Bill Text: IL HB1538 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Amends the Home Health, Home Services, and Home Nursing Agency Licensing Act. Provides that a 3-year (rather than an annual) license shall be issued for conducting or maintaining a home health agency. Provides that the fee for each single home health agency license or any renewal shall be $100 (rather than $25). Effective immediately.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2023-03-27 - Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB1538 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2023-HB1538-Introduced.html
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| 1 | AN ACT concerning regulation.
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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 Home Health, Home Services, and Home | |||||||||||||||||||
| 5 | Nursing Agency Licensing Act is amended by changing Section 4 | |||||||||||||||||||
| 6 | as follows:
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| 7 | (210 ILCS 55/4) (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 2804)
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| 8 | Sec. 4. Types of licenses.
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| 9 | (a) If an applicant for licensure has not been previously | |||||||||||||||||||
| 10 | licensed, or
if the home health agency, home services agency, | |||||||||||||||||||
| 11 | or home nursing agency is not in operation at the time | |||||||||||||||||||
| 12 | application is
made, the Department may issue a provisional | |||||||||||||||||||
| 13 | license. A provisional
license shall be valid for a period of | |||||||||||||||||||
| 14 | 120 days unless sooner suspended or
revoked pursuant to | |||||||||||||||||||
| 15 | Section 9 of this Act. Within 30 days prior to the
termination | |||||||||||||||||||
| 16 | of a provisional license, the Department shall inspect the | |||||||||||||||||||
| 17 | agency and, if the applicant substantially meets the | |||||||||||||||||||
| 18 | requirements
for licensure, it shall issue a license under | |||||||||||||||||||
| 19 | this Section. If the Department
finds that a holder of a | |||||||||||||||||||
| 20 | provisional license does not substantially meet
the | |||||||||||||||||||
| 21 | requirements for licensure, but has made significant progress | |||||||||||||||||||
| 22 | toward
meeting those requirements, the Director may renew the | |||||||||||||||||||
| 23 | provisional license
once for a period not to exceed 120 days | |||||||||||||||||||
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| 1 | from the expiration date of the
initial provisional license.
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| 2 | (b)(1) The Director may also issue a provisional license | ||||||
| 3 | to any licensed
agency which does not substantially comply | ||||||
| 4 | with the provisions
of this Act and the rules promulgated | ||||||
| 5 | hereunder, provided he finds that
the health, safety, and | ||||||
| 6 | well-being of the clients of the agency will be
protected | ||||||
| 7 | during the period for which such provisional license is | ||||||
| 8 | issued.
The term of such provisional license shall not exceed | ||||||
| 9 | 120 days.
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| 10 | (2) The Director shall advise the licensee of the | ||||||
| 11 | conditions under which
such provisional license is issued, | ||||||
| 12 | including the manner in which the
licensee fails to comply | ||||||
| 13 | with the provisions of the Act or rules, and the
time within | ||||||
| 14 | which the corrections necessary for the agency to
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| 15 | substantially comply with the Act and rules shall be | ||||||
| 16 | completed.
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| 17 | (3) The Director, at his discretion, may extend the term | ||||||
| 18 | of such
provisional license for an additional 120 days, if he | ||||||
| 19 | finds that the agency has made substantial progress toward | ||||||
| 20 | correcting the
violations and bringing the agency into full | ||||||
| 21 | compliance with
this Act and the rules promulgated hereunder.
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| 22 | (c) A 3-year An annual license shall be issued to
any | ||||||
| 23 | person conducting or maintaining a home health agency upon | ||||||
| 24 | receipt
of an application and payment of the
licensure fee, | ||||||
| 25 | and when
the other requirements of this Act, and the | ||||||
| 26 | standards, rules and
regulations promulgated hereunder, are | ||||||
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| 1 | met. The fee for each single home health agency license or any
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| 2 | renewal shall be $100 $25. | ||||||
| 3 | (d) The Department shall establish, by rule, a system | ||||||
| 4 | whereby an entity that meets the requirements for licensure | ||||||
| 5 | may obtain licensure singly or in any combination for the | ||||||
| 6 | categories authorized under this Act. The Department shall | ||||||
| 7 | develop and implement one application to be used even if a | ||||||
| 8 | combination of licenses authorized under the Act is sought. | ||||||
| 9 | Applicants for multiple licenses under this system shall pay | ||||||
| 10 | the higher of the licensure fees applicable. Fees collected | ||||||
| 11 | under this system shall be deposited into the Home Care | ||||||
| 12 | Services Agency Licensure Fund.
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| 13 | (Source: P.A. 94-379, eff. 1-1-06.)
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| 14 | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | ||||||
| 15 | becoming law.
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