Bill Text: IL HB4300 | 2013-2014 | 98th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Long-Term Care Provider Funding Article of the Illinois Public Aid Code. Provides that beginning July 1, 2014 an additional assessment is imposed upon each long-term care provider in an amount equal to $1.00 times the number of occupied bed days due and payable each month, which shall be deposited into the Long Term Care Ombudsman Fund. Provides that these assessments shall each be construed as a tax, but shall not be billed or passed on to any resident of a nursing home operated by the nursing home provider (rather than this assessment shall be construed as a tax, but shall not be billed or passed on to any resident of a nursing home operated by the nursing home provider). Effective immediately.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2014-12-03 - Session Sine Die [HB4300 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2013-HB4300-Introduced.html

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98TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2013 and 2014 HB4300 Introduced , by Rep. Robert F. Martwick SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
305 ILCS 5/5B-2 from Ch. 23, par. 5B-2
Amends the Long-Term Care Provider Funding Article of the Illinois Public Aid Code. Provides that beginning July 1, 2014 an additional assessment is imposed upon each long-term care provider in an amount equal to $1.00 times the number of occupied bed days due and payable each month, which shall be deposited into the Long Term Care Ombudsman Fund. Provides that these assessments shall each be construed as a tax, but shall not be billed or passed on to any resident of a nursing home operated by the nursing home provider (rather than this assessment shall be construed as a tax, but shall not be billed or passed on to any resident of a nursing home operated by the nursing home provider). Effective immediately.
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AN ACT concerning public aid.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Illinois Public Aid Code is amended by
changing Section 5B-2 as follows:
(305 ILCS 5/5B-2) (from Ch. 23, par. 5B-2)
Sec. 5B-2. Assessment; no local authorization to tax.
(a) For the privilege of engaging in the occupation of
long-term care provider, beginning July 1, 2011 an assessment
is imposed upon each long-term care provider in an amount equal
to $6.07 times the number of occupied bed days due and payable
each month. Beginning July 1, 2014 an additional assessment is
imposed upon each long-term care provider in an amount equal to
$1.00 times the number of occupied bed days due and payable
each month, which shall be deposited into the Long Term Care
Ombudsman Fund. Notwithstanding any provision of any other Act
to the contrary, these assessments this assessment shall each
be construed as a tax, but shall not be billed or passed on to
any resident of a nursing home operated by the nursing home
provider.
(b) Nothing in this amendatory Act of 1992 shall be
construed to authorize any home rule unit or other unit of
local government to license for revenue or impose a tax or

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assessment upon long-term care providers or the occupation of
long-term care provider, or a tax or assessment measured by the
income or earnings or occupied bed days of a long-term care
provider.
(c) The assessment imposed by this Section shall not be due
and payable, however, until after the Department notifies the
long-term care providers, in writing, that the payment
methodologies to long-term care providers required under
Section 5-5.4 of this Code have been approved by the Centers
for Medicare and Medicaid Services of the U.S. Department of
Health and Human Services and the waivers under 42 CFR 433.68
for the assessment imposed by this Section, if necessary, have
been granted by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
(Source: P.A. 96-1530, eff. 2-16-11; 97-10, eff. 6-14-11;
97-584, eff. 8-26-11.)
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.