Bill Text: IL HB5191 | 2019-2020 | 101st General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Creates the Intergenerational Poverty Act. Requires the Department of Human Services, subject to appropriations, to establish and maintain a data system to track intergenerational poverty. Requires the data system to have the ability to: (1) identify groups that have a high risk of experiencing intergenerational poverty; (2) identify incidents, patterns, and trends that explain or contribute to intergenerational poverty; and (3) gather and track available local, State, and national data on poverty and child poverty rates and other related information. Requires the Department to perform certain duties, including using the collected data to track intergenerational poverty. Establishes the Interagency Workgroup on Poverty and Economic Insecurity to analyze the collected information and data in order to: (i) understand the root causes of poverty and economic insecurity; (ii) identify children who are at risk of continuing in the cycle of poverty absent intervention; and (iii) implementing data-driven policies and programs that address poverty, education, economic development, and other areas as needed to measurably reduce the incidence of child poverty. Requires the workgroup to issue and publicly post an annual report on actions taken to eliminate poverty and economic insecurity in the State and other matters. Establishes the Commission on Poverty Elimination and Economic Security. Requires the Commission to develop and adopt a strategic plan, no later than November 30, 2020, to address poverty and economic insecurity in the State. Contains provisions concerning the membership on the Commission and reporting requirements. Effective immediately.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-07-10 - Fiscal Note Filed [HB5191 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2019-HB5191-Introduced.html

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101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2019 and 2020 HB5191 Introduced , by Rep. Lamont J. Robinson, Jr. SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
New Act
Creates the Intergenerational Poverty Act. Requires the Department of Human Services, subject to appropriations, to establish and maintain a data system to track intergenerational poverty. Requires the data system to have the ability to: (1) identify groups that have a high risk of experiencing intergenerational poverty; (2) identify incidents, patterns, and trends that explain or contribute to intergenerational poverty; and (3) gather and track available local, State, and national data on poverty and child poverty rates and other related information. Requires the Department to perform certain duties, including using the collected data to track intergenerational poverty. Establishes the Interagency Workgroup on Poverty and Economic Insecurity to analyze the collected information and data in order to: (i) understand the root causes of poverty and economic insecurity; (ii) identify children who are at risk of continuing in the cycle of poverty absent intervention; and (iii) implementing data-driven policies and programs that address poverty, education, economic development, and other areas as needed to measurably reduce the incidence of child poverty. Requires the workgroup to issue and publicly post an annual report on actions taken to eliminate poverty and economic insecurity in the State and other matters. Establishes the Commission on Poverty Elimination and Economic Security. Requires the Commission to develop and adopt a strategic plan, no later than November 30, 2020, to address poverty and economic insecurity in the State. Contains provisions concerning the membership on the Commission and reporting requirements. Effective immediately.
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FISCAL NOTE ACT MAY APPLY
A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning poverty.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Article 1. General Provisions
Section 101. Short title. This Act may be cited as the
Intergenerational Poverty Act.
Section 102. Definitions. As used in this Act:
"Antipoverty program" means a program with the primary goal
of lifting individuals out of poverty and improving economic
opportunities for individuals that operates, in whole or in
part, utilizing federal or State money.
"Asset poverty" means the inability of an individual to
access wealth resources sufficient to provide for basic needs
for a period of 3 months.
"Child" means an individual who is under 18 years of age.
"Commission" means the Commission on Poverty Elimination
and Economic Security established under subsection (a) of
Section 501.
"State poverty measure" means a uniform method for
measuring poverty in this State that considers indicators and
measures, other than traditional income-based measures of
poverty, that provide a detailed picture of low-income and

