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1 AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 1
2 AMENDMENT NO. . Amend Senate Bill 1 by replacing the
3 title with the following:
4 "AN ACT to amend the Senior Citizens and Disabled Persons
5 Property Tax Relief and Pharmaceutical Assistance Act by
6 changing Sections 3.15 and 4."; and
7 by replacing everything after the enacting clause with the
8 following:
9 "Section 5. The Senior Citizens and Disabled Persons
10 Property Tax Relief and Pharmaceutical Assistance Act is
11 amended by changing Section 3.15 and 4 as follows:
12 (320 ILCS 25/3.15) (from Ch. 67 1/2, par. 403.15)
13 Sec. 3.15. "Covered prescription drug" means (1) any
14 cardiovascular agent or drug; (2) any insulin or other
15 prescription drug used in the treatment of diabetes,
16 including syringe and needles used to administer the insulin;
17 and (3) any prescription drug used in the treatment of
18 arthritis. The Department shall annually publish a formulary
19 listing the most commonly prescribed products that are
20 covered by the program The specific agents or products to be
21 included under such categories shall be listed in a handbook
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1 to be prepared and distributed by the Department. The
2 general types of covered prescription drugs shall be
3 indicated by rule.
4 (Source: P.A. 85-1176.)
5 (320 ILCS 25/4) (from Ch. 67 1/2, par. 404)
6 Sec. 4. Amount of Grant.
7 (a) In general. Any individual 65 years or older or any
8 individual who will become 65 years old during the calendar
9 year in which a claim is filed, and any surviving spouse of
10 such a claimant, who at the time of death received or was
11 entitled to receive a grant pursuant to this Section, which
12 surviving spouse will become 65 years of age within the 24
13 months immediately following the death of such claimant and
14 which surviving spouse but for his or her age is otherwise
15 qualified to receive a grant pursuant to this Section, and
16 any disabled person whose annual household income is less
17 than $14,000 for grant years before the 1998 grant year and
18 less than $16,000 for the 1998 grant year and thereafter and
19 whose household is liable for payment of property taxes
20 accrued or has paid rent constituting property taxes accrued
21 and is domiciled in this State at the time he files his claim
22 is entitled to claim a grant under this Act. With respect to
23 claims filed by individuals who will become 65 years old
24 during the calendar year in which a claim is filed, the
25 amount of any grant to which that household is entitled shall
26 be an amount equal to 1/12 of the amount to which the
27 claimant would otherwise be entitled as provided in this
28 Section, multiplied by the number of months in which the
29 claimant was 65 in the calendar year in which the claim is
30 filed.
31 (b) Limitation. Except as otherwise provided in
32 subsections (a) and (f) of this Section, the maximum amount
33 of grant which a claimant is entitled to claim is the amount
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1 by which the property taxes accrued which were paid or
2 payable during the last preceding tax year or rent
3 constituting property taxes accrued upon the claimant's
4 residence for the last preceding taxable year exceeds 3 1/2%
5 of the claimant's household income for that year but in no
6 event is the grant to exceed (i) $700 less 4.5% of household
7 income for that year for those with a household income of
8 $14,000 or less or (ii) $70 if household income for that year
9 is more than $14,000 but less than $16,000.
10 (c) Public aid recipients. If household income in one
11 or more months during a year includes cash assistance in
12 excess of $55 per month from the Department of Public Aid or
13 the Department of Human Services (acting as successor to the
14 Department of Public Aid under the Department of Human
15 Services Act) which was determined under regulations of that
16 Department on a measure of need that included an allowance
17 for actual rent or property taxes paid by the recipient of
18 that assistance, the amount of grant to which that household
19 is entitled, except as otherwise provided in subsection (a),
20 shall be the product of (1) the maximum amount computed as
21 specified in subsection (b) of this Section and (2) the ratio
22 of the number of months in which household income did not
23 include such cash assistance over $55 to the number twelve.
