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Amends the Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Administrative Act. Requires the Department of Human Services to establish reimbursement rates that build toward livable wages for front-line personnel in residential and day programs and service coordination agencies serving persons with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Provides that for community-based providers serving persons with intellectual or developmental disabilities, subject to federal approval, the rates taking effect for services delivered on or after July 1, 2025 shall be increased sufficiently to: (i) provide a minimum $2.00 per hour wage increase over the wages in effect on June 30, 2025 for front-line personnel; and (ii) provide wages for all other residential non-executive direct care staff, excluding direct support professionals, at the U.S. Department of Labor's average wage as defined, by rule, by the Department. Amends the Illinois Public Aid Code. Provides that for ID/DD facilities and MC/DD facilities, the rates taking effect for services delivered on or after July 1, 2025, shall be increased sufficiently to: (i) provide a minimum $2.00 per hour wage increase over the wages in effect on June 30, 2025 for front-line personnel; and (ii) provide wages for all other residential non-executive direct care staff, excluding direct support professionals, at the U.S. Department of Labor's average wage as defined, by rule, by the Department. Requires the same increase for front-line personnel employed at community-based providers serving persons with intellectual or developmental disabilities. Amends the Illinois Administrative Procedure Act. Grants the Departments of Human Services and Healthcare and Family Services emergency rulemaking authority. Effective immediately.
Introduced
Feb 6, 2025
Last Action
May 19, 2025
Session
IL 104th
Sponsors
1 primary · 10 co
Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Anne Stava
Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Nabeela Syed
Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Kevin John Olickal
Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Janet Yang Rohr
Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Michelle Mussman
Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Nicole La Ha
Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Norma Hernandez
Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Dagmara Avelar
Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Abdelnasser Rashid
Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Diane Blair-Sherlock
Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee
Assigned to Appropriations-Health and Human Services Committee
First Reading
Referred to Rules Committee
Filed with the Clerk by Rep. Maurice A. West, II
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Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Anne Stava
Maurice A. West, II
Kevin John Olickal
Dagmara Avelar