The Money Follows the Person Budget Transfer Fund is hereby created as a special fund in the State treasury.
     (a) Notwithstanding any State law to the contrary, the following moneys shall be deposited into the Fund:

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Terms Used In Illinois Compiled Statutes 305 ILCS 5/12-10.7a

  • Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
  • Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
  • State: when applied to different parts of the United States, may be construed to include the District of Columbia and the several territories, and the words "United States" may be construed to include the said district and territories. See Illinois Compiled Statutes 5 ILCS 70/1.14

         (1) enhanced federal financial participation funds
    
related to any spending under a Money Follows the Person demonstration project or initiative, as approved by the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and codified at 20 ILCS 2407/51 et seq., regardless of whether such spending occurred from the Money Follows the Person Budget Transfer Fund;
        (2) federal financial participation funds related to
    
any spending under a Money Follows the Person demonstration project or initiative, as approved by the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and codified at 20 ILCS 2407/51 et seq., that occurred from the Money Follows the Person Budget Transfer Fund;
        (2.5) other federal funds awarded for a Money
    
Follows the Person demonstration project or initiative, as approved by the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and codified at 20 ILCS 2407/51 et seq.;
        (3) deposits made via the voucher-warrant process
    
from institutional long-term care appropriations to the Department of Healthcare and Family Services and institutional developmentally disabled long-term care appropriations to the Department of Human Services;
        (4) deposits made via the voucher-warrant process
    
from appropriation lines used to fund community-based services for individuals eligible for nursing facility level of care to the Department of Human Services, the Department on Aging, or the Department of Healthcare and Family Services;
        (5) interest earned on moneys in the Fund; and
         (6) all other moneys received by the Fund from any
    
source.
    (b) Subject to appropriation, moneys in the Fund may be used by the Department of Healthcare and Family Services for reimbursement or payment for:
         (1) expenses related to rebalancing long-term care
    
services between institutional and community-based settings as authorized under a Money Follows the Person demonstration project or initiative, as approved by the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and codified at 20 ILCS 2407/51 et seq., including, but not limited to, reimbursement to other entities of State government for related expenditures;
        (2) expenses for community-based services for
    
individuals eligible for nursing facility level of care in the Department of Human Services, the Department on Aging, or the Department of Healthcare and Family Services to the extent the expenses reimbursed or paid are in excess of the amounts budgeted to those Departments each fiscal year for persons transitioning out of institutional long-term care settings under a Money Follows the Person demonstration project or initiative, as approved by the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and codified at 20 ILCS 2407/51 et seq.;
        (3) expenses for institutional long-term care
    
services at the Department of Healthcare and Family Services to the extent that the expenses reimbursed or paid are for services in excess of the amount budgeted to the Department each fiscal year for persons who had or otherwise were expected to transition out of institutional long-term care settings under a Money Follows the Person demonstration project or initiative, as approved by the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and codified at 20 ILCS 2407/51 et seq.; and
        (4) expenses, including operational, administrative,
    
and refund expenses, necessary to implement and operate a Money Follows the Person demonstration project or initiative, as approved by the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and codified at 20 ILCS 2407/51 et seq.
    Expenses reimbursed or paid on behalf of other agencies by the Department of Healthcare and Family Services under this subsection shall be pursuant to an interagency agreement and allowable under a Money Follows the Person demonstration project or initiative, as approved by the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and codified at 20 ILCS 2407/51 et seq.