New legislation may bring back last year’s battle between Democratic legislators and Gov. Bruce Rauner over requirements to receive state-funded home care assistance.

Rauner had proposed raising what’s called the Determination of Need, or DON score, in his first budget address. The score decides how much state aid a person with disabilities or a senior receives through the Department of Human Services’ Home Services program.

The governor later used his amendatory veto powers on a bill that would’ve locked in the current requirements into law, while also backing away from a plan to raise the score needed to qualify for care through an administrative rule change.

Now, State Rep. Greg Harris (D-Chicago) is reintroducing his bill to set the current DON score requirements into statute, preventing them from being changed again without going through the General Assembly.

The DON score requirements would only remain in effect until the state receives federal approval to implement a new assessment tool.

In other State news, there’s agreement that the current funding formula for the state providing tax dollars to primary education isn’t working but there’s disagreement on the fix.  Bunker Hill Democratic Senator Andy Manar says the current funding formula, which takes poverty levels into account but does not address disparities in local property taxes, needs to change and he’s pushing lawmakers to take up Senate Bill 1, which was introduced last January.  Governor Bruce Rauner agrees the current formula is inadequate. In a statement Rauner’s office says “after signing the k-12 education bill, which allocates the most general state aid to schools in Illinois history, Governor Rauner reiterated his belief that the current school funding formula is not effective.”

However, the administration says it has not seen Manor’s bill, and “is not in a position to comment on it at this time.”