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93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2003 and 2004
HB4015
Introduced 1/14/2004, by Ron Stephens SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
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Amends the Developmental Disability and Mental Disability Services Act. Subject to appropriation, requires the Department of Human Services to create a pilot program to provide community-based residential services to individuals with severe autism who are 21 years of age or older. Requires establishment of the program in the Chicago metropolitan area and in a county outside Cook and the collar counties with a population in excess of 250,000. Sets forth the Department's responsibilities concerning screening, training and supports, and vocational opportunities. Effective immediately.
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A BILL FOR
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HB4015 |
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LRB093 14688 DRJ 40230 b |
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| AN ACT in relation to health.
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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 Developmental Disability and Mental |
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| Disability Services Act
is
amended by adding Section 2-4.5 as |
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| follows:
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| (405 ILCS 80/2-4.5 new)
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| Sec. 2-4.5. Autism; community-based residential services; |
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| pilot program.
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| (a) Subject to appropriation, the Department of Human |
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| Services shall create
a
pilot program to provide |
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| community-based residential services to individuals
with |
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| severe
autism who are 21 years of age or older. The Department |
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| shall contract with one
service
provider located in the Chicago |
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| metropolitan area and one provider located in a
county with a |
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| population in excess of 250,000
other than Cook, Lake, McHenry, |
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| Kane, DuPage, or Will to provide alternative
residential |
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| services to persons with severe autism who would otherwise be
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| served in an
institutional setting.
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| (b) The Department shall be responsible for, but not |
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| limited to, providing
the
following:
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| (1) Screening of individuals with severe autism who are |
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| 21 years of age or
older to determine whether these |
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| individuals could be served in a residential
setting at a |
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| cost that does not exceed the cost of caring for them in an
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| institutional
setting.
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| (2) Training and supports for both adults with severe |
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| autism and the staff
working with those individuals.
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| (3) Vocational opportunities for those individuals |
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| placed at the
designated
community-based setting.
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| (c) The Department shall adopt rules to implement this |
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| Section.
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