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poverty populations and meaningfully account for other factors
contributing to poverty and may include:
(1) access to health care, housing, proper nutrition,
and quality education;
(2) the number of individuals kept out of poverty by
government supports;
(3) the number of individuals who are impoverished due
to medical expenses, child-care expenses, or work
expenses;
(4) the rates of food insecurity;
(5) the number of individuals in asset poverty;
(6) the number of disconnected youth;
(7) the teen birth rate;
(8) the participation rate in federal and State
antipoverty programs for all eligible populations;
(9) the number of individuals who do not use a bank or
similar financial institution;
(10) regional differences in costs of living;
(11) income necessary to achieve economic security and
a livable standard of living in different regions of this
State;
(12) the impact of rising income inequality;
(13) the impact of the digital divide; and
(14) the impact of trauma on intergenerational
poverty.
"Cycle of poverty" means the set of factors or events by

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which the long-term poverty of an individual is likely to
continue and be experienced by each child of the individual
when the child becomes an adult unless there is outside
intervention.
"Deep poverty" means an economic condition where an
individual or family has a total annual income that is less
than 50% of the federal poverty level for the individual or
family as provided in the annual report of the United States
Census Bureau on Income, Poverty and Health Insurance Coverage
in the United States.
"Department" means the Department of Human Services.
"Deprivation" means a lack of adequate nutrition, health
care, housing, or other resources to provide for basic needs.
"Digital divide" means the gap between individuals,
households, businesses, and geographic areas at different
socioeconomic levels related to access to information and
communication technologies, including the imbalance in
physical access to technology and the resources, education, and
skills needed to effectively use computer technology and the
Internet for a wide variety of activities.
"Disconnected youth" means individuals who are 16 years of
age to 25 years of age who are unemployed and not enrolled in
school.
"Disparate impact" means the historic and ongoing impacts
of the pattern and practice of discrimination in employment,
education, housing, banking, and other aspects of life in the

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economy, society, or culture that have an adverse impact on
minorities, women, or other protected groups, regardless of
whether those practices are motivated by discriminatory
intent.
"Economic insecurity" means the inability to cope with
routine adverse or costly life events and recover from the
costly consequences of those events and the lack of economic
means to maintain an adequate standard of living.
"Economic security" means having access to the economic
means and support necessary to effectively cope with adverse or
costly life events and recover from the consequences of such
events while maintaining an adequate standard of living.
"Intergenerational poverty" means poverty in which 2 or
more successive generations of a family continue in the cycle
of poverty and government dependence. The term does not include
situational poverty.
"Outcome" means a change in the economic status, economic
instability, or economic security of an individual, household,
or other population that is attributable to a planned
intervention, benefit, service, or series of interventions,
benefits, and services, regardless of whether the
intervention, benefit, or service was intended to change the
economic status, economic stability, or economic security.
"Poverty" means an economic condition in which an
individual or family has a total annual income that is less
than the federal poverty level for the individual or family, as

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provided in the report of the United States Census Bureau on
Income, Poverty and Health Insurance Coverage in the United
States.
"Regional cost of living" means a measure of the costs of
maintaining an adequate standard of living in differing
regional, geographic, urban, or rural regions of this State.
"Situational poverty" means temporary poverty that meets
all of the following:
(1) Is generally traceable to a specific incident or
time period within the lifetime of an individual.
(2) Is not continued to the next generation.
"Strategic plan" means the plan provided for under Section
502.
"System" means the Intergenerational Poverty Tracking
System established under subsection (a) of Section 301.
"Two-generation approach" means an approach to breaking
the cycle of intergenerational poverty by improving family
economic security through programs that create opportunities
for and address the needs of parents and children together.
"Workgroup" means the Interagency Workgroup on Poverty and
Economic Insecurity established under Section 302.
Article 3. Intergenerational Poverty
Section 301. Intergenerational poverty tracking system.
(a) Establishment. Subject to appropriations, the

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Department shall establish and maintain a data system to track
intergenerational poverty.
(b) System requirements. The system shall have the ability
to do all of the following:
(1) Identify groups that have a high risk of
experiencing intergenerational poverty.
(2) Identify incidents, patterns, and trends that
explain or contribute to intergenerational poverty.
(3) Gather and track available local, State, and
national data on all of the following:
(i) Official poverty rates.
(ii) Child poverty rates.
(iii) Years spent by an individual in childhood
poverty.
(iv) Years spent by an individual in adult poverty.
(v) Related poverty information.
(c) Duties of the Department. The Department shall do all
of the following:
(1) Use available data in the system, including public
assistance data, census data, and other data made available
to the Department, to track intergenerational poverty.
(2) Develop and implement methods to integrate,
compare, analyze, and validate the data for the purposes
described under subsection (b).
(3) Protect the privacy of an individual living in
poverty by using and distributing data within the system in

