalf of the
16    State, if for the public interest, a grant, gift,  devise  or
17    bequest  of  money or property to the Department made for the
18    general benefit of Illinois veterans, including  the  conduct
19    of  informational and training services by the Department and
20    other authorized purposes of the Department.  The  Department
21    shall cause each grant, gift, devise or bequest to be kept as
22    a  distinct  fund  and  shall invest such funds in the manner
23    provided by the Public Funds Investment Act "An Act  relating
24    to  certain  investments of public funds by public agencies",
25    approved July 23, 1943, as  now  or  hereafter  amended,  and
26    shall   make  such  reports  as  may    be  required  by  the
27    Comptroller concerning what funds are so held and the  manner
28    in  which  such  funds  are invested. The Department may make
29    grants from these funds for the general benefit  of  Illinois
30    veterans.
31        The  Department  has the power to make grants, from funds
32    appropriated from the Korean War Memorial  Fund,  to  private
33    organizations,  including  the Korean Memorial Association of
34    Illinois, for the costs of erecting a Korean War Memorial  in
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 1    Illinois.
 2    (Source: P.A. 88-160; 88-666, eff. 9-16-94.)
 3        (20 ILCS 2805/2.01a) (from Ch. 126 1/2, par. 67.01a)
 4        Sec. 2.01a.  Members benefit fund; personal property. The
 5    Department  shall  direct  the expenditure of all money which
 6    has been or may be received by any  officer  of  an  Illinois
 7    Veterans  Home  including  profit  on  sales  from commissary
 8    stores. The money shall be deposited into the members benefit
 9    fund and expenditures from the fund shall be made  under  the
10    direction   of   the  Department  for  the  special  comfort,
11    pleasure, and amusement of residents, provided  that  amounts
12    expended  for  comfort,  pleasure, and amusement of employees
13    shall not exceed the amount of  profits  derived  from  sales
14    made  to employees by such commissaries, as determined by the
15    Department.
16        Money received as interest and income on funds  deposited
17    for  residents  of  an Illinois Veterans Home operated by the
18    Department of  Veterans'  Affairs  shall  be  placed  in  the
19    members  benefit  fund and expenditures from the fund may not
20    be used  to  supplement  a  shortfall  in  the  ordinary  and
21    contingent  operating  expenses  of  the  Home  and  shall be
22    expended  only  for  the  special  comfort,   pleasure,   and
23    amusement of the residents.  If home residents choose to hold
24    savings  accounts  or  other  investments  outside  the Home,
25    interest or income on  the  individual  savings  accounts  or
26    investments  of residents shall not be so expended, but shall
27    accrue to the individual accounts of the residents.
28        Any money belonging  to  residents  separated  by  death,
29    discharge,  or unauthorized absence from an Illinois Veterans
30    Home, in custody of officers thereof, may,  if  unclaimed  by
31    the  resident  or  the  legal  representatives  thereof for a
32    period of 2 years,  be  expended  at  the  direction  of  the
33    Department  for  the  purposes  and  in  the manner specified
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 1    above. Articles of personal property, with the  exception  of
 2    clothing left in the custody of officers, shall, if unclaimed
 3    for  the period of 2 years, be sold and the money disposed of
 4    in the same manner.
 5        Clothing left at a Home  by  residents  at  the  time  of
 6    separation may be used as determined by the Home if unclaimed
 7    by  the  resident  or legal representatives thereof within 30
 8    days after notification.
 9    (Source: P.A. 88-160; 89-324, eff. 8-13-95.)
10        (20 ILCS 2805/2.03) (from Ch. 126 1/2, par. 67.03)
11        Sec.  2.03.   Admissions.   Admissions  to  an   Illinois
12    Veterans  Home  are  subject  to  the  rules  and regulations
13    adopted by the Department of Veterans' Affairs to govern  the
14    admission of applicants.
