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| AN ACT concerning public aid.
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| Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| represented in the General Assembly:
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| Section 5. The Department of Human Services Act is amended |
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| by changing Section 10-26 as follows:
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| (20 ILCS 1305/10-26)
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| Sec. 10-26. Disability database.
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| (a) The Department of Human Services shall compile and |
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| maintain a
cross-disability database of Illinois residents |
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| with a disability who are
potentially
in need of disability |
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| services funded by the Department. The database shall
consist |
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| of individuals with mental illness, physical disabilities, and
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| developmental
disabilities, and autism spectrum disorders and |
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| shall include, but not be limited to, individuals
transitioning |
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| from
special education to adulthood, individuals in |
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| State-operated facilities, individuals
in private nursing and |
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| residential facilities, and individuals in community
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| integrated living arrangements. Within 30 days after the |
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| effective date of this
amendatory Act of the 93rd General |
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| Assembly, the Secretary of Human Services
shall seek input from |
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| advisory bodies to the Department, including advisory
councils |
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| and committees working with the Department in the areas of |
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| mental
illness, physical disabilities, and developmental |
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| disabilities. The database
shall be
operational by July 1, |
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| 2004. The information collected and maintained for the
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| disability database shall include, but is not limited to, the |
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| following: (i)
the types of
services of which the individual is |
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| potentially in need; (ii) demographic and
identifying |
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| information about the individual; (iii) factors indicating |
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| need,
including
diagnoses, assessment information, age of |
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| primary caregivers, and current
living
situation; (iv) if |
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| applicable, the date information about the individual is
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| submitted for inclusion in the database and
the
types of |
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| services sought by the individual; and (v) the representative
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| district
in which the individual resides. In collecting and |
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| maintaining information
under
this Section, the Department |
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| shall give consideration to cost-effective
appropriate |
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| services for individuals.
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| (b) This amendatory Act of the 93rd General Assembly does |
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| not create
any new entitlement to a service, program, or |
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| benefit, but shall not affect any
entitlement to a service, |
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| program, or benefit created by any other law. Except
for
a |
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| service, program, or benefit that is an entitlement, a service, |
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| program, or
benefit provided as a result of the collection and |
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| maintenance of the
disability
database shall be subject to |
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| appropriations made by the General Assembly.
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| (c) The Department, consistent with applicable federal and |
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| State law, shall
make general information from the disability
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| database available to the public such as: (i) the number of |
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| individuals
potentially
in need of each type of service, |
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| program, or benefit and (ii) the general
characteristics of |
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| those individuals. The Department shall protect the
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| confidentiality of each individual in the database when |
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| releasing database
information by
not disclosing any |
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| personally identifying information.
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| (Source: P.A. 93-503, eff. 8-11-03.)
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| Section 10. The Developmental Disability and Mental |
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| Disability Services Act is amended by adding Section 5-4 as |
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| follows:
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| (405 ILCS 80/5-4 new) |
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| Sec. 5-4. Home and Community-Based Services Waivers; |
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| autism spectrum disorder. A person diagnosed with an autism |
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| spectrum disorder may be assessed for eligibility for services |
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| under Home and Community-Based Services Waivers for persons |
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| with developmental disabilities, without regard to whether |
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| that person is also diagnosed with mental retardation, so long |
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| as the person otherwise meets applicable level-of-care |
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| criteria under those waivers. This amendatory Act of the 95th |
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| General Assembly does not create any new entitlement to a |
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| service, program, or benefit, but shall not affect any |
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| entitlement to a service, program, or benefit created
by any |
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| other law.
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| Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon |