Bill Text: IL HB0439 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Introduced
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Bill Title: Creates the Illinois Youth in Care Timely Provision of Essential Care Act. Requires the Department of Children and Family Services to develop a written, strategic plan that comprehensively addresses improving timely access to quality in-state residential treatment, evidence-based alternatives to residential treatment, and specialized foster care for youth in the care of the Department who have significant emotional, behavioral, and medical needs. Provides that the planning process must be transparent and allow for stakeholder input. Requires the strategic plan to be finalized and made public no later than one year after the effective date of the Act. Requires the strategic plan to be revised within 6 months after the rate study required under the Children and Family Services Act is complete and available for review. Requires the Department to incorporate the rate study's recommendations into the strategic plan. Requires the strategic plan to include: (i) benchmarks and a timeline for implementing each provision of the strategic plan; (ii) strategy for obtaining resources needed to implement each provision of the strategic plan; and (iii) ongoing stakeholder engagement during the implementation of the strategic plan.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-1)
Status: (Passed) 2023-07-28 - Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0273 [HB0439 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2023-HB0439-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Creates the Illinois Youth in Care Timely Provision of Essential Care Act. Requires the Department of Children and Family Services to develop a written, strategic plan that comprehensively addresses improving timely access to quality in-state residential treatment, evidence-based alternatives to residential treatment, and specialized foster care for youth in the care of the Department who have significant emotional, behavioral, and medical needs. Provides that the planning process must be transparent and allow for stakeholder input. Requires the strategic plan to be finalized and made public no later than one year after the effective date of the Act. Requires the strategic plan to be revised within 6 months after the rate study required under the Children and Family Services Act is complete and available for review. Requires the Department to incorporate the rate study's recommendations into the strategic plan. Requires the strategic plan to include: (i) benchmarks and a timeline for implementing each provision of the strategic plan; (ii) strategy for obtaining resources needed to implement each provision of the strategic plan; and (iii) ongoing stakeholder engagement during the implementation of the strategic plan.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-1)
Status: (Passed) 2023-07-28 - Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0273 [HB0439 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2023-HB0439-Introduced.html
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| 1 | AN ACT concerning health.
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| 2 | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| 3 | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | Section 5. The Arthritis
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| 5 | is amended by changing Section 1 as follows:
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| 6 | (410 ILCS 2/1)
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| 7 | Sec. 1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the
the
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| 8 | Arthritis
Prevention, Control, and Cure Act.
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| 9 | (Source: P.A. 94-634, eff. 1-1-06.)
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