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compliance with federal and State laws.
(4) Include, in the report required under Section 304,
a summary of the data, findings, and potential additional
uses of the system.
Section 302. Interagency Workgroup on Poverty and Economic
Insecurity.
(a) Establishment. The Interagency Workgroup on Poverty
and Economic Insecurity is established.
(b) Membership. The workgroup shall be comprised of the
following members:
(1) The Secretary of Human Services, or a designee who
is a Deputy Secretary or the equivalent within the
Department of Human Services, who shall serve as chair.
(2) The Director of Labor, or a designee who is a
Deputy Director or the equivalent within the Department of
Labor.
(3) The State Superintendent of Education, or his or
her designee.
(4) The Director of Public Health, or a designee who is
an Assistant Director or the equivalent within the
Department of Public Health.
(5) The Director of Commerce and Economic Opportunity,
or a designee who is an Assistant Director or the
equivalent within the Department of Commerce and Economic
Opportunity.

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(6) The Director of Aging, or a designee who shall be a
Deputy Director or the equivalent within the Department on
Aging.
(7) The Director of Corrections, or a designee who
shall be a Deputy Chief or the equivalent within the
Department of Corrections.
(8) The Director of Agriculture, or designee who shall
be an Assistant Director or the equivalent within the
Department of Agriculture.
(9) The Director of the Governor's Office of Management
and Budget, or his or her designee.
(c) Meetings. The workgroup shall meet no less than 4 times
a year.
Section 303. Powers and duties. The workgroup shall have
the following powers and duties:
(1) To collaborate in sharing and analyzing
information and data for all of the following purposes:
(i) Understanding the root causes of poverty and
economic insecurity, including contributing social,
economic, and cultural factors.
(ii) Understanding and addressing
intergenerational poverty by:
(A) Identifying children who are at risk of
continuing in the cycle of poverty absent
intervention.

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(B) Identifying and developing effective and
efficient plans, programs, and recommendations to
help at-risk children in this State escape the
cycle of poverty.
(C) Implementing data-driven policies and
programs, to the extent authorized by law,
addressing poverty, public assistance, education,
economic development, criminal justice, and other
areas as needed to measurably reduce the incidence
of children in this State who remain in poverty as
they become adults.
(D) Establishing and facilitating improved
cooperation, data sharing, and policy coordination
among all persons, from State agencies to case
workers, in rescuing children from
intergenerational poverty.
(E) Studying and measuring the effect of
intergenerational poverty on the ability of
parents and children to achieve economic
stability, including the effect on educational
attainment, rates of incarceration, lifetime
earnings, access to healthcare, and access to
housing.
(F) Studying, evaluating, and reporting on the
status and effectiveness of policies, procedures,
and programs that provide services to children in

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this State affected by intergenerational poverty.
(G) Studying and evaluating the policies,
procedures, and programs implemented by other
states and nongovernmental entities that address
the needs of children affected by
intergenerational poverty.
(H) Identifying State policies, procedures,
and programs or federal requirements that are
impeding efforts to help children in this State
affected by intergenerational poverty escape the
cycle of poverty.
(I) Developing and implementing programs and
policies that use the two-generation approach.
(iii) Studying and measuring the effect that
poverty and economic insecurity have on all of the
following:
(A) Worker productivity and economic output.
(B) The health and welfare of children,
including access to health care, housing, proper
nutrition, and quality education.
(iv) Identifying State programs, including those
related to economic development, job creation, job
training, the environment, disaster relief, hazard
mitigation, extreme weather, and climate change, in
need of reform to better target resources to
low-income, minority, rural, urban, and other

