COMMUNITY LIVING-REPORTS

Amends the ID/DD Community Care Act. Provides that the Department of Public Health shall require licensees to submit an annual report to the Department that includes specified data. Amends the Community-Integrated Living Arrangements Licensure and Certification Act. Provides that, as a condition of being licensed by the Department of Human Services as a community mental health or developmental services agency under the Act, the agency shall (1) certify to the Department that all funds legislatively or administratively earmarked for employee wage increase are passed through in their entirety to workers pursuant to legislative or administrative directives and (2) submit an annual report to the Department that includes specified data. Makes other changes. House Floor Amendment No. 1 Replaces everything after the enacting clause with the provisions of the introduced bill with the following changes. Provides that information regarding the race, gender, and ethnicity of frontline, nonexecutive employees shall be reported in aggregate in a manner prescribed by the Department of Public Health. Requires community mental health or developmental services agencies licensed under the Act to certify to the Department that, when legislative or administrative action directs that funding should be passed through to employees, all such funds are passed through in their entirety to employees in accordance with the legislative or administrative directive (rather than certify that all funds legislatively or administratively earmarked for employee wage increase are passed through in their entirety to workers pursuant to legislative or administrative directives). Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 Replaces everything after the enacting clause. Amends the ID/DD Community Care Act. Requires the Department of Public Health to require a licensee to submit an annual report to the Department certifying that all legislatively or administratively mandated wage increases to benefit workers are passed through in accordance with the legislative or administrative mandate. Provides that failure to report the information shall result in appropriate enforcement action by the Department. Requires the Department to determine the manner and form of the report. Amends the Community-Integrated Living Arrangements Licensure and Certification Act. Requires each developmental services agency licensed under the Act to submit an annual report to the Department of Human Services, as a contractual requirement between the Department and the developmental services agency, certifying that all legislatively or administratively mandated wage increases to benefit workers are passed through in accordance with the legislative or administrative mandate. Requires the Department to determine the manner and form of the annual report.