Bill Text: IL SB0347 | 2017-2018 | 100th General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Amends the Shelter Residents Protection Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning homeless persons' savings accounts.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Failed) 2019-01-09 - Session Sine Die [SB0347 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2017-SB0347-Introduced.html
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| 1 | AN ACT concerning housing.
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| 2 | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, | |||||||||||||||||||
| 3 | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | Section 5. The Shelter Residents Protection Act is amended | |||||||||||||||||||
| 5 | by changing Section 5 as follows:
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| 6 | (310 ILCS 80/5)
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| 7 | Sec. 5. Homeless persons; savings.
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| 8 | (a) If a homeless person resides at a shelter, that
that | |||||||||||||||||||
| 9 | person may open a
passbook savings account at a bank or savings | |||||||||||||||||||
| 10 | and loan association subject to
the requirements imposed by the | |||||||||||||||||||
| 11 | bank or savings and loan association. In the
alternative, the | |||||||||||||||||||
| 12 | homeless person may enter into a written agreement with the
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| 13 | shelter in which he or she resides; the agreement may provide | |||||||||||||||||||
| 14 | that the shelter
will accept and hold moneys belonging to the | |||||||||||||||||||
| 15 | homeless person. Under such an
agreement, the shelter shall do | |||||||||||||||||||
| 16 | the following:
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| 17 | (1) Place the moneys in a non-interest bearing account | |||||||||||||||||||
| 18 | for the
homeless person, at no cost to that person.
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| 19 | (2) Segregate, from all other moneys or accounts held | |||||||||||||||||||
| 20 | or maintained by
the shelter, moneys accepted from and held | |||||||||||||||||||
| 21 | for homeless persons.
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| 22 | (3) Maintain, separately for each homeless person with | |||||||||||||||||||
| 23 | whom an
agreement is made under this Section, an accurate | |||||||||||||||||||
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| 1 | accounting of the moneys
accepted from, held for, and | ||||||
| 2 | withdrawn by that person. Upon a homeless
person's request, | ||||||
| 3 | the shelter shall provide a copy of the accounting
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| 4 | concerning that person's moneys.
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| 5 | (4) Pay to the homeless person, within 48 hours after | ||||||
| 6 | the person's
request, the amount of the person's moneys | ||||||
| 7 | held by the shelter or any
lesser amount requested by the | ||||||
| 8 | homeless person.
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| 9 | (b) Money held by a shelter under this Section shall not be | ||||||
| 10 | subject to
assignment, attachment, garnishment, set-off, or | ||||||
| 11 | other process in aid of
creditors.
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| 12 | (c) For purposes of this Section, "homeless person" means | ||||||
| 13 | either of the
following:
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| 14 | (1) An individual who lacks a fixed, regular, and | ||||||
| 15 | adequate nighttime
residence; or
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| 16 | (2) An individual who has a primary nighttime residence | ||||||
| 17 | that is any
of the following:
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| 18 | (A) A supervised publicly or privately operated | ||||||
| 19 | shelter designed
to provide temporary living | ||||||
| 20 | accommodations (including welfare hotels,
congregate | ||||||
| 21 | shelters, and transitional housing for the mentally | ||||||
| 22 | ill).
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| 23 | (B) An institution that provides a temporary | ||||||
| 24 | residence for
individuals intended to be | ||||||
| 25 | institutionalized.
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| 26 | (C) A public or private place not designed for, or | ||||||
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| 1 | ordinarily used
as, a regular sleeping accommodation | ||||||
| 2 | for human beings.
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| 3 | (Source: P.A. 87-1093.)
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