Public Act 098-0878
 
SB2586 EnrolledLRB098 12350 KTG 46663 b


  
    AN ACT concerning health.
  
 
    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
 
represented in the General Assembly:
  



 
    Section 5. The Specialized Mental Health Rehabilitation 
Act of 2013 is amended  by changing Section 1-101.6 as follows:
 
    (210 ILCS 49/1-101.6)

    Sec. 1-101.6. Mental health system planning.   The General 
Assembly finds the services contained in this Act are necessary 
for the effective delivery of mental health services for the 
citizens of the State of Illinois.  
    The General Assembly also finds that the mental health and 
substance use system in the State requires further review to 
develop additional needed services.
      To ensure the adequacy of community-based services and to 
offer choice to all individuals with serious mental illness and 
substance use disorders or conditions who choose to live in the  
community, and for whom the community is the appropriate 
setting, but are at risk of institutional care, the Governor's 
Office of Health Innovation and Transformation shall oversee a 
process for (i)  identifying needed services in the different 
geographic regions in the State and (ii)  identifying the 
financing strategies for developing those needed services. 
Governor shall convene a working group to develop the process 
and procedure for identifying needed services in the different 
geographic regions of the State.   
    The process shall address or examine the need and financing 
strategies for the following:
        (1) Network adequacy in all 102 counties of the State 
    for: (i) health homes authorized under Section 2703 of the 
    federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act; (ii) 
    systems of care for children; (iii) care coordination; and 
    (iv) access to a full continuum of quality care, treatment, 
    services, and supports for persons with serious emotional 
    disturbance, serious mental illness, or substance use 
    disorder.
        (2) Workforce development for the workforce of 
    community providers of care, treatment, services, and 
    supports for persons with mental health and substance use 
    disorders and conditions.
        (3) Information technology to manage the delivery of  
    integrated services for persons with mental health and 
    substance use disorders and medical conditions.
        (4) The needed continuum of statewide community health 
    care, treatment, services, and supports for persons with 
    mental health and substance use disorders and conditions.
        (5) Reducing health care disparities in access to a 
    continuum of care, care coordination, and engagement in 
    networks.
    The Governor's Office of Health Innovation and 
Transformation shall include the Division of Alcoholism and 
Substance Abuse and the Division of Mental Health in the 
Department of Human Services, the Department of Healthcare and 
Family Services, the Department of Public Health The Governor 
shall include the Division of Mental Health of the Department 
of Human Services, the Department of Healthcare and Family 
Services, the Department of Public Health, community mental 
health and substance use providers, statewide associations of 
mental health and substance use providers, mental health and 
substance use advocacy groups, and any other entity as deemed 
appropriate for participation in the process of identifying 
needed services and financing strategies as described in this 
Section working group.   
    The Office of Health Innovation and Transformation shall 
report its findings and recommendations to the General Assembly 
by July 1, 2015.
    This Section is repealed on July 1, 2016. 
    The Department of Human Services shall provide staff and 
support to this working group.

(Source: P.A. 98-104, eff. 7-22-13.)
 

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

Effective Date:  8/11/2014