Bill Amendment: IL HB0880 | 2025-2026 | 104th General Assembly

NOTE: For additional amemendments please see the Bill Drafting List

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Bill Title: STATE GOVERNMENT-TECH

Status: 2026-04-17 - Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB0880 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2025-HB0880-House_Amendment_001.html

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Rep. Sonya M. Harper

Filed: 4/17/2026

 

 

 

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AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 880
AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 880 by replacing
everything after the enacting clause with the following:
"Section 5. The Department of Human Services Act is
amended by changing Section 10-65 as follows:
(20 ILCS 1305/10-65)
Sec. 10-65. Hunger Relief Fund; grants.
(a) The Hunger Relief Fund is created as a special fund in
the State treasury. From appropriations to the Department from
the Fund, the Department shall make grants to food banks and,
to the extent practicable, providers for the purpose of
purchasing food and related supplies. In this Section, "food
bank" means a public or charitable institution that maintains
an established operation involving the provision of food or
edible commodities, or the products of food or edible
commodities, to food pantries, soup kitchens, hunger relief

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centers, or other food or feeding centers that, as an integral
part of their normal activities, provide meals or food to feed
needy persons on a regular basis.
(b) Moneys received for the purposes of this Section,
including, without limitation, appropriations, gifts,
donations, grants, and awards from any public or private
entity must be deposited into the Fund. Any interest earned on
moneys in the Fund must be deposited into the Fund.
(c) As used in this Section:
"Food bank" means a public or charitable institution that
maintains an established operation involving the provision of
food or edible commodities, or the products of food or edible
commodities, for distribution to food pantries, soup kitchens,
hunger relief centers, or other food or feeding centers that,
as an integral part of their normal activities, provide meals
or food to feed needy persons on a regular basis.
"Provider" means a public or charitable organization that
is a recognized member agency with Feeding America and that
maintains an operation involving the provision of food or
edible commodities and, as an integral part of the
organization's normal activities, provides meals or food to
feed needy persons on a regular basis.
(Source: P.A. 96-604, eff. 8-24-09; 97-333, eff. 8-12-11.)".