State Reports                                                               

Items listed under "State Documents" have been received by the Documents Unit, Illinois State Library, Springfield, and are usually available from public libraries in the state through interlibrary loan. Issuing agencies may have copies available. For items listed under "Other Reports," write to the publisher as noted.

• State Mandates Catalog, Department of Commerce and Community Affairs, Division of Community Assistance, 620 E. Adams, Springfield 62701 (June 1992), 157pp.

The Illinois State Mandates Act, which became effective January 1, 1981, requires 100 percent reimbursement of the increased cost to local governments due to the imposition of either personnel mandates or due process mandates. Reimbursement of 50 percent-100 percent is required for the cost of service mandates. No reimbursement is required for the cost of organization and structure mandates or due process mandates. This catalog identifies mandates that have been enacted since 1981 and that affect local governments other than school or community college districts. It is divided into two sections: nonreimbursable mandates and reimbursable mandates. Each section is further subdivided into five subject areas: all local governments, counties, municipalities, township/road districts, and special districts. The catalog also contains 26 pages of tables that assist the reader in finding specific mandates or categories of mandates.

• An Rx for Medicaid, by Robert L. Mandeville for the Illinois Tax Foundation, 201 E. Adams, Suite 350, Springfield 62701 (1992), 63pp.; $10 plus $1 postage and handling.

This is the first in a series of papers to be issued by the Illinois Tax Foundation that will explore some of the social and budgetary challenges facing Illinois and its state and local governments. Medicaid, which now comprises approximately one-third of the state's budget, is certainly a fitting subject for this series, and Mandeville, the state's budget director from 1977 to 1990, explains in clear and straightforward terms why it has become such a policymaker's nightmare. He concludes with four recommendations that will cause further sleepless nights but which will need to be confronted not only by decisionmakers but by all concerned citizens of this state.

Anna J. Merritt

34/February 1993/Illinois Issues