Bill Text: IL HB5302 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Township Code. Provides that, on July 1, 2025, the State Comptroller shall direct and the State Treasurer shall transfer $5,000,000 from the General Revenue Fund into the Lake County Community Coalition Fund. Provides the Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority may provide grants from the Lake County Community Coalition Fund to the Waukegan Township Board for the purpose of providing grants to local nonprofit organizations that assist the community with services, including transitional housing assistance, violence prevention efforts, youth mentorship programs, substance abuse treatment, reentry services, cultural training, and vocational training, including administrative costs. Creates a yearly continuing appropriation into the Lake County Community Coalition Fund of all amounts necessary to implement the provisions should the aggregate appropriations appropriated by the General Assembly for grants from all State funds for each State fiscal year be less than $5,000,000. Amends the State Finance Act to create the Lake County Community Coalition Fund. Effective July 1, 2025.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-02-09 - Referred to Rules Committee [HB5302 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2023-HB5302-Introduced.html

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103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2023 and 2024 HB5302 Introduced , by Rep. Rita Mayfield SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
60 ILCS 1/85-70 new
30 ILCS 105/5.1015 new
Amends the Township Code. Provides that, on July 1, 2025, the State Comptroller shall direct and the State Treasurer shall transfer $5,000,000 from the General Revenue Fund into the Lake County Community Coalition Fund. Provides the Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority may provide grants from the Lake County Community Coalition Fund to the Waukegan Township Board for the purpose of providing grants to local nonprofit organizations that assist the community with services, including transitional housing assistance, violence prevention efforts, youth mentorship programs, substance abuse treatment, reentry services, cultural training, and vocational training, including administrative costs. Creates a yearly continuing appropriation into the Lake County Community Coalition Fund of all amounts necessary to implement the provisions should the aggregate appropriations appropriated by the General Assembly for grants from all State funds for each State fiscal year be less than $5,000,000. Amends the State Finance Act to create the Lake County Community Coalition Fund. Effective July 1, 2025.
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning local government.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Township Code is amended by adding Section
85-70 as follows:
(60 ILCS 1/85-70 new)
Sec. 85-70. Lake County Community Coalition Fund.
(a) On July 1, 2025, the State Comptroller shall direct
and the State Treasurer shall transfer $5,000,000 from the
General Revenue Fund into the Lake County Community Coalition
Fund, a special fund that is created in the State treasury,
and, subject to future appropriation, may be expended by the
Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority to provide
grants to the Waukegan Township Board for the purpose of
providing grants to local nonprofit organizations that assist
the community with services, including transitional housing
assistance, violence prevention efforts, youth mentorship
programs, substance abuse treatment, reentry services,
cultural training, and vocational training, including
administrative costs.
(b) Beginning July 1, 2026, the aggregate appropriations
appropriated by the General Assembly for grants under
subsection (a) from all State funds for each State fiscal year

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shall be no less than $5,000,000.
If for any reason the aggregate appropriations
appropriated by the General Assembly for grants under
subsection (a) are less than $5,000,000 in any fiscal year,
this subsection shall constitute a continuing appropriation of
all amounts necessary for these purposes into the Lake County
Community Coalition Fund. The General Assembly may appropriate
lesser amounts by law.
Section 10. The State Finance Act is amended by adding
Section 5.1015 as follows:
(30 ILCS 105/5.1015 new)
Sec. 5.1015. The Lake County Community Coalition Fund.