Bill Text: IL HB5650 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Reimagine Public Safety Act. Provides for the Community Organization Capacity Building Program. Provides that the Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority and the Illinois Department of Human Services Office of Firearm Violence Prevention shall allocate $10,000,000 for community organization capacity building. Provides for the issuance of $150,000 to $500,000 grants in specified reimbursable service categories to small, emerging community-based organizations in Reimagine Public Safety Act communities. Provides for the issuance of $300,000 to $500,000 grants in specified reimbursable service categories for existing Reimagine Public Safety Act grantees to build other smaller organizations' capacities. Provides for requirements to receive grants and permits the Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority, with the Illinois Department of Human Services Office of Firearm Violence Prevention, to create other criteria to award grants. Provides for the Community Violence Initiative Workforce Development Training Centers Program. Provides that the Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority and the Illinois Department of Human Services Office of Firearm Violence Prevention shall allocate $5,000,000 for Community Violence Initiative organizations. Provides for the issuance of $2,500,000 grants in specified reimbursable service categories for 2 Community Violence Initiative workforce training organizations. Provides that the Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority, with the Illinois Department of Human Services Office of Firearm Violence Prevention, shall create criteria to award grants. Provides for 4 prospective three-month grant payments based on specified criteria for any community-based organization funded by Restore, Reinvest, and Renew programs at the Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority, Climate and Equitable Jobs Act programs at the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity, or Reimagine Public Safety Act programs at the Illinois Department of Human Services. Provides for peer assessment and evaluation for all grantees under the Reimagine Public Safety Act program. Defines terms. Amends the Illinois Criminal Justice Information Act and authorizes the Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority to act according to the powers and duties granted it in the Reimagine Public Safety Act. States findings and purpose.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-04-05 - Committee/3rd Reading Deadline Extended-Rule May 24, 2024 [HB5650 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2023-HB5650-Introduced.html

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103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2023 and 2024 HB5650 Introduced 2/9/2024, by Rep. Justin Slaughter SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
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Amends the Reimagine Public Safety Act. Provides for the Community Organization Capacity Building Program. Provides that the Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority and the Illinois Department of Human Services Office of Firearm Violence Prevention shall allocate $10,000,000 for community organization capacity building. Provides for the issuance of $150,000 to $500,000 grants in specified reimbursable service categories to small, emerging community-based organizations in Reimagine Public Safety Act communities. Provides for the issuance of $300,000 to $500,000 grants in specified reimbursable service categories for existing Reimagine Public Safety Act grantees to build other smaller organizations' capacities. Provides for requirements to receive grants and permits the Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority, with the Illinois Department of Human Services Office of Firearm Violence Prevention, to create other criteria to award grants. Provides for the Community Violence Initiative Workforce Development Training Centers Program. Provides that the Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority and the Illinois Department of Human Services Office of Firearm Violence Prevention shall allocate $5,000,000 for Community Violence Initiative organizations. Provides for the issuance of $2,500,000 grants in specified reimbursable service categories for 2 Community Violence Initiative workforce training organizations. Provides that the Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority, with the Illinois Department of Human Services Office of Firearm Violence Prevention, shall create criteria to award grants. Provides for 4 prospective three-month grant payments based on specified criteria for any community-based organization funded by Restore, Reinvest, and Renew programs at the Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority, Climate and Equitable Jobs Act programs at the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity, or Reimagine Public Safety Act programs at the Illinois Department of Human Services. Provides for peer assessment and evaluation for all grantees under the Reimagine Public Safety Act program. Defines terms. Amends the Illinois Criminal Justice Information Act and authorizes the Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority to act according to the powers and duties granted it in the Reimagine Public Safety Act. States findings and purpose.
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning safety.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 1. The General Assembly finds that:
(1) Communities most impacted by gun violence also
lack well-resourced, community-based organizations to
address the public health challenges associated with
chronic concentrated gun violence.
(2) Residents impacted by gun violence sustain
significant barriers that impede their ability to secure
and maintain permanent employment in the mainstream
workforce.
(3) A Community Violence Intervention Workforce
Development Program must be created to build financial
stability, better the quality of life, and counteract the
effects of gun violence on residents, their families, and
their communities.
(4) Community Violence Initiative Workforce
Development Training Centers are necessary to train and
educate Community Violence Initiative graduates and equip
alumni with the tools, resources, and skillsets needed to
sustain permanent employment.
Section 5. The Illinois Criminal Justice Information Act

