(b) Department rule. The Department of Human Services shall draft and promulgate a new rule governing community-based residential settings. The new rule for community-based residential settings shall include settings that offer to persons with serious mental illness (i) community-based residential recovery-oriented mental health care, treatment, and services; and (ii) community-based residential mental health and co-occurring substance use disorder care, treatment, and services. Community-based residential settings shall honor a consumer's choice as well as a consumer's right to live in the:
(1) Least restrictive environment.(2) Most appropriate integrated setting.(3) Least restrictive environment and most appropriate integrated setting designed to assist the individual in living in a safe, appropriate, and therapeutic environment.(4) Least restrictive environment and most appropriate integrated setting that affords the person the opportunity to live similarly to persons without serious mental illness. The new rule for community-based residential settings shall be drafted in such a manner as to delineate State-supported care, treatment, and services appropriately governed within the new rule, and shall continue eligibility for eligible individuals in programs governed by Title 59, Part 132 of the Illinois Administrative Code. The Department shall draft a new rule for community-based residential settings by January 1, 2012. The new rule must include, but shall not be limited to, standards for:
(i) Administrative requirements.(ii) Monitoring, review, and reporting.(iii) Certification requirements.