Bill Text: IL HB2436 | 2009-2010 | 96th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Illinois Public Aid Code. Provides for minimum allowable amounts of $1,103 (instead of $1,000) for funeral services and $552 (instead of $500) for burial or cremation services. Provides that on July 1, 2009 and each July 1 thereafter, the Department of Human Services shall increase the minimum reimbursement amount for funeral and burial expenses under the Code by a percentage equal to the percentage increase in the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers, if any, during the 12 months immediately preceding that July 1. Effective immediately.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2009-04-03 - Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB2436 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2009-HB2436-Introduced.html

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96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2009 and 2010 HB2436 Introduced 2/19/2009, by Rep. Robert Rita SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
305 ILCS 5/12-4.11 from Ch. 23, par. 12-4.11
Amends the Illinois Public Aid Code. Provides for minimum allowable amounts of $1,103 (instead of $1,000) for funeral services and $552 (instead of $500) for burial or cremation services. Provides that on July 1, 2009 and each July 1 thereafter, the Department of Human Services shall increase the minimum reimbursement amount for funeral and burial expenses under the Code by a percentage equal to the percentage increase in the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers, if any, during the 12 months immediately preceding that July 1. Effective immediately.
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AN ACT concerning public aid.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Illinois Public Aid Code is amended by
changing Section 12-4.11 as follows:
(305 ILCS 5/12-4.11) (from Ch. 23, par. 12-4.11)
Sec. 12-4.11. Grant amounts. The Department, with due
regard for and subject to budgetary limitations, shall
establish grant amounts for each of the programs, by
regulation. The grant amounts may vary by program, size of
assistance unit and geographic area.
Aid payments shall not be reduced except: (1) for changes
in the cost of items included in the grant amounts, or (2) for
changes in the expenses of the recipient, or (3) for changes in
the income or resources available to the recipient, or (4) for
changes in grants resulting from adoption of a consolidated
grant amount. Beginning July 1, 2008, the Department of Human
Services shall increase TANF grant amounts in effect on June
30, 2008 by 9%.
In fixing standards to govern payments or reimbursements
for funeral and burial expenses, the Department shall establish
a minimum allowable amount of not less than $1,103 $1,000 for
Department payment of funeral services and not less than $552

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$500 for Department payment of burial or cremation services. On
January 1, 2006, July 1, 2009 and each July 1 thereafter 2006,
and July 1, 2007, the Department shall increase the minimum
reimbursement amount for funeral and burial expenses under this
Section by a percentage equal to the percentage increase in the
Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers, if any, during
the 12 months immediately preceding that January 1 or July 1.
In establishing the minimum allowable amount, the Department
shall take into account the services essential to a dignified,
low-cost (i) funeral and (ii) burial or cremation, including
reasonable amounts that may be necessary for burial space and
cemetery charges, and any applicable taxes or other required
governmental fees or charges. If no person has agreed to pay
the total cost of the (i) funeral and (ii) burial or cremation
charges, the Department shall pay the vendor the actual costs
of the (i) funeral and (ii) burial or cremation, or the minimum
allowable amount for each service as established by the
Department, whichever is less, provided that the Department
reduces its payments by the amount available from the following
sources: the decedent's assets and available resources and the
anticipated amounts of any death benefits available to the
decedent's estate, and amounts paid and arranged to be paid by
the decedent's legally responsible relatives. A legally
responsible relative is expected to pay (i) funeral and (ii)
burial or cremation expenses unless financially unable to do
so.

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Nothing contained in this Section or in any other Section
of this Code shall be construed to prohibit the Illinois
Department (1) from consolidating existing standards on the
basis of any standards which are or were in effect on, or
subsequent to July 1, 1969, or (2) from employing any
consolidated standards in determining need for public aid and
the amount of money payment or grant for individual recipients
or recipient families.
(Source: P.A. 94-669, eff. 8-23-05; 95-744, eff. 7-18-08.)
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.