Bill Text: IL SB0779 | 2009-2010 | 96th General Assembly | Introduced

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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: (Introduced - Dead) 2009-08-15 - Pursuant to Senate Rule 3-9(b) / Referred to Assignments [SB0779 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2009-SB0779-Introduced.html

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96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2009 and 2010 SB0779 Introduced 2/6/2009, by Sen. John J. Cullerton SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
310 ILCS 80/5
Amends the Shelter Residents Protection Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning homeless persons' savings accounts.
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning housing.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Shelter Residents Protection Act is amended
by changing Section 5 as follows:
(310 ILCS 80/5)
Sec. 5. Homeless persons; savings.
(a) If a homeless person resides at a shelter, that that
person may open a passbook savings account at a bank or savings
and loan association subject to the requirements imposed by the
bank or savings and loan association. In the alternative, the
homeless person may enter into a written agreement with the
shelter in which he or she resides; the agreement may provide
that the shelter will accept and hold moneys belonging to the
homeless person. Under such an agreement, the shelter shall do
the following:
(1) Place the moneys in a non-interest bearing account
for the homeless person, at no cost to that person.
(2) Segregate, from all other moneys or accounts held
or maintained by the shelter, moneys accepted from and held
for homeless persons.
(3) Maintain, separately for each homeless person with
whom an agreement is made under this Section, an accurate

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accounting of the moneys accepted from, held for, and
withdrawn by that person. Upon a homeless person's request,
the shelter shall provide a copy of the accounting
concerning that person's moneys.
(4) Pay to the homeless person, within 48 hours after
the person's request, the amount of the person's moneys
held by the shelter or any lesser amount requested by the
homeless person.
(b) Money held by a shelter under this Section shall not be
subject to assignment, attachment, garnishment, set-off, or
other process in aid of creditors.
(c) For purposes of this Section, "homeless person" means
either of the following:
(1) An individual who lacks a fixed, regular, and
adequate nighttime residence; or
(2) An individual who has a primary nighttime residence
that is any of the following:
(A) A supervised publicly or privately operated
shelter designed to provide temporary living
accommodations (including welfare hotels, congregate
shelters, and transitional housing for the mentally
ill).
(B) An institution that provides a temporary
residence for individuals intended to be
institutionalized.
(C) A public or private place not designed for, or

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ordinarily used as, a regular sleeping accommodation
for human beings.
(Source: P.A. 87-1093.)