Bill Text: IL SB3076 | 2017-2018 | 100th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Administrative Act. Provides that as the Department of Human Services establishes reimbursement rates that build toward livable wages for front-line personnel in programs serving persons with intellectual and developmental disabilities, the Department shall include rates for therapeutic schools and other programs serving children with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Defines "front-line personnel". Effective immediately.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2019-01-09 - Session Sine Die [SB3076 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2017-SB3076-Introduced.html

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100TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2017 and 2018 SB3076 Introduced 2/15/2018, by Sen. Wm. Sam McCann SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
20 ILCS 1705/7.2a new
Amends the Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Administrative Act. Provides that as the Department of Human Services establishes reimbursement rates that build toward livable wages for front-line personnel in programs serving persons with intellectual and developmental disabilities, the Department shall include rates for therapeutic schools and other programs serving children with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Defines "front-line personnel". Effective immediately.
LRB100 19637 RLC 34910 b
FISCAL NOTE ACT MAY APPLY
A BILL FOR
SB3076 LRB100 19637 RLC 34910 b
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
7.2a as follows:
(20 ILCS 1705/7.2a new)
Sec. 7.2a. Increased wages for front-line personnel
serving children. As the Department establishes reimbursement
rates that build toward livable wages for front-line personnel
in programs serving persons with intellectual and
developmental disabilities, the Department shall include rates
for therapeutic schools and other programs serving children
with intellectual and developmental disabilities. As used in
this Section, "front-line personnel" means direct support
persons, aides, front-line supervisors, qualified intellectual
disabilities professionals, educators, nurses, and
non-administrative support staff working in service settings
outlined in this Section.
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.