Bill Text: IL SB1614 | 2011-2012 | 97th General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Amends the Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Administrative Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the purpose of the Act.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Failed) 2013-01-08 - Session Sine Die [SB1614 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2011-SB1614-Amended.html
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1 | AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 1614
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2 | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 1614 by replacing | ||||||
3 | everything after the enacting clause with the following:
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4 | "Section 5. The Mental Health and Developmental | ||||||
5 | Disabilities Administrative Act is amended by adding Section | ||||||
6 | 4.4 as follows:
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7 | (20 ILCS 1705/4.4 new) | ||||||
8 | Sec. 4.4. State-operated 6-bed group homes. | ||||||
9 | (a) Findings. The General Assembly finds that the | ||||||
10 | Department of Human Services' Division of Developmental | ||||||
11 | Disabilities is steadily shifting service provision from | ||||||
12 | State-operated developmental centers to smaller | ||||||
13 | community-based settings. Whether that process is due to | ||||||
14 | changes in philosophy on how to best serve individuals with | ||||||
15 | disabilities, changing individual and family choices, or an | ||||||
16 | attempt to capture cost savings from the substantially lower |
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1 | wages and benefits paid to the direct care workers in | ||||||
2 | alternative settings, one indisputable outcome of this process | ||||||
3 | is the replacement of a highly experienced and adequately | ||||||
4 | compensated workforce with a poorly compensated and much more | ||||||
5 | transitory workforce. Inadequate compensation is one of the | ||||||
6 | primary causes of the high employee turnover rate in community | ||||||
7 | settings. Numerous studies have shown that a more stable and | ||||||
8 | experienced workforce creates better outcomes for individuals | ||||||
9 | with developmental disabilities. Conversely, very high | ||||||
10 | turnover can contribute to emotional distress and disruption in | ||||||
11 | the lives of individuals. The failure to develop a fairly | ||||||
12 | compensated and stable workforce has been a key obstacle to | ||||||
13 | creating a uniformly high quality system of care in | ||||||
14 | community-based settings. | ||||||
15 | (b) Pilot program. In order to determine the efficacy of | ||||||
16 | improving quality of care by ensuring a more fairly compensated | ||||||
17 | workforce, and in consultation with stakeholders, including | ||||||
18 | the collective bargaining representative of the majority of | ||||||
19 | employees working in State-operated developmental centers, the | ||||||
20 | Department of Human Services' Division of Developmental | ||||||
21 | Disabilities shall develop a pilot program of State-operated | ||||||
22 | community-based group homes. | ||||||
23 | (c) Residential accommodations. Each State-operated | ||||||
24 | community-based group home shall provide residential | ||||||
25 | accommodations for up to 6 individuals with developmental | ||||||
26 | disabilities. |
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1 | (d) Staffing. The State-operated community-based group | ||||||
2 | homes shall be staffed by Department employees whose | ||||||
3 | compensation and rights shall be governed by existing | ||||||
4 | collective bargaining agreements. ".
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