Illinois 101st Regular Session Status: In Committee 1 D cosponsors

HB 71 — PUBLIC AID-TECH

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

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Summary

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.

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The bill HB 71 amends the Illinois Public Aid Code to enhance support for child care services, specifically for low-income working families. It emphasizes that these families often struggle with child care costs and states that the government recognizes its role in helping them achieve self-sufficiency. Additionally, the amendment ensures that all working poor families receive equal treatment, regardless of their welfare status. This change matters as it aims to provide greater access to affordable child care, enabling more families to work and support themselves effectively.

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*LRB10102961KTG47969b* HB0071 101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois and 2020 HB0071 Introduced 1/9/2019, by SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
HB0071 Engrossed LRB101 02961 KTG 47969 b AN ACT concerning public aid.
ILCS 22/20 a Sections tconcerningmatheansolicitation Aof.
contributionsicatochthee Good Samaritan Energy Trust Fund.
LRB101 02961 KTG 47969 b A BILL FOR HB0071 LRB101 02961 KTG 47969 b AN ACT concerning public aid.
The Good Samaritan Energy Plan Act is amended by changing Section 20 as follows:
The Illinois Public Aid Code is amended by changing Section 9A-11 as follows:
(305 ILCS 22/20) Sec.
(305 ILCS 5/9A-11) (from Ch.
20.
23, par.
Solicitation of contributions to Fund.
9A-11) Sec.
The The Department may insert a fundraising letter requesting voluntary contributions to the Fund in utility bills 2 times each year to solicit contributions to the Fund.
9A-11.
All public utilities doing business in the State shall cooperate in allowing the Department to insert fundraising solicitation letters in their utility bills.
Child care.
The solicitation letter from the Department must be sized so as to fit into the utility's standard bill envelope, and must be of sufficiently light weight so as not to cause any increase in postage cost to the utility.
(a) The General Assembly recognizes that families with children need child care in order to work.
Child care is expensive and families with low incomes, including those who are transitioning from welfare to work, often struggle to pay the costs of day care.
The General Assembly understands the importance of helping low-income low income working families become and remain self-sufficient.
The General Assembly also believes that it is the responsibility of families to share in the costs of child care.
It is also the preference of the General Assembly that all working poor families should be treated equally, regardless of their welfare status.
(b) To the extent resources permit, the Illinois Department shall provide child care services to parents or other relatives as defined by rule who are working or participating in employment or Department approved education or training programs.
At a minimum, the Illinois Department shall cover the HB0071 Engrossed - 2 - LRB101 02961 KTG 47969 b following categories of families:
(1) recipients of TANF under Article IV participating in work and training activities as specified in the personal plan for employment and self-sufficiency;
(2) families transitioning from TANF to work;
(3) families at risk of becoming recipients of TANF;
(4) families with special needs as defined by rule;
(5) working families with very low incomes as defined by rule;
(6) families that are not recipients of TANF and that need child care assistance to participate in education and training activities;
and (7) families with children under the age of 5 who have an open intact family services case with the Department of Children and Family Services.
Any family that receives child care assistance in accordance with this paragraph shall remain eligible for child care assistance 6 months after the child's intact family services case is closed, regardless of whether the child's parents or other relatives as defined by rule are working or participating in Department approved employment or education or training programs.
The Department of Human Services, in consultation with the Department of Children and Family Services, shall adopt rules to protect the privacy of families who are the subject of an open intact family services case when such families enroll in child care HB0071 Engrossed - 3 - LRB101 02961 KTG 47969 b services.
Additional rules shall be adopted to offer children who have an open intact family services case the opportunity to receive an Early Intervention screening and other services that their families may be eligible for as provided by the Department of Human Services.
The Department shall specify by rule the conditions of eligibility, the application process, and the types, amounts, and duration of services.
Eligibility for child care benefits and the amount of child care provided may vary based on family size, income, and other factors as specified by rule.
A family's eligibility for child care services shall be redetermined no sooner than 12 months following the initial determination or most recent redetermination.
During the 12-month periods, the family shall remain eligible for child care services regardless of (i) a change in family income, unless family income exceeds 85% of State median income, or (ii) a temporary change in the ongoing status of the parents or other relatives, as defined by rule, as working or attending a job training or educational program.
In determining income eligibility for child care benefits, the Department annually, at the beginning of each fiscal year, shall establish, by rule, one income threshold for each family size, in relation to percentage of State median income for a family of that size, that makes families with incomes below the specified threshold eligible for assistance and families with incomes above the specified threshold ineligible for HB0071 Engrossed - 4 - LRB101 02961 KTG 47969 b assistance.
Through and including fiscal year 2007, the specified threshold must be no less than 50% of the then-current State median income for each family size.
Beginning in fiscal year 2008, the specified threshold must be no less than 185% of the then-current federal poverty level for each family size.
Notwithstanding any other provision of law or administrative rule to the contrary, beginning in fiscal year 2019, the specified threshold for working families with very low incomes as defined by rule must be no less than 185% of the then-current federal poverty level for each family size.
The Department shall 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.
In determining eligibility for assistance, the Department shall not give preference to any category of recipients or give preference to individuals based on their receipt of benefits under this Code.
