Bill Text: IL SB1538 | 2011-2012 | 97th General Assembly | Engrossed

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Bill Title: Amends the Department of Human Services Act. Requires the Governor to create a Management Improvement Initiative Committee that shall include the Management Improvement Initiative Departmental Leadership Team to implement the recommendations made in the report submitted to the General Assembly on January 1, 2011 as required under Public Act 96-1141. Provides that the Team shall be comprised of a representative from the Department on Aging and the Departments of Children and Family Services, Healthcare and Family Services, Human Services, and Public Health, and that the Team members shall integrate the Committee's objectives into their respective departmental operations and shall submit a progress report to the General Assembly by May 1, 2011 on the progress made in implementing the recommendations made in the report submitted to the General Assembly on January 1, 2011 as required under Public Act 96-1141. Provides that additional duties of the Committee shall include reviewing contracts held with community health and human service providers on the regulations and work processes required by the departments and their divisions; and describing how improved regulations, reporting, monitoring, compliance, auditing, certification, licensing, and work processes are measured at the community vendor, contractor, and departmental levels, and how they have reduced redundant regulations, reporting, monitoring, compliance, auditing, certification, licensing, and work processes. Contains provisions concerning the composition of the Committee. Effective immediately.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-1)

Status: (Passed) 2012-01-13 - Public Act . . . . . . . . . 97-0668 [SB1538 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2011-SB1538-Engrossed.html

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AN ACT concerning State government.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Department of Human Services Act is amended
by adding Section 1-37a as follows:
(20 ILCS 1305/1-37a new)
Sec. 1-37a. Management Improvement Initiative Committee.
(a) As used in this Section, unless the context indicates
otherwise:
"Departments" means the Department on Aging, the
Department of Children and Family Services, the Department of
Healthcare and Family Services, the Department of Human
Services, and the Department of Public Health.
"Management Improvement Initiative Committee" or
"Committee" means the Management Improvement Initiative
Committee created under this Section.
"Management Improvement Initiative Departmental Leadership
Team" or "Team" means the Management Improvement Initiative
Departmental Leadership Team created under this Section.
(b) The Governor shall create a Management Improvement
Initiative Committee that shall include the Management
Improvement Initiative Departmental Leadership Team to
implement the recommendations made in the report submitted to

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the General Assembly on January 1, 2011 as required under
Public Act 96-1141, and to continue the work of the group
formed under the auspices of Public Act 96-1141.
The Team shall be comprised of a representative from each
of the Departments.
The Team members shall integrate the Committee's
objectives into their respective departmental operations and
continue the work of the group formed under the auspices of
Public Act 96-1141 including:
(1) Implementing the recommendations of the report
submitted to the General Assembly on January 1, 2011 under
Public Act 96-1141.
(2) Submitting a progress report to the General
Assembly by May 1, 2011 on the progress made in
implementing the recommendations made in the report
submitted to the General Assembly on January 1, 2011 under
Public Act 96-1141.
(3) Reviewing contracts held with community health and
human service providers on the regulations and work
processes, including reporting, monitoring, compliance,
auditing, certification, and licensing processes, required
by the departments and their divisions.
(4) Eliminating obsolete, redundant, or unreasonable
regulations, reporting, monitoring, compliance, auditing,
certifications, licensing, and work processes.
(5) Implementing reciprocity across divisions and

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departments. Reciprocity shall be used to accept other
division or department regulations, reporting, monitoring,
compliance, auditing, certification, and licensing
processes.
(6) Implementing integrated work processes across
divisions and departments that will be used for efficient
and effective work processes including regulations,
reporting, monitoring, compliance, auditing, licensing,
and certification processes.
(7) Implementing the deemed status for accredited
community health and human service providers.
(8) Reviewing work products meant to address the
Committee's objectives as set forth in this Section. The
review shall be done in concert with similar reviews
conducted by the divisions under the Department of Human
Services and other department steering committees,
committees, and work groups as appropriate and necessary to
eliminate redundant work processes including reporting,
monitoring, compliance, auditing, licensing, and
certification processes.
(9) Describing how improved regulations, reporting,
monitoring, compliance, auditing, certification,
licensing, and work processes are measured at the community
vendor, contractor, and departmental levels, and how they
have reduced redundant regulations, reporting, monitoring,
compliance, auditing, certification, licensing, and work

