Illinois Administrative Code › Title 77 - PUBLIC HEALTH › Part 630 - MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH SERVICES CODE › Subpart A - GENERAL › Section 630.10 - Legislative Base

Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 28, July 12, 2024
a) Federal
Legislative provisions for health services for mothers and
				  children were initiated with Title V of the Social Security Act in 1935 (
				  42 U.S.C.
				  701 et seq.) through formula grants to States
				  for maternal and child health services. Over the next 50 years Title V has been
				  broadened and expanded in response to changing need. The most recent and
				  extensive revision to Title V came through the Maternal and Child Health (MCH)
				  Services Block Grant Act of 1981 ( PL 97-35; Sec. 2191 et seq.). The MCH Block
				  Grant Act virtually rewrote Title V to provide federal funds to states through
				  a block grant arrangement so that each State could allocate resources based
				  upon its individual needs and circumstances. In addition to the Maternal and
				  Child Health and Crippled Children's Service (CCS) components, previous federal
				  categorical grant programs for Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS), Lead
				  Screening, Adolescent Pregnancy, Genetics, Hemophilia and Supplemental Security
				  Income - Disabled Children's Program (SSI-DCP) were folded into the MCH Block.
				  Each State is to determine the types of activities and the level of support for
				  each type of project that would be included in its State MCH Program.
b) State
1) On July 12, 1877, the Illinois Department
				of Public Health was established to regulate the practice of medicine and to
				promote sanitary and hygienic activities. In 1919 the Division of Child Hygiene
				and Public Health Nursing was created to address the health needs of mothers
				and children following a terrible epidemic of infantile paralysis (polio) which
				struck the State in 1916 and 1917.
2) Since that time a wide array of state
				health department programs were developed by this Division and its various
				successor units. After the enactment of Title V legislation, the Division
				became the designated maternal and child health unit of the
				Department.
3) The Division of
				Family Health carries responsibility for implementing and maintaining Federal
				Title V programs as well as the following program areas mandated by state
				legislation:
A) AN ACT relating to the
				prevention of developmental disabilities (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1989, ch. 1111/2,
				par. 2101 et seq.)
B) AN ACT
				concerning the disease of phenylketonuria and other metabolic diseases,
				designating certain powers and duties in relation thereto, providing penalties
				for violation thereof, to repeal an Act therein named and to make an
				appropriation in connection therewith. (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1989, ch. 1111/2, par.
				4903 et seq.)
C) AN ACT to revise
				the law in relation to coroners (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1989, ch. 31, par. 10.2
				a).
D) Lead Poisoning Prevention
				Act (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1989, ch. 1111/2, par. 1301 et seq.)
E) Infant Mortality Reduction Act (Ill. Rev.
				Stat. 1989, ch. 1111/2, Par. 7001 et seq.)
F) The Problem Pregnancy Health Services and
				Care Act (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1989, ch. 1111/2, Par. 4601-100 et seq.)
G) Prenatal and Newborn Care Act (P.A.
				86-861, effective January 1, 1990).