Community Behavioral Healthcare Association of Illinois

Marvin Lindsey, MSW, CADC Chief Executive Officer 3085 Stevenson Drive, Suite 203 Springfield, Illinois 62703 Phone: 217/585-1600 Fax: 217/585-1601 HB 4096 www.cbha.net SENT TO THE GOVERNOR MHDD-INDIVID CARE GRANTS

Individual Care Grant (ICG) Program to be Transferred to HFS

Senate Sponsors: (Sen. Heather A. Steans - Pamela J. Althoff - Melinda Bush - Julie A. Morrison – Jacqueline Y. Collins and Donne E. Trotter) House Sponsors: Rep. Sara Feigenholtz - - David R. Leitch, , Ann Williams, , Michael J. Zalewski, , Camille Y. Lilly and Litesa E. Wallace

Last Action: 06-16-2015 House Concurs Senate Floor Amendments Nos. 1 and 2 107-000-000

1. The ICG Program is a way to assist families in seeking intensive community-based services or residential placement for children with severe mental illness.

2. The Department of Healthcare and Family Services may administer Individual Care Grants as authorized under Section 7.1 of the Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Administration Act.

3. The Department of Healthcare and Family Services shall work collaboratively with the Department of Children and Family Services and the Division of Mental Health to implement the Individual Care Grant program.

4. The rights, powers, duties, and responsibilities currently exercised by the Department of Human Services related to the Individual Care Grant program are transferred to the Department of Healthcare and Family Services with the transfer and transition of the Individual Care Grant program to the Department of Healthcare and Family Services to be completed within 6 months after the effective date of the amendatory Act of the 99th General Assembly.

5. The Department of Healthcare and Family Services, as soon as practicable, shall revise and clarify the rules to reflect the transfer of rights, powers, duties, and responsibilities affected by this amendatory Act.

6. All unexpended appropriations and balances and other funds available for use in connection with any functions of the Individual Care Grant program shall be transferred for the use of Department of Healthcare and Family Services to operate the Individual Care Grant program.

7. Existing personnel and positions of the Department of Human Services pertaining to the administration of the Individual Care Grant program shall be transferred to the Department of Healthcare and Family Services.

8. The Individual Care Grant program shall be inoperative during the calendar year in which implementation begins of any remedies in response to litigation against the Department of Healthcare and Family Services related to children's behavioral health and the general status of children's behavioral health in this State.

9. Individual Care Grant recipients in the program the year it becomes inoperative shall continue to remain in the program until it is clinically appropriate for them to step down in level of care.

10. Effective date is when the Governor signs the bill into law.

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