Bill Amendment: IL HB3335 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly

NOTE: For additional amemendments please see the Bill Drafting List

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Bill Title: CD CORR-HOUSING VOUCHER

Status: 2024-04-24 - Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Lilian Jiménez [HB3335 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2023-HB3335-House_Amendment_001.html

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Rep. Kevin John Olickal

Filed: 3/21/2023

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AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 3335
AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 3335 by replacing
everything after the enacting clause with the following:
"Section 5. The Unified Code of Corrections is amended by
adding Section 3-14-4.6 as follows:
(730 ILCS 5/3-14-4.6 new)
Sec. 3-14-4.6. Rental stipends for persons released from
Department correctional institutions and facilities.
(a) The Department of Corrections may provide temporary
housing assistance for a person being released from a
correctional institution or facility of the Department of
Corrections through the use of rental stipends, for a period
not to exceed 12 months, if the Department finds that such
assistance will support the person's release into the
community by preventing housing instability or homelessness or
if a person is unable to find housing as a condition of the

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person's release from a correctional facility. A person may
not receive a combined total of rental stipends in excess of 12
months for each release from a correctional institution or
facility of the Department of Corrections.
(b) The Department of Corrections shall establish policies
for prioritizing funds available for rental stipends under
this Section for persons at risk of becoming homeless or
becoming homeless without assistance while taking into account
risk to reoffend. If housing is outlined as part of a person's
release agreement, the Department of Corrections must use the
rental stipend to find the person safe housing.
(c) Stipends must be provided in conjunction with
additional transition support programming or services that
enable an offender to participate in services including, but
not limited to, substance abuse treatment, mental health
treatment, sex offender treatment, educational programming,
technology competency, employment programming, or a
combination of those programs or services.
(d) The Department shall maintain a list of housing
providers that meets the requirements of this Section.
However, the final determination in use of the stipend is to be
determined by the individual not the landlord or the
Department of Corrections.
The Department of Corrections must gather data in order to
best demonstrate whether rental stipends are effective in
reducing recidivism.

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Subject to the availability of amounts appropriated for
this specific purpose, the Illinois Housing Development
Authority shall conduct an outcome evaluation and benefit-cost
analysis of the rental stipend. The analysis shall take into
account impacts on homelessness, recidivism, criminal justice
costs, use of public services, and other factors determined to
be appropriate by the Illinois Housing Development Authority.
The Department of Corrections shall cooperate with the
organizations tracking this progress including but not limited
to, Saint Leonard's Ministries and the Illinois Department of
Housing to facilitate access to data or other resources
necessary to complete the analysis required under this
Section. A final report to the Governor and appropriate
committees of the General Assembly shall be submitted on or
before December 1, 2025.".