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90_HB3286enr

      210 ILCS 45/1-113         from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 4151-113
          Amends the Nursing Home Care Act to provide  that  homes,
      institutions, or other places operated under the authority of
      the Illinois Department of Veterans' Affairs are not excluded
      from the definition of long-term care facility.
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 1        AN  ACT  to  amend  the Nursing Home Care Act by amending
 2    Section 1-113.
 3        Be it enacted by the People of  the  State  of  Illinois,
 4    represented in the General Assembly:
 5        Section  5.  The  Nursing  Home  Care  Act  is amended by
 6    changing Section 1-113 as follows:
 7        (210 ILCS 45/1-113) (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 4151-113)
 8        Sec. 1-113.   "Facility"  or  "long-term  care  facility"
 9    means  a  private  home, institution, building, residence, or
10    any other place, whether operated for profit  or  not,  or  a
11    county  home  for  the  infirm  and  chronically ill operated
12    pursuant to Division 5-21 or 5-22 of the  Counties  Code,  or
13    any  similar  institution operated by a political subdivision
14    of  the  State  of  Illinois,  which  provides,  through  its
15    ownership or management, personal  care,  sheltered  care  or
16    nursing  for  3 or more persons, not related to the applicant
17    or owner by blood or marriage.  It includes  skilled  nursing
18    facilities  and  intermediate  care facilities as those terms
19    are defined in Title XVIII  and  Title  XIX  of  the  Federal
20    Social Security Act. It also includes homes, institutions, or
21    other  places  operated  by  or  under  the  authority of the
22    Illinois Department of Veterans' Affairs.
23        "Facility" does not include the following:
24        (1)  A home, institution, or other place operated by  the
25    federal  government  or  agency  thereof,  or by the State of
26    Illinois, other than homes,  institutions,  or  other  places
27    operated by or under the authority of the Illinois Department
28    of Veterans' Affairs;
29        (2)  A  hospital,  sanitarium, or other institution whose
30    principal activity or business is the  diagnosis,  care,  and
31    treatment  of  human  illness  through  the  maintenance  and
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 1    operation as organized facilities therefor, which is required
 2    to be licensed under the Hospital Licensing Act;
 3        (3)  Any  "facility  for  child  care"  as defined in the
 4    Child Care Act of 1969;
 5        (4)  Any "Community Living Facility" as  defined  in  the
 6    Community Living Facilities Licensing Act;
 7        (5)  Any  "community  residential alternative" as defined
 8    in the Community Residential Alternatives Licensing Act;
 9        (6)  Any nursing home or sanatorium  operated  solely  by
10    and  for  persons  who  rely  exclusively  upon  treatment by
11    spiritual means through prayer, in accordance with the  creed
12    or   tenets   of  any  well-recognized  church  or  religious
13    denomination. However, such nursing home or sanatorium  shall
14    comply  with  all local laws and rules relating to sanitation
15    and safety;
16        (7)  Any facility licensed by  the  Department  of  Human
17    Services  as  a  community-integrated  living  arrangement as
18    defined  in  the  Community-Integrated  Living   Arrangements
19    Licensure and Certification Act;
20        (8)  Any   "Supportive   Residence"  licensed  under  the
21    Supportive Residences Licensing Act; or
22        (9)  Any "supportive living facility"  in  good  standing
23    with  the  demonstration  project  established  under Section
24    5-5.01a of the Illinois Public Aid Code.
25    (Source: P.A. 89-499,  eff.  6-28-96;  89-507,  eff.  7-1-97;
26    90-14, eff. 7-1-97.)
27        Section  99.  Effective date.  This Act takes effect July
28    1, 1998.

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