Bill Amendment: IL HB3284 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly

NOTE: For additional amemendments please see the Bill Drafting List

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Bill Title: VIOLENCE INTERVEN TASK FORCE

Status: 2023-03-27 - House Floor Amendment No. 1 Rule 19(c) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB3284 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2023-HB3284-House_Amendment_001.html

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Rep. Maura Hirschauer

Filed: 3/21/2023

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AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 3284
AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 3284 by replacing
everything after the enacting clause with the following:
"Section 1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the
Community Violence Intervention Workforce Development Act.
Section 5. Intent.
(a) Community violence intervention services provide
comprehensive outreach, mental health, and employment training
and placement services to individuals at highest risk of being
shot or shooting someone in communities with high
concentrations of gunshot victims.
(b) Initial data and evaluation indicates comprehensive
community violence intervention services show promise in
contributing to the reduction in gun violence victims in
Illinois.
(c) Community violence intervention services require a

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variety of skilled professionals with lived experience and
cultural competency to maximize the effectiveness of outreach,
mental health, and employment and training services.
(d) The need for those with lived experience and cultural
competency to be the primary workforce for community violence
intervention restricts the available workforce for community
violence intervention professionals.
(e) Individuals with lived experience in chronic exposure
to gun violence frequently require specialized supports to
professionalize their approach and maintain their traumatic
recovery from exposure to gun violence while working in the
gun violence prevention field.
(f) Illinois has a shortage of qualified community
violence intervention professionals at all job functions while
less than 20% of those with chronic exposure to gun violence
are currently being served with community violence
intervention services.
Section 10. Community Violence Intervention Workforce
Development Workgroup; duties. The Office of Firearm Violence
Prevention within the Department of Human Services shall
establish the Community Violence Intervention Workforce
Development Workgroup. The Office of Firearm Violence
Prevention shall convene a group of experts in the field of
community violence intervention and conduct meetings and
analysis as the Community Violence Intervention Workforce

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Development Workgroup. The Community Violence Intervention
Workforce Development Task Force shall complete the following
tasks before January 1, 2024:
(1) estimate the number of highest risk individuals
currently being served with community violence
intervention services and the number of high risk
individuals that likely need these services;
(2) determine the current and future workforce needs
of the community violence intervention field in Illinois
based on a goal of serving 75% of those with chronic
exposure to gun violence in the next 5 years;
(3) identify the critical job function and categories
required by community violence intervention services;
(4) develop estimates of the available workforce by
job function and category to its best ability;
(5) develop job descriptions and merit assessment
tools by job function and category;
(6) identify changes to grant and other state funding
that can enable stronger recruitment, training, and
evaluation of community violence intervention workers and
services; and
(7) make recommendations to the General Assembly by
job function and category for changes to State law that
will allow for the development and implementation of
career paths and quality recruitment and retention of a
community violence intervention workforce.

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Section 15. Community Violence Intervention Workforce
Development Workgroup; membership.
(a) The Community Violence Intervention Workforce
Development Workgroup shall be comprised of the following
members:
(1) one representative from Metropolitan Peace
Academy;
(2) one representative from READI Chicago;
(3) one representative from a Chicago-based violence
prevention organization that is not part of the
Communities partnering for Peace or READI Chicago
networks;
(4) one representative from Community Based Violence
Prevention Agency-Peoria;
(5) one representative from Community Based Violence
Prevention Agency-East St. Louis;
(6) one representative from Community Based Violence
Prevention Agency-Rockford;
(7) one representative from Community Based Violence
Prevention Agency-Aurora/Elgin;
(8) one representative from an organization that
operates community violence intervention services itself
and funds the development of other network services with
private funds;
(9) one representative from the Illinois Criminal

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Justice Information Authority;
(10) one representative from a university-based
research institution that evaluates violence prevention
programs;
(11) one representative from the Office of Firearm
Violence Prevention;
(12) a representative from the behavioral health
community;
(13) one representative from the foundation community
that both funds violence intervention services itself and
participates in a private funding collaborative that funds
violence prevention services;
(14) a representative of a community college;
(15) a representative of the City of Chicago; and
(16) 4 members of the General Assembly, one each
appointed by the Speaker of the House of Representatives,
the Minority Leader of the House of Representatives, the
President of the Senate, and the Minority Leader of the
Senate.
(b) The members of the Workgroup listed in paragraphs (1)
through (16) of subsection (a) shall be appointed by the
Assistant Secretary of Firearm Violence Prevention, or the
Assistant Secretary's designee.
(c) The Assistant Secretary of Firearm Violence
Prevention, or his or her designee, shall convene the
Community Violence Intervention Workforce Development

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Workgroup, and work in collaboration with members to submit a
final report to the General Assembly.
Section 20. Dissolution. The Workgroup is dissolved on
January 1, 2025.
Section 25. Repeal. This Act is repealed on January 1,
2025.
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.".