DHFS-DHS-DIRECT SUPPORT WAGE
- Introduced Feb 6, 2025
- In committee Feb 6, 2025
- Passed the House Next
- Passed the Senate
- To the governor
- 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. 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…
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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.
Every action
15 steps, oldest first, as the legislature records them.
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- HouseFiled with the Clerk by Rep. Maurice A. West, II
- HouseFirst Reading
- CommitteeReferred to Rules Committee · House Rules
- CommitteeAssigned to Appropriations-Health and Human Services Committee · House Approp-Health and Human Services
- CommitteeRule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee · House Rules
- HouseAdded Co-Sponsor Rep. Diane Blair-Sherlock
- HouseAdded Co-Sponsor Rep. Abdelnasser Rashid
- HouseAdded Co-Sponsor Rep. Nabeela Syed
- HouseAdded Co-Sponsor Rep. Kevin John Olickal
- HouseAdded Co-Sponsor Rep. Janet Yang Rohr
- HouseAdded Co-Sponsor Rep. Michelle Mussman
- HouseAdded Co-Sponsor Rep. Nicole La Ha
- HouseAdded Co-Sponsor Rep. Norma Hernandez
- HouseAdded Co-Sponsor Rep. Dagmara Avelar
- HouseAdded Co-Sponsor Rep. Anne Stava
Roll calls
No recorded votes on this bill yet.
Sponsors
The member who introduced it, joined by 10 cosponsors: 9 Democrats, 1 Republican.
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Maurice A. West, IID Primary sponsor · District 67
From Illinois's official records (www.ilga.gov), checked Nov 13, 2026. Text links go to the official versions; LegiList does not copy bill text.