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processes.
(c) The Team shall examine the entire body of regulations,
reporting, monitoring, compliance, auditing, certification,
licensing, and work processes that guide departmental
operations and contracts to eliminate obsolete, redundant, or
unreasonable regulations, reporting, monitoring, compliance,
auditing, licensing, and certifications.
(d) The Team shall identify immediate, near-term, and
long-term opportunities to improve accountable, non-redundant,
effective, and efficient accountability, regulations,
reporting, monitoring, compliance, auditing, certification,
and licensing processes that are necessary, appropriate, and
sufficient to determine the success and quality of contracts
with community health and human service vendors and providers.
(e) The Team shall develop performance measures to assess
progress towards accomplishing the Committee's objectives and
shall develop procedures to provide feedback on the impact of
the State's operational improvements meant to achieve
management improvement initiative objectives.
(f) The Team shall report operational improvements and
document efforts that address the Committee's objectives.
These reports shall be submitted to the Governor and the
General Assembly semi-annually and shall:
(1) Include the results made to maintain efficient
accountability while eliminating obsolete, redundant, or
unreasonable regulations, reporting, monitoring,

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compliance, auditing, licensing, and certifications.
(2) Specify improved regulations, reporting,
monitoring, compliance, auditing, certification,
licensing, and work processes.
(3) Describe how improved regulations, reporting,
monitoring, compliance, auditing, certification,
licensing, and work processes are measured at the community
vendor, contractor, and departmental levels, and how they
have reduced redundant regulations, reporting, monitoring,
compliance, auditing, certification, licensing, and work
processes.
(4) Include the methods used to engage health and human
service providers in the management improvement initiative
to improve regulations, reporting, monitoring, compliance,
auditing, certification, licensing, and work processes.
(5) Describe how departmental practices have been
changed to improve non-redundant accountability,
efficiency, effectiveness, and quality.
(g) Beginning in State Fiscal Year 2012, regulations,
reporting, monitoring, compliance, auditing, certification,
licensing, and work processes, including each new departmental
initiative, shall be linked directly to non-redundant,
accountable, efficient, and effective outcome indicators which
can be used to evaluate the success of the new initiative.
(h) The Management Improvement Initiative Committee.
(1) The Committee shall be comprised of Team members

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from each of the Departments to manage the overall
implementation process and to ensure that any new
monitoring and compliance activities are developed as
recommended in the report submitted to the General Assembly
on January 1, 2011.
(2) Team members shall be able to access available
resources within their respective departments, to set
priorities, manage the overall implementation process, and
ensure that any new monitoring and compliance activities
are developed as recommended in the report submitted to the
General Assembly on January 1, 2011.
(3) The Departments shall each designate a member to
serve as a member of the Committee.
(4) The Committee shall also consist of the community
organizations, community providers, associations, and
private philanthropic organizations appointed under Public
Act 96-1141, and shall be charged with overseeing
implementation of the Committee's objectives and ensuring
that provider prospective is incorporated.
(5) The Committee shall be co-chaired by department and
community representatives, with leadership responsibility
resting with the Governor in order to increase the priority
and accountability for implementation of the Committee's
objectives and recommendations.
(6) The Team shall be responsible for establishing
within the Committee workgroups consisting of subject

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matter experts necessary to reach the Committee's
objectives, including the recommendations made in the
report submitted to the General Assembly on January 1, 2011
under Public Act 96-1141. Those subject matter experts,
including those with necessary technological expertise,
shall include outside experts, departmental, association,
and community providers.
(7) Recommendations of the Committee shall be reviewed
and its efforts integrated into existing as well as ongoing
initiatives as appropriate, including the implementation
of Public Act 96-1501, the Illinois Frameworks planning and
implementation efforts, and any other task force that may
make proposals that impact community provider work
processes and contract deliverables.
(8) The Department of Human Services shall be
designated as the lead support agency and provide
administrative staffing for the Committee. Other
Departments, as defined by this Section, shall provide
additional administrative staffing in conjunction with the
Department of Human Services to support the Committee.
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.