Bill Text: IL SB1292 | 2013-2014 | 98th General Assembly | Amended
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Bill Title: Amends the Nursing Home Care Act. Provides that all federal moneys received as a result of expenditures from the Long Term Care Monitor/Receiver Fund and all interest earned on moneys in the Fund shall be deposited into the Fund (rather than all federal moneys received as a result of expenditures from the Fund shall be deposited into the Fund). Provides that, with regard to the Long Term Care Monitor/Receiver Fund, deposits, balances, and expenditures shall be separately maintained for all federal fees, fines, and penalties and all State fees, fines, and penalties paid into the Fund. Provides that this shall include all interest earned and all federal dollars received as a result of expenditures from the Fund. Provides that with the exception of expenditures for monitors and receivers appointed by the courts or by the Department of Public Health under the authority granted in the Act, all authority for transfers or expenditures from the Fund is hereby suspended beginning fiscal year 2014; beginning in fiscal year 2014, expenditures in excess of those for monitors and receivers shall be made after consultation with the Long-Term Care Facility Advisory Board and based on the estimated amount of fines and penalties collected; and any funds transferred or expended in violation of this provision shall be immediately restored. Sets forth provisions concerning the Director of Public Health's plan for the reduction of violations and fines and list of recommended expenditures in excess of the amount needed for monitors and receivers. Provides that the Fund is not subject to sweeps, administrative chargebacks, or any other fiscal or budgetary maneuver that would in any way transfer any amount from the Fund into any other fund of the State. Amends various Acts to make conforming changes. Effective immediately.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-2)
Status: (Passed) 2013-07-15 - Public Act . . . . . . . . . 98-0085 [SB1292 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2013-SB1292-Amended.html
Bill Title: Amends the Nursing Home Care Act. Provides that all federal moneys received as a result of expenditures from the Long Term Care Monitor/Receiver Fund and all interest earned on moneys in the Fund shall be deposited into the Fund (rather than all federal moneys received as a result of expenditures from the Fund shall be deposited into the Fund). Provides that, with regard to the Long Term Care Monitor/Receiver Fund, deposits, balances, and expenditures shall be separately maintained for all federal fees, fines, and penalties and all State fees, fines, and penalties paid into the Fund. Provides that this shall include all interest earned and all federal dollars received as a result of expenditures from the Fund. Provides that with the exception of expenditures for monitors and receivers appointed by the courts or by the Department of Public Health under the authority granted in the Act, all authority for transfers or expenditures from the Fund is hereby suspended beginning fiscal year 2014; beginning in fiscal year 2014, expenditures in excess of those for monitors and receivers shall be made after consultation with the Long-Term Care Facility Advisory Board and based on the estimated amount of fines and penalties collected; and any funds transferred or expended in violation of this provision shall be immediately restored. Sets forth provisions concerning the Director of Public Health's plan for the reduction of violations and fines and list of recommended expenditures in excess of the amount needed for monitors and receivers. Provides that the Fund is not subject to sweeps, administrative chargebacks, or any other fiscal or budgetary maneuver that would in any way transfer any amount from the Fund into any other fund of the State. Amends various Acts to make conforming changes. Effective immediately.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-2)
Status: (Passed) 2013-07-15 - Public Act . . . . . . . . . 98-0085 [SB1292 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2013-SB1292-Amended.html
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| 1 | AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 1292
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| 2 | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 1292 by replacing | ||||||
| 3 | everything after the enacting clause with the following:
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| 4 | "Section 5. The Nursing Home Care Act is amended by adding | ||||||
| 5 | Section 3-518 as follows:
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| 6 | (210 ILCS 45/3-518 new) | ||||||
| 7 | Sec. 3-518. Fines. Beginning January 15, 2014, and each | ||||||
| 8 | January 15 thereafter, the Department shall submit to the | ||||||
| 9 | General Assembly and to the Department's Long-Term Care | ||||||
| 10 | Facility Advisory Board an accounting of all federal and State | ||||||
| 11 | fines received by the Department in the preceding fiscal year | ||||||
| 12 | by the fund in which they have been deposited. For each fund, | ||||||
| 13 | the report shall show the source of all moneys that are | ||||||
| 14 | deposited into each fund and the purpose and amount of all | ||||||
| 15 | expenditures from each fund.
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| 1 | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | ||||||
| 2 | becoming law.".
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