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 1        AN ACT concerning aging.

 2        Be  it  enacted  by  the People of the State of Illinois,
 3    represented in the General Assembly:

 4        Section 5.  The Illinois Act on the Aging is  amended  by
 5    changing Section 4.01 as follows:

 6        (20 ILCS 105/4.01) (from Ch. 23, par. 6104.01)
 7        Sec.   4.01.  Additional   powers   and   duties  of  the
 8    Department.  In  addition  to  powers  and  duties  otherwise
 9    provided  by  law,  the  Department  shall have the following
10    powers and duties:
11        (1)  To evaluate all programs, services,  and  facilities
12    for  the  aged  and  for  minority senior citizens within the
13    State and determine the extent to  which  present  public  or
14    private  programs,  services and facilities meet the needs of
15    the aged.
16        (2)  To coordinate and evaluate all  programs,  services,
17    and facilities for the Aging and for minority senior citizens
18    presently  furnished  by  State agencies and make appropriate
19    recommendations  regarding  such   services,   programs   and
20    facilities to the Governor and/or the General Assembly.
21        (3)  To  function  as  the sole State agency to develop a
22    comprehensive plan to meet the needs of  the  State's  senior
23    citizens and the State's minority senior citizens.
24        (4)  To receive and disburse State and federal funds made
25    available  directly  to  the Department including those funds
26    made available under the Older Americans Act and  the  Senior
27    Community  Service  Employment Program for providing services
28    for senior citizens  and  minority  senior  citizens  or  for
29    purposes  related  thereto,  and shall develop and administer
30    any State Plan for the Aging required by federal law.
31        (5)  To solicit, accept, hold, and administer  in  behalf
 
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 1    of  the State any grants or legacies of money, securities, or
 2    property to the State of  Illinois  for  services  to  senior
 3    citizens  and  minority  senior  citizens or purposes related
 4    thereto.
 5        (6)  To   provide   consultation   and   assistance    to
 6    communities,  area  agencies  on aging, and groups developing
 7    local  services  for  senior  citizens  and  minority  senior
 8    citizens.
 9        (7)  To  promote  community   education   regarding   the
10    problems  of  senior  citizens  and  minority senior citizens
11    through institutes, publications, radio, television  and  the
12    local press.
13        (8)  To cooperate with agencies of the federal government
14    in  studies  and conferences designed to examine the needs of
15    senior citizens and minority senior citizens and  to  prepare
16    programs and facilities to meet those needs.
17        (9)  To  establish  and maintain information and referral
18    sources throughout the  State  when  not  provided  by  other
19    agencies.
20        (10)  To  provide  the staff support as may reasonably be
21    required by the Council and  the  Coordinating  Committee  of
22    State Agencies Serving Older Persons.
23        (11)  To make and enforce rules and regulations necessary
24    and proper to the performance of its duties.
25        (12)  To  establish  and  fund  programs  or  projects or
26    experimental  facilities  that  are  specially  designed   as
27    alternatives to institutional care.
28        (13)  To   develop   a  training  program  to  train  the
29    counselors  presently  employed  by  the  Department's  aging
30    network to provide Medicare beneficiaries with counseling and
31    advocacy in Medicare, private health insurance,  and  related
32    health  care  coverage plans.  The Department shall report to
33    the General Assembly on the implementation  of  the  training
34    program on or before December 1, 1986.
 
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 1        (14)  To  make  a  grant  to  an  institution  of  higher
 2    learning   to  study  the  feasibility  of  establishing  and
 3    implementing an affirmative action employment  plan  for  the
 4    recruitment, hiring, training and retraining of persons 60 or
 5    more  years old for jobs for which their employment would not
 6    be precluded by law.
 7        (15)  To present  one  award  annually  in  each  of  the
 8    categories  of  community service, education, the performance
 9    and graphic arts, and the labor force to outstanding Illinois
10    senior citizens and minority senior citizens  in  recognition
11    of   their   individual  contributions  to  either  community
12    service, education, the performance and graphic arts, or  the
13    labor  force.   The  awards shall be presented to four senior
14    citizens and minority senior citizens selected from a list of
15    44 nominees compiled annually by the Department.  Nominations
16    shall be solicited from senior citizens'  service  providers,
17    area  agencies on aging, senior citizens' centers, and senior
18    citizens' organizations. The Department  shall  consult  with
19    the  Coordinating  Committee  of State Agencies Serving Older
20    Persons to determine which  of  the  nominees  shall  be  the
21    recipient   in  each  category  of  community  service.   The
22    Department shall establish  a  central  location  within  the
23    State to be designated as the Senior Illinoisans Hall of Fame
24    for  the public display of all the annual awards, or replicas
25    thereof.
26        (16)  To establish multipurpose  senior  centers  through
27    area  agencies  on  aging  and to fund those new and existing
28    multipurpose senior centers through area agencies  on  aging,
29    the  establishment  and funding to begin in such areas of the
30    State as the  Department  shall  designate  by  rule  and  as
31    specifically appropriated funds become available.
32        (17)  To   develop   the   content   and  format  of  the
33    acknowledgment regarding non-recourse reverse mortgage  loans
34    under  Section  6.1  of  the Illinois Banking Act; to provide
 