24 If household income did not include such cash assistance over
25 $55 for any months during the year, the amount of the grant
26 to which the household is entitled shall be the maximum
27 amount computed as specified in subsection (b) of this
28 Section. For purposes of this paragraph (c), "cash
29 assistance" does not include any amount received under the
30 federal Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program.
31 (d) Joint ownership. If title to the residence is held
32 jointly by the claimant with a person who is not a member of
33 his household, the amount of property taxes accrued used in
34 computing the amount of grant to which he is entitled shall
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1 be the same percentage of property taxes accrued as is the
2 percentage of ownership held by the claimant in the
3 residence.
4 (e) More than one residence. If a claimant has occupied
5 more than one residence in the taxable year, he may claim
6 only one residence for any part of a month. In the case of
7 property taxes accrued, he shall pro rate 1/12 of the total
8 property taxes accrued on his residence to each month that he
9 owned and occupied that residence; and, in the case of rent
10 constituting property taxes accrued, shall pro rate each
11 month's rent payments to the residence actually occupied
12 during that month.
13 (f) There is hereby established a program of
14 pharmaceutical assistance to the aged and disabled which
15 shall be administered by the Department in accordance with
16 this Act, to consist of payments to authorized pharmacies, on
17 behalf of beneficiaries of the program, for the reasonable
18 costs of covered prescription drugs. Each beneficiary who
19 pays $40 for an identification card shall pay the first $15
20 of prescription costs each month. Each beneficiary who pays
21 $80 for an identification card shall pay the first $25 of
22 prescription costs each month. In addition, after a
23 beneficiary receives $800 in benefits during a State fiscal
24 year, that beneficiary shall also be charged 20% of the cost
25 of each prescription for which payments are made by the
26 program during the remainder of the fiscal year. To become a
27 beneficiary under this program a person must be: (1) (i) be
28 65 years or older on January 1 of the calendar year in which
29 a claim is filed or become 65 years old during the calendar
30 year in which a claim is filed, or (ii) be the surviving
31 spouse of such a claimant, who at the time of death received
32 or was entitled to receive benefits pursuant to this
33 subsection, which surviving spouse will become 65 years of
34 age within the 24 months immediately following the death of
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1 such claimant and which surviving spouse but for his or her
2 age is otherwise qualified to receive benefits pursuant to
3 this subsection, or (iii) be disabled, and (2) be is
4 domiciled in this State at the time he files his or her
5 claim, and (3) have has a maximum household income of less
6 than $14,000 for grant years before the 1998 grant year and
7 less than $16,000 for the 1998 grant year and thereafter. In
8 addition, each eligible person must (1) obtain an
9 identification card from the Department, (2) at the time the
10 card is obtained, sign a statement assigning to the State of
11 Illinois benefits which may be otherwise claimed under any
12 private insurance plans, (3) present the identification card
13 to the dispensing pharmacist.
14 Any person otherwise eligible for pharmaceutical
15 assistance under this Act whose covered drugs are covered by
16 any public program for assistance in purchasing any covered
17 prescription drugs shall be ineligible for assistance under
18 this Act to the extent such costs are covered by such other
19 plan.
20 The fee to be charged by the Department for the
21 identification card shall be equal to $40 for persons below
22 the official poverty line as defined by the United States
23 Department of Health and Human Services and $80 for all other
24 persons.
25 In the event that 2 or more persons are eligible for any
26 benefit under this Act, and are members of the same
27 household, (1) each such person shall be entitled to
28 participate in the pharmaceutical assistance program,
29 provided that he or she meets all other requirements imposed
30 by this subsection and (2) each participating household
31 member contributes the fee required for that person by the
32 preceding paragraph for the purpose of obtaining an
33 identification card. Persons eligible for any benefit under
34 this Act due to become 65 in calendar year 1984 or any
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1 subsequent calendar year in which a claim is filed are
2 excluded from the benefit prescribed in this subsection (g)
3 for the calendar year in which they become 65.
4 (Source: P.A. 89-507, eff. 7-1-97; 90-650, eff. 7-27-98;
5 revised 11-18-98.)".