HB 4806

  • Illinois House Bill
  • 103rd Regular Session
  • Introduced in House
  • House
  • Senate
  • Governor

Dhs-Direct Support-Rates

Abstract

Amends the Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Administrative Act. Provides that, for community-based providers serving persons with intellectual/developmental disabilities, subject to federal approval of any relevant Waiver Amendment, the rates taking effect for services delivered on or after January 1, 2025 shall include an increase in the rate methodology sufficient to provide a $3 per hour wage rate increase for all direct support personnel and all other frontline personnel who are not subject to the Bureau of Labor Statistics' average wage increases and who work in residential and community day services settings, with at least $1.50 of those funds to be provided as a direct increase to base wages and the remaining $1.50 to be used flexibly for base wage increases. Provides that the rates taking effect for services delivered on or after January 1, 2025 shall include an increase sufficient to provide wages for all residential non-executive direct care staff, excluding direct support personnel, at the federal Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics' average wage as defined by rule by the Department of Human Services. Provides that for facilities licensed by the Department of Public Health under the ID/DD Community Care Act as ID/DD facilities and under the MC/DD Act as MC/DD facilities, subject to federal approval of a State Plan Amendment, the rates taking effect for services delivered on or after January 1, 2025, shall include a $3 per hour wage rate increase for all direct support personnel and all other frontline personnel who are not subject to the Bureau of Labor Statistics' average wage increases and who work in residential and community day services settings, with at least $1.50 of those funds to be provided as a direct increase to all aide base wages and the remaining $1.50 to be used flexibly for base wage increases to the rate methodology for aides. Provides that for residential services delivered on or after January 1, 2025, the rates shall include an increase sufficient to provide wages for all residential non-executive direct care staff, excluding aides, at the federal Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics' average wage as determined by the Department. Requires the Department to adopt rules, including emergency rules, to implement the amendatory Act.

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May 31, 2024

House

Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee

May 26, 2024

House

Committee/3rd Reading Deadline Extended-Rule May 31, 2024

May 24, 2024

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Committee/3rd Reading Deadline Extended-Rule May 27, 2024

May 20, 2024

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Added Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Fred Crespo

May 16, 2024

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Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Abdelnasser Rashid

May 08, 2024

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Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Rita Mayfield

May 02, 2024

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Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Will Guzzardi

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Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Justin Slaughter

Apr 17, 2024

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Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Jennifer Gong-Gershowitz

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Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Carol Ammons

Apr 12, 2024

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Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Harry Benton

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Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Maura Hirschauer

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Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Michael J. Kelly

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Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Kevin John Olickal

Apr 10, 2024

House

Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Natalie A. Manley

Apr 05, 2024

House

Committee/3rd Reading Deadline Extended-Rule May 24, 2024

Mar 21, 2024

House

Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Theresa Mah

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Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Kelly M. Cassidy

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Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Lindsey LaPointe

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Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Terra Costa Howard

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Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Lilian Jiménez

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Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Nabeela Syed

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Added Co-Sponsor Rep. La Shawn K. Ford

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Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Suzanne M. Ness

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Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Anne Stava-Murray

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Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Edgar Gonzalez, Jr.

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Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Martin J. Moylan

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Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Jaime M. Andrade, Jr.

Mar 11, 2024

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Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Laura Faver Dias

Mar 01, 2024

House

Added Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Dagmara Avelar

Feb 29, 2024

House

Added Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Barbara Hernandez

Feb 28, 2024

House

Assigned to Appropriations-Health & Human Services Committee

Feb 06, 2024

House

Filed with the Clerk by Rep. Michelle Mussman

House

Referred to Rules Committee

House

First Reading

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