Bill Text: IL SB2577 | 2009-2010 | 96th General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Amends the Rental Housing Support Program Act. Provides that any grant money distributed to a local administering agency under the Rental Housing Support Program that has not been used within 2 years of the distribution date shall be allocated to that local administering agency's county general fund, if and only if a resolution is passed by the county board urging such action.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-03-08 - Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 Rule 3-9(a) / Re-referred to Assignments [SB2577 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2009-SB2577-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,
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3 | represented in the General Assembly:
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4 | Section 5. The Rental Housing Support
Program Act is | |||||||||||||||||||
5 | amended by changing Section 15 as follows:
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6 | (310 ILCS 105/15)
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7 | Sec. 15. Grants to local administering agencies. | |||||||||||||||||||
8 | (a) Under the program, the Authority shall make grants to | |||||||||||||||||||
9 | local
administering agencies to provide subsidies to landlords | |||||||||||||||||||
10 | to enable the
landlords to charge rent affordable for | |||||||||||||||||||
11 | low-income tenants. Grants shall also
include an amount for the | |||||||||||||||||||
12 | operating expenses of local administering agencies.
Operating | |||||||||||||||||||
13 | expenses for local administering agencies shall not exceed 10% | |||||||||||||||||||
14 | for grants under $500,000 and shall not exceed 7% for grants | |||||||||||||||||||
15 | over $500,000.
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16 | (b) The Authority shall develop a request-for-proposals | |||||||||||||||||||
17 | process for
soliciting proposals from local administering | |||||||||||||||||||
18 | agencies and for
awarding grants. The request-for-proposals | |||||||||||||||||||
19 | process and the funded projects must
be consistent with the | |||||||||||||||||||
20 | criteria set forth in Section 25 and with
additional criteria | |||||||||||||||||||
21 | set forth by the Authority in rules implementing this Act.
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22 | (c) Local administering agencies may be local governmental | |||||||||||||||||||
23 | bodies, local
housing authorities, or not-for-profit |
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1 | organizations. The Authority shall
set forth in rules the | ||||||
2 | financial and capacity requirements necessary for an
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3 | organization to qualify as a local administering agency and the | ||||||
4 | parameters for administration of the grants by local | ||||||
5 | administering agencies.
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6 | (d) The Authority shall distribute grants to local | ||||||
7 | administering agencies
according to a formula based on U.S. | ||||||
8 | Census data. The formula shall determine
percentages of the | ||||||
9 | funds to be distributed to the following geographic areas:
(i)
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10 | Chicago; (ii) suburban areas: Cook County (excluding Chicago), | ||||||
11 | DuPage County,
Lake County, Kane County, Will County, and | ||||||
12 | McHenry County; (iii) small
metropolitan areas: Springfield, | ||||||
13 | Rockford, Peoria, Decatur, Champaign-Urbana,
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14 | Bloomington-Normal, Rock Island, DeKalb, Madison County, | ||||||
15 | Moline, Pekin,
Rantoul, and St. Clair County; and (iv) rural | ||||||
16 | areas, defined as all areas of the State not specifically named | ||||||
17 | in items (i), (ii), and (iii) of this subsection. A geographic | ||||||
18 | area's
percentage share shall be determined by the total number | ||||||
19 | of households that
have an annual income of less than 50% of | ||||||
20 | State median income for a household
of 4, as determined by the | ||||||
21 | U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, and that are | ||||||
22 | paying more than 30% of their income for rent. The geographic | ||||||
23 | distribution shall be re-determined
by the Authority each time | ||||||
24 | new U.S. Census data becomes available. The
Authority shall | ||||||
25 | phase in any changes to the geographic formula to prevent a
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26 | large
withdrawal of resources from one area that could |
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1 | negatively impact households
receiving rental housing support.
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2 | Up to 20% of the funds allocated for rural areas, as defined in | ||||||
3 | this subsection, may be set aside and awarded to one | ||||||
4 | administering agency to be distributed throughout the rural | ||||||
5 | areas in the State to localities that desire a number of | ||||||
6 | subsidized units of housing that is too small to justify the | ||||||
7 | establishment of a full local program. In those localities, the | ||||||
8 | administering agency may contract with local agencies to share | ||||||
9 | the administrative tasks of the program, such as inspections of | ||||||
10 | units.
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11 | (e) In order to ensure applications from all geographic | ||||||
12 | areas of the
State, the
Authority shall create a plan to ensure | ||||||
13 | that potential local
administering agencies have
ample time and | ||||||
14 | support to consider making an application and to prepare an
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15 | application.
Such a plan must include, but is not limited to: | ||||||
16 | an outreach and education plan
regarding
the program and the | ||||||
17 | requirements for a local administering agency; ample time
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18 | between the
initial
notice of funding ability and the deadline | ||||||
19 | to submit an application, which
shall not be less than 9
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20 | months;
and access to assistance from the Authority or another | ||||||
21 | agency in considering
and preparing the application.
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22 | (f) In order to maintain consistency for households | ||||||
23 | receiving rental housing
support, the Authority shall, to the | ||||||
24 | extent possible given funding resources available in the Rental | ||||||
25 | Housing Support Program,
continue to fund local administering | ||||||
26 | agencies at the same level on an annual
basis, unless the |
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1 | Authority determines that a local administering agency is not
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2 | meeting the criteria set forth in Section 25 or is not adhering | ||||||
3 | to other standards set forth by rule by the Authority.
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4 | (g) If and only if a resolution is passed by the county | ||||||
5 | board urging such action, any grant money distributed to a | ||||||
6 | local administering agency under the program that has not been | ||||||
7 | used within 2 years of the distribution date shall be allocated | ||||||
8 | to that local administering agency's county general fund. | ||||||
9 | (Source: P.A. 94-118, eff. 7-5-05.)
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