Nothing in this Section shall be construed as conferring entitlement status to eligible families.
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The Illinois Department is authorized to lower income eligibility ceilings, raise parent co-payments, create waiting lists, or take such other actions during a fiscal year as are HB0071 Engrossed - 5 - LRB101 02961 KTG 47969 b necessary to ensure that child care benefits paid under this Article do not exceed the amounts appropriated for those child care benefits.
These changes may be accomplished by emergency rule under Section 5-45 of the Illinois Administrative Procedure Act, except that the limitation on the number of emergency rules that may be adopted in a 24-month period shall not apply.
The Illinois Department may contract with other State agencies or child care organizations for the administration of child care services.
(c) Payment shall be made for child care that otherwise meets the requirements of this Section and applicable standards of State and local law and regulation, including any requirements the Illinois Department promulgates by rule in addition to the licensure requirements promulgated by the Department of Children and Family Services and Fire Prevention and Safety requirements promulgated by the Office of the State Fire Marshal, and is provided in any of the following:
(1) a child care center which is licensed or exempt from licensure pursuant to Section 2.09 of the Child Care Act of 1969;
(2) a licensed child care home or home exempt from licensing;
(3) a licensed group child care home;
(4) other types of child care, including child care provided by relatives or persons living in the same home as HB0071 Engrossed - 6 - LRB101 02961 KTG 47969 b the child, as determined by the Illinois Department by rule.
(c-5) Solely for the purposes of coverage under the Illinois Public Labor Relations Act, child and day care home providers, including licensed and license exempt, participating in the Department's child care assistance program shall be considered to be public employees and the State of Illinois shall be considered to be their employer as of January 1, 2006 (the effective date of Public Act 94-320) this amendatory Act of the 94th General Assembly, but not before.
The State shall engage in collective bargaining with an exclusive representative of child and day care home providers participating in the child care assistance program concerning their terms and conditions of employment that are within the State's control.
Nothing in this subsection shall be understood to limit the right of families receiving services defined in this Section to select child and day care home providers or supervise them within the limits of this Section.
The State shall not be considered to be the employer of child and day care home providers for any purposes not specifically provided in Public Act 94-320 this amendatory Act of the 94th General Assembly, including, but not limited to, purposes of vicarious liability in tort and purposes of statutory retirement or health insurance benefits.
Child and day care home providers shall not be covered by the State Employees Group Insurance Act of 1971.
HB0071 Engrossed - 7 - LRB101 02961 KTG 47969 b In according child and day care home providers and their selected representative rights under the Illinois Public Labor Relations Act, the State intends that the State action exemption to application of federal and State antitrust laws be fully available to the extent that their activities are authorized by Public Act 94-320 this amendatory Act of the 94th General Assembly.
(d) The Illinois Department shall establish, by rule, a co-payment scale that provides for cost sharing by families that receive child care services, including parents whose only income is from assistance under this Code.
The co-payment shall be based on family income and family size and may be based on other factors as appropriate.
Co-payments may be waived for families whose incomes are at or below the federal poverty level.
(d-5) The Illinois Department, in consultation with its Child Care and Development Advisory Council, shall develop a plan to revise the child care assistance program's co-payment scale.
The plan shall be completed no later than February 1, 2008, and shall include:
(1) findings as to the percentage of income that the average American family spends on child care and the relative amounts that low-income families and the average American family spend on other necessities of life;
(2) recommendations for revising the child care co-payment scale to assure that families receiving child HB0071 Engrossed - 8 - LRB101 02961 KTG 47969 b care services from the Department are paying no more than they can reasonably afford;
(3) recommendations for revising the child care co-payment scale to provide at-risk children with complete access to Preschool for All and Head Start;
and (4) recommendations for changes in child care program policies that affect the affordability of child care.
(e) (Blank).
(f) The Illinois Department shall, by rule, set rates to be paid for the various types of child care.
Child care may be provided through one of the following methods:
(1) arranging the child care through eligible providers by use of purchase of service contracts or vouchers;
(2) arranging with other agencies and community volunteer groups for non-reimbursed child care;
(3) (blank);
or (4) adopting such other arrangements as the Department determines appropriate.
(f-1) Within 30 days after June 4, 2018 (the effective date of Public Act 100-587) this amendatory Act of the 100th General Assembly, the Department of Human Services shall establish rates for child care providers that are no less than the rates in effect on January 1, 2018 increased by 4.26%.
(f-5) (Blank).
(g) Families eligible for assistance under this Section HB0071 Engrossed - 9 - LRB101 02961 KTG 47969 b shall be given the following options:
(1) receiving a child care certificate issued by the Department or a subcontractor of the Department that may be used by the parents as payment for child care and development services only;
or (2) if space is available, enrolling the child with a child care provider that has a purchase of service contract with the Department or a subcontractor of the Department for the provision of child care and development services.
The Department may identify particular priority populations for whom they may request special consideration by a provider with purchase of service contracts, provided that the providers shall be permitted to maintain a balance of clients in terms of household incomes and families and children with special needs, as defined by rule.
93-285, eff.
100-387, eff.
7-22-03.)
8-25-17;
100-587, eff.
6-4-18;
100-860, eff.
2-14-19;
100-909, eff.
10-1-18;
100-916, eff.
8-17-18;
revised 10-9-18.) Section 99.
Effective date.
This Act takes effect July 1, 2019.
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Action History

