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Public Act 098-0878


 

Public Act 0878 98TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

  
  
  

 


 
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