15        Each resident of a Home is liable for the payment of sums
16    representing  maintenance  charges  for care at the Home at a
17    rate to  be  determined  by  the  Department,  based  on  the
18    resident's  ability  to  pay.  However, the charges shall not
19    exceed the average annual per capita cost of maintaining  the
20    resident  in  the Home.  The Department, upon being furnished
21    proof of payment, shall in its discretion make allowances for
22    unusual expenses in determining the ability of  the  resident
23    to pay maintenance charges.
24        Payment of maintenance charges shall be made first and to
25    the fullest extent possible from sources of income other than
26    pension  or  compensation  paid  by  the  U.S.  Department of
27    Veterans Affairs.
28        The basis upon which the payment of  maintenance  charges
29    shall  be  calculated  by  the  Department is the average per
30    capita cost for the care of all residents at  each  Home  for
31    the  fiscal  year  immediately preceding the period for which
32    the rate for each Home is being calculated.
33        The Department  may  require  residents  to  pay  charges
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 1    monthly,  quarterly,  or  otherwise  as  may be most suitably
 2    arranged for the individual members.   The  amounts  received
 3    from  each  Home  for the charges shall be transmitted to the
 4    Treasurer of the  State  of  Illinois  for  deposit  in  each
 5    Veterans Home Fund, respectively.
 6        The Department may investigate the financial condition of
 7    residents  of  a  Home  to  determine  their  ability  to pay
 8    maintenance charges and to establish standards as a basis  of
 9    judgment  for  such  determination.  Such  standards shall be
10    recomputed periodically to reflect changes  in  the  cost  of
11    living and other pertinent factors.
12        Refusal  to  pay  the  maintenance  charges  is cause for
13    discharge of a resident from a Home.
14        The Department may collect any medical or health benefits
15    to which a resident may become entitled through tax supported
16    or privately financed systems of insurance, as  a  result  of
17    his  or  her  care or treatment in the facilities provided by
18    the Department, or because of  care  or  treatment  in  other
19    facilities  when  such care or treatment has been paid for by
20    the Department.
21        Admission of a resident is not limited or conditioned  in
22    any  manner by the financial status of the resident or his or
23    her ability to pay maintenance charges.
24        The Department may accept  and  hold  on  behalf  of  the
25    State,  if for the public interest, a grant, gift, devise, or
26    bequest of money or property to the Department made in  trust
27    for  the  maintenance or support of a resident of an Illinois
28    Veterans Home or for any other legitimate  purpose  connected
29    with  a  Home.   The Department shall cause each gift, grant,
30    devise, or bequest to be kept as a distinct  fund  and  shall
31    invest  the  same  in the manner provided by the laws of this
32    State relating to securities in which the deposit in  savings
33    banks  may  be invested.  However, the Department may, at its
34    discretion, deposit in  a  proper  trust  company,  bank,  or
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 1    savings  bank,  during the continuance of the trust, any fund
 2    left in trust for the life of a person and shall adopt  rules
 3    and   regulations   governing   the   deposit,  transfer,  or
 4    withdrawal  of  the  fund.  The  Department  shall,  on   the
 5    expiration  of  any  trust  as  provided  in  any  instrument
 6    creating  the  trust,  dispose  of  the  fund  in  the manner
 7    provided in the instrument.  The Department shall include  in
 8    its  required  reports  a statement showing what funds are so
 9    held by it and the condition  of  the  funds;  provided  that
10    monies  found  on residents at the time of their admission or
11    accruing to them during their residence at a Home and  monies
12    deposited with the administrators by relatives, guardians, or
13    friends  of residents for the special comfort and pleasure of
14    the  resident  shall   remain   in   the   custody   of   the
15    administrators who shall act as trustees for disbursement to,
16    on  behalf of, or for the benefit of the resident.  All types
17    of retirement and pension benefits from  private  and  public
18    sources  may  be paid directly to the administrator of a Home
19    for deposit to the resident trust fund account.
20    (Source: P.A. 88-45; 88-160; 89-324, eff. 8-13-95.)
