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SB3203 - INS CD-INHALER COVERAGE
Mattie Hunter, Javier Loera Cervantes, Willie Preston
Last updated 3 months ago
56 Co-Sponsors
Amends the Illinois Insurance Code. Provides that a group or individual policy of accident and health insurance or managed care plan amended, delivered, issued, or renewed on or before December 31, 2025 that provides coverage for prescription drugs may not deny or limit coverage for prescription inhalers (instead of prescription inhalants) based upon any restriction on the number of days before an inhaler refill may be obtained if, contrary to those restrictions, the inhalants have been ordered or prescribed by the treating physician and are medically appropriate. Provides that a group or individual policy of accident and health insurance or managed care plan amended, delivered, issued, or renewed on or after January 1, 2026 that provides coverage for prescription drugs shall limit the total amount that a covered person is required to pay for a covered prescription inhaler to an amount not to exceed $25 per 30-day supply, and provides that nothing in the provisions prevents a group or individual policy of accident and health insurance or managed care plan from reducing a covered person's cost sharing to an amount less than the cap. Makes a conforming change. Provides that coverage for prescription inhalers shall not be subject to any deductible, except to the extent that the coverage would disqualify a high-deductible health plan from eligibility for a health savings account. Authorizes rulemaking and enforcement by the Department of Insurance. Amends the State Employees Group Insurance Act of 1971. Provides that the program of health benefits shall provide coverage for prescription inhalers under the Illinois Insurance Code.
STATUS
Passed
SB3652 - DOMESTIC VIOLENCE-REMEDIES
Robert Peters, Celina Villanueva, Lakesia Collins
Last updated 3 months ago
32 Co-Sponsors
Creates the Summary of Rights for Safer Homes Act. Requires the Department of Human Rights to create a summary form advising tenants who have suffered domestic violence or sexual violence of the rights that they have under Illinois law that provide protection in their ability to have safe housing. Requires landlords to attach a copy of the summary as the first page of any written residential lease entered into with a tenant.
STATUS
Passed
SB0726 - HEALTH-TECH
Sara Feigenholtz, Don Harmon, Mary Edly-Allen
Last updated 3 months ago
14 Co-Sponsors
Amends various Acts concerning children's mental health. Amends the School Code. Provides that on or before October 1, 2024, the State Board of Education, in consultation with the Children's Behavioral Health Transformation Team, the Office of the Governor, and relevant stakeholders as needed shall release a strategy that includes a tool for measuring capacity and readiness to implement universal mental health screening of students. Provides that the State Board of Education shall issue a report to the Governor and the General Assembly on school district readiness and plan for phased approach to universal mental health screening of students on or before April 1, 2025. Repeals the Wellness Checks in Schools Program Act. Amends the Illinois Public Aid Code. Provides that the Department of Healthcare and Family Services shall implement guidance to managed care organizations and similar care coordination entities contracted with the Department, so that the managed care organizations and care coordination entities respond to lead indicators with services and interventions that are designed to help stabilize the child. Amends the Children's Mental Health Act. Provides that the Children's Mental Health Partnership shall advise the Children's Behavioral Health Transformation Initiative on designing and implementing short-term and long-term strategies to provide comprehensive and coordinated services for children from birth to age 25 and their families with the goal of addressing children's mental health needs across a full continuum of care, including social determinants of health, prevention, early identification, and treatment. Provides that the Department of Public health (rather than the Department of Healthcare and Family Services) shall provide technical and administrative support for the Partnership. Deletes provision that the Partnership shall employ an Executive Director and set the compensation of the Executive Director and other such employees and technical assistance as it deems necessary to carry out its duties. Amends the Interagency Children's Behavioral Health Services Act. Provides that the Children's Behavioral Health Transformation Team in collaboration with the Department of Human Services shall develop a program to provide one-on-one in-home respite behavioral health aids to youth requiring intensive supervision due to behavioral health needs. Effective immediately.
