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| Public Act 097-0558
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| HB1488 Enrolled | LRB097 07770 KTG 47882 b |
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AN ACT concerning State government.
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Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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represented in the General Assembly:
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Section 5. The Department of Human Services Act is amended |
by adding Section 1-37a as follows:
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(20 ILCS 1305/1-37a new) |
Sec. 1-37a. Management Improvement Initiative Committee. |
(a) As used in this Section, unless the context indicates |
otherwise: |
"Departments" means the Department on Aging, the |
Department of Children and Family Services, the Department of |
Healthcare and Family Services, the Department of Human |
Services, and the Department of Public Health. |
"Management Improvement Initiative Committee" or |
"Committee" means the Management Improvement Initiative |
Committee created under this Section. |
"Management Improvement Initiative Departmental Leadership |
Team" or "Team" means the Management Improvement Initiative |
Departmental Leadership Team created under this Section. |
(b) The Governor, or his or her designee, shall create a |
Management Improvement Initiative Committee that shall include |
the Management Improvement Initiative Departmental Leadership |
Team to implement the recommendations made in the report |
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submitted to the General Assembly on January 1, 2011 as |
required under Public Act 96-1141, and to continue the work of |
the group formed under the auspices of Public Act 96-1141. |
The Team shall be comprised of a representative from each |
of the Departments. |
The Team members shall integrate the Committee's |
objectives into their respective departmental operations and |
continue the work of the group formed under the auspices of |
Public Act 96-1141 including: |
(1) Implementing the recommendations of the report |
submitted to the General Assembly on January 1, 2011 under |
Public Act 96-1141. |
(2) Submitting a progress report to the General |
Assembly by November 1, 2011 on the progress made in |
implementing the recommendations made in the report |
submitted to the General Assembly on January 1, 2011 under |
Public Act 96-1141. |
(3) Reviewing contracts held with community health and |
human service providers on the regulations and work |
processes, including reporting, monitoring, compliance, |
auditing, certification, and licensing processes, required |
by the departments and their divisions. |
(4) Eliminating obsolete, redundant, or unreasonable |
regulations, reporting, monitoring, compliance, auditing, |
certifications, licensing, and work processes. |
(5) Implementing reciprocity across divisions and |
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departments. Reciprocity shall be used to accept other |
division or department regulations, reporting, monitoring, |
compliance, auditing, certification, and licensing |
processes. |
(6) Implementing integrated work processes across |
divisions and departments that will be used for efficient |
and effective work processes including regulations, |
reporting, monitoring, compliance, auditing, licensing, |
and certification processes. |
(7) Implementing the deemed status for accredited |
community health and human service providers. |
(8) Reviewing work products meant to address the |
Committee's objectives as set forth in this Section. The |
review shall be done in concert with similar reviews |
conducted by the divisions under the Department of Human |
Services and other department steering committees, |
committees, and work groups as appropriate and necessary to |
eliminate redundant work processes including reporting, |
monitoring, compliance, auditing, licensing, and |
certification processes. |
(9) Describing how improved regulations, reporting, |
monitoring, compliance, auditing, certification, |
licensing, and work processes are measured at the community |
vendor, contractor, and departmental levels, and how they |
have reduced redundant regulations, reporting, monitoring, |
compliance, auditing, certification, licensing, and work |
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processes. |
(c) The Team shall examine the entire body of regulations, |
reporting, monitoring, compliance, auditing, certification, |
licensing, and work processes that guide departmental |
operations and contracts to eliminate obsolete, redundant, or |
unreasonable regulations, reporting, monitoring, compliance, |
auditing, licensing, and certifications. |
(d) The Team shall identify immediate, near-term, and |
long-term opportunities to improve accountable, non-redundant, |
effective, and efficient accountability, regulations, |
reporting, monitoring, compliance, auditing, certification, |
and licensing processes that are necessary, appropriate, and |
sufficient to determine the success and quality of contracts |
with community health and human service vendors and providers. |
(e) The Team shall develop performance measures to assess |
progress towards accomplishing the Committee's objectives and |
shall develop procedures to provide feedback on the impact of |
the State's operational improvements meant to achieve |
management improvement initiative objectives. |
(f) The Team shall report operational improvements and |
document efforts that address the Committee's objectives. |
These reports shall be submitted to the Governor and the |
General Assembly semi-annually and shall: |
(1) Include the results made to maintain efficient |
accountability while eliminating obsolete, redundant, or |
unreasonable regulations, reporting, monitoring, |
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compliance, auditing, licensing, and certifications. |
(2) Specify improved regulations, reporting, |
monitoring, compliance, auditing, certification, |
licensing, and work processes. |
(3) Describe how improved regulations, reporting, |
monitoring, compliance, auditing, certification, |
licensing, and work processes are measured at the community |
vendor, contractor, and departmental levels, and how they |
have reduced redundant regulations, reporting, monitoring, |
compliance, auditing, certification, licensing, and work |
processes. |
(4) Include the methods used to engage health and human |
service providers in the management improvement initiative |
to improve regulations, reporting, monitoring, compliance, |
auditing, certification, licensing, and work processes. |
(5) Describe how departmental practices have been |
changed to improve non-redundant accountability, |
efficiency, effectiveness, and quality. |
(g) Beginning in State Fiscal Year 2012, regulations, |
reporting, monitoring, compliance, auditing, certification, |
licensing, and work processes, including each new departmental |
initiative, shall be linked directly to non-redundant, |
accountable, efficient, and effective outcome indicators which |
can be used to evaluate the success of the new initiative. |
(h) The Management Improvement Initiative Committee. |
(1) The Committee shall be comprised of Team members |
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from each of the Departments to manage the overall |
implementation process and to ensure that any new |
monitoring and compliance activities are developed as |
recommended in the report submitted to the General Assembly |
on January 1, 2011. |
(2) Team members shall be able to access available |
resources within their respective departments, to set |
priorities, manage the overall implementation process, and |
ensure that any new monitoring and compliance activities |
are developed as recommended in the report submitted to the |
General Assembly on January 1, 2011. |
(3) The Departments shall each designate a member to |
serve as a member of the Committee. |
(4) The Committee shall also consist of the community |
organizations, community providers, associations, and |
private philanthropic organizations appointed under Public |
Act 96-1141, and shall be charged with overseeing |
implementation of the Committee's objectives and ensuring |
that provider prospective is incorporated. |
(5) The Committee shall be co-chaired by department and |
community representatives, with leadership responsibility |
resting with the Governor in order to increase the priority |
and accountability for implementation of the Committee's |
objectives and recommendations. |
(6) The Team shall be responsible for establishing |
within the Committee workgroups consisting of subject |
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matter experts necessary to reach the Committee's |
objectives, including the recommendations made in the |
report submitted to the General Assembly on January 1, 2011 |
under Public Act 96-1141. Those subject matter experts, |
including those with necessary technological expertise, |
shall include outside experts, departmental, association, |
and community providers. |
(7) Recommendations of the Committee shall be reviewed |
and its efforts integrated into existing as well as ongoing |
initiatives as appropriate, including the implementation |
of Public Act 96-1501, the Illinois Frameworks planning and |
implementation efforts, and any other task force that may |
make proposals that impact community provider work |
processes and contract deliverables. |
(8) The Department of Human Services shall be |
designated as the lead support agency and provide |
administrative staffing for the Committee. Other |
Departments, as defined by this Section, shall provide |
additional administrative staffing in conjunction with the |
Department of Human Services to support the Committee. |
(i) This Section is repealed on December 31, 2014.
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Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon |
becoming law.
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