Bill Text: IL SB3773 | 2009-2010 | 96th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Illinois Public Aid Code. In regards to medical assistance for institutionalized persons, requires the Department of Healthcare and Family Services to notify the applicant or recipient, or the spouse of the applicant or recipient, or a person for whom the applicant or recipient is the primary caretaker, of his or her obligation to make application for benefits within 7 days of the applicant or recipient entering an institution and that this requirement may be satisfied by providing the facility with the necessary documentation required to prove eligibility as part of seeking the institution's assistance in making application.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-06-27 - Pursuant to Senate Rule 3-9(b) / Referred to Assignments [SB3773 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2009-SB3773-Introduced.html

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96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2009 and 2010 SB3773 Introduced 2/11/2010, by Sen. James F. Clayborne, Jr. SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
305 ILCS 5/5-2.3
Amends the Illinois Public Aid Code. In regards to medical assistance for institutionalized persons, requires the Department of Healthcare and Family Services to notify the applicant or recipient, or the spouse of the applicant or recipient, or a person for whom the applicant or recipient is the primary caretaker, of his or her obligation to make application for benefits within 7 days of the applicant or recipient entering an institution and that this requirement may be satisfied by providing the facility with the necessary documentation required to prove eligibility as part of seeking the institution's assistance in making application.
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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
changing Section 5-2.3 as follows:
(305 ILCS 5/5-2.3)
Sec. 5-2.3. Notice of rights concerning
institutionalization. The Illinois Department shall prepare a
notice to be given to every applicant for and recipient of
medical assistance under this Article when the applicant or
recipient, or the spouse of the applicant or recipient, or a
person for whom the applicant or recipient is the primary
caretaker, becomes an institutionalized person. The notice
shall fully and completely inform the institutionalized person
(and that person's spouse or primary caretaker, if applicable)
of each individual's rights and obligations under this Code
with respect to that institutionalization. The notice shall
inform the applicant or recipient, or the spouse of the
applicant or recipient, or a person for whom the applicant or
recipient is the primary caretaker, of his or her obligation to
make application for benefits within 7 days of the applicant or
recipient entering an institution and that this requirement may
be satisfied by providing the facility with the necessary

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documentation required to prove eligibility as part of seeking
the institution's assistance in making application.
(Source: P.A. 88-162.)