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is amended by changing Section 7 as follows:
(20 ILCS 3930/7) (from Ch. 38, par. 210-7)
Sec. 7. Powers and duties. The Authority shall have the
following powers, duties, and responsibilities:
(a) To develop and operate comprehensive information
systems for the improvement and coordination of all
aspects of law enforcement, prosecution, and corrections;
(b) To define, develop, evaluate, and correlate State
and local programs and projects associated with the
improvement of law enforcement and the administration of
criminal justice;
(c) To act as a central repository and clearing house
for federal, state, and local research studies, plans,
projects, proposals, and other information relating to all
aspects of criminal justice system improvement and to
encourage educational programs for citizen support of
State and local efforts to make such improvements;
(d) To undertake research studies to aid in
accomplishing its purposes;
(e) To monitor the operation of existing criminal
justice information systems in order to protect the
constitutional rights and privacy of individuals about
whom criminal history record information has been
collected;
(f) To provide an effective administrative forum for

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the protection of the rights of individuals concerning
criminal history record information;
(g) To issue regulations, guidelines, and procedures
which ensure the privacy and security of criminal history
record information consistent with State and federal laws;
(h) To act as the sole administrative appeal body in
the State of Illinois to conduct hearings and make final
determinations concerning individual challenges to the
completeness and accuracy of criminal history record
information;
(i) To act as the sole, official, criminal justice
body in the State of Illinois to conduct annual and
periodic audits of the procedures, policies, and practices
of the State central repositories for criminal history
record information to verify compliance with federal and
state laws and regulations governing such information;
(j) To advise the Authority's Statistical Analysis
Center;
(k) To apply for, receive, establish priorities for,
allocate, disburse, and spend grants of funds that are
made available by and received on or after January 1, 1983
from private sources or from the United States pursuant to
the federal Crime Control Act of 1973, as amended, and
similar federal legislation, and to enter into agreements
with the United States government to further the purposes
of this Act, or as may be required as a condition of

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obtaining federal funds;
(l) To receive, expend, and account for such funds of
the State of Illinois as may be made available to further
the purposes of this Act;
(m) To enter into contracts and to cooperate with
units of general local government or combinations of such
units, State agencies, and criminal justice system
agencies of other states for the purpose of carrying out
the duties of the Authority imposed by this Act or by the
federal Crime Control Act of 1973, as amended;
(n) To enter into contracts and cooperate with units
of general local government outside of Illinois, other
states' agencies, and private organizations outside of
Illinois to provide computer software or design that has
been developed for the Illinois criminal justice system,
or to participate in the cooperative development or design
of new software or systems to be used by the Illinois
criminal justice system;
(o) To establish general policies concerning criminal
justice information systems and to promulgate such rules,
regulations, and procedures as are necessary to the
operation of the Authority and to the uniform
consideration of appeals and audits;
(p) To advise and to make recommendations to the
Governor and the General Assembly on policies relating to
criminal justice information systems;

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(q) To direct all other agencies under the
jurisdiction of the Governor to provide whatever
assistance and information the Authority may lawfully
require to carry out its functions;
(r) To exercise any other powers that are reasonable
and necessary to fulfill the responsibilities of the
Authority under this Act and to comply with the
requirements of applicable federal law or regulation;
(s) To exercise the rights, powers, and duties which
have been vested in the Authority by the Illinois Uniform
Conviction Information Act;
(t) (Blank);
(u) To exercise the rights, powers, and duties vested
in the Authority by the Illinois Public Safety Agency
Network Act;
(v) To provide technical assistance in the form of
training to local governmental entities within Illinois
requesting such assistance for the purposes of procuring
grants for gang intervention and gang prevention programs
or other criminal justice programs from the United States
Department of Justice;
(w) To conduct strategic planning and provide
technical assistance to implement comprehensive trauma
recovery services for violent crime victims in underserved
communities with high levels of violent crime, with the
goal of providing a safe, community-based, culturally