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populations or geographic areas suffering from
economic insecurity and disparate rates of poverty.
(v) Measuring the fiscal impact on the State from
successfully transitioning individuals and families
from poverty to long-term economic stability. Fiscal
impact measurements may include all of the following:
(A) Reductions in long-term costs of social
safety net programs.
(B) Reductions in long-term health care costs
by improving the health of households formerly
facing economic insecurity or poverty.
(C) Increases in State and local revenues
attributable to new taxpaying individuals as a
result of increased employment and disposable
income.
(D) Reductions in enrollment and costs in
need-based benefits and services programs.
(E) Improvements to the overall economy of
this State and reduced financial pressures on the
State and local governments.
(2) To establish an ongoing system of data sharing,
policy coordination and communication among and within
State agencies, local agencies, and other organizations
related to programs aimed at improving economic security
and eliminating poverty.
(3) To identify knowledge gaps, research needs, and

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policy and program deficiencies associated with economic
insecurity and poverty.
(4) To assist the Commission in the development of the
strategic plan, including sharing data and information
identified under paragraphs (1) and (3) and analyses of
that data and information.
(5) To implement the strategic plan adopted by the
Commission, including all of the following:
(i) Coordinating implementation of the strategic
plan.
(ii) Advising and assisting relevant agencies in
the implementation of the strategic plan.
(iii) Advising relevant agencies on specific
programmatic and policy matters related to the
strategic plan.
(iv) Providing relevant subject matter expertise
to each agency for purposes of implementing the
strategic plan.
(v) Identifying and addressing issues that may
influence the future of the strategic plan.
Section 304. Report.
(a) Report. No later than September 1 of each year, the
workgroup shall issue a report that includes the following:
(1) A summary of actions taken and outcomes obtained by
the workgroup in fulfilling its duties under Section 303.

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(2) Progress made on reducing poverty and economic
insecurity in this State, including policies or procedures
implemented to reduce or eliminate the cycle of poverty and
intergenerational poverty as a result of the data collected
by the workgroup.
(3) Relevant data assessing the scope and depth of
intergenerational poverty in this State.
(4) A 20-year history of poverty rates in this State
with focus on any reduction or increase in the rates during
the previous 10 years and since the inception of the
workgroup.
(5) Any recommendations for legislative or regulatory
action to adopt or repeal laws, policies, or procedures to
further the goal of eliminating poverty and economic
insecurity in this State.
(b) Distribution. The workgroup shall distribute the
report created under subsection (a) as follows:
(1) To the Governor.
(2) To each member of the General Assembly.
(3) By prominently posting the report on each State
Department's and agency's publicly accessible Internet
website.
Article 5. Poverty Elimination and Economic Security Strategic
Planning

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Section 501. The Commission on Poverty Elimination and
Economic Security.
(a) Establishment. The Commission on Poverty Elimination
and Economic Security is established.
(b) Purpose. The purpose of the Commission is to:
(1) Inform the public policy making process by:
(i) Improving policymakers' understanding of the
root causes of poverty and economic insecurity,
including contributing social, economic, and cultural
factors and the reasons that poverty and economic
insecurity persist in this State.
(ii) Expanding policymakers' understanding of
poverty by distinguishing a standard that measures a
level of freedom from deprivation from a standard that
measures economic security provided by a living wage
and access to a livable standard of living.
(iii) Educating policymakers on the impact poverty
has on other measures of economic stability and
economic outcomes, including educational attainment,
rates of incarceration, lifetime earnings, access to
health care, health care outcomes, and access to
housing.
(2) Support governmental efforts to ensure that
residents of this State have equal opportunity to achieve
economic security.
(3) Reduce and ultimately eliminate poverty in this

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State by making policy and other recommendations to the
legislative, executive, and judicial branches of this
State.
(c) Membership. The Commission shall consist of the
following members:
(1) Four members of the General Assembly, one each
appointed by the President of the Senate, the Minority
Leader of the Senate, the Speaker of the House of
Representatives, and the Minority Leader of the House of
Representative.
(2) A member of the judiciary or a designee who shall
be appointed by the Chief Justice of the Illinois Supreme
Court.
(3) Twenty members of the public appointed under
subsection (d) representing stakeholders as follows:
(i) Two representatives, one of whom shall
represent an organization that focuses on rural
poverty and one of whom shall represent an organization
that focuses on urban and suburban poverty.
(ii) Two individuals who have experienced deep
poverty.
(iii) One representative of an organization that
advocates for health care access, affordability, and
availability.
(iv) One representative of an organization that
advocated for individuals with mental illness.

