Bill Text: IL HB3331 | 2019-2020 | 101st General Assembly | Chaptered

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Bill Title: Amends the Homelessness Prevention Act. Changes certain types of assistance grantees shall offer households to prevent homelessness as follows: (1) payment of a rent or mortgage arrearage (rather than payment of a rent or mortgage arrearage in an amount established as necessary to defeat the eviction or foreclosure, but shall in no event be greater than 3 months of rental or mortgage arrears); (2) payment of a security deposit (rather than payment of a rent deposit or security deposit and payment of not more than 2 months rent or mortgage payments); and (3) payment of rent or mortgage. Provides that in no case shall the total assistance for a household be greater than the equivalent of 6 months of rent or mortgage payments. Provides that, on an annual basis, a grantee's administrative costs and case management expenses shall not exceed 15% of the grant amount it receives.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 38-1)

Status: (Passed) 2019-08-09 - Public Act . . . . . . . . . 101-0280 [HB3331 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2019-HB3331-Chaptered.html

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Public Act 101-0280
HB3331 Enrolled LRB101 11105 KTG 56320 b
AN ACT concerning housing.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Homelessness Prevention Act is amended by
changing Section 6 and by adding Section 12.5 as follows:
(310 ILCS 70/6) (from Ch. 67 1/2, par. 1306)
Sec. 6. Forms of assistance. Assistance offered to
households by grantees shall include but not be limited to the
following:
(a) payment of a rent or mortgage arrearage in an amount
established as necessary to defeat the eviction or foreclosure,
but shall in no event be greater than 3 months of rental or
mortgage arrears;
(b) payment of a rent deposit or security deposit and
payment of not more than 2 months rent or mortgage payments;
(b-5) payment of rent or mortgage;
(c) payment of utility bills and arrearages; or
(d) support services, where appropriate, to prevent
homelessness or repeated episodes of homelessness.
In no case shall the total assistance for a household be
greater than the equivalent of 6 months of rent or mortgage
payments.
(Source: P.A. 96-291, eff. 8-11-09.)

(310 ILCS 70/12.5 new)
Sec. 12.5. Administrative costs and case management
expenses. On an annual basis, a grantee's administrative costs
and case management expenses shall not exceed 15% of the grant
amount it receives under the Act.