Bill Text: IL SB0032 | 2013-2014 | 98th General Assembly | Chaptered
Bill Title: Amends the Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Administrative Act by deleting language requiring the Department of Human Services to form a medical advisory panel of physicians to provide advice on care rendered to patients in any integrated delivery system for State-funded and State-operated services to the mentally ill. Effective immediately.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2013-07-15 - Public Act . . . . . . . . . 98-0071 [SB0032 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2013-SB0032-Chaptered.html
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Public Act 098-0071 | ||||
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AN ACT concerning State government.
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Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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represented in the General Assembly:
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Section 5. The Mental Health and Developmental | ||||
Disabilities Administrative Act is amended by changing Section | ||||
18.3 as follows:
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(20 ILCS 1705/18.3)
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Sec. 18.3. Integrated system for services for the mentally | ||||
ill. The
Department shall develop an effective, integrated | ||||
system for delivering
State-funded and State-operated services | ||||
to persons with mental illness. No
later than June 30, 1994, | ||||
the Department shall enter into one or more
cooperative | ||||
arrangements with the Department of Public Aid, the Department | ||||
of
Rehabilitation Services, the Department of Public Health, | ||||
and any other
appropriate entities for administration or | ||||
supervision by the Department of
Mental Health and | ||||
Developmental Disabilities of all State programs for services
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to persons in community care facilities for persons with mental | ||||
illness,
including but not limited to intermediate care | ||||
facilities, that are supported
by State funds or by funding | ||||
under Title XIX of the federal Social Security
Act. The | ||||
Department shall form a medical advisory panel, appointed by | ||||
the
Secretary, comprised of 5 physicians licensed to practice
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medicine in all its
branches with a special emphasis in | ||
treating mental illness, to provide advice
on care rendered to | ||
patients in any integrated delivery system.
The Department of | ||
Human Services shall succeed to the responsibilities of the
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Department of Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities and | ||
the Department
of Rehabilitation Services under any such | ||
cooperative arrangement in existence
on July 1, 1997.
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(Source: P.A. 88-388; 89-507, eff. 7-1-97.)
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Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | ||
becoming law.
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