STATUS
Passed
HR0613 - IDPH-IL IMMUNIZATION STRATEGY
Camille Lilly, Anne M. Stava-Murray, Carol Ammons
Last updated 6 months ago
50 Co-Sponsors
Urges the Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) to continue taking appropriate action to facilitate equitable access to adolescent and adult vaccinations, including establishing appropriate programs and initiatives to raise public awareness on the importance of adolescent and adult vaccinations. Urges the IDPH to continue working with the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), in-state healthcare providers, and patients to implement an effective and actionable state immunization strategy that includes adult immunizations. Urges the IDPH to continue increasing community resilience to communicable and other emerging disease threats. Urges the IDPH to continue determining goals on which to center the immunization plan. Urges the IDPH to continue exploring federal funding opportunities and partnerships to support vaccine awareness and access programs aligned with the goals established in the state immunization strategy.
STATUS
Passed
SB3268 - DHFS-FUND TRANSFERS
Omar Aquino, Don Harmon, Ann Gillespie
Last updated 5 months ago
20 Co-Sponsors
Amends the Illinois Public Aid Code. Makes changes to the Medical Assistance Article. Provides that beginning with dates of service on and after January 1, 2025, add-on rates for the services delivered by physicians who are board certified in psychiatry and advanced practice registered nurses who hold a current certification in psychiatric and mental health nursing shall be increased so that the sum of the base per service unit rate plus the rate add-on is no less than $264.42 per hour adjusted for time and intensity. In a provision concerning personal needs allowances, provides that the total monthly personal needs allowance from both the State and federal sources for a person who is a resident of a supportive living facility shall equal $120. Requires the Department of Children and Family Services to pay for all inpatient stays at a hospital beginning on the 3rd day a child is in the hospital beyond medical necessity, and the parent or caregiver has denied the child access to the home and has refused or failed to make provisions for another living arrangement for the child or the child's discharge is being delayed due to a pending inquiry or investigation by the Department of Children and Family Services. Provides that beginning January 1, 2025 (rather than January 1, 2020), the Department of Healthcare and Family Services shall reimburse Children's Community-Based Health Care Centers at the lower of their usual and customary charge to the public or at the Department rate of $1,300 (rather than $950). Contains provisions concerning reimbursement for remote ultrasound procedures and remote fetal nonstress tests; increased reimbursement rates for nursing services for medically fragile and technology dependent children; increased reimbursement rates for optometrist services; coverage and reimbursement rates for custom prosthetic and orthotic devices; per-claim add-on payments for renal dialysis services provided within a skilled nursing facility by a certified home dialysis provider; coverage for music therapy services provided by licensed professional music therapists; a deadline extension for reporting data recommendations for ground ambulance services cost structures; administrative rules updating the Handicapping Labio-Lingual Deviation orthodontic scoring tool; emergency rules; and other matters. Makes changes to provisions under the Hospital Services Trust Fund Article concerning reimbursement for hospital (rather than inpatient) stays extended beyond medical necessity. Makes changes to the Managed Care Organization Provider Assessment Article. Changes the Tier 1 assessment amount for managed care organizations to $78.90 per member month (rather than $60.20 per member month). Changes the Tier 2 assessment amount for managed care organizations to $1.40 per member month (rather than $1.20 per member month). Provides that for State fiscal year 2020, and for each State fiscal year thereafter (rather than for State fiscal year 2020 through State fiscal year 2025), the Department of Healthcare and Family Services may adjust rates or tier parameters or both. Makes changes to the Hospital Services Trust Fund Article. Provides that beginning on and after July 1, 2024, subject to federal approval, in addition to the statewide standardized amount and any other payments authorized under the Code, a safety-net hospital health care equity add-on payment shall be paid for each inpatient General Acute and Psychiatric day of care, excluding Medicare-Medicaid dual eligible crossover days, for safety-net hospitals. Provides that beginning on and after July 1, 2024, subject to federal approval, in addition to the statewide standardized amount and any other payments authorized under this Code, a safety-net hospital low volume add-on payment of $200 shall be paid for each inpatient General Acute and Psychiatric day of care, excluding Medicare-Medicaid dual eligible crossover days, for any safety-net hospital that provided less than 11,000 Medicaid inpatient days of care, excluding Medicare-Medicaid dual eligible crossover days, in the base period. Grants the Department emergency rulemaking authority to implement these add-on payments. Makes changes to the Hospital Provider Funding Article. For purposes of allocating funds included in capitation payments to MCOs, excludes hospitals with over 9,000 Medicaid acute care inpatient admissions per calendar year from the category of safety-net hospitals. Amends the Birth Center Licensing Act. In a provision concerning reimbursement rates set by the Department of Healthcare and Family Services, requires the facility fees for the birthing person and the baby to be no less than 80% (rather than 75%) of the statewide average facility payment rate made to a hospital. Amends the Specialized Mental Health Rehabilitation Act of 2013. In provisions requiring facilities licensed under the Act to be awarded an additional payment for their single occupancy rooms, provides that beginning on January 1, 2025, a payment of no less than $10 per day, per single room occupancy shall be added to the existing $25.50 additional per day, per single room occupancy rate for a total of at least $35.50 per day, per single room occupancy. Makes other changes. Effective immediately.
