Bill Text: IL SB3401 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Medical Assistance Article of the Illinois Public Aid Code. Provides that subject to federal approval, beginning January 1, 2025, and each year thereafter, the monthly personal needs allowance for a nursing facility resident who is determined to be eligible for medical assistance shall increase by an amount equal to the percentage increase, if any, in the consumer price index-u during the preceding 12-month calendar year. Provides that subject to federal approval, beginning January 1, 2025, for a supportive living facility resident who is determined eligible for medical assistance, in addition to the minimum monthly personal needs allowance authorized under the Social Security Act, the State shall pay an amount that is equal to the percentage increase, if any, in the consumer price index-u during the preceding 12-month calendar year. Provides that the monthly amount paid by the State shall be adjusted each year to reflect an increase, if any, in the consumer price index-u.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-05-17 - Rule 3-9(a) / Re-referred to Assignments [SB3401 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2023-SB3401-Introduced.html

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103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2023 and 2024 SB3401 Introduced 2/8/2024, by Sen. Chapin Rose SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
305 ILCS 5/5-35.5
305 ILCS 5/5-35.6 new
Amends the Medical Assistance Article of the Illinois Public Aid Code. Provides that subject to federal approval, beginning January 1, 2025, and each year thereafter, the monthly personal needs allowance for a nursing facility resident who is determined to be eligible for medical assistance shall increase by an amount equal to the percentage increase, if any, in the consumer price index-u during the preceding 12-month calendar year. Provides that subject to federal approval, beginning January 1, 2025, for a supportive living facility resident who is determined eligible for medical assistance, in addition to the minimum monthly personal needs allowance authorized under the Social Security Act, the State shall pay an amount that is equal to the percentage increase, if any, in the consumer price index-u during the preceding 12-month calendar year. Provides that the monthly amount paid by the State shall be adjusted each year to reflect an increase, if any, in the consumer price index-u.
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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
changing Sections 5-35.5 and 5-35.6 as follows:
(305 ILCS 5/5-35.5)
Sec. 5-35.5. Personal needs allowance; nursing home
residents. Subject to federal approval, on and after January
1, 2024, for a person who is a resident in a facility licensed
under the Nursing Home Care Act for whom payments are made
under this Article throughout a month and who is determined to
be eligible for medical assistance under this Article, the
monthly personal needs allowance shall be $60. Subject to
federal approval, beginning January 1, 2025, and each year
thereafter, an eligible resident's personal needs allowance
shall increase by an amount equal to the percentage increase,
if any, in the consumer price index-u during the preceding
12-month calendar year. As used in this paragraph, "consumer
price index-u" means the index published by the Bureau of
Labor Statistics of the United States Department of Labor that
measures the average change in prices of goods and services
purchased by all urban consumers, United States city average,
all items, 1982-84 = 100.

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(Source: P.A. 103-102, eff. 1-1-24.)