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

  2. Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading - Short Debate

  3. House Floor Amendment No. 2 Adopted

  4. House Floor Amendment No. 1 Adopted

  5. Second Reading - Short Debate

  6. House Floor Amendment No. 2 Recommends Be Adopted Child Care Accessibility & Early Childhood Education Committee; 009-005-000

  7. House Floor Amendment No. 1 Recommends Be Adopted Child Care Accessibility & Early Childhood Education Committee; 009-005-000

  8. Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Melissa Conyears-Ervin

  9. House Floor Amendment No. 2 Rules Refers to Child Care Accessibility & Early Childhood Education Committee

  10. House Floor Amendment No. 2 Referred to Rules Committee

  11. House Floor Amendment No. 2 Filed with Clerk by Rep. Maurice A. West, II

  12. Chief Sponsor Changed to Rep. Maurice A. West, II

  13. House Floor Amendment No. 1 Rules Refers to Child Care Accessibility & Early Childhood Education Committee

  14. Placed on Calendar 2nd Reading - Short Debate

  15. House Floor Amendment No. 1 Referred to Rules Committee

  16. House Floor Amendment No. 1 Filed with Clerk by Rep. Maurice A. West, II

  17. Placed on Calendar 2nd Reading - Short Debate **

  18. Do Pass / Short Debate Executive Committee; 007-005-000

  19. Assigned to Executive Committee

  20. Referred to Rules Committee

  21. First Reading

  22. Prefiled with Clerk by Rep. Michael J. Madigan

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Do Pass

Passed 9 Yea · 5 Nay · 1 Other
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Democrat 7000
Unaffiliated 2400
Republican 0101
Total 9501
% of votes cast 60%33%0%7%
How each member voted (15)
Member Party Vote
Conyears-Ervin, Melissa — Yea
Kalish, Yehiel M — Yea
Bailey, Darren — Nay
Butler, Tim — Nay
Frese, Randy E — Nay
Parkhurst, Lindsay — Nay
Curtis J. Tarver, II Democrat Yea
Debbie Meyers-Martin Democrat Yea
Justin Slaughter Democrat Yea
Kam Buckner Democrat Yea
La Shawn K. Ford Democrat Yea
Nicholas K. Smith Democrat Yea
Sue Scherer Democrat Yea
Christopher "C.D." Davidsmeyer Republican Nay
Joe C. Sosnowski Republican Not Voting

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Do Pass

Passed 7 Yea · 5 Nay · 1 Other
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Unaffiliated 3301
Democrat 4000
Republican 0200
Total 7501
% of votes cast 54%38%0%8%
How each member voted (13)
Member Party Vote
Chapa LaVia, Linda — Yea
Thapedi, André — Yea
Turner, Arthur — Yea
Butler, Tim — Nay
Wehrli, Grant — Nay
Wheeler, Keith R — Nay
Willis, Kathleen — Not Voting
Emanuel "Chris" Welch Democrat Yea
Jehan Gordon-Booth Democrat Yea
Marcus C. Evans, Jr. Democrat Yea
Robert "Bob" Rita Democrat Yea
Joe C. Sosnowski Republican Nay
Ryan Spain Republican Nay

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public-safety healthcare education
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What does HB 71 do?
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.
Who sponsors HB 71?
HB 71 is sponsored by Maurice A. West, II (Democrat) and Melissa Conyears-Ervin.
What is the current status of HB 71?
This bill died with 101st Regular Session. It reached “In Committee” and never advanced before the session ended, so it can no longer move — a new version would have to be reintroduced in the current session.
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