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(v) One representative of an organization that
advocates for children and youth.
(vi) One representative of an organization that
advocates for equity and equality in education.
(vii) One representative of an organization that
advocates for individuals who are homeless.
(viii) One representative of a Statewide
antihunger organization.
(ix) One representative of an organization that
advocates for military veterans.
(x) One representative of an organization that
advocates for individuals with disabilities.
(xi) One representative of an organization that
advocates for immigrants.
(xii) One representative of a Statewide
faith-based organization that provides direct social
services in this State.
(xiii) One representative of an organization that
advocates for economic security for women.
(xiv) One representative of an organization that
advocates for older adults.
(xv) One representative of a labor organization
that represents primarily low-wage and middle-wage
earners.
(xvi) One representative of school districts in
this State.

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(xvii) One representative of county governments in
this State.
(xviii) One representative of municipal
corporation governments in this State.
(4) The members of the workgroup shall serve as
nonvoting ex officio members of the Commission.
(d) Appointment. The following shall apply:
(1) The public members of the Commission under
paragraph (3) of subsection (c) shall be appointed as
follows:
(i) Four shall be appointed by the Governor.
(ii) Four shall be appointed by the President of
the Senate.
(iii) Four shall be appointed by the Minority
Leader of the Senate.
(iv) Four shall be appointed by the Speaker of the
House of Representatives.
(v) Four shall be appointed by the Minority Leader
of the House of Representatives.
(2) It shall be determined by lot which appointing
authority appoints which public members to the Commission.
(3) The appointed members shall reflect the racial,
gender, and geographic diversity of this State and shall
include representation from regions of this State
experiencing economic insecurity and the highest rates of
deep poverty.

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(4) Public members of the Commission shall be selected
for service on the Commission within 45 days after the
effective date of this Act.
(e) Qualifications. Each member of the Commission must have
been a resident of this State for a period of at least one year
immediately preceding appointment and must continue residence
in this State during the member's tenure of service on the
Commission.
(f) Organizational meeting. The organizational meeting of
the Commission shall take place after all members are appointed
but no later than 60 days after the effective date of this Act.
(g) Compensation. Members shall serve without
compensation, but public members may be reimbursed for
reasonable and necessary travel expenses connected to
Commission business.
(h) Commission chairperson. The representatives of the
antipoverty organizations appointed under subparagraph (i) of
paragraph (3) of subsection (c) shall serve as cochairs of the
Commission.
(i) Committees. The Commission may establish subcommittees
to address specific issues or populations and may collaborate
with individuals with relevant expertise who are not members of
the Commission to assist the subcommittee in carrying out its
duties.
(j) Meetings. The full Commission shall meet at least once
annually.

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(k) Quorum. A majority plus one of the voting members shall
constitute a quorum.
(l) Voting. All actions of the Commission and any
subcommittees established by the Commission shall be approved
by a majority vote of the Commission or subcommittee as
applicable.
(m) Open meetings. The meetings of the Commission shall be
conducted in accordance with the provisions of Section 2 of the
Open Meetings Act.
(n) Administrative support. The Department of Human
Services shall provide staff and administrative support to
assist the Commission in carrying out its duties.
Section 502. Strategic plan to address poverty and economic
insecurity.
(a) Plan required. No later than November 30, 2020, the
Commission shall develop and adopt a strategic plan to address
poverty and economic insecurity in this State.
(b) Goals. The goals of the strategic plan shall be to:
(1) Ensure that State programs and services targeting
poverty and economic insecurity reflect the goal of helping
individuals and families rise above poverty and achieve
long-term economic stability rather than simply providing
relief from deprivation.
(2) Eliminate disparate rates of poverty, deep
poverty, child poverty, and intergenerational poverty

