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91_SB0001
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1 AN ACT to amend the Senior Citizens and Disabled Persons
2 Property Tax Relief and Pharmaceutical Assistance Act by
3 changing Section 9.
4 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
5 represented in the General Assembly:
6 Section 5. The Senior Citizens and Disabled Persons
7 Property Tax Relief and Pharmaceutical Assistance Act is
8 amended by changing Section 9 as follows:
9 (320 ILCS 25/9) (from Ch. 67 1/2, par. 409)
10 Sec. 9. Any person who files a fraudulent claim for a
11 grant under this Act, or who for compensation prepares a
12 claim for a grant and knowingly enters false information on a
13 claim form for any claimant under this Act, or who
14 fraudulently files multiple claim forms, or who fraudulently
15 states that a nondisabled person is disabled, or who
16 fraudulently procures a pharmaceutical assistance
17 identification card, or who fraudulently uses the such card
18 to procure covered prescription drugs, or who, on behalf of
19 an authorized pharmacy, files a fraudulent claim for payment,
20 is guilty of a Class 4 felony for the first offense and is
21 guilty of a Class 3 felony for each subsequent offense. The
22 Department shall immediately suspend the use of the
23 pharmaceutical assistance identification card of any person
24 suspected of fraudulent procurement or fraudulent use of the
25 such card, and shall revoke the such card upon a conviction.
26 A person convicted of such fraud shall be permanently barred
27 from the program of pharmaceutical assistance established
28 under this Act. The Department may recover from a claimant,
29 including an authorized pharmacy, any amount paid under this
30 Act on account of an erroneous or fraudulent claim, together
31 with 6% interest per year. A prosecution for a violation of
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1 this Section may be commenced at any time within 3 years of
2 the commission of that violation.
3 (Source: P.A. 85-299.)