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| | 103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2023 and 2024
SB3691 Introduced 2/9/2024, by Sen. Doris Turner SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
| | | Amends the Family Caregiver Act. In a provision requiring the Department on Aging to provide family caregiver support services in compliance with federal requirements, removes a provision exempting from the compliance requirement family caregiver support services for grandparents or older individuals who are relative caregivers. |
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| | SB3691 | | LRB103 36886 KTG 66998 b |
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| 1 | | AN ACT concerning aging.
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| 2 | | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, |
| 3 | | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | | Section 5. The Family Caregiver Act is amended by changing |
| 5 | | Section 25 as follows:
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| 6 | | (320 ILCS 65/25) |
| 7 | | Sec. 25. Provision of services. The Department shall |
| 8 | | contract with area agencies on aging and other appropriate |
| 9 | | agencies to conduct family caregiver support services to the |
| 10 | | extent of available State and federal funding. Services |
| 11 | | provided under this Act must be provided according to the |
| 12 | | requirements of federal law and rules, except for the |
| 13 | | provision of services to grandparents or older individuals who |
| 14 | | are relative caregivers when State funding is utilized to |
| 15 | | provide those services. |
| 16 | | (Source: P.A. 93-864, eff. 8-5-04.) |