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based on race, ethnicity, gender, age, sexual orientation
or identity, English language proficiency, ability, and
geographic location in a rural, urban, or suburban area.
(3) Reduce deep poverty in this State by 50% by 2026.
(4) Eliminate child poverty in this State by 2031.
(5) Eliminate all poverty in this State by 2036.
(c) Plan development. In developing the strategic plan, the
Commission shall:
(1) Collaborate with the workgroup, including sharing
data and information identified under paragraphs (1) and
(3) of subsection (a) of Section 303 and analyses of that
data and information.
(2) Review each program and service provided by the
State that targets poverty and economic insecurity for
purposes of:
(i) determining which programs and services are
the most effective and of the highest importance in
reducing poverty and economic insecurity in this
State; and
(ii) providing an analysis of unmet needs, if any,
among individuals, children, and families in deep
poverty and intergenerational poverty for each program
and service identified under subparagraph (i).
(3) Study the feasibility of using public or private
partnerships and social impact bonds, to improve
innovation and cost-effectiveness in the development of

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programs and delivery of services that advance the goals of
the strategic plan.
(4) Hold at least 6 public hearings in different
geographic regions of this State, including areas that have
disparate rates of poverty and that have historically
experienced economic insecurity, to collect information,
take testimony, and solicit input and feedback from
interested parties, including members of the public who
have personal experiences with State programs and services
targeting economic insecurity, poverty, deep poverty,
child poverty, and intergenerational poverty and make the
information publicly available.
(5) To request and receive from a State agency or local
governmental agency information relating to poverty in
this State, including all of the following:
(i) Reports.
(ii) Audits.
(iii) Data.
(iv) Projections.
(v) Statistics.
(d) Subject areas. The strategic plan shall address all of
the following:
(1) Access to safe and affordable housing.
(2) Access to adequate food and nutrition.
(3) Access to affordable and quality health care.
(4) Equal access to quality education and training.

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(5) Equal access to affordable, quality post-secondary
education options.
(6) Dependable and affordable transportation.
(7) Access to quality and affordable child care.
(8) Opportunities to engage in meaningful and
sustainable work that pays a living wage and barriers to
those opportunities experienced by low-income individuals
in poverty.
(9) Equal access to justice through a fair system of
criminal justice that does not, in effect, criminalize
poverty.
(10) The availability of adequate income supports.
(11) Retirement security.
(e) Plan content. The strategic plan shall, at a minimum,
contain policy and fiscal recommendations relating to all of
the following:
(1) Developing fact-based measures to evaluate the
long-term effectiveness of existing and proposed programs
and services targeting poverty and economic insecurity.
(2) Increasing enrollment in programs and services
targeting poverty and economic insecurity by reducing the
complexity and difficulty of enrollment in order to
maximize program effectiveness and increase positive
outcomes.
(3) Increasing the reach of programs and services
targeting poverty and economic insecurity by ensuring that

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State agencies have adequate resources to maximize the
public awareness of the programs and services, especially
in historically disenfranchised communities.
(4) Reducing the negative impacts of asset limits for
eligibility on the effectiveness of State programs
targeting poverty and economic insecurity by ensuring that
eligibility limits do not:
(i) create gaps in necessary service and benefit
delivery or restrict access to benefits as individuals
and families attempt to transition off assistance
programs; or
(ii) prevent beneficiaries from improving
long-term outcomes and achieving long-term economic
independence from the program.
(5) Improving the ability of community-based
organizations to participate in the development and
implementation of State programs designed to address
economic insecurity and poverty.
(6) Improving the ability of individuals living in
poverty, low-income individuals, and unemployed
individuals to access critical job training and skills
upgrade programs and find quality jobs that help children
and families become economically secure and rise above
poverty.
(7) Improving communication and collaboration between
State agencies and local governments on programs targeting

