Bill Text: IL HB5825 | 2025-2026 | 104th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Administrative Act. Provides that the Department of Human Services shall make no further reductions in bed capacity at State-operated facilities for persons with developmental disabilities without the purpose of protecting the health or safety of recipients or employees of State-operated facilities for persons with developmental disabilities. Provides that nothing in the amendatory Act shall affect the authority of the Governor to issue emergency executive orders to protect the health or safety of recipients or employees of State-operated facilities for persons with developmental disabilities. Provides that if the Department wants to restructure or transition a State-operated facility for persons with developmental disabilities that results in reduced bed capacity in the State-operated facility, the Department shall: (1) make a reasonable effort, as determined by the Department, to transition any State-operated developmental disability beds to State-operated minimum security psychiatric inpatient beds; or (2) make a reasonable effort, as determined by the Department, to transition any State-operated developmental disability beds to State-operated forensic step-down units.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2026-10-15 - Filed with the Clerk by Rep. Charles Meier [HB5825 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2025-HB5825-Introduced.html

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104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2025 and 2026HB5825 Introduced , by Rep. Charles Meier SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
20 ILCS 1705/8.5 new
Amends the Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Administrative Act. Provides that the Department of Human Services shall make no further reductions in bed capacity at State-operated facilities for persons with developmental disabilities without the purpose of protecting the health or safety of recipients or employees of State-operated facilities for persons with developmental disabilities. Provides that nothing in the amendatory Act shall affect the authority of the Governor to issue emergency executive orders to protect the health or safety of recipients or employees of State-operated facilities for persons with developmental disabilities. Provides that if the Department wants to restructure or transition a State-operated facility for persons with developmental disabilities that results in reduced bed capacity in the State-operated facility, the Department shall: (1) make a reasonable effort, as determined by the Department, to transition any State-operated developmental disability beds to State-operated minimum security psychiatric inpatient beds; or (2) make a reasonable effort, as determined by the Department, to transition any State-operated developmental disability beds to State-operated forensic step-down units.
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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
8.5 as follows:
(20 ILCS 1705/8.5 new)
Sec. 8.5. Reductions in bed capacity at State-operated
facilities for persons with developmental disabilities. The
Department shall make no further reductions in bed capacity at
State-operated facilities for persons with developmental
disabilities without the purpose of protecting the health or
safety of recipients or employees of State-operated facilities
for persons with developmental disabilities. Nothing in this
Section shall affect the authority of the Governor to issue
emergency executive orders to protect the health or safety of
recipients or employees of State-operated facilities for
persons with developmental disabilities. If the Department
wants to restructure or transition a State-operated facility
for persons with developmental disabilities that results in
reduced bed capacity in the State-operated facility, the
Department shall:
(1) make a reasonable effort, as determined by the

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Department, to transition any State-operated developmental
disability beds to State-operated minimum security
psychiatric inpatient beds; or
(2) make a reasonable effort, as determined by the
Department, to transition any State-operated developmental
disability beds to State-operated forensic step-down
units.