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competent environment in which to access services
necessary to facilitate recovery from the effects of
chronic and repeat exposure to trauma. Services may
include, but are not limited to, behavioral health
treatment, financial recovery, family support and
relocation assistance, and support in navigating the legal
system; and
(x) To coordinate statewide violence prevention
efforts and assist in the implementation of trauma
recovery centers and analyze trauma recovery services. The
Authority shall develop, publish, and facilitate the
implementation of a 4-year statewide violence prevention
plan, which shall incorporate public health, public
safety, victim services, and trauma recovery centers and
services.
(y) To exercise the rights, powers, and duties vested
in the Authority by the Reimagine Public Safety Act.
The requirement for reporting to the General Assembly
shall be satisfied by filing copies of the report as required
by Section 3.1 of the General Assembly Organization Act, and
filing such additional copies with the State Government Report
Distribution Center for the General Assembly as is required
under paragraph (t) of Section 7 of the State Library Act.
(Source: P.A. 99-938, eff. 1-1-18; 100-373, eff. 1-1-18;
100-575, eff. 1-8-18; 100-621, eff. 7-20-18; 100-1148, eff.
12-10-18.)

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Section 10. The Reimagine Public Safety Act is amended by
adding Sections 35-57.1, 35-57.2, 35-57.3, and 35-57.4 as
follows:
(430 ILCS 69/35-57.1 new)
Sec. 35-57.1. Community Organization Capacity Building
Program.
(a) As used in this Section:
"Capacity building" means efforts by either an
organization itself or a supporting organization to increase
the likelihood that a community-based organization can
effectively receive public funding, manage public grants, and
improve programs and service delivery with such funding.
"Community Violence Intervention Workforce Curriculum"
means educating community violence intervention graduates as
they transition into sustainable, promising careers. These
curricula have both universal and adaptable aspects that any
community impacted by violence can use. The areas integrated
in the curriculum are employees' rights, entrepreneurship,
social and emotional learning, behavioral development, skill
development, and career readiness. Within employees' rights
and entrepreneurship, graduates and alumni will understand
their rights as employees and learn how to establish their own
business in hopes of creating multiple streams of income.
Social and emotional learning behavioral development is

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critical to establish emotional regulations and create the
"growth mindset" needed to navigate the workplace environment
while integrating their own lived experience. Skill
development teaches graduates industry specific knowledge and
skills needed within their chosen professions. Career
readiness helps graduates manage day-to-day tasks and gain the
financial literacy necessary to sustain annual salaries and
best use wraparound services from Illinois Department of Human
Services.
"Community Violence Intervention Workforce Development"
means a program composed of 3 pillars: Community Violence
Initiative Workforce Development Curriculum, Community
Violence Initiative Workforce Readiness, and a Community
Violence Initiative Workforce Pipeline.
"Community Violence Intervention Workforce Pipeline" means
a workforce pipeline that focuses on 2 specific areas: job
placement after completion of a Community Violence
Intervention Workforce Development Program and job retention
with key indicators showing progress with program evaluation
in the first 12 months. Within job placement, 250 participants
in the Community Violence Initiative Workforce Development
Training Centers within Chicago with 70% placement rate of
participants after completion of the program, and 40%
retention rate of participants within the first 3 months of
employment. This process will incorporate feedback from
funding providers, employers, and Illinois General Assembly

