Bill Text: IL HB4513 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Cannabis Regulation and Tax Act. Provides that within 90 days after the Restore, Reinvest, and Renew Areas have been designated by the Restore, Reinvest, and Renew Program Board, the Board chair shall appoint 8 public officials of municipal or county (rather than municipal) geographic jurisdictions in the State that include a Restore, Reinvest, and Renew Area to the Board.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-31 - Referred to Rules Committee [HB4513 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2023-HB4513-Introduced.html

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103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2023 and 2024 HB4513 Introduced , by Rep. Cyril Nichols SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
410 ILCS 705/10-40
Amends the Cannabis Regulation and Tax Act. Provides that within 90 days after the Restore, Reinvest, and Renew Areas have been designated by the Restore, Reinvest, and Renew Program Board, the Board chair shall appoint 8 public officials of municipal or county (rather than municipal) geographic jurisdictions in the State that include a Restore, Reinvest, and Renew Area to the Board.
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning health.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Cannabis Regulation and Tax Act is amended
by changing Section 10-40 as follows:
(410 ILCS 705/10-40)
Sec. 10-40. Restore, Reinvest, and Renew Program.
(a) The General Assembly finds that in order to address
the disparities described below, aggressive approaches and
targeted resources to support local design and control of
community-based responses to these outcomes are required. To
carry out this intent, the Restore, Reinvest, and Renew (R3)
Program is created for the following purposes:
(1) to directly address the impact of economic
disinvestment, violence, and the historical overuse of
criminal justice responses to community and individual
needs by providing resources to support local design and
control of community-based responses to these impacts;
(2) to substantially reduce both the total amount of
gun violence and concentrated poverty in this State;
(3) to protect communities from gun violence through
targeted investments and intervention programs, including
economic growth and improving family violence prevention,

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community trauma treatment rates, gun injury victim
services, and public health prevention activities;
(4) to promote employment infrastructure and capacity
building related to the social determinants of health in
the eligible community areas.
(b) In this Section, "Authority" means the Illinois
Criminal Justice Information Authority in coordination with
the Justice, Equity, and Opportunity Initiative of the
Lieutenant Governor's Office.
(c) Eligibility of R3 Areas. Within 180 days after the
effective date of this Act, the Authority shall identify as
eligible, areas in this State by way of historically
recognized geographic boundaries, to be designated by the
Restore, Reinvest, and Renew Program Board as R3 Areas and
therefore eligible to apply for R3 funding. Local groups
within R3 Areas will be eligible to apply for State funding
through the Restore, Reinvest, and Renew Program Board.
Qualifications for designation as an R3 Area are as follows:
(1) Based on an analysis of data, communities in this
State that are high need, underserved, disproportionately
impacted by historical economic disinvestment, and ravaged
by violence as indicated by the highest rates of gun
injury, unemployment, child poverty rates, and commitments
to and returns from the Illinois Department of
Corrections.
(2) The Authority shall send to the Legislative Audit

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Commission and make publicly available its analysis and
identification of eligible R3 Areas and shall recalculate
the eligibility data every 4 years. On an annual basis,
the Authority shall analyze data and indicate if data
covering any R3 Area or portion of an Area has, for 4
consecutive years, substantially deviated from the average
of statewide data on which the original calculation was
made to determine the Areas, including disinvestment,
violence, gun injury, unemployment, child poverty rates,
or commitments to or returns from the Illinois Department
of Corrections.
(d) The Restore, Reinvest, and Renew Program Board shall
encourage collaborative partnerships within each R3 Area to
minimize multiple partnerships per Area.
(e) The Restore, Reinvest, and Renew Program Board is
created and shall reflect the diversity of the State of
Illinois, including geographic, racial, and ethnic diversity.
Using the data provided by the Authority, the Restore,
Reinvest, and Renew Program Board shall be responsible for
designating the R3 Area boundaries and for the selection and
oversight of R3 Area grantees. The Restore, Reinvest, and
Renew Program Board ex officio members shall, within 4 months
after the effective date of this Act, convene the Board to
appoint a full Restore, Reinvest, and Renew Program Board and
oversee, provide guidance to, and develop an administrative
structure for the R3 Program.

