HB 71

Abstract

Amends the Good Samaritan Energy Plan Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the solicitation of contributions to the Good Samaritan Energy Trust Fund. House Floor Amendment No. 1 Deletes reference to: 305 ILCS 22/20 Adds reference to: 305 ILCS 5/9A-11 from Ch. 23, par. 9A-11 Replaces everything after the enacting clause. Amends the Illinois Public Aid Code. Requires the Department of Human Services to provide child care services to all children who are eligible for assistance and are: (A) under age 13; or (B) under age 19 and (i) are under court supervision or (ii) have physical or mental incapacities as documented by a statement from a local health provider or other health professional. Deletes a provision that authorizes the Department to: (i) lower income eligibility ceilings, raise parent co-payments, create waiting lists, or take such other actions during a fiscal year as are necessary to ensure that child care benefits paid under the Illinois Public Aid Code do not exceed the amounts appropriated for those child care benefits; and (ii) accomplish such changes by emergency rule. Effective July 1, 2019. House Floor Amendment No. 2 Restores a provision that authorizes the Department of Humans Services to: (i) raise parent co-payments, create waiting lists, or take such other actions during a fiscal year (rather than lower income eligibility ceilings, raise parent co-payments, create waiting lists, or take such other actions during a fiscal year) as are necessary to ensure that child care benefits paid under the Illinois Public Aid Code do not exceed the amounts appropriated for those child care benefits; and (ii) accomplish such changes by emergency rule. Deletes language that exempts the Department from the limitation on the number of emergency rules that may be adopted in a 24-month period.