This year, Municipal Minute will be counting down to the New
Year with updates on legislation that will be effective starting on January 1,
2026.
Public Act
104-0057 amends the Municipal Code and the Fire Protection District to
allow municipalities and fire protection districts to collect reasonable fees
from assisted living facilities and nursing homes to cover lift assistance
services provided to residents of these facilities. Lift-assist service fees
can be imposed for every service after the sixth service provided to that
specific facility in one year.
A lift assist service is a response by first responders in
order to lift a patient from their current position to a desired position.
While these lifts do not occur in response to a request for an ambulance ride
to the hospital or emergency room, they can still utilize limited resources of
municipalities and fire protection districts. This legislation will allow fire
protection districts and municipalities to recover some of these costs and
alleviate some strains on limited financial resources of government bodies.
Post authored by Alexis Carter, Ancel Glink