Illinois General Assembly - Bill Status for HB 3440

Amends the Interagency Children's Behavioral Health Services Act. Requires the Department of Human Services, in coordination with a statewide association representing a majority of hospitals, to establish and offer a voluntary training that will be recorded and made available on the Department's website to all hospital social workers, clinicians, and administrative staff to inform them of BEACON, a centralized resource for Illinois youth and families seeking services for behavioral health needs, with the goal of encouraging families to seek assistance through BEACON and the Interagency Children's Behavioral Health Services Team. Provides that the training shall include how families and hospital staff can access BEACON, the process once a case is entered into BEACON, and State and community programs accessible through BEACON. Amends the Medical Assistance Article of the Illinois Public Aid Code. Requires a psychiatric hospital to contact a youth or the youth's parents, guardian, or caregiver about the BEACON portal (rather than the Family Support Program and the Specialized Family Support Program) prior to referring the youth to the Department of Children and Family Services because the youth was left at the psychiatric hospital beyond medical necessity. Amends the School Code. Requires the State Board of Education, in consultation with the Children's Behavioral Health Transformation Team in the Office of the Governor and relevant stakeholders, to report its work and make available resource materials, including model policies and guidance informed by a phased approach to implementing universal mental health screening in schools. Requires the State Board of Education to report its work by September 1, 2026. Provides that mental health screenings shall be offered by school districts to students enrolled in kindergarten through grade 12, at least once a year, beginning with the 2027-2028 school year.

Further amends the Medical Assistance Article of the Illinois Public Aid Code. In provisions concerning youth left in a psychiatric hospital beyond medical necessity, requires a hospital to attempt to contact the youth and the youth's parents, guardian, or caregiver about the BEACON portal and assist with entering the youth's information into the BEACON portal to begin the process of connecting the youth and family to available resources (rather than assist with connections to the designated Family Support Program coordinator in the service area by providing educational materials developed by the Department of Healthcare and Family Services).

Date	Chamber	Action
4/11/2025	House	Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee

Date	Chamber	Action
2/7/2025	House	Filed with the Clerk by Rep. Lindsey LaPointe
2/18/2025	House	First Reading
2/18/2025	House	Referred to Rules Committee
3/11/2025	House	Assigned to Mental Health & Addiction Committee
3/14/2025	House	House Committee Amendment No. 1 Filed with Clerk by Rep. Lindsey LaPointe
3/14/2025	House	House Committee Amendment No. 1 Referred to Rules Committee
3/18/2025	House	House Committee Amendment No. 1 Rules Refers to Mental Health & Addiction Committee
3/20/2025	House	House Committee Amendment No. 1 Adopted in Mental Health & Addiction Committee; by Voice Vote
3/20/2025	House	Do Pass as Amended / Short Debate Mental Health & Addiction Committee; 015-008-000
3/20/2025	House	Placed on Calendar 2nd Reading - Short Debate
3/25/2025	House	Fiscal Note Requested by Rep. Amy Elik
3/25/2025	House	Pension Note Requested by Rep. Jackie Haas
3/26/2025	House	Pension Note Filed
3/26/2025	House	Second Reading - Short Debate
3/26/2025	House	Held on Calendar Order of Second Reading - Short Debate
3/28/2025	House	House Committee Amendment No. 1 Fiscal Note Filed as Amended
4/1/2025	House	Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Michelle Mussman
4/7/2025	House	House Floor Amendment No. 2 Filed with Clerk by Rep. Lindsey LaPointe
4/7/2025	House	House Floor Amendment No. 2 Referred to Rules Committee
4/7/2025	House	House Floor Amendment No. 2 Rules Refers to Mental Health & Addiction Committee
4/11/2025	House	Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee
4/11/2025	House	House Floor Amendment No. 2 Rule 19(c) / Re-referred to Rules Committee

	Pension Note (Government Forecasting & Accountability)
	HB 3440, as amended by HA 1, will not impact any public pension fund or retirement system in the State of Illinois.

	Fiscal Note, House Committee Amendment No. 1 (Dept. of Human Services)
	HB 3440 HA#1 states that psychiatric hospital shall assist in entering the youth’s information into the BEACON portal. This would not have a fiscal cost to DHS because our State psychiatric hospitals do not serve individuals under 18.