Public Act 097-0558
 
HB1488 EnrolledLRB097 07770 KTG 47882 b


  
    AN ACT concerning State government.
  
 
    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
 
represented in the General Assembly:
  
 
 
    Section 5. The Department of Human Services Act is amended  
by adding Section 1-37a as follows:
 
    (20 ILCS 1305/1-37a new)
    Sec. 1-37a. Management Improvement Initiative Committee.
    (a) As used in this Section, unless the context indicates 
otherwise: 
    "Departments" means the Department on Aging, the 
Department of Children and Family Services, the Department of 
Healthcare and Family Services, the Department of Human 
Services, and the Department of Public Health. 
    "Management Improvement Initiative Committee" or 
"Committee" means the Management Improvement Initiative 
Committee created under this Section. 
    "Management Improvement Initiative Departmental Leadership 
Team" or "Team" means the Management Improvement Initiative 
Departmental Leadership Team created under this Section. 
    (b) The Governor, or his or her designee, shall create a 
Management Improvement Initiative Committee that shall include 
the Management Improvement Initiative Departmental Leadership 
Team to implement the recommendations made in the report 
submitted to the General Assembly on January 1, 2011 as 
required under Public Act 96-1141, and to continue the work of 
the group formed under the auspices of Public Act 96-1141.
    The Team shall be comprised of a representative from each 
of the Departments.
    The Team members shall integrate the Committee's 
objectives into their respective departmental operations and 
continue the work of the group formed under the auspices of 
Public Act 96-1141 including:
        (1) Implementing the recommendations of the report 
    submitted to the General Assembly on January 1, 2011 under 
    Public Act 96-1141.
        (2) Submitting a progress report to the General 
    Assembly by November 1, 2011 on the progress made in 
    implementing the recommendations made in the report 
    submitted to the General Assembly on January 1, 2011 under 
    Public Act 96-1141.
        (3) Reviewing contracts held with community health and 
    human service providers on the regulations and work 
    processes, including reporting, monitoring, compliance, 
    auditing, certification, and licensing processes, required 
    by the departments and their divisions.
        (4) Eliminating obsolete, redundant, or unreasonable 
    regulations, reporting, monitoring, compliance, auditing, 
    certifications, licensing,  and work processes.
        (5) Implementing reciprocity across divisions and 
    departments.  Reciprocity shall be used to accept other 
    division or department regulations, reporting, monitoring, 
    compliance, auditing, certification, and licensing 
    processes.
        (6) Implementing integrated work processes across 
    divisions and departments that will be used for efficient 
    and effective work processes including regulations, 
    reporting, monitoring, compliance, auditing, licensing, 
    and certification processes.
        (7) Implementing the deemed status for accredited 
    community health and human service providers.
        (8) Reviewing work products meant to address the 
    Committee's objectives as set forth in this Section. The 
    review shall be done in  concert with similar reviews 
    conducted by the divisions under the Department of Human 
    Services and other department steering committees, 
    committees, and work groups as appropriate and necessary to 
    eliminate redundant work processes including reporting, 
    monitoring, compliance, auditing, licensing, and 
    certification processes.
        (9) Describing how improved regulations, reporting, 
    monitoring, compliance, auditing, certification, 
    licensing, and work processes are measured at the community 
    vendor, contractor, and departmental levels, and how they 
    have reduced redundant regulations, reporting, monitoring, 
    compliance, auditing, certification, licensing, and work 
    processes.
    (c) The Team shall examine the entire body of regulations, 
reporting, monitoring, compliance, auditing, certification, 
licensing, and work processes that guide departmental 
operations and contracts to eliminate obsolete, redundant, or 
unreasonable regulations, reporting, monitoring, compliance, 
auditing, licensing, and certifications.
    (d) The Team shall identify immediate, near-term, and 
long-term opportunities to improve accountable, non-redundant, 
effective, and efficient accountability, regulations, 
reporting, monitoring, compliance, auditing, certification, 
and licensing processes that are necessary, appropriate, and 
sufficient to determine the success and quality of contracts 
with community health and human service vendors and providers.
