Bill Text: IL SB2420 | 2019-2020 | 101st General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Assisted Living and Shared Housing Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning legislative purpose.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2021-01-13 - Session Sine Die [SB2420 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2019-SB2420-Introduced.html

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101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2019 and 2020 SB2420 Introduced 1/15/2020, by Sen. John J. Cullerton SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
210 ILCS 9/5
Amends the Assisted Living and Shared Housing Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning legislative purpose.
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A BILL FOR
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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 Assisted Living and Shared Housing Act is
amended by changing Section 5 as follows:
(210 ILCS 9/5)
Sec. 5. Legislative purpose. The The purpose of this Act is
to permit the development and availability of assisted living
establishments and shared housing establishments based on a
social model that promotes the dignity, individuality,
privacy, independence, autonomy, and decision-making ability
and the right to negotiated risk of those persons; to provide
for the health, safety, and welfare of those residents residing
in assisted living and shared housing establishments in this
State; to promote continuous quality improvement in assisted
living; and to encourage the development of innovative and
affordable assisted living establishments and shared housing
with service establishments for elderly persons of all income
levels. It is the public policy of this State that assisted
living is an important part of the continuum of long term care.
In support of the goal of aging in place within the parameters
established by this Act, assisted living and shared housing
establishments shall be operated as residential environments

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with supportive services designed to meet the individual
resident's changing needs and preferences. The residential
environment shall be designed to encourage family and community
involvement. The services available to residents, either
directly or through contracts or agreements, are intended to
help residents remain as independent as possible. Assisted
living, which promotes resident choice, autonomy, and decision
making, should be based on a contract model designed to result
in a negotiated agreement between the resident or the
resident's representative and the provider, clearly
identifying the services to be provided. This model assumes
that residents are able to direct services provided for them
and will designate a representative to direct these services if
they themselves are unable to do so. This model supports the
principle that there is an acceptable balance between consumer
protection and resident willingness to accept risk and that
most consumers are competent to make their own judgments about
the services they are obtaining. Regulation of assisted living
establishments and shared housing establishments must be
sufficiently flexible to allow residents to age in place within
the parameters of this Act. The administration of this Act and
services provided must therefore ensure that the residents have
the rights and responsibilities to direct the scope of services
they receive and to make individual choices based on their
needs and preferences. These establishments shall be operated
in a manner that provides the least restrictive and most

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homelike environment and that promotes independence, autonomy,
individuality, privacy, dignity, and the right to negotiated
risk in residential surroundings. It is not the intent of the
State that establishments licensed under this Act be used as
halfway houses for alcohol and substance abusers.
(Source: P.A. 91-656, eff. 1-1-01.)