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poverty and economic insecurity.
(8) Creating efficiencies in the administration and
coordination of programs and services targeting poverty
and economic insecurity.
(9) Connecting low-income children, disconnected
youth, and families of those children and youth to
education, job training, and jobs in the communities in
which those children and youth live.
(10) Ensuring that the State's services and benefits
programs, emergency programs, discretionary economic
programs, and other policies are sufficiently funded to
enable the State to mount effective responses to economic
downturns and increases in economic insecurity and poverty
rates.
(11) Creating one or more State poverty measures.
(12) Developing and implementing programs and policies
that use the two-generation approach.
(13) Using public or private partnerships and social
impact bonds to improve innovation and cost-effectiveness
in the development of programs and delivery of services
that advance the goals of the strategic plan.
(14) Identifying best practices for collecting data
relevant to all of the following:
(i) Reducing economic insecurity and poverty.
(ii) Reducing the racial, ethnic, age, gender,
sexual orientation, and sexual identity-based

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disparities in the rates of economic insecurity and
poverty.
(iii) Adequately measuring the effectiveness,
efficiency, and impact of programs on the outcomes for
individuals, families, and communities who receive
benefits and services.
(iv) Streamlining enrollment and eligibility for
programs.
(v) Improving long-term outcomes for individuals
who are enrolled in service and benefit programs.
(vi) Reducing reliance on public programs.
(vii) Improving connections to work.
(viii) Improving economic security.
(ix) Improving retirement security.
(x) Improving the State's understanding of the
impact of extreme weather and natural disasters on
economically vulnerable communities and improving
those communities' resilience to and recovery from
extreme weather and natural disasters.
(xi) Improving access to living-wage employment.
(xii) Improving access to employment-based
benefits.
(f) Other information. In addition to the plan content
required under subsection (e), the strategic plan shall contain
all of the following:
(1) A suggested timeline for the stages of

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implementation of the recommendations in the plan.
(2) Short-term, intermediate-term, and long-term
benchmarks to measure the State's progress toward meeting
the goals of the strategic plan.
(3) A summary of the review and analysis conducted by
the Commission under paragraph (1) of subsection (c).
(g) Impact of recommendations. For each recommendation in
the plan, the Commission shall identify in measurable terms the
actual or potential impact the recommendation will have on
poverty and economic insecurity in this State.
Section 503. Commission reports.
(a) Interim report. No later than June 30, 2020, the
Commission shall issue an interim report on the Commission's
activities to the Governor and the General Assembly.
(b) Report on strategic plan. Upon the Commission's
adoption of the strategic plan, but no later than November 30,
2021, the Commission shall issue a report containing a summary
of the Commission's activities and the contents of the
strategic plan. The Commission shall submit the report to the
Governor and each member of the General Assembly.
(c) Annual reports. Beginning November 30, 2022, and each
year thereafter, the Commission shall issue a report on the
status of the implementation of the Commission's strategic
plan. The report may contain any other recommendations of the
Commission to address poverty and economic insecurity in this

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State.
Section 504. Duties of the Director of the Governor's
Office of Management and Budget. The Director of the Governor's
Office of Management and Budget shall include in the materials
submitted to the General Assembly outlining the Governor's
proposed annual budget a description of any budget proposals or
other activities, ongoing projects, and plans of the executive
branch designed to meet the goals and objectives of the
strategic plan. The information shall include the following:
(1) An accounting of the savings to the State from any
increased efficiencies in the delivery of services.
(2) Any savings realized from reducing the number of
individuals living in poverty and reducing the demand for
need-based services and benefits.
(3) A projection of any increase in revenue collections
due to any increase in the number of individuals who become
employed and pay taxes into the State treasury.
(4) Any other information related to the proposed
annual budget that the Director of the Governor's Office of
Management and Budget believes furthers the goals and
objectives of the strategic plan.
Article 9. Miscellaneous Provisions
Section 999. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.