IL HB4806 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly

Status

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 28-0)
Status: Introduced on February 6 2024 - 25% progression
Action: 2024-05-31 - Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee
Pending: House Rules Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Summary

Amends the Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Administrative Act. Provides that, for community-based providers serving persons with intellectual/developmental disabilities, subject to federal approval of any relevant Waiver Amendment, the rates taking effect for services delivered on or after January 1, 2025 shall include an increase in the rate methodology sufficient to provide a $3 per hour wage rate increase for all direct support personnel and all other frontline personnel who are not subject to the Bureau of Labor Statistics' average wage increases and who work in residential and community day services settings, with at least $1.50 of those funds to be provided as a direct increase to base wages and the remaining $1.50 to be used flexibly for base wage increases. Provides that the rates taking effect for services delivered on or after January 1, 2025 shall include an increase sufficient to provide wages for all residential non-executive direct care staff, excluding direct support personnel, at the federal Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics' average wage as defined by rule by the Department of Human Services. Provides that for facilities licensed by the Department of Public Health under the ID/DD Community Care Act as ID/DD facilities and under the MC/DD Act as MC/DD facilities, subject to federal approval of a State Plan Amendment, the rates taking effect for services delivered on or after January 1, 2025, shall include a $3 per hour wage rate increase for all direct support personnel and all other frontline personnel who are not subject to the Bureau of Labor Statistics' average wage increases and who work in residential and community day services settings, with at least $1.50 of those funds to be provided as a direct increase to all aide base wages and the remaining $1.50 to be used flexibly for base wage increases to the rate methodology for aides. Provides that for residential services delivered on or after January 1, 2025, the rates shall include an increase sufficient to provide wages for all residential non-executive direct care staff, excluding aides, at the federal Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics' average wage as determined by the Department. Requires the Department to adopt rules, including emergency rules, to implement the amendatory Act.

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Title

DHS-DIRECT SUPPORT-RATES

Sponsors


History

DateChamberAction
2024-05-31HouseRule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee
2024-05-26HouseCommittee/3rd Reading Deadline Extended-Rule May 31, 2024
2024-05-24HouseCommittee/3rd Reading Deadline Extended-Rule May 27, 2024
2024-05-20HouseAdded Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Fred Crespo
2024-05-16HouseAdded Co-Sponsor Rep. Abdelnasser Rashid
2024-05-08HouseAdded Co-Sponsor Rep. Rita Mayfield
2024-05-02HouseAdded Co-Sponsor Rep. Justin Slaughter
2024-05-02HouseAdded Co-Sponsor Rep. Will Guzzardi
2024-04-17HouseAdded Co-Sponsor Rep. Jennifer Gong-Gershowitz
2024-04-17HouseAdded Co-Sponsor Rep. Carol Ammons
2024-04-12HouseAdded Co-Sponsor Rep. Harry Benton
2024-04-12HouseAdded Co-Sponsor Rep. Maura Hirschauer
2024-04-12HouseAdded Co-Sponsor Rep. Michael J. Kelly
2024-04-12HouseAdded Co-Sponsor Rep. Kevin John Olickal
2024-04-10HouseAdded Co-Sponsor Rep. Natalie A. Manley
2024-04-05HouseCommittee/3rd Reading Deadline Extended-Rule May 24, 2024
2024-03-21HouseAdded Co-Sponsor Rep. Jaime M. Andrade, Jr.
2024-03-21HouseAdded Co-Sponsor Rep. Theresa Mah
2024-03-21HouseAdded Co-Sponsor Rep. Martin J. Moylan
2024-03-21HouseAdded Co-Sponsor Rep. Edgar Gonzalez, Jr.
2024-03-21HouseAdded Co-Sponsor Rep. Anne Stava-Murray
2024-03-21HouseAdded Co-Sponsor Rep. Suzanne M. Ness
2024-03-21HouseAdded Co-Sponsor Rep. La Shawn K. Ford
2024-03-21HouseAdded Co-Sponsor Rep. Nabeela Syed
2024-03-21HouseAdded Co-Sponsor Rep. Lilian Jiménez
2024-03-21HouseAdded Co-Sponsor Rep. Terra Costa Howard
2024-03-21HouseAdded Co-Sponsor Rep. Lindsey LaPointe
2024-03-21HouseAdded Co-Sponsor Rep. Kelly M. Cassidy
2024-03-11HouseAdded Co-Sponsor Rep. Laura Faver Dias
2024-03-01HouseAdded Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Dagmara Avelar
2024-02-29HouseAdded Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Barbara Hernandez
2024-02-28HouseAssigned to Appropriations-Health & Human Services Committee
2024-02-06HouseReferred to Rules Committee
2024-02-06HouseFirst Reading
2024-02-06HouseFiled with the Clerk by Rep. Michelle Mussman

Code Citations

ChapterArticleSectionCitation TypeStatute Text
20170574Amended CodeCitation Text
51005-45.55New CodeSee Bill Text

Illinois State Sources


Bill Comments

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