Bill Text: IL HB3344 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Community-Integrated Living Arrangements Licensure and Certification Act. Provides that the Division of Developmental Disabilities of the Department of Human Services shall continue, in cases of medically required absences from a community integrated living arrangement, to provide 50% of the per diem reimbursement to providers while the community integrated living arrangement holds the vacancy for the absent resident. Provides that the absent resident shall be able to return to the community integrated living arrangement when the resident is medically able to return. Defines "medically required absences".

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-05-31 - House Committee Amendment No. 2 Rule 19(c) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB3344 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2023-HB3344-Introduced.html

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103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2023 and 2024 HB3344 Introduced , by Rep. Suzanne M. Ness SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
210 ILCS 135/13.3 new
Amends the Community-Integrated Living Arrangements Licensure and Certification Act. Provides that the Division of Developmental Disabilities of the Department of Human Services shall continue, in cases of medically required absences from a community integrated living arrangement, to provide 50% of the per diem reimbursement to providers while the community integrated living arrangement holds the vacancy for the absent resident. Provides that the absent resident shall be able to return to the community integrated living arrangement when the resident is medically able to return. Defines "medically required absences".
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning regulation.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Community-Integrated Living Arrangements
Licensure and Certification Act is amended by adding Section
13.3 as follows:
(210 ILCS 135/13.3 new)
Sec. 13.3. Occupancy factor. The Division of Developmental
Disabilities of the Department shall continue, in cases of
medically required absences from a community integrated living
arrangement, to provide 50% of the per diem reimbursement to
providers while the community integrated living arrangement
holds the vacancy for the absent resident. The absent resident
is authorized to return to the community integrated living
arrangement when the resident is medically able to return.
As used in this Section, "medically required absences"
means a situation in which a resident is temporarily absent
from a community integrated living arrangement to receive
medical treatment or for other reasons that have been
recommended by medical personnel. Such reasons include, but
are not limited to, hospitalizations, placements in short-term
stabilization homes or state-operated facilities, stays in
nursing facilities, rehabilitation in long-term care

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facilities, or other absences for legitimate medical reasons.