Bill Text: IL HB5345 | 2011-2012 | 97th General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Amends the Long-Term Care Provider Funding Article of the Illinois Public Aid Code. Provides that specified assessments imposed on long-term care providers shall not be due and payable until after the Department of Healthcare and Family Services reimburses a long-term care provider for services rendered for the month of the required assessment. Effective immediately.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Failed) 2013-01-08 - Session Sine Die [HB5345 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2011-HB5345-Introduced.html
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1 | AN ACT concerning public aid.
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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 Illinois Public Aid Code is amended by | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
5 | changing Section 5B-2 as follows:
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6 | (305 ILCS 5/5B-2) (from Ch. 23, par. 5B-2)
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7 | Sec. 5B-2. Assessment; no local authorization to tax.
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8 | (a) For the privilege of engaging in the occupation of | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
9 | long-term care
provider, beginning July 1, 2011 an assessment | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
10 | is imposed upon each long-term care provider in an amount equal | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
11 | to $6.07 times the number of occupied bed days due and payable | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
12 | each month. Notwithstanding any provision of any other Act to | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
13 | the
contrary, this assessment shall be construed as a tax, but | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
14 | shall not be billed or passed on to any resident of a nursing | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
15 | home operated by the nursing home provider.
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16 | (b) Nothing in this amendatory Act of 1992 shall be | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
17 | construed to
authorize any home rule unit or other unit of | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
18 | local government to license
for revenue or impose a tax or | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
19 | assessment upon long-term care providers or
the occupation of | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
20 | long-term care provider, or a tax or assessment measured
by the | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
21 | income or earnings or occupied bed days of a long-term care | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
22 | provider.
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23 | (c) The assessment imposed by this Section shall not be due |
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1 | and payable, however, until after the Department notifies the | ||||||
2 | long-term care providers, in writing, that the payment | ||||||
3 | methodologies to long-term care providers required under | ||||||
4 | Section 5-5.4 of this Code have been approved by the Centers | ||||||
5 | for Medicare and Medicaid Services of the U.S. Department of | ||||||
6 | Health and Human Services and the waivers under 42 CFR 433.68 | ||||||
7 | for the assessment imposed by this Section, if necessary, have | ||||||
8 | been granted by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services | ||||||
9 | of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services , and not | ||||||
10 | until after the Department reimburses a long-term care provider | ||||||
11 | for services rendered for the month of the required assessment . | ||||||
12 | (Source: P.A. 96-1530, eff. 2-16-11; 97-10, eff. 6-14-11; | ||||||
13 | 97-584, eff. 8-26-11.)
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14 | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | ||||||
15 | becoming law.
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