21        (20 ILCS 2805/2.10 new)
22        Sec. 2.10.  Conflicts with the Nursing Home Care Act.  If
23    there is a conflict between the provisions of  this  Act  and
24    the  provisions  of  the  Nursing Home Care Act concerning an
25    Illinois Veterans Home not  operated  by  the  Department  of
26    Veterans'  Affairs,  then  the provisions of the Nursing Home
27    Care Act shall apply.
28        Section 10.  The State Finance Act is amended by changing
29    Section 25 as follows:
30        (30 ILCS 105/25) (from Ch. 127, par. 161)
31        (Text of Section before amendment by P.A. 89-507)
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 1        Sec. 25.  Fiscal year limitations.
 2        (a)  All   appropriations   shall   be   available    for
 3    expenditure for the fiscal year or for a lesser period if the
 4    Act  making that appropriation so specifies.  A deficiency or
 5    emergency appropriation shall be  available  for  expenditure
 6    only  through  June  30  of the year when the Act making that
 7    appropriation is enacted unless that Act otherwise provides.
 8        (b)  Outstanding liabilities as of June 30, payable  from
 9    appropriations  which have otherwise expired, may be paid out
10    of the expiring  appropriations  during  the  2-month  period
11    ending  at  the  close of business on August 31.  Any service
12    involving professional or artistic  skills  or  any  personal
13    services  by  an  employee  whose  compensation is subject to
14    income tax withholding must be performed as of June 30 of the
15    fiscal  year  in  order  to  be  considered  an  "outstanding
16    liability as of June 30" that is thereby eligible for payment
17    out of the expiring appropriation.
18        However, payment of tuition  reimbursement  claims  under
19    Section 14-7.03 or 18-3 of the School Code may be made by the
20    State  Board  of  Education from its appropriations for those
21    respective purposes for any  fiscal  year,  even  though  the
22    claims  reimbursed  by the payment may be claims attributable
23    to a prior fiscal year, and  payments  may  be  made  at  the
24    direction  of  the State Superintendent of Education from the
25    fund from which the appropriation is made without  regard  to
26    any fiscal year limitations.
27        Medical  payments  may  be  made  by  the  Department  of
28    Veterans'  Affairs from its appropriations for those purposes
29    for any fiscal year, without regard  to  the  fact  that  the
30    medical  services  being  compensated for by such payment may
31    have been rendered in a prior fiscal year.
32        Medical and child  care  payments  may  be  made  by  the
33    Department  of  Public  Aid from its appropriations for those
34    purposes for any fiscal year, without regard to the fact that
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 1    the medical or child care services being compensated  for  by
 2    such  payment  may have been rendered in a prior fiscal year;
 3    and payments may be made at the direction of  the  Department
 4    of  Central  Management  Services  from  the Health Insurance
 5    Reserve  Fund  and  the  Local  Government  Health  Insurance
 6    Reserve Fund without regard to any fiscal year limitations.
 7        Additionally, payments may be made by the  Department  of
 8    Public Aid from its appropriations, or any other State agency
 9    from  its  appropriations with the approval of the Department
10    of Public Aid, from the Immigration Reform and  Control  Fund
11    for  purposes  authorized  pursuant to the Immigration Reform
12    and Control Act of 1986, without regard to  any  fiscal  year
13    limitations.
14        (c)  Further,  payments  may be made by the Department of
15    Public Health from its appropriations for grants for  medical
16    care  to or on behalf of persons suffering from chronic renal
17    disease, persons suffering from hemophilia, rape victims, and
18    premature and high-mortality risk infants and  their  mothers
19    and  for grants for supplemental food supplies provided under
20    the United States Department of  Agriculture  Women,  Infants
21    and  Children  Nutrition Program, for any fiscal year without
22    regard to the fact that the services being compensated for by
23    such payment may have been rendered in a prior fiscal year.
24        (d)  The  Department  of  Public  Health  shall  annually
25    submit to the State  Comptroller,  Senate  President,  Senate
26    Minority Leader, Speaker of the House, House Minority Leader,
27    and  the  respective  Chairmen  and Minority Spokesmen of the
28    Appropriations Committees of the Senate and the House, on  or
29    before December 31, a report of fiscal year funds used to pay
30    for  services provided in any prior fiscal year.  This report
31    shall  document  by  program  or   service   category   those
32    expenditures  from  the  most  recently completed fiscal year
33    used to pay for services provided in prior fiscal years.
