The Secretary of Human Services, acting as appropriate through or in coordination with the Director of Public Health, shall in licensing a continuum of care facility ensure the following:
(1) community-integrated living arrangements provided by such licensee meet all otherwise applicable requirements of law pertaining to such arrangements, including those set forth in the Community-Integrated Living Arrangements Licensure and Certification Act, except that a continuum of care facility may, consistent with all applicable requirements of law, prioritize the movement of individuals into or out of community-integrated living arrangements from or into other residential facility constituent elements;(2) on-campus and off-campus employment opportunities provided by the licensee meet all otherwise applicable requirements of law pertaining to such opportunities;(3) developmental training programs and services provided by the licensee meet all otherwise applicable requirements of law pertaining to such programs and services;(4) community living facility opportunities provided by the licensee meet all otherwise applicable requirements of law pertaining to such opportunities;(5) campus group homes provided by the licensee meet all otherwise applicable requirements of law pertaining to an ID/DD facility under the ID/DD Community Care Act;(6) medically complex for the developmentally disabled facility opportunities provided by the licensee meet all otherwise applicable requirements of law pertaining to such opportunities; and(7) the applicant complies with such other requirements as the Secretary of Human Services may consider necessary and appropriate to carry out the purposes of this Act and other applicable requirements of law.A continuum of care license may be issued to a continuum of care facility upon the adoption of the rules provided for in Section 20 of this Act.
Added by P.A. 099-0892,§ 30, eff. 1/1/2017.