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HB 3089

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2025 Regular Session Introduced by Em Levy

Raises wages for direct support professionals by at least $2/hour via higher Medicaid and other reimbursement rates, starting July 1, 2025, to reduce turnover and improve care.

In committee upon adjournment.
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Bill Summary · HB 3089

HB 3089 — Community Disability Living Wage Act (Introduced 2025)

Status: In committee upon adjournment (last action 2025-06-28)
Introduced: February 6, 2025 (filed Feb 20, 2025 record) — Rep. Maurice A. West, II (primary); multiple co-sponsors. Companion: SB 2020.

Purpose / Intent

HB 3089 (styled the "Community Disability Living Wage Act") aims to reduce turnover and improve service quality in community-based supports for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) by increasing wages for direct support professionals (DSPs) and other front-line personnel. The bill directs state agencies to raise reimbursement rates so providers can pay higher, more competitive wages.

Key provisions

  • Adds requirements to the Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Administrative Act and amends the Illinois Public Aid Code and the Administrative Procedure Act.
  • Definition: “Front-line personnel” includes DSPs, aides, front-line supervisors, and other non‑administrative support staff working in specified IDD service settings.
  • Reimbursement rate increases:
    • For community-based providers and for IDD/medically-complex IDD facilities, rates for services delivered on or after July 1, 2025 must be increased sufficiently to:
    • Provide a minimum $2.00 per hour wage increase over wages in effect on June 30, 2025 for front-line personnel; and
    • Provide wages for other residential non‑executive direct care staff (excluding DSPs) at the U.S. Department of Labor’s average wage as that average is defined by rule.
    • These increases for Medicaid-funded services are subject to federal approval where required.
  • Rulemaking:
    • Grants emergency rulemaking authority (under the Illinois Administrative Procedure Act) to the Departments of Human Services (DHS) and Healthcare & Family Services (HFS) to implement the changes expeditiously. The emergency rule authority provision is repealed one year after the Act’s effective date.
  • Legislative intent: The General Assembly states its intent that rate increase funds be allocated to front-line employee wages (an expression of intent, not an explicit enforcement mechanism in the text).

Who is affected

  • Directly affected: DSPs and front-line non‑administrative staff in state‑supported community IDD residential and day programs, service coordination agencies, intermediate care facilities for the developmentally disabled, and medically complex IDD facilities.
  • Indirectly affected: Community-based service providers (reimbursement changes), DHS/HFS (implementation and rulemaking), and the state budget (increased reimbursed costs, including Medicaid-related expenditures pending federal approval).
  • Expected impacts: Higher wages for front-line staff (minimum $2/hr increase), reduced turnover, improved service continuity; increased state expenditures to fund higher reimbursement rates.

Timeline & Procedural notes

  • Rates to take effect for services delivered on or after July 1, 2025 (subject to federal Medicaid approval where applicable).
  • Emergency rule authority enables faster implementation; that authority lapses one year after the Act takes effect.
  • Legislative actions: public hearing held 2/18/2025; multiple committee referrals; read and referred to Ways & Means; currently remained in committee upon adjournment (6/28/2025).

Fiscal & implementation considerations

  • The bill will increase state spending through higher reimbursement rates, especially for Medicaid-funded IDD services; final fiscal impact depends on rule definitions, scope of wage adjustments, and federal approval for Medicaid rate changes.
  • The bill relies on DHS/HFS rulemaking to define wage baselines (e.g., the “U.S. Department of Labor average wage” as adopted by rule) and to operationalize reimbursement mechanisms.

Compiled from official sources — confirm details with the bill’s official record.

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