Bill Title: Amends the Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Administrative Act. Requires the Department of Human Services to establish reimbursement rates that build toward livable wages for front-line personnel in residential and day programs and service coordination agencies serving persons with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Provides that for community-based providers serving persons with intellectual or developmental disabilities, subject to federal approval, the rates taking effect for services delivered on or after July 1, 2024 shall be increased sufficiently to: (i) provide a minimum $3.00 per hour wage increase over the wages in effect on June 30, 2024 for front-line personnel; and (ii) provide wages for all other residential non-executive direct care staff, excluding direct support professionals, at the U.S. Department of Labor's average wage as defined, by rule, by the Department. Amends the Illinois Public Aid Code. Provides that for ID/DD facilities and MC/DD facilities, the rates taking effect for services delivered on or after July 1, 2024, shall be increased sufficiently to: (i) provide a minimum $3.00 per hour wage increase over the wages in effect on June 30, 2024 for front-line personnel; and (ii) provide wages for all other residential non-executive direct care staff, excluding direct support professionals, at the U.S. Department of Labor's average wage as defined, by rule, by the Department. Requires the same increase for front-line personnel employed at community-based providers serving persons with intellectual or developmental disabilities. Amends the Illinois Administrative Procedure Act. Grants the Departments of Human Services and Healthcare and Family Services emergency rulemaking authority. Effective immediately.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-05-15 - Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Michael E. Hastings [SB3399 Detail]

Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

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Sponsors

Name	Type	Sponsorship	District	Financial	Encyclopedia	Biography
Senator Celina Villanueva [D]	Primary	Sponsored Bills	SD-012	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Senator Ram Villivalam [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	SD-008	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Senator Michael Halpin [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	SD-036	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Senator Rachel Ventura [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	SD-043	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Senator Mike Simmons [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	SD-007	N/A	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Senator Laura Ellman [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	SD-021	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Senator Javier Cervantes [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	SD-001	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Senator Michael Hastings [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	SD-019	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart

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