    (e) The Team shall develop performance measures to assess 
progress towards accomplishing the Committee's objectives and 
shall develop procedures to provide feedback on the impact of 
the State's operational improvements meant to achieve 
management improvement initiative objectives.
    (f) The Team shall report operational improvements and 
document efforts that address the Committee's objectives.  
These reports shall be submitted to the Governor and the 
General Assembly semi-annually  and shall:
        (1) Include the results made to maintain efficient 
    accountability while eliminating obsolete, redundant, or 
    unreasonable regulations, reporting, monitoring, 
    compliance, auditing, licensing, and certifications.
        (2) Specify improved regulations, reporting, 
    monitoring, compliance, auditing, certification, 
    licensing,  and work processes.
        (3) Describe how improved regulations, reporting, 
    monitoring, compliance, auditing, certification, 
    licensing, and work processes are measured at the community 
    vendor, contractor, and departmental levels, and how they 
    have reduced redundant regulations, reporting, monitoring, 
    compliance, auditing, certification, licensing,  and work 
    processes.
        (4) Include the methods used to engage health and human 
    service providers in the management improvement initiative 
    to improve regulations, reporting, monitoring, compliance, 
    auditing, certification, licensing,  and work processes.
        (5) Describe how departmental practices have been 
    changed to improve non-redundant accountability, 
    efficiency, effectiveness, and quality.
    (g) Beginning in State Fiscal Year 2012, regulations, 
reporting, monitoring, compliance, auditing, certification, 
licensing,  and work processes, including each new departmental 
initiative, shall be linked directly to non-redundant, 
accountable, efficient, and effective outcome indicators which 
can be used to evaluate the success of the new initiative.
    (h) The Management Improvement Initiative Committee.
        (1) The Committee shall be comprised of Team members 
    from each of the Departments to manage the overall 
    implementation process and to ensure that any new 
    monitoring and compliance activities are developed as 
    recommended in the report submitted to the General Assembly 
    on January 1, 2011.
        (2) Team members shall be able to access available 
    resources within their respective departments, to set 
    priorities, manage the overall implementation process, and 
    ensure that any new monitoring and compliance activities 
    are developed as recommended in the report submitted to the 
    General Assembly on January 1, 2011.
        (3) The Departments shall each designate a member to 
    serve as a member of the Committee.
        (4) The Committee shall also consist of the community 
    organizations, community providers, associations, and 
    private philanthropic organizations appointed under Public 
    Act 96-1141, and shall be charged with overseeing 
    implementation of the Committee's objectives and ensuring 
    that provider prospective is incorporated.
        (5) The Committee shall be co-chaired by department and 
    community representatives, with leadership responsibility 
    resting with the Governor in order to increase the priority 
    and accountability for implementation of the Committee's 
    objectives and recommendations.
        (6) The Team shall be responsible for establishing 
    within the Committee workgroups consisting of subject 
    matter experts necessary to reach the Committee's 
    objectives, including the recommendations made in  the 
    report submitted to the General Assembly on January 1, 2011 
    under Public Act 96-1141. Those subject matter experts, 
    including those with necessary technological expertise, 
    shall include outside experts, departmental, association, 
    and community providers.
        (7) Recommendations of the Committee shall be reviewed 
    and its efforts integrated into existing as well as ongoing 
    initiatives as appropriate, including the implementation 
    of Public Act 96-1501, the Illinois Frameworks planning and 
    implementation efforts, and any other task force that may 
    make proposals that impact community provider work 
    processes and contract deliverables.
        (8) The Department of Human Services shall be 
    designated as the lead support agency and provide 
    administrative staffing for the Committee. Other 
    Departments, as defined by this Section, shall provide 
    additional administrative staffing in conjunction with the 
    Department of Human Services to support the Committee. 
    (i) This Section is repealed on December 31, 2014. 
 
 
    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon 
becoming law.