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 1    independent consumer information  on  reverse  mortgages  and
 2    alternatives;   and   to   refer   consumers  to  independent
 3    counseling services with expertise in reverse mortgages.
 4        (18)  To develop a pamphlet in English and Spanish  which
 5    may  be  used  by physicians licensed to practice medicine in
 6    all of its branches pursuant to the Medical Practice  Act  of
 7    1987,  pharmacists licensed pursuant to the Pharmacy Practice
 8    Act and Illinois residents 65 years of age or older  for  the
 9    purpose of assisting physicians, pharmacists, and patients in
10    monitoring  prescriptions  provided by various physicians and
11    to aid persons 65 years of age or  older  in  complying  with
12    directions  for  proper  use of pharmaceutical prescriptions.
13    The pamphlet may  provide  space  for  recording  information
14    including but not limited to the following:
15             (a)  name and telephone number of the patient;
16             (b)  name  and  telephone  number of the prescribing
17        physician;
18             (c)  date of prescription;
19             (d)  name of drug prescribed;
20             (e)   directions for patient compliance; and
21             (f)  name  and  telephone   number   of   dispensing
22        pharmacy.
23        In  developing the pamphlet, the Department shall consult
24    with the Illinois  State  Medical  Society,  the  Center  for
25    Minority    Health   Services,   the   Illinois   Pharmacists
26    Association   and   senior   citizens   organizations.    The
27    Department shall  distribute  the  pamphlets  to  physicians,
28    pharmacists  and  persons 65 years of age or older or various
29    senior citizen organizations throughout the State.
30        (19)  To  conduct  a  study  by  April  1,  1994  of  the
31    feasibility of  implementing  the  Senior  Companion  Program
32    throughout  the  State  for the fiscal year beginning July 1,
33    1994.
34        (20)  With respect to contracts  in  effect  on  July  1,
 
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 1    1994, the Department shall increase the grant amounts so that
 2    the  reimbursement  rates  paid  through  the  community care
 3    program for chore housekeeping services and homemakers are at
 4    the same rate, which shall be  the  higher  of  the  2  rates
 5    currently  paid.  With respect to all contracts entered into,
 6    renewed,  or  extended  on  or  after  July  1,   1994,   the
 7    reimbursement  rates  paid through the community care program
 8    for chore housekeeping services and homemakers shall  be  the
 9    same.
10        (21)  From  funds appropriated to the Department from the
11    Meals on Wheels Fund, a special fund in  the  State  treasury
12    that  is  hereby  created,  and  in accordance with State and
13    federal guidelines and the  intrastate  funding  formula,  to
14    make  grants  to  area  agencies  on aging, designated by the
15    Department, for the  sole  purpose  of  delivering  meals  to
16    homebound persons 60 years of age and older.
17        (21.1)  Beginning  July  1,  2001,  to distribute any new
18    funds to the area agencies on aging, with  the  exception  of
19    legislatively   directed  programs  requiring  funding  at  a
20    designated level for a defined target  population,  according
21    to the intrastate funding formula.
22        (22)  To  distribute, through its area agencies on aging,
23    information  alerting  seniors  on  safety  issues  regarding
24    emergency weather  conditions,  including  extreme  heat  and
25    cold,  flooding,  tornadoes,  electrical  storms,  and  other
26    severe  storm  weather.   The  information  shall include all
27    necessary instructions for safety and all emergency telephone
28    numbers  of  organizations  that  will   provide   additional
29    information and assistance.
30        (23)  To  develop  guidelines  for  the  organization and
31    implementation of Volunteer Services Credit  Programs  to  be
32    administered  by  Area  Agencies  on Aging or community based
33    senior service  organizations.   The  Department  shall  hold
34    public   hearings  on  the  proposed  guidelines  for  public
 
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 1    comment, suggestion, and determination  of  public  interest.
 2    The guidelines shall be based on the findings of other states
 3    and of community organizations in Illinois that are currently
 4    operating volunteer services credit programs or demonstration
 5    volunteer  services  credit  programs.   The Department shall
 6    offer guidelines for all aspects of the  programs  including,
 7    but not limited to, the following:
 8             (a)  types of services to be offered by volunteers;
 9             (b)  types  of  services  to  be  received  upon the
10        redemption of service credits;
11             (c)  issues of liability for the volunteers and  the
12        administering organizations;
13             (d)  methods  of tracking service credits earned and
14        service credits redeemed;
15             (e)  issues of time limits for redemption of service
16        credits;
17             (f)  methods of recruitment of volunteers;
18             (g)  utilization of community volunteers,  community
19        service   groups,  and  other  resources  for  delivering
20        services  to  be  received  by  service  credit   program
21        clients;
22             (h)  accountability and assurance that services will
23        be  available  to  individuals  who  have  earned service
24        credits; and
25             (i)  volunteer screening and qualifications.
26    The Department shall submit a written copy of the  guidelines
27    to the General Assembly by July 1, 1998.
28    (Source:  P.A.  89-249,  eff.  8-4-95;  89-580,  eff. 1-1-97;
29    90-251, eff. 1-1-98.)

30        Section 99.  Effective date.  This Act takes effect  upon
31    becoming law.

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