Bill Text: IL HB1538 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Amends the Home Health, Home Services, and Home Nursing Agency Licensing Act. Provides that a 3-year (rather than an annual) license shall be issued for conducting or maintaining a home health agency. Provides that the fee for each single home health agency license or any renewal shall be $100 (rather than $25). Effective immediately.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2023-03-27 - Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB1538 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2023-HB1538-Introduced.html


103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2023 and 2024
HB1538

Introduced , by Rep. Hoan Huynh

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
210 ILCS 55/4 from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 2804

Amends the Home Health, Home Services, and Home Nursing Agency Licensing Act. Provides that a 3-year (rather than an annual) license shall be issued for conducting or maintaining a home health agency. Provides that the fee for each single home health agency license or any renewal shall be $100 (rather than $25). Effective immediately.
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A BILL FOR

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1 AN ACT concerning regulation.
2 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
4 Section 5. The Home Health, Home Services, and Home
5Nursing Agency Licensing Act is amended by changing Section 4
6as follows:
7 (210 ILCS 55/4) (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 2804)
8 Sec. 4. Types of licenses.
9 (a) If an applicant for licensure has not been previously
10licensed, or if the home health agency, home services agency,
11or home nursing agency is not in operation at the time
12application is made, the Department may issue a provisional
13license. A provisional license shall be valid for a period of
14120 days unless sooner suspended or revoked pursuant to
15Section 9 of this Act. Within 30 days prior to the termination
16of a provisional license, the Department shall inspect the
17agency and, if the applicant substantially meets the
18requirements for licensure, it shall issue a license under
19this Section. If the Department finds that a holder of a
20provisional license does not substantially meet the
21requirements for licensure, but has made significant progress
22toward meeting those requirements, the Director may renew the
23provisional license once for a period not to exceed 120 days

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1from the expiration date of the initial provisional license.
2 (b)(1) The Director may also issue a provisional license
3to any licensed agency which does not substantially comply
4with the provisions of this Act and the rules promulgated
5hereunder, provided he finds that the health, safety, and
6well-being of the clients of the agency will be protected
7during the period for which such provisional license is
8issued. The term of such provisional license shall not exceed
9120 days.
10 (2) The Director shall advise the licensee of the
11conditions under which such provisional license is issued,
12including the manner in which the licensee fails to comply
13with the provisions of the Act or rules, and the time within
14which the corrections necessary for the agency to
15substantially comply with the Act and rules shall be
16completed.
17 (3) The Director, at his discretion, may extend the term
18of such provisional license for an additional 120 days, if he
19finds that the agency has made substantial progress toward
20correcting the violations and bringing the agency into full
21compliance with this Act and the rules promulgated hereunder.
22 (c) A 3-year An annual license shall be issued to any
23person conducting or maintaining a home health agency upon
24receipt of an application and payment of the licensure fee,
25and when the other requirements of this Act, and the
26standards, rules and regulations promulgated hereunder, are

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1met. The fee for each single home health agency license or any
2renewal shall be $100 $25.
3 (d) The Department shall establish, by rule, a system
4whereby an entity that meets the requirements for licensure
5may obtain licensure singly or in any combination for the
6categories authorized under this Act. The Department shall
7develop and implement one application to be used even if a
8combination of licenses authorized under the Act is sought.
9Applicants for multiple licenses under this system shall pay
10the higher of the licensure fees applicable. Fees collected
11under this system shall be deposited into the Home Care
12Services Agency Licensure Fund.
13(Source: P.A. 94-379, eff. 1-1-06.)
14 Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
15becoming law.
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