Bill Amendment: IL SB2403 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly
NOTE: For additional amemendments please see the Bill Drafting List
Bill Title: DOM VIOLENCE-TRANSPORTATION
Status: 2024-02-08 - Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Sally J. Turner [SB2403 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2023-SB2403-Senate_Amendment_001.html
Bill Title: DOM VIOLENCE-TRANSPORTATION
Status: 2024-02-08 - Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Sally J. Turner [SB2403 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2023-SB2403-Senate_Amendment_001.html
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1 | AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 2403
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2 | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 2403 by replacing | ||||||
3 | everything after the enacting clause with the following:
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4 | "Section 1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the | ||||||
5 | Survivor Transportation Assistance Act.
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6 | Section 5. Illinois Domestic Violence, Sexual Assault, and | ||||||
7 | Human Trafficking Transportation Assistance Program. | ||||||
8 | (a) No later than 180 days after the effective date of this | ||||||
9 | Act, the Department of Human Services and the Department of | ||||||
10 | Transportation shall establish the Domestic Violence, Sexual | ||||||
11 | Assault, and Human Trafficking Transportation Assistance | ||||||
12 | Program. | ||||||
13 | (b) The Department of Transportation and the Department of | ||||||
14 | Human Services shall coordinate with regional transit | ||||||
15 | authorities across the State to create a universal mass | ||||||
16 | transit card. The transportation card shall be accepted in all |
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1 | regional and local transit authorities across the State for | ||||||
2 | the purposes of transportation for survivors of domestic | ||||||
3 | violence, sexual assault, and human trafficking.
The transit | ||||||
4 | card shall be plastic or laminated and wallet sized, contain | ||||||
5 | no information that would reference the transportation | ||||||
6 | assistance program, and have an expiration date. The card | ||||||
7 | shall also be available electronically and shall be given to | ||||||
8 | domestic violence, sexual assault, and human trafficking | ||||||
9 | direct service providers to distribute to survivors. | ||||||
10 | (c) The Program shall fund the transportation of survivors | ||||||
11 | when employees or volunteers of direct service providers incur | ||||||
12 | expenses for the transportation of a survivor of domestic | ||||||
13 | violence, sexual assault, or human trafficking or the victim's | ||||||
14 | survivor's family or household members. The Program shall | ||||||
15 | provide gas cards to survivors. The Program may provide for | ||||||
16 | the lease of motor vehicles by direct service providers of | ||||||
17 | domestic violence, sexual assault, and human trafficking. | ||||||
18 | (d) The Program shall establish or provide funding for | ||||||
19 | ridesharing arrangements across the State for the | ||||||
20 | transportation of survivors of domestic violence, sexual | ||||||
21 | assault, and human trafficking. | ||||||
22 | (e) In coordination with the Illinois Coalition Against | ||||||
23 | Domestic Violence, the Illinois Coalition Against Sexual | ||||||
24 | Assault, and the operator of the Illinois Domestic Violence | ||||||
25 | Hotline, the Department of Human Services shall create a grant | ||||||
26 | process to administer Program funds for uses related to |
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1 | transportation under subsections (b), (c), and (d).
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2 | Section 10. Program funding. | ||||||
3 | (a) All funds appropriated for purposes of the Program | ||||||
4 | must be deposited into the Domestic Violence, Sexual Assault, | ||||||
5 | and Human Trafficking Transportation Assistance Fund, a | ||||||
6 | special fund that is created in the State treasury, and funds | ||||||
7 | within the Fund may be expended for Program purposes described | ||||||
8 | in Section 5. Amounts appropriated into the Fund for | ||||||
9 | designated purposes may only be used for the designated | ||||||
10 | purposes. | ||||||
11 | (b) The Fund is not subject to sweeps, charge-backs, or | ||||||
12 | any other fiscal or budgetary maneuver that would in any way | ||||||
13 | transfer any moneys from the Fund into any other fund.
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14 | Section 20. Rules. The Department of Human Services and | ||||||
15 | the Department of Transportation may adopt rules or joint | ||||||
16 | rules to implement this Act.
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17 | Section 100. The State Finance Act is amended by adding | ||||||
18 | Section 5.990 as follows:
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19 | (30 ILCS 105/5.990 new) | ||||||
20 | Sec. 5.990. The Domestic Violence, Sexual Assault, and | ||||||
21 | Human Trafficking Transportation Assistance Fund. ".
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