Bill Text: IL HB5458 | 2025-2026 | 104th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Administrative Act. Provides that notwithstanding any other law or rule to the contrary, a State-operated developmental center funded, certified, or licensed by the Department of Human Services shall readmit, upon request, any former resident who transferred to and currently receives services at a licensed community-integrated living arrangement, if the former resident consents or if the former resident has a guardian with placement authority and that guardian consents based on a determination that the former resident's medical needs cannot be met by the program of services administered by the community-integrated living arrangement. Effective immediately.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2026-04-17 - Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB5458 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2025-HB5458-Introduced.html

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104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2025 and 2026HB5458 Introduced , by Rep. Charles Meier SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
20 ILCS 1705/8.2 new
Amends the Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Administrative Act. Provides that notwithstanding any other law or rule to the contrary, a State-operated developmental center funded, certified, or licensed by the Department of Human Services shall readmit, upon request, any former resident who transferred to and currently receives services at a licensed community-integrated living arrangement, if the former resident consents or if the former resident has a guardian with placement authority and that guardian consents based on a determination that the former resident's medical needs cannot be met by the program of services administered by the community-integrated living arrangement. Effective immediately.
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning State government.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Mental Health and Developmental
Disabilities Administrative Act is amended by adding Section
8.2 as follows:
(20 ILCS 1705/8.2 new)
Sec. 8.2. State-operated developmental centers;
readmissions. Notwithstanding any other law or rule to the
contrary, a State-operated developmental center funded,
certified, or licensed by the Department shall readmit, upon
request, any former resident who transferred to and currently
receives services at a licensed community-integrated living
arrangement, if the former resident consents or if the former
resident has a guardian with placement authority and that
guardian consents based on a determination that the former
resident's medical needs cannot be met by the program of
services administered by the community-integrated living
arrangement.
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.