Bill Amendment: IL SB1176 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly

NOTE: For additional amemendments please see the Bill Drafting List

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Bill Title: STATE GOVERNMENT-TECH

Status: 2024-06-26 - Pursuant to Senate Rule 3-9(b) / Referred to Assignments [SB1176 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2023-SB1176-Senate_Amendment_001.html

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Sen. Neil Anderson

Filed: 4/10/2024

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AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 1176
AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 1176 by replacing
everything after the enacting clause with the following:
"Section 5. The Department of Central Management Services
Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois is amended by
adding Section 405-545 as follows:
(20 ILCS 405/405-545 new)
Sec. 405-545. State Retiree Medicare Primacy Coordination
Audit and Assistance Program.
(a) Within 6 months after the effective date of this
amendatory Act of the 103rd General Assembly, the Department
of Central Management Services, in conjunction with the State
Employees Retirement System, the State Universities Retirement
System, the Teachers' Retirement System, the Judges'
Retirement System, and the General Assembly Retirement System,
may enter into a contract with a qualified and experienced

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administrator to establish and conduct a State Retiree
Medicare Primacy Coordination Audit and Assistance Program to
identify annuitants, retirees, benefit recipients, survivors
or their dependents who are eligible for Medicare, but not
enrolled in Medicare, and to assist those annuitants,
retirees, benefit recipients, survivors or their dependents
with enrolling in Social Security and Medicare.
(b) The State Retiree Medicare Primacy Coordination Audit
and Assistance Program shall conduct an annual audit of the
State Health Benefits Program for everyone covered under the
State Employee Group Health Plan, the Teachers' Retirement
Insurance Program, and the Community College Insurance Program
for the purpose of identifying participants and their
dependents who are eligible for Medicare under federal law.
The Program shall also ensure that those annuitants, retirees,
benefit recipients, survivors or their dependents who are
eligible for Medicare are enrolled in Medicare with Medicare
as their primary health care benefits coverage and the State
Health Benefits Program being the secondary provider of their
health care benefits coverage.
(c) The State Retiree Medicare Primacy Coordination Audit
and Assistance Program shall assist any annuitant, retiree,
benefit recipient, survivor or their dependents who becomes
disabled, and is not enrolled in Social Security Disability
Insurance and Medicare, with enrolling in and obtaining Social
Security Disability Insurance and Medicare benefits. This

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assistance shall include, but not be limited to: (i)
developing communication materials to educate individuals
about Social Security Disability Insurance benefits; (ii)
performing multiple outreaches to targeted populations; (iii)
analyzing responses to determine Social Security Disability
Insurance eligibility; and (iv) representing qualified
individuals on their claim for Social Security Disability
Insurance and Medicare.
(d) The administrator shall provide the Department, the
State Employees Retirement System, and the General Assembly
with an annual report showing the number of annuitants,
retirees, benefit recipients, survivors and dependents who are
transitioned to Social Security Disability Insurance and
Medicare and the amount of savings realized by the State of
Illinois.