Illinois Senate Bill 2736 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)
Status: Introduced on February 16 2016 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2016-04-22 - Rule 3-9(a) / Re-referred to Assignments
Pending: Senate Assignments Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Creates the Nursing Home Accountability Act. Defines terms. Requires certain nursing facilities to report specified information concerning wages of their employees as part of an annual cost report. Requires the Department of Public Health to compare the information to the living wage certification standards. Contains provisions concerning the reporting, determinations, posting, and effect of such certification. Contains penalty, inspection of records, and rulemaking provisions. Requires the Department of Healthcare and Family Services, based on required reports by facilities, to determine if an employee of a facility is a recipient of public assistance for the purpose of imposing an employer responsibility penalty. Contains provisions concerning medical assistance information, prohibited practices, employee remedies, administrative appeals, and confidentiality. Establishes the Employer Responsibility for Public Assistance Fund as a special fund in the State treasury (and makes a conforming change in the State Finance Act). Provides that the Department of Healthcare and Family Services may use money in the Employer Responsibility for Public Assistance Fund for specified purposes. Provides for a direct service minimum that sets a 50% direct service worker expenditure threshold that covered facilities shall meet using their medical assistance program funds. Contains provisions concerning reporting requirements, the calculation and determination of the direct service minimum, and repayment of medical assistance program payments in the event a facility does not meet the direct service minimum. Provides that the provisions of the Act are severable. Effective 90 days after becoming law.

NURSING HOME ACCOUNTABILITY

Sen. Jacqueline Collins [D]

Sen. Daniel Biss [D]

Sen. Emil Jones [D]

Sen. Toi Hutchinson [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2016-04-22	Senate	Rule 3-9(a) / Re-referred to Assignments
2016-04-08	Senate	Rule 2-10 Committee Deadline Established As April 22, 2016
2016-04-06	Senate	Postponed - Labor
2016-03-02	Senate	Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Toi W. Hutchinson
2016-03-02	Senate	Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Emil Jones, III
2016-03-01	Senate	Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Daniel Biss
2016-02-24	Senate	Assigned to Labor
2016-02-16	Senate	Referred to Assignments
2016-02-16	Senate	First Reading
2016-02-16	Senate	Filed with Secretary by Sen. Jacqueline Y. Collins

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
30	105	5.875	New Code	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/BillStatus.asp?DocNum=2736&GAID=13&DocTypeID=SB&SessionID=88&GA=99
Text	https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/99/SB/09900SB2736.htm