Bill Text: IL SB3124 | 2013-2014 | 98th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Medical Assistance Article of the Illinois Public Aid Code. Requires the Department of Healthcare and Family Services to promulgate rules to increase by $10 for State fiscal year 2015 the total monthly personal needs allowance for persons who are inpatients in a facility licensed under the ID/DD Community Care Act for which payments are made under the Medical Assistance Article throughout a month and who are determined to be eligible for medical assistance. Provides that for State fiscal years 2016 and beyond, in any calendar year in which there is a cost-of-living increase in federal Supplemental Security Income benefits or Social Security benefits, the Department shall promulgate rules to increase the total monthly personal needs allowance by an amount that is at least equal to the increase in federal Supplemental Security Income benefits or Social Security benefits. Provides that the Department shall not be prohibited from increasing, by rule, for State fiscal years 2016 and beyond, the personal needs allowance by an amount that is greater than the cost-of-living increase in federal Supplemental Security Income benefits or Social Security benefits for that calendar year; and that at no time shall the personal needs allowance for eligible persons be reduced below the rates calculated for State fiscal year 2015. Authorizes the Department to make similar increases, by rule, for persons who reside in a facility licensed under the Community-Integrated Living Arrangements Licensure and Certification Act, who are determined to be eligible for medical assistance, and who are enrolled in the Illinois Home and Community Based Services Medicaid Waiver program for adults with developmental disabilities. Effective immediately.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-1)

Status: (Failed) 2015-01-13 - Session Sine Die [SB3124 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2013-SB3124-Introduced.html

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98TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2013 and 2014 SB3124 Introduced 2/7/2014, by Sen. Julie A. Morrison SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
305 ILCS 5/5-33 new
305 ILCS 5/5-34 new
Amends the Medical Assistance Article of the Illinois Public Aid Code. Requires the Department of Healthcare and Family Services to promulgate rules to increase by $10 for State fiscal year 2015 the total monthly personal needs allowance for persons who are inpatients in a facility licensed under the ID/DD Community Care Act for which payments are made under the Medical Assistance Article throughout a month and who are determined to be eligible for medical assistance. Provides that for State fiscal years 2016 and beyond, in any calendar year in which there is a cost-of-living increase in federal Supplemental Security Income benefits or Social Security benefits, the Department shall promulgate rules to increase the total monthly personal needs allowance by an amount that is at least equal to the increase in federal Supplemental Security Income benefits or Social Security benefits. Provides that the Department shall not be prohibited from increasing, by rule, for State fiscal years 2016 and beyond, the personal needs allowance by an amount that is greater than the cost-of-living increase in federal Supplemental Security Income benefits or Social Security benefits for that calander year; and that at no time shall the personal needs allowance for eligible persons be reduced below the rates calculated for State fiscal year 2015. Authorizes the Department to make similar increases, by rule, for persons who reside in a facility licensed under the Community-Integrated Living Arrangements Licensure and Certification Act, who are determined to be eligible for medical assistance, and who are enrolled in the Illinois Home and Community Based Services Medicaid Waiver program for adults with developmental disabilities. Effective immediately.
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FISCAL NOTE ACT MAY APPLY
A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning public aid.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Illinois Public Aid Code is amended by
adding Sections 5-33 and 5-34 as follows:
(305 ILCS 5/5-33 new)
Sec. 5-33. Personal needs allowance; ID/DD facility.
(a) The Department shall promulgate rules to increase by
$10 for State fiscal year 2015 the total monthly personal needs
allowance for persons who are inpatients in a facility licensed
under the ID/DD Community Care Act for which payments are made
under this Article throughout a month and who are determined to
be eligible for medical assistance under this Article. For
State fiscal years 2016 and beyond, in any calendar year in
which there is a cost-of-living increase in federal
Supplemental Security Income benefits or Social Security
benefits, the Department shall promulgate rules to increase the
total monthly personal needs allowance by an amount that is at
least equal to the increase in federal Supplemental Security
Income benefits or Social Security benefits. Nothing in this
Section shall prohibit the Department from increasing, by rule,
for State fiscal years 2016 and beyond, the personal needs
allowance by an amount that is greater than the cost-of-living

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increase in federal Supplemental Security Income benefits or
Social Security benefits for that calander year.
(b) At no time shall the personal needs allowance for
persons residing in facilities referenced in this Section be
reduced below the rates calculated for State fiscal year 2015.
(305 ILCS 5/5-34 new)
Sec. 5-34. Personal needs allowance; CILA.
(a) The Department shall promulgate rules to increase by
$10 for State fiscal year 2015 the total monthly personal needs
allowance for persons who reside in a facility licensed under
the Community-Integrated Living Arrangements Licensure and
Certification Act, who are determined to be eligible for
medical assistance under this Article, and who are enrolled in
the Illinois Home and Community Based Services Medicaid Waiver
program for adults with developmental disabilities. For State
fiscal years 2016 and beyond, in any calendar year in which
there is a cost-of-living increase in federal Supplemental
Security Income benefits or Social Security benefits, the
Department shall promulgate rules to increase the total monthly
personal needs allowance by an amount that is at least equal to
the increase in federal Supplemental Security Income benefits
or Social Security benefits. Nothing in this Section shall
prohibit the Department from increasing, by rule, for State
fiscal years 2016 and beyond, the personal needs allowance by
an amount that is greater than the cost-of-living increase in

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federal Supplemental Security Income benefits or Social
Security benefits for that calander year.
(b) At no time shall the personal needs allowance for
persons residing in facilities referenced in this Section be
reduced below the rates calculated for State fiscal year 2015.
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.