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members. Job coaching and continued education for employers
will be provided in collaboration with the Community Violence
Initiative workforce development organizations.
"Community Violence Intervention Workforce Readiness"
means addressing the professional hard and soft skills,
competency-based training, and life coaching needed to be
successful in onboarding and maintaining progressive
employment throughout their careers. The following areas are
integrated into any Community Violence Initiative Workforce
Development Program: effective interpersonal communication,
attendance and time management, and workplace professionalism.
Within effective interpersonal communication, graduates and
alumni exhibit skills such as self-advocacy and learning
effective strategies to communicate with supervisors and
coworkers at any organization. Attendance and time management
are also important with teaching these skills, in partnership
with the Illinois Department of Human Services, the Illinois
Criminal Justice Information Authority, and the Department of
Commerce and Economic Opportunity, to help combat barriers
that will prevent successful job retention. Lastly, workplace
professionalism needs to be foundational when guiding
graduates on how to present themselves in the mainstream
workforce.
"Small emerging community-based organization" means a
community-based organization with less than $1,500,000 in
annual revenue that has received public grants for less than

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three years prior to applying for a capacity building grant.
(b) The Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority
and the Department of Human Services Office of Firearm
Violence Prevention shall allocate $10,000,000 for community
organization capacity building as established in this Section.
(c) In consultation with the Department of Human Services
Office of Firearm Violence Prevention, the Illinois Criminal
Justice Information Authority shall issue grants to
organizations in the Reimagine Public Safety Act communities
and existing Reimagine Public Safety Act grantees that can
provide technical assistance services to small, emerging
organizations with strong credible messengers to build an
infrastructure to support programmatic funding under the Act.
(d) Grants for small, emerging community-based
organizations shall have the following provisions:
(1) Grant applications for small, emerging
community-based organizations shall be for $150,000 to
$500,000 and include the following reimbursable service
categories:
(A) administrative and finance personnel to apply
for and manage grants;
(B) program expenses related to violence
prevention services;
(C) reserve funds to finance cashflow while
waiting for public reimbursement; and
(D) consulting services that will increase the

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financial stability or programmatic integrity of the
emerging organization.
(2) Each grant for a small emerging community-based
organization shall request the small emerging
community-based organization to use 50% or more of the
grant for program-related services in violence prevention
unless the grantee identifies other pressing needs.
(3) Provided they meet all grant requirements, small
emerging community-based organizations shall receive up to
2 renewals for a total of 3 years of funding to build their
organizational capacity under this grant program.
(e) Grants for existing Reimagine Public Safety Act
grantees shall have the following provisions:
(1) Grant applications for existing Reimagine Public
Safety Act grantees to build other smaller organizations'
capacities shall be for $300,000 to $500,000 and include
the following reimbursable service categories:
(A) training services for small emerging
community-based organizational capacity building;
(B) program-related expenses for violence
prevention services provided by the small, emerging
community-based organizations;
(C) expenses related to financial management of
small, emerging community-based organizations as a
fiscal agent or sponsor;
(D) reserve funds to finance cashflow while

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waiting for public reimbursement; and
(E) consulting services that will increase the
financial stability or programmatic integrity of small
emerging community-based organizations.
(2) To receive a grant under the Community
Organization Capacity Building Program as an existing
Reimagine Public Safety Act grantee, applicants must be in
good standing as a Reimagine Public Safety Act grantee and
have at least 3 years of experience managing more than
$1,000,000 in public grants annually. Applicants must also
identify at least 2 organizations they will work with and
receive supporting letters from those organizations to
provide specific support services.
(f) In partnership with the Department of Human Services
Office of Firearm Violence Prevention, the Illinois Criminal
Justice Information Authority shall create other criteria to
make awards under this Section consistent with the purposes of
this Act.
(430 ILCS 69/35-57.2 new)
Sec. 35-57.2. Community Violence Intervention Workforce
Development Training Centers Program.
(a) The Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority
and the Illinois Department of Human Services Office of
Firearm Violence Prevention shall allocate $5,000,000 for
Community Violence Intervention training organizations.

