Illinois · House Bill 4806 · 103rd General Assembly

DHS-DIRECT SUPPORT-RATES

HB 4806 Sponsored by Michelle Mussman Died in committee

  1. Introduced Feb 6, 2024
  2. In committee Feb 6, 2024
  3. Died  
  4. Passed the Senate  
  5. To the governor  
  6. Became law  

What it does

The legislature's own summary of the bill, or its official long title.

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…

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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.

Every action

36 steps, oldest first, as the legislature records them.

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  1. HouseFiled with the Clerk by Rep. Michelle Mussman
  2. HouseFirst Reading
  3. CommitteeReferred to Rules Committee · House Rules
  4. CommitteeAssigned to Appropriations-Health & Human Services Committee · House Approp-Health & Human Services
  5. HouseAdded Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Barbara Hernández
  6. HouseAdded Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Dagmara Avelar
  7. HouseAdded Co-Sponsor Rep. Laura Faver Dias
  8. HouseAdded Co-Sponsor Rep. Kelly M. Cassidy
  9. HouseAdded Co-Sponsor Rep. Lindsey LaPointe
  10. HouseAdded Co-Sponsor Rep. Terra Costa Howard
  11. HouseAdded Co-Sponsor Rep. Lilian Jiménez
  12. HouseAdded Co-Sponsor Rep. Nabeela Syed
  13. HouseAdded Co-Sponsor Rep. La Shawn K. Ford
  14. HouseAdded Co-Sponsor Rep. Suzanne M. Ness
  15. HouseAdded Co-Sponsor Rep. Anne Stava-Murray
  16. HouseAdded Co-Sponsor Rep. Edgar González, Jr.
  17. HouseAdded Co-Sponsor Rep. Martin J. Moylan
  18. HouseAdded Co-Sponsor Rep. Theresa Mah
  19. HouseAdded Co-Sponsor Rep. Jaime M. Andrade, Jr.
  20. HouseCommittee/3rd Reading Deadline Extended-Rule May 24, 2024
  21. HouseAdded Co-Sponsor Rep. Natalie A. Manley
  22. HouseAdded Co-Sponsor Rep. Kevin John Olickal
  23. HouseAdded Co-Sponsor Rep. Michael J. Kelly
  24. HouseAdded Co-Sponsor Rep. Maura Hirschauer
  25. HouseAdded Co-Sponsor Rep. Harry Benton
  26. HouseAdded Co-Sponsor Rep. Carol Ammons
  27. HouseAdded Co-Sponsor Rep. Jennifer Gong-Gershowitz
  28. HouseAdded Co-Sponsor Rep. Will Guzzardi
  1. HouseAdded Co-Sponsor Rep. Justin Slaughter
  2. HouseAdded Co-Sponsor Rep. Rita Mayfield
  3. HouseAdded Co-Sponsor Rep. Abdelnasser Rashid
  4. HouseAdded Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Fred Crespo
  5. HouseCommittee/3rd Reading Deadline Extended-Rule May 27, 2024
  6. HouseCommittee/3rd Reading Deadline Extended-Rule May 31, 2024
  7. CommitteeRule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee · House Rules
  8. HouseSession Sine Die

Roll calls

No recorded votes on this bill yet.

Sponsors

The member who introduced it, joined by 27 cosponsors: 27 Democrats.

All 27 cosponsors

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