34        (e)  The Department of Public Aid shall  annually  submit
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 1    to  the  State Comptroller, Senate President, Senate Minority
 2    Leader, Speaker of the  House,  House  Minority  Leader,  the
 3    respective   Chairmen   and   Minority   Spokesmen   of   the
 4    Appropriations  Committees of the Senate and the House, on or
 5    before November 30, a report that shall document  by  program
 6    or service category those expenditures from the most recently
 7    completed  fiscal  year used to pay for (i) services provided
 8    in prior fiscal years and (ii) services for which claims were
 9    received in prior fiscal years.
10        (f)  The Department of Public Aid shall  annually  submit
11    to  the  State Comptroller, Senate President, Senate Minority
12    Leader, Speaker of the House, House Minority Leader, and  the
13    respective   Chairmen   and   Minority   Spokesmen   of   the
14    Appropriations  Committees of the Senate and the House, on or
15    before December 31, a report of fiscal year funds used to pay
16    for services (other than medical care) provided in any  prior
17    fiscal  year.   This  report  shall  document  by  program or
18    service category those expenditures from  the  most  recently
19    completed  fiscal  year  used to pay for services provided in
20    prior fiscal years.
21        (g)  In addition,  each  annual  report  required  to  be
22    submitted  by  the  Department of Public Aid under subsection
23    (e) shall include the following information with  respect  to
24    the State's Medicaid program:
25             (1)  Explanations   of   the  exact  causes  of  the
26        variance between the previous year's estimated and actual
27        liabilities.
28             (2)  Factors  affecting  the  Department  of  Public
29        Aid's liabilities, including but not limited  to  numbers
30        of  aid recipients, levels of medical service utilization
31        by aid recipients, and inflation in the cost  of  medical
32        services.
33             (3)  The  results  of  the  Department's  efforts to
34        combat fraud and abuse.
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 1        (h)  As provided in Section 4  of  the  General  Assembly
 2    Compensation  Act, any utility bill for service provided to a
 3    General  Assembly  member's  district  office  for  a  period
 4    including portions of 2 consecutive fiscal years may be  paid
 5    from funds appropriated for such expenditure in either fiscal
 6    year.
 7        (i)  An agency which administers a fund classified by the
 8    Comptroller as an internal service fund may issue rules for:
 9             (1)  billing  user  agencies  in  advance  based  on
10        estimated charges for goods or services;
11             (2)  issuing  credits  during  the subsequent fiscal
12        year for all user agency  payments  received  during  the
13        prior  fiscal  year  which  were  in  excess of the final
14        amounts owed by the user agency for that period; and
15             (3)  issuing  catch-up  billings  to  user  agencies
16        during the subsequent fiscal year for  amounts  remaining
17        due  when  payments  received from the user agency during
18        the prior fiscal year were less  than  the  total  amount
19        owed for that period.
20    User  agencies  are  authorized to reimburse internal service
21    funds for catch-up billings by vouchers drawn  against  their
22    respective  appropriations  for  the fiscal year in which the
23    catch-up billing was issued.
24    (Source: P.A. 88-554, eff.  7-26-94;  88-575,  eff.  8-12-94;
25    89-235, eff. 8-4-95; 89-511, eff. 1-1-97.)
26        (Text of Section after amendment by P.A. 89-507)
27        Sec. 25.  Fiscal year limitations.
28        (a)  All    appropriations   shall   be   available   for
29    expenditure for the fiscal year or for a lesser period if the
30    Act making that appropriation so specifies.  A deficiency  or
31    emergency  appropriation  shall  be available for expenditure
32    only through June 30 of the year when  the  Act  making  that
33    appropriation is enacted unless that Act otherwise provides.
