104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2025 and 2026
HB3088

 

Introduced 2/6/2025, by Rep. Anna Moeller

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
20 ILCS 505/5.36 new

    Amends the Children and Family Services Act. Requires the Department of Children and Family Services and the Department of Human Services to adopt rules that permit a licensed child care institution or group home that provides residential developmental disability services to youth under the age of 22 to request an age waiver to allow such youth to continue to receive residential developmental disability services at the facility beyond their 22nd birthday. Requires the rules to include waiver application requirements, waiver renewals, and criteria a youth must meet to qualify for extended residential developmental disability services. Provides that a licensed child care institution or group home that receives Department approval of its waiver application shall not be issued any notice of violation or citation for providing extended residential developmental disability services to a youth within the terms of the approved waiver application. Requires the Department of Children and Family Services and the Department of Human Services' Division of Developmental Disabilities to ensure that the rates determined for extended residential developmental disability services authorized under an approved age waiver are on parity with the rates determined for residential developmental disability services provided to youth under the age of 22. Provides that nothing in the amendatory Act shall be construed to reduce the level or type of services and supports provided to a youth beyond their 22nd birthday under an approved age waiver application.


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A BILL FOR

 

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1    AN ACT concerning State government.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The Children and Family Services Act is amended
5by adding Section 5.36 as follows:
 
6    (20 ILCS 505/5.36 new)
7    Sec. 5.36. Extended residential developmental disability
8services. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the
9contrary, the Department of Children and Family Services and
10the Department of Human Services shall adopt rules that permit
11a licensed child care institution or group home that provides
12residential developmental disability services to youth under
13the age of 22 to request an age waiver to allow such youth to
14continue to receive residential developmental disability
15services and supports at the facility beyond their 22nd
16birthday. The rules shall include waiver application
17requirements, waiver renewals, and criteria a youth must meet
18to qualify for extended residential developmental disability
19services. A licensed child care institution or group home that
20receives Department approval of its waiver application shall
21not be issued any notice of violation or citation for
22providing extended residential developmental disability
23services to a youth within the terms of the approved waiver

 

 

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1application. The Department of Children and Family Services
2and the Department of Human Services' Division of
3Developmental Disabilities shall ensure that the rates
4determined for extended residential developmental disability
5services authorized under an approved age waiver are on parity
6with the rates determined for residential developmental
7disability services provided to youth under the age of 22.
8Nothing in this Section shall be construed to reduce the level
9or type of services and supports provided to a youth beyond
10their 22nd birthday under an approved age waiver application.