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1 AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 319
2 AMENDMENT NO. . Amend Senate Bill 319 by replacing
3 the title with the following:
4 "AN ACT to amend the Department of Human Services Act by
5 changing Section 80-5."; and
6 by replacing everything after the enacting clause with the
7 following:
8 "Section 5. The Department of Human Services Act is
9 amended by changing Section 80-5 as follows:
10 (20 ILCS 1305/80-5)
11 Sec. 80-5. Task Force on Human Services Consolidation.
12 (a) There is hereby established a Task Force on Human
13 Services Consolidation.
14 (b) The Task Force shall consist of 7 voting members, as
15 follows: one person appointed by the Governor, who shall
16 serve as chair of the Task Force; 2 members appointed by the
17 President of the Senate, one of whom shall be designated a
18 vice chair at the time of appointment; one member appointed
19 by the Senate Minority Leader; 2 members appointed by the
20 Speaker of the House of Representatives, one of whom shall be
21 designated a vice chair at the time of appointment; and one
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1 member appointed by the House Minority Leader.
2 Members appointed by the legislative leaders shall be
3 appointed for the duration of the Task Force; in the event of
4 a vacancy, the appointment to fill the vacancy shall be made
5 by the legislative leader of the same house and party as the
6 leader who made the original appointment. The Governor may
7 at any time terminate the service of the person appointed by
8 the Governor and reappoint a different person to serve as
9 chair of the Task Force.
10 The following persons (or their designees) shall serve,
11 ex officio, as nonvoting members of the Task Force: the
12 Director of Public Health, the Director of Public Aid, the
13 Director of Children and Family Services, the Director of the
14 Bureau of the Budget, and, until their offices are abolished,
15 the Director of Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities,
16 the Director of Rehabilitation Services, and the Director of
17 Alcoholism and Substance Abuse. The Governor may appoint up
18 to 3 additional persons to serve as nonvoting members of the
19 Task Force; such persons shall be officers or employees of a
20 constitutional office or of a department or agency of the
21 executive branch.
22 The Task Force may begin to conduct business upon the
23 appointment of a majority of the voting members. If the
24 chair has not been appointed but both vice chairs have been
25 appointed, the 2 vice chairs shall preside jointly. If the
26 chair has not been appointed and only one vice chair has been
27 appointed, that vice chair shall preside.
28 Members shall serve without compensation but may be
29 reimbursed for their expenses.
30 (c) The Task Force shall gather information and make
31 recommendations relating to the planning, organization, and
32 implementation of human services consolidation. The Task
33 Force shall work to assure that the human services delivery
34 system meets and adheres to the goals of quality, efficiency,
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1 accountability, and financial responsibility; to make
2 recommendations in keeping with those goals concerning the
3 design, operation, and organizational structure of the new
4 Department of Human Services; and to recommend any necessary
5 implementing legislation.
6 The Task Force shall monitor the implementation of human
7 service program reorganization and shall study its effect on
8 the delivery of services to the citizens of Illinois. The
9 Task Force shall make recommendations to the Governor and the
10 General Assembly regarding future consolidation of human
11 service programs and functions.
12 (d) The Task Force shall:
13 (1) review and make recommendations on the
14 organizational structure of the new Department of Human
15 Services;
16 (2) review and approve plans for a unified
17 electronic management and intake information and
18 reporting system as provided in Section 1-25, and monitor
19 and guide the implementation of the system;
20 (3) review and make recommendations on the
21 consolidation or elimination of fragmented or duplicative
22 programs;
23 (4) monitor and make recommendations on how best to
24 maximize future federal funding for the new Department of
25 Human Services, specifically including consideration of
26 any federal Medicaid, welfare, or block grant reform;
27 (5) review and make recommendations on geographic
28 regionalization;
29 (6) review and make recommendations on development
30 of common intake and client confidentiality processes;
31 (7) review and make recommendations to foster
32 effective community-based privatization;
33 (8) obtain a management audit of the Department of
34 Children and Family Services, to be completed and
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1 submitted to the Task Force no later than July 1, 1997;
2 and
3 (9) review any other appropriate matter and make
4 recommendations to assure a high quality, efficient,
5 accountable, and financially responsible system for the
6 delivery of human services to the people of Illinois.
7 (e) The Task Force may hire any necessary staff or
8 consultants, enter into contracts, and make any expenditures
9 necessary for carrying out its duties, all out of moneys
10 appropriated for that purpose. Staff support services may be
11 provided to the Task Force by the Office of the Governor, the
12 agencies of State government directly involved in the
13 reorganization of the delivery of human services, and
14 appropriate legislative staff.
15 (f) The Task Force may establish an advisory committee
16 to ensure maximum public participation in the Task Force's
17 planning, organization, and implementation review process.
18 If established, the advisory committee shall (1) advise and
19 assist the Task Force in its duties, (2) help the Task Force
20 to identify issues of public concern, and (3) meet at least
21 quarterly.
22 (g) The Task Force shall submit preliminary reports of
23 its findings and recommendations to the Governor and the
24 General Assembly by February 1, 1997 and February 1, 1998 and
25 a final report by July 1, 1998 January 1, 1999. It may
26 submit other reports as it deems appropriate.
27 (h) The Task Force is abolished on July 1, 1998 February
28 1, 1999.
29 (Source: P.A. 89-506, eff. 7-3-96.)
30 Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
31 becoming law.".