34        (b)  Outstanding  liabilities as of June 30, payable from
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 1    appropriations which have otherwise expired, may be paid  out
 2    of  the  expiring  appropriations  during  the 2-month period
 3    ending at the close of business on August  31.   Any  service
 4    involving  professional  or  artistic  skills or any personal
 5    services by an employee  whose  compensation  is  subject  to
 6    income tax withholding must be performed as of June 30 of the
 7    fiscal  year  in  order  to  be  considered  an  "outstanding
 8    liability as of June 30" that is thereby eligible for payment
 9    out of the expiring appropriation.
10        However,  payment  of  tuition reimbursement claims under
11    Section 14-7.03 or 18-3 of the School Code may be made by the
12    State Board of Education from its  appropriations  for  those
13    respective  purposes  for  any  fiscal  year, even though the
14    claims reimbursed by the payment may be  claims  attributable
15    to  a  prior  fiscal  year,  and  payments may be made at the
16    direction of the State Superintendent of Education  from  the
17    fund  from  which the appropriation is made without regard to
18    any fiscal year limitations.
19        Medical  payments  may  be  made  by  the  Department  of
20    Veterans' Affairs from its appropriations for those  purposes
21    for  any  fiscal  year,  without  regard to the fact that the
22    medical services being compensated for by  such  payment  may
23    have been rendered in a prior fiscal year.
24        Medical  payments may be made by the Department of Public
25    Aid and child care payments may be made by the Department  of
26    Human Services (as successor to the Department of Public Aid)
27    from  appropriations  for those purposes for any fiscal year,
28    without regard to the fact that the  medical  or  child  care
29    services  being compensated for by such payment may have been
30    rendered in a prior fiscal year; and payments may be made  at
31    the   direction  of  the  Department  of  Central  Management
32    Services from the Health Insurance Reserve Fund and the Local
33    Government Health Insurance Reserve Fund  without  regard  to
34    any fiscal year limitations.
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 1        Additionally,  payments  may be made by the Department of
 2    Human Services from its appropriations, or  any  other  State
 3    agency  from  its  appropriations  with  the  approval of the
 4    Department of Human Services, from the Immigration Reform and
 5    Control  Fund  for  purposes  authorized  pursuant   to   the
 6    Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986, without regard to
 7    any fiscal year limitations.
 8        (c)  Further,  payments  may be made by the Department of
 9    Public Health and the Department of Human Services (acting as
10    successor to  the  Department  of  Public  Health  under  the
11    Department  of  Human  Services  Act)  from  their respective
12    appropriations for grants for medical care to or on behalf of
13    persons  suffering  from  chronic  renal   disease,   persons
14    suffering  from  hemophilia,  rape victims, and premature and
15    high-mortality risk infants and their mothers and for  grants
16    for  supplemental  food  supplies  provided  under the United
17    States Department of Agriculture Women, Infants and  Children
18    Nutrition  Program, for any fiscal year without regard to the
19    fact that the services being compensated for by such  payment
20    may have been rendered in a prior fiscal year.
21        (d)  The  Department  of Public Health and the Department
22    of Human Services (acting as successor to the  Department  of
23    Public  Health  under  the  Department of Human Services Act)
24    shall each annually submit to the State  Comptroller,  Senate
25    President,  Senate  Minority  Leader,  Speaker  of the House,
26    House  Minority  Leader,  and  the  respective  Chairmen  and
27    Minority Spokesmen of the Appropriations  Committees  of  the
28    Senate  and  the House, on or before December 31, a report of
29    fiscal year funds used to pay for services  provided  in  any
30    prior  fiscal year.  This report shall document by program or
31    service category those expenditures from  the  most  recently
32    completed  fiscal  year  used to pay for services provided in
33    prior fiscal years.
34        (e)  The Department of Public Aid and the  Department  of
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 1    Human  Services  (acting  as  successor  to the Department of
 2    Public  Aid)  shall  each  annually  submit  to   the   State
 3    Comptroller,   Senate   President,  Senate  Minority  Leader,
 4    Speaker of the House, House Minority Leader,  the  respective
 5    Chairmen   and   Minority  Spokesmen  of  the  Appropriations
 6    Committees of the Senate and the House, on or before November
 7    30, a report  that  shall  document  by  program  or  service
 8    category  those expenditures from the most recently completed
 9    fiscal year used to pay for (i) services  provided  in  prior
10    fiscal years and (ii) services for which claims were received
11    in prior fiscal years.
