Bill Text: IL HB5551 | 2017-2018 | 100th General Assembly | Engrossed
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Bill Title: Amends the Community-Integrated Living Arrangements Licensure and Certification Act. Provides that for community-integrated living arrangements licensed under the Act, the Office of the State Fire Marshal shall provide the necessary fire inspection to comply with licensing requirements. Provides that the Office of the State Fire Marshal may enter into an agreement with another State agency to conduct this inspection if qualified personnel are employed by that agency. Removes language providing that code enforcement inspection of the facility by the local authority may occur if the local authority having jurisdiction enforces code requirements that are equal to those enforced by the State Fire Marshal. Provides that nothing in provisions concerning fire inspections shall limit a local authority with jurisdiction from conducting local code inspection and enforcement or (rather than shall prohibit a local fire authority) from conducting fire incident planning activities. Effective immediately.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)
Status: (Passed) 2018-06-22 - Public Act . . . . . . . . . 100-0593 [HB5551 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2017-HB5551-Engrossed.html
Bill Title: Amends the Community-Integrated Living Arrangements Licensure and Certification Act. Provides that for community-integrated living arrangements licensed under the Act, the Office of the State Fire Marshal shall provide the necessary fire inspection to comply with licensing requirements. Provides that the Office of the State Fire Marshal may enter into an agreement with another State agency to conduct this inspection if qualified personnel are employed by that agency. Removes language providing that code enforcement inspection of the facility by the local authority may occur if the local authority having jurisdiction enforces code requirements that are equal to those enforced by the State Fire Marshal. Provides that nothing in provisions concerning fire inspections shall limit a local authority with jurisdiction from conducting local code inspection and enforcement or (rather than shall prohibit a local fire authority) from conducting fire incident planning activities. Effective immediately.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)
Status: (Passed) 2018-06-22 - Public Act . . . . . . . . . 100-0593 [HB5551 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2017-HB5551-Engrossed.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 Community-Integrated Living Arrangements | ||||||
| 5 | Licensure and
Certification Act is amended by changing Section | ||||||
| 6 | 13 as follows:
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| 7 | (210 ILCS 135/13) | ||||||
| 8 | Sec. 13. Fire inspections; authority. | ||||||
| 9 | (a) Per the requirements of Public Act 96-1141, on January | ||||||
| 10 | 1, 2011 a report titled "Streamlined Auditing and Monitoring | ||||||
| 11 | for Community Based Services: First Steps Toward a More | ||||||
| 12 | Efficient System for Providers, State Government, and the | ||||||
| 13 | Community" was provided for members of the General Assembly. | ||||||
| 14 | The report, which was developed by a steering committee of | ||||||
| 15 | community providers, trade associations, and designated | ||||||
| 16 | representatives from the Departments of Children and Family | ||||||
| 17 | Services, Healthcare and Family Services, Human Services, and | ||||||
| 18 | Public Health, issued a series of recommendations, including | ||||||
| 19 | recommended changes to Administrative Rules and Illinois | ||||||
| 20 | statutes, on the categories of deemed status for accreditation, | ||||||
| 21 | fiscal audits, centralized repository of information, | ||||||
| 22 | Medicaid, technology, contracting, and streamlined monitoring | ||||||
| 23 | procedures. It is the intent of the 97th General Assembly to | ||||||
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| 1 | pursue implementation of those recommendations that have been | ||||||
| 2 | determined to require Acts of the General Assembly. | ||||||
| 3 | (b) For community-integrated living arrangements licensed | ||||||
| 4 | under this Act, the Office of the State Fire Marshal shall | ||||||
| 5 | provide the necessary fire inspection to comply with licensing | ||||||
| 6 | requirements. The Office of the State Fire Marshal may enter | ||||||
| 7 | into an agreement with another State agency to conduct this | ||||||
| 8 | inspection if qualified personnel are employed by that agency | ||||||
| 9 | code enforcement inspection of the facility by the local | ||||||
| 10 | authority may occur if the local authority having jurisdiction | ||||||
| 11 | enforces code requirements that are equal to those enforced by | ||||||
| 12 | the State Fire Marshal. Nothing in this Section shall limit a | ||||||
| 13 | local authority with jurisdiction from conducting local code | ||||||
| 14 | inspection and enforcement or prohibit a local fire authority | ||||||
| 15 | from conducting fire incident planning activities.
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| 16 | (Source: P.A. 100-313, eff. 8-24-17.)
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| 17 | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | ||||||
| 18 | becoming law.
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