STATUS
Passed
SB3755 - PROP TX-RELIGIOUS PROPERTY
William Cunningham, Kelly M. Burke, Emanuel Welch
Last updated 7 months ago
4 Co-Sponsors
Amends the Property Tax Code. Provides that the notice of the transfer of property that is exempt for orphanage, school, or religious purposes shall be filed with the county clerk (currently, the county recorder). Effective immediately.
STATUS
Engrossed
HR0844 - NAT. ALOPECIA AWARENESS MONTH
Debbie Meyers-Martin, William Davis, Suzanne M. Ness
Last updated 6 months ago
4 Co-Sponsors
Recognizes the month of September 2024 as being National Scarring Alopecia Awareness Month.
STATUS
Passed
HB0475 - LOCAL GOVERNMENT-TECH
Daniel Didech, Sue Scherer, Wayne Arthur Rosenthal
Last updated over 1 year ago
8 Co-Sponsors
Reinserts the provisions of the engrossed bill with the following changes: Amends the Counties Code. Provides that the Sangamon County Board may form, manage, fund, and operate a volunteer rescue squad to provide assistance within Sangamon County to any public entity providing law enforcement, firefighting, emergency disaster response, or first responder services. Provides that the volunteer rescue squad may (i) locate missing persons, including drowning victims, (ii) perform a supporting, and not direct, role in fighting fires, and (iii) extricate persons from unsafe conditions. Provides that the Sangamon County Board may provide benefits for rescue squad volunteers who suffer disease, injury, or death in the line of duty. In provisions concerning membership on a community mental health board, provides that only one board member shall be a member of the governmental unit's governing body, with the term of membership on the board to run concurrently with the elected term of the member. Provides that the community mental health board has the responsibility to set, maintain, and implement the budget. Provides that if a governing body of a governmental unit levies a tax for the purpose of providing mental health facilities and services in the community, then funds appropriated in the governmental unit’s annual appropriation bill to defray necessary expenses and liabilities in providing for community mental health facilities and services must be deemed necessary by the community mental health board.
STATUS
Passed
HR0856 - RECOGNIZES-CHIEF MARY FRAKE
Suzanne M. Ness
Last updated 5 days ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Recognizes Chief Mary Frake of the Lake in the Hills Police Department on her retirement. Thanks her for her outstanding service, unwavering dedication, and invaluable contributions to the safety and well-being of her community. Wishes her a joyous and fulfilling retirement.
STATUS
Passed
HB5840 - ETHICS ACT-CONFLICT
Patrick Windhorst, Suzanne M. Ness, Steven Reick
Last updated 6 months ago
3 Co-Sponsors
Amends the Illinois Governmental Ethics Act. In a provision involving ethical principles for legislators in the event of a conflict situation, defines "conflict situation" as any circumstance that (i) involves a legislator, the legislator's immediate family, or a business in which the legislator or the legislator's immediate family holds a direct or indirect economic interest, (ii) is related to a specific matter pending before the legislator, and (iii) may result in a private pecuniary benefit to the legislator, the legislator's immediate family, or one or more businesses in which the legislator is involved.
STATUS
Introduced
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