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(b) In consultation with the Illinois Department of Human
Services Office of Firearm Violence Prevention, the Illinois
Criminal Justice Information Authority shall issue grants to
community violence intervention training organizations in the
Reimagine Public Safety Act communities and existing Reimagine
Public Safety Act grantees that can provide community violence
intervention workforce development training. There shall be 2
grants of $2,500,000 each awarded, for a total of $5,000,000
in grants.
(c) Grant applications for community violence intervention
workforce training organizations shall be for $2,500,000 each
and include the following reimbursable service categories:
(1) paid stipends for trainees to subsidize their
income while enhancing their skills;
(2) cognitive behavioral curriculum that aligns with
social and emotional learning skills and life coaching;
(3) job coaching throughout the first year of
employment from trusted, credible messengers;
(4) individualized competency-based educational
experiences for community violence intervention graduates
and alumni; and
(5) pre-identified job opportunities upon completion
of the workforce development program.
(d) In partnership with the Department of Human Services
Office of Firearm Violence Prevention, the Illinois Criminal
Justice Information Authority shall create other criteria to

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make awards under this Section consistent with the purposes of
this Act.
(430 ILCS 69/35-57.3 new)
Sec. 35-57.3. Prospective grant payments.
(a) Any community-based organization funded by Restore,
Reinvest, and Renew programs at the Illinois Criminal Justice
Information Authority, by the Climate and Equitable Jobs Act
programs at the Department of Commerce and Economic
Opportunity, or by the Reimagine Public Safety Act programs at
the Department of Human Services shall qualify for 4
prospective 3-month payments if the community-based
organization meets all of the following criteria:
(1) The community-based organization has less than
$1,000,000 in annual revenue outside of the grant program
funds they receive from Restore, Reinvest, and Renew
grants, Climate and Equitable Jobs Act grants, or
Reimagine Public Safety Act grants, or the community-based
organization does not have access to free cashflow that
can support 2 months of the program funds awarded under
the Restore, Reinvest, and Renew program, the Climate and
Equitable Jobs Act program, or the Reimagine Public Safety
Act program;
(2) The community-based organization is willing and
capable of filing quarterly reports that indicate how
funds have been spent in accordance with their grant

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agreement.
(3) The community-based organization and its
leadership have not been found to be in violation of a
public or private grant agreement in the past.
(b) To receive additional quarterly prospective payments,
the community agency must report its actual and projected
spending for the last 3 months of the grant between 60 days and
75 days after the last prospective payment was made. The
relevant State agency shall adjust the next prospective
payment to reflect 3 months of additional funds needed based
on actual spending that took place in the prior quarter.
(430 ILCS 69/35-57.4 new)
Sec. 35-57.4. Community Violence Initiative Program Peer
Assessment and Evaluation.
(a) The Department of Human Services Office of Firearm
Violence Prevention shall create a peer assessment process for
all grantees under the Reimagine Public Safety Act program.
The Office of Firearm Violence Prevention may contract with a
qualified university partner or other research institution to
design and implement the peer assessment process. The peer
assessment process should be designed and implemented using
the peer assessment program from the Association of State and
Territorial Health Officials as a model formative assessment
tool, or the Office of Firearm Violence Prevention may select
a peer assessment model that more closely aligns with

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community violence intervention program needs that have been
endorsed by at least 10 of the Reimagine Public Safety Act
grantees.
(b) The peer review process shall include review from 3 or
more similar community violence intervention programs on the
following programmatic and organizational elements:
(1) best evidence participant recruitment and
retention;
(2) application of data to all elements of program
design and implementation;
(3) staff training, support, and accountability;
(4) budget and financial integrity and controls;
(5) community engagement, communication, awareness,
and accountability; and
(6) continual improvement process management.
(c) The Department of Human Services Office of Firearm
Violence Prevention shall develop standards and processes for
implementing the peer review process by no later than March 1,
2025, and shall complete the first peer reviews before July 1,
2025.
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INDEX
Statutes amended in order of appearance