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91_SB0663
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1 AN ACT to amend the Community Services Act by changing
2 Section 4.
3 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
4 represented in the General Assembly:
5 Section 5. The Community Services Act is amended by
6 changing Section 4 as follows:
7 (405 ILCS 30/4) (from Ch. 91 1/2, par. 904)
8 Sec. 4. Financing for Community Services. The Department
9 of Human Services is authorized to provide financial
10 assistance to eligible private service providers,
11 corporations, local government entities or voluntary
12 associations for the provision of services to persons with
13 mental illness, persons with a developmental disability and
14 alcohol and drug dependent persons living in the community
15 for the purpose of achieving the goals of this Act.
16 The Department shall utilize the following funding
17 mechanisms for community services:
18 (1) Purchase of Care Contracts: services purchased
19 on a predetermined fee per unit of service basis from
20 private providers or governmental entities. Fee per
21 service rates are set by an established formula which
22 covers some portion of personnel, supplies, and other
23 allowable costs, and which makes some allowance for
24 geographic variations in costs as well as for additional
25 program components.
26 (2) Grants: sums of money which the Department
27 grants to private providers or governmental entities
28 pursuant to the grant recipient's agreement to provide
29 certain services, as defined by departmental grant
30 guidelines, to an approximate number of service
31 recipients. Grant levels are set through consideration of
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1 personnel, supply and other allowable costs, as well as
2 other funds available to the program.
3 (3) Other Funding Arrangements: funding mechanisms
4 may be established on a pilot basis in order to examine
5 the feasibility of alternative financing arrangements for
6 the provision of community services.
7 The Department shall establish an average compensation
8 rate or rates for direct care employees to be used in
9 calculating its reimbursement formulas for private agency
10 providers. This rate shall include all compensable benefit
11 costs. The Department shall inform providers of this rate
12 within 30 days of the effective date of this amendatory Act
13 of the 91st General Assembly and on July 1 of each year
14 thereafter. Providers shall assure that the average
15 compensation for all direct care employees shall be, at a
16 minimum, equal to the rate or rates used in the Department's
17 formula for financing community services. Any provider of
18 community services that compensates its employees on average
19 less than the compensation rate used in the State formula
20 shall have its financing reduced by a percentage equal to
21 that percentage by which the State financing rate exceeds the
22 compensation paid to employees.
23 Providers shall report to the Department actual
24 compensation levels for employee categories used in the
25 Department's formula for financing community services.
26 Compensation rates shall include salary and benefit costs.
27 The Department shall strive to establish and maintain an
28 equitable system of payment which encourages providers to
29 improve their clients' capabilities for independence and
30 reduces their reliance on community or State-operated
31 services. In accepting Department funds, providers shall
32 recognize their responsibility to be accountable to the
33 Department and the State for the delivery of services which
34 are consistent with the philosophies and goals of this Act
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1 and the rules and regulations promulgated under it.
2 (Source: P.A. 88-380; 89-507, eff. 7-1-97.)
3 Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
4 becoming law.