Bill Text: IL HB3179 | 2019-2020 | 101st General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Community-Integrated Living Arrangements Licensure and Certification Act. Provides that a "community-integrated living arrangement" means a living arrangement certified by a community mental health or developmental services agency where 12 (rather than 8) or fewer recipients with mental illness or recipients with a developmental disability reside under the supervision of the agency. Makes a grammatical change.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-03-29 - Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB3179 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2019-HB3179-Introduced.html

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101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2019 and 2020 HB3179 Introduced , by Rep. Deanne M. Mazzochi SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
210 ILCS 135/3 from Ch. 91 1/2, par. 1703
Amends the Community-Integrated Living Arrangements Licensure and Certification Act. Provides that a "community-integrated living arrangement" means a living arrangement certified by a community mental health or developmental services agency where 12 (rather than 8) or fewer recipients with mental illness or recipients with a developmental disability reside under the supervision of the agency. Makes a grammatical change.
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AN ACT concerning regulation.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Community-Integrated Living Arrangements
Licensure and Certification Act is amended by changing Section
3 as follows:
(210 ILCS 135/3) (from Ch. 91 1/2, par. 1703)
Sec. 3. As used in this Act, unless the context requires
otherwise:
(a) "Applicant" means a person, group of persons,
association, partnership or corporation that applies for a
license as a community mental health or developmental services
agency under this Act.
(b) "Community mental health or developmental services
agency" or "agency" means a public or private agency,
association, partnership, corporation or organization which,
pursuant to this Act, certifies community-integrated living
arrangements for persons with mental illness or persons with a
developmental disability.
(c) "Department" means the Department of Human Services (as
successor to the Department of Mental Health and Developmental
Disabilities).
(d) "Community-integrated living arrangement" means a

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living arrangement certified by a community mental health or
developmental services agency under this Act where 12 8 or
fewer recipients with mental illness or recipients with a
developmental disability who reside under the supervision of
the agency. Examples of community integrated living
arrangements include but are not limited to the following:
(1) "Adult foster care", a living arrangement for
recipients in residences of families unrelated to them, for
the purpose of providing family care for the recipients on
a full-time basis;
(2) "Assisted residential care", an independent living
arrangement where recipients are intermittently supervised
by off-site staff;
(3) "Crisis residential care", a non-medical living
arrangement where recipients in need of non-medical,
crisis services are supervised by on-site staff 24 hours a
day;
(4) "Home individual programs", living arrangements
for 2 unrelated adults outside the family home;
(5) "Supported residential care", a living arrangement
where recipients are supervised by on-site staff and such
supervision is provided less than 24 hours a day;
(6) "Community residential alternatives", as defined
in the Community Residential Alternatives Licensing Act;
and
(7) "Special needs trust-supported residential care",

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a living arrangement where recipients are supervised by
on-site staff and that supervision is provided 24 hours per
day or less, as dictated by the needs of the recipients,
and determined by service providers. As used in this item
(7), "special needs trust" means a trust for the benefit of
a beneficiary with a disability as described in Section
15.1 of the Trusts and Trustees Act.
(e) "Recipient" means a person who has received, is
receiving, or is in need of treatment or habilitation as those
terms are defined in the Mental Health and Developmental
Disabilities Code.
(f) "Unrelated" means that persons residing together in
programs or placements certified by a community mental health
or developmental services agency under this Act do not have any
of the following relationships by blood, marriage or adoption:
parent, son, daughter, brother, sister, grandparent, uncle,
aunt, nephew, niece, great grandparent, great uncle, great
aunt, stepbrother, stepsister, stepson, stepdaughter,
stepparent or first cousin.
(Source: P.A. 99-143, eff. 7-27-15.)