Bill Text: IL SB1750 | 2017-2018 | 100th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Community-Integrated Living Arrangements Licensure and Certification Act. Provides that the Office of Inspector General of the Department of Human Services shall continue to have jurisdiction over a community mental health or developmental services agency and the individuals it served at the time the agency's license was revoked for as long as is necessary to ensure the health, safety, and welfare of the individuals the agency served and the accountability of the agency.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 3-1)

Status: (Failed) 2019-01-09 - Session Sine Die [SB1750 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2017-SB1750-Introduced.html

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100TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2017 and 2018 SB1750 Introduced 2/9/2017, by Sen. Dale A. Righter SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
210 ILCS 135/6 from Ch. 91 1/2, par. 1706
Amends the Community-Integrated Living Arrangements Licensure and Certification Act. Provides that the Office of Inspector General of the Department of Human Services shall continue to have jurisdiction over a community mental health or developmental services agency and the individuals it served at the time the agency's license was revoked for as long as is necessary to ensure the health, safety, and welfare of the individuals the agency served and the accountability of the agency.
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AN ACT concerning regulation.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Community-Integrated Living Arrangements
Licensure and Certification Act is amended by changing Section
6 as follows:
(210 ILCS 135/6) (from Ch. 91 1/2, par. 1706)
Sec. 6. (a) The Department shall deny an application for a
license, or revoke or refuse to renew the license of a
community mental health or developmental services agency, or
refuse to issue a license to the holder of a temporary permit,
if the Department determines that the applicant, agency or
permit holder has not complied with a provision of this Act,
the Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Code, or
applicable Department rules and regulations. Specific grounds
for denial or revocation of a license, or refusal to renew a
license or to issue a license to the holder of a temporary
permit, shall include but not be limited to:
(1) Submission of false information either on
Department licensure forms or during an inspection;
(2) Refusal to allow an inspection to occur;
(3) Violation of this Act or rules and regulations
promulgated under this Act;

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(4) Violation of the rights of a recipient;
(5) Failure to submit or implement a plan of correction
within the specified time period; or
(6) Failure to submit a workplace violence prevention
plan in compliance with the Health Care Workplace Violence
Prevention Act.
(b) If the Department determines that the operation of a
community mental health or developmental services agency or one
or more of the programs or placements certified by the agency
under this Act jeopardizes the health, safety or welfare of the
recipients served by the agency, the Department may immediately
revoke the agency's license and may direct the agency to
withdraw recipients from any such program or placement.
(c) The Office of Inspector General of the Department of
Human Services shall continue to have jurisdiction over the
agency and the individuals it served at the time the agency's
license was revoked for as long as is necessary to ensure the
health, safety, and welfare of the individuals the agency
served and the accountability of the agency.
(Source: P.A. 94-347, eff. 7-28-05.)