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(1) The ex officio members are:
(A) The Lieutenant Governor, or his or her
designee, who shall serve as chair.
(B) The Attorney General, or his or her
designee.
(C) The Director of Commerce and Economic
Opportunity, or his or her designee.
(D) The Director of Public Health, or his or
her designee.
(E) The Director of Corrections, or his or her
designee.
(F) The Director of Juvenile Justice, or his
or her designee.
(G) The Director of Children and Family
Services, or his or her designee.
(H) The Executive Director of the Illinois
Criminal Justice Information Authority, or his or
her designee.
(I) The Director of Employment Security, or
his or her designee.
(J) The Secretary of Human Services, or his or
her designee.
(K) A member of the Senate, designated by the
President of the Senate.
(L) A member of the House of Representatives,
designated by the Speaker of the House of

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Representatives.
(M) A member of the Senate, designated by the
Minority Leader of the Senate.
(N) A member of the House of Representatives,
designated by the Minority Leader of the House of
Representatives.
(2) Within 90 days after the R3 Areas have been
designated by the Restore, Reinvest, and Renew Program
Board, the following members shall be appointed to the
Board by the R3 board chair:
(A) Eight public officials of municipal or county
geographic jurisdictions in the State that include an
R3 Area, or their designees;
(B) Four community-based providers or community
development organization representatives who provide
services to treat violence and address the social
determinants of health, or promote community
investment, including, but not limited to, services
such as job placement and training, educational
services, workforce development programming, and
wealth building. The community-based organization
representatives shall work primarily in jurisdictions
that include an R3 Area and no more than 2
representatives shall work primarily in Cook County.
At least one of the community-based providers shall
have expertise in providing services to an immigrant

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population;
(C) Two experts in the field of violence
reduction;
(D) One male who has previously been incarcerated
and is over the age of 24 at the time of appointment;
(E) One female who has previously been
incarcerated and is over the age of 24 at the time of
appointment;
(F) Two individuals who have previously been
incarcerated and are between the ages of 17 and 24 at
the time of appointment; and
(G) Eight individuals who live or work in an R3
Area.
As used in this paragraph (2), "an individual who has
been previously incarcerated" means a person who has been
convicted of or pled guilty to one or more felonies, who
was sentenced to a term of imprisonment, and who has
completed his or her sentence. Board members shall serve
without compensation and may be reimbursed for reasonable
expenses incurred in the performance of their duties from
funds appropriated for that purpose. Once all its members
have been appointed as outlined in items (A) through (F)
of this paragraph (2), the Board may exercise any power,
perform any function, take any action, or do anything in
furtherance of its purposes and goals upon the appointment
of a quorum of its members. The Board terms of the non-ex

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officio and General Assembly Board members shall end 4
years from the date of appointment. The R3 board chair may
remove an individual appointed to the Board who does not
regularly attend Board meetings, based on criteria
approved by the Board.
(f) Within 12 months after the effective date of this Act,
the Board shall:
(1) develop a process to solicit applications from
eligible R3 Areas;
(2) develop a standard template for both planning and
implementation activities to be submitted by R3 Areas to
the State;
(3) identify resources sufficient to support the full
administration and evaluation of the R3 Program, including
building and sustaining core program capacity at the
community and State levels;
(4) review R3 Area grant applications and proposed
agreements and approve the distribution of resources;
(5) develop a performance measurement system that
focuses on positive outcomes;
(6) develop a process to support ongoing monitoring
and evaluation of R3 programs; and
(7) deliver an annual report to the General Assembly
and to the Governor to be posted on the Governor's Office
and General Assembly websites and provide to the public an
annual report on its progress.

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(g) R3 Area grants.
(1) Grant funds shall be awarded by the Illinois
Criminal Justice Information Authority, in coordination
with the R3 board, based on the likelihood that the plan
will achieve the outcomes outlined in subsection (a) and
consistent with the requirements of the Grant
Accountability and Transparency Act. The R3 Program shall
also facilitate the provision of training and technical
assistance for capacity building within and among R3
Areas.
(2) R3 Program Board grants shall be used to address
economic development, violence prevention services,
re-entry services, youth development, and civil legal aid.
(3) The Restore, Reinvest, and Renew Program Board and
the R3 Area grantees shall, within a period of no more than
120 days from the completion of planning activities
described in this Section, finalize an agreement on the
plan for implementation. Implementation activities may:
(A) have a basis in evidence or best practice
research or have evaluations demonstrating the
capacity to address the purpose of the program in
subsection (a);
(B) collect data from the inception of planning
activities through implementation, with data
collection technical assistance when needed, including
cost data and data related to identified meaningful

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