Bill Text: IL HB4476 | 2025-2026 | 104th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Specialized Mental Health Rehabilitation Act of 2013. Provides that each consumer shall be offered at least 15 hours of treatment programming per week and encouraged to attend the treatment domains that meet the consumer's needs, as reflected in the consumer's treatment plans. Provides that each consumer's program engagement and attendance shall be documented in the consumer's clinical record, and each consumer shall be prompted to attend programming regularly as documented in the consumer's clinical record at least quarterly. Effective July 1, 2026.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2026-03-27 - Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB4476 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2025-HB4476-Introduced.html

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104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2025 and 2026HB4476 Introduced , by Rep. Lindsey LaPointe SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
210 ILCS 49/3-104
Amends the Specialized Mental Health Rehabilitation Act of 2013. Provides that each consumer shall be offered at least 15 hours of treatment programming per week and encouraged to attend the treatment domains that meet the consumer's needs, as reflected in the consumer's treatment plans. Provides that each consumer's program engagement and attendance shall be documented in the consumer's clinical record, and each consumer shall be prompted to attend programming regularly as documented in the consumer's clinical record at least quarterly. Effective July 1, 2026.
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A BILL FOR
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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 Specialized Mental Health Rehabilitation
Act of 2013 is amended by changing Section 3-104 as follows:
(210 ILCS 49/3-104)
Sec. 3-104. Care, treatment, and records. Facilities shall
provide, at a minimum, the following services: physician,
nursing, pharmaceutical, rehabilitative, and dietary services.
To provide these services, the facility shall adhere to the
following:
(1) Each consumer shall be encouraged and assisted to
achieve and maintain the highest level of self-care and
independence. Every effort shall be made to keep consumers
active and out of bed for reasonable periods of time,
except when contraindicated by physician orders.
(2) Every consumer shall be engaged in a
person-centered planning process regarding his or her
total care and treatment.
(3) All medical treatment and procedures shall be
administered as ordered by a physician. All new physician
orders shall be reviewed by the facility's director of
nursing or charge nurse designee within 24 hours after

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such orders have been issued to ensure facility compliance
with such orders. According to rules adopted by the
Department, every woman consumer of child bearing age
shall receive routine obstetrical and gynecological
evaluations as well as necessary prenatal care.
(4) Each consumer shall be provided with good
nutrition and with necessary fluids for hydration.
(5) Each consumer shall be provided visual privacy
during treatment and personal care.
(6) Every consumer or consumer's guardian shall be
permitted to inspect and copy all his or her clinical and
other records concerning his or her care kept by the
facility or by his or her physician. The facility may
charge a reasonable fee for duplication of a record.
(7) Each consumer shall be offered at least 15 hours
of treatment programming per week and encouraged to attend
the treatment domains that meet the consumer's needs, as
reflected in the consumer's treatment plans. Each
consumer's program engagement and attendance shall be
documented in the consumer's clinical record, and each
consumer shall be prompted to attend programming regularly
as documented in the consumer's clinical record at least
quarterly.
(Source: P.A. 98-104, eff. 7-22-13.)
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect July 1,
2026.