Public Act 094-0267
 		





HB2892 Enrolled
LRB094 08624 DRJ 38832 b






    AN ACT concerning public aid.

 
 
    WHEREAS, The General Assembly has long viewed one-stop 
service in the human services as a vital goal in order to serve 
clients in the most effective and most cost-efficient fashion; 
and
 
    WHEREAS, The vision of one-stop service was a fundamental 
reason for creating the Department of Human Services; and
 
    WHEREAS, One-stop service became possible in 1999 when a 
new data warehouse became operational at the Department of 
Public Aid; and
 
    WHEREAS, The data warehouse has enabled the Department of 
Public Aid for the first time to optimally manage the $10 
billion Medicaid budget program, enabled the Inspector General 
to identify hundreds of millions of dollars in fraudulent 
claims, and given members of the General Assembly and the 
Department ready access to information for policy 
decision-making not possible without the data warehouse; and
 
    WHEREAS, Computer World Smithsonian designated the 
Illinois data warehouse as the best Medicaid Management System 
in the United States of America; and
 
    WHEREAS, Illinois expanded its data warehouse in 2003 to 
accomplish additional cost and functional efficiencies; and
 
    WHEREAS, The data warehouse is an indispensable 
administrative tool necessary to comply with increasingly 
complex Medicaid regulations, specifically new Medicaid 
prescription drug benefit rules, and necessary to position 
Illinois to continue benefiting from increasingly more 
difficult-to-attain federal funding opportunities available 
only to states that enjoy access to prompt, accurate 
information from a data warehouse; therefore,
 
    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 12-4.201 and adding Section 12-4.202  as 
follows:
 



    (305 ILCS 5/12-4.201)



    Sec. 12-4.201. 
    (a) Data warehouse concerning medical and related

services.  The Illinois Department of Public Aid may purchase 
services and
materials associated with the costs of developing 
and implementing a data
warehouse comprised of management and 
decision making information in
regard to the liability 
associated with, and utilization of, medical and
related 
services, out of moneys available for that purpose.
    (b) The Department of Public Aid shall perform all 
necessary administrative functions to expand its 
linearly-scalable data warehouse to encompass other healthcare 
data sources at both the Department of Human Services and the 
Department of Public Health. The Department of Public Aid shall 
leverage the inherent capabilities of the data warehouse to 
accomplish this expansion with marginal additional technical 
administration. The purpose of
this expansion is to allow for 
programmatic review and analysis including the 
interrelatedness among the various healthcare programs in 
order to ascertain effectiveness toward, and ultimate impact 
on, clients. Beginning
July 1, 2005, the Department of Public 
Aid shall supply quarterly reports to the Commission on 
Government Forecasting and Accountability detailing progress 
toward this mandate.


(Source: P.A. 90-9, eff. 7-1-97.)

 
    (305 ILCS 5/12-4.202  new)
    Sec. 12-4.202. Data Warehouse Inter-Agency Coordination of 
Client Care Task Force.
    (a) The Data Warehouse Inter-Agency Coordination of Client 
Care Task Force is created. The task force shall consist of the 
following:
        (1) Eight voting members, appointed 2 each by the 
    President of the Senate, the Minority Leader of the Senate, 
    the Speaker of the House of Representatives, and the 
    Minority Leader of the House of Representatives.
        (2) Five ex officio, nonvoting members as follows: the 
    Director of the Governor's Office of Management and Budget, 
    or his or her designee; the Director of Public Aid, or his 
    or her designee; the Director of Public Health, or his or 
    her designee; the Secretary of Human Services, or his or 
    her designee; and the Director of Children and Family 
    Services, or his or her designee.
    The voting members of the task force shall elect from their 
number 2 co-chairs of the task force.
    Members of the task force shall serve without compensation 
and are not entitled to reimbursement for their expenses 
incurred in performing their duties.
    Five affirmative votes are required for the task force to 
take action.
    (b) The task force shall gather information and make 
recommendations relating to the following:
        (1) The most effective flow of information between 
    agencies that serve the same clients through one-stop 
    shopping across State government.
        (2) The creation of an overarching system to respond to 
    requests by the General Assembly, the Office of the 
    Governor, and the general public.
        (3) The most effective use of State moneys in 
    leveraging the current system to accommodate the 
    ever-growing information base in State government.
    (c) The task force shall submit a report to the Governor 
and the General Assembly no later than December 31, 2005.
    (d) This Section is repealed on January 1, 2006.
 
    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon 
becoming law.