12        (f)  The  Department  of  Human Services (as successor to
13    the Department of Public Aid) shall annually  submit  to  the
14    State  Comptroller, Senate President, Senate Minority Leader,
15    Speaker  of  the  House,  House  Minority  Leader,  and   the
16    respective   Chairmen   and   Minority   Spokesmen   of   the
17    Appropriations  Committees of the Senate and the House, on or
18    before December 31, a report of fiscal year funds used to pay
19    for services (other than medical care) provided in any  prior
20    fiscal  year.   This  report  shall  document  by  program or
21    service category those expenditures from  the  most  recently
22    completed  fiscal  year  used to pay for services provided in
23    prior fiscal years.
24        (g)  In addition,  each  annual  report  required  to  be
25    submitted  by  the  Department of Public Aid under subsection
26    (e) shall include the following information with  respect  to
27    the State's Medicaid program:
28             (1)  Explanations   of   the  exact  causes  of  the
29        variance between the previous year's estimated and actual
30        liabilities.
31             (2)  Factors  affecting  the  Department  of  Public
32        Aid's liabilities, including but not limited  to  numbers
33        of  aid recipients, levels of medical service utilization
34        by aid recipients, and inflation in the cost  of  medical
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 1        services.
 2             (3)  The  results  of  the  Department's  efforts to
 3        combat fraud and abuse.
 4        (h)  As provided in Section 4  of  the  General  Assembly
 5    Compensation  Act, any utility bill for service provided to a
 6    General  Assembly  member's  district  office  for  a  period
 7    including portions of 2 consecutive fiscal years may be  paid
 8    from funds appropriated for such expenditure in either fiscal
 9    year.
10        (i)  An agency which administers a fund classified by the
11    Comptroller as an internal service fund may issue rules for:
12             (1)  billing  user  agencies  in  advance  based  on
13        estimated charges for goods or services;
14             (2)  issuing  credits  during  the subsequent fiscal
15        year for all user agency  payments  received  during  the
16        prior  fiscal  year  which  were  in  excess of the final
17        amounts owed by the user agency for that period; and
18             (3)  issuing  catch-up  billings  to  user  agencies
19        during the subsequent fiscal year for  amounts  remaining
20        due  when  payments  received from the user agency during
21        the prior fiscal year were less  than  the  total  amount
22        owed for that period.
23    User  agencies  are  authorized to reimburse internal service
24    funds for catch-up billings by vouchers drawn  against  their
25    respective  appropriations  for  the fiscal year in which the
26    catch-up billing was issued.
27    (Source: P.A. 88-554, eff.  7-26-94;  88-575,  eff.  8-12-94;
28    89-235,  eff.  8-4-95;  89-507,  eff.  7-1-97;  89-511,  eff.
29    1-1-97; revised 9-10-96.)
30        Section  15.   The  Nursing  Home  Care Act is amended by
31    adding Section 2-215 as follows:
32        (210 ILCS 45/2-215 new)
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 1        Sec. 2-215.  Conflicts with the  Department  of  Veterans
 2    Affairs  Act.   If there is a conflict between the provisions
 3    of this Act and the provisions of the Department of  Veterans
 4    Affairs Act concerning an Illinois Veterans Home not operated
 5    by  the  Department of Veterans' Affairs, then the provisions
 6    of this Act shall apply.
 7        Section 95.  No acceleration or delay.   Where  this  Act
 8    makes changes in a statute that is represented in this Act by
 9    text  that  is not yet or no longer in effect (for example, a
10    Section represented by multiple versions), the  use  of  that
11    text  does  not  accelerate or delay the taking effect of (i)
12    the changes made by this Act or (ii) provisions derived  from
13    any other Public Act.
14        Section  99.  Effective date.  This Act takes effect upon
15    becoming law.

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