Bill Text: IL HR0941 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Urges the Illinois Department of Corrections under their existing statutory authority to draft and adopt administrative rules authorizing community-based, non-profit residential treatment providers to apply for the same monthly Financial Impact Statement funds per person and per month to support their operations. Urges that these rules enable IDOC to automatically fund qualified community-based non-profit residential providers that meet objective state standards for service provision, safety, and rehabilitative support. States that IDOC already has existing statutory and budget authority to enter into these funding agreements with community-based non-profit residential treatment providers that are not private correctional facilities or private detention facilities. Further states that administrative rules governing applications, standards and metrics for residential treatment facilities to qualify for automatic funding with IDOC would enhance transparency and incentivize more development of these non-profit residential treatment facilities.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Failed) 2025-01-07 - Session Sine Die [HR0941 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2023-HR0941-Introduced.html

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HOUSE RESOLUTION
WHEREAS, The State of Illinois and the Illinois Department
of Corrections (IDOC) are committed to enhancing public safety
and reducing recidivism; and
WHEREAS, Studies have shown that community-based
residential treatment facilities offering housing, counseling,
workforce training, and other supportive services can reduce
recidivism rates and improve successful reentry for
individuals in the justice system; and
WHEREAS, Partnerships with non-profit providers can enable
Illinois to offer safe, community-based residential
facilities, where individuals receive mental health
counseling, job training, substance abuse treatment, and
restorative justice services, all of which contribute to
lowering recidivism and enhancing community safety; and
WHEREAS, Alternatives to incarceration administered by
community-based, non-profit organizations alleviate burdens on
the Illinois budget by reducing the cost of incarcerating
individuals in IDOC facilities; and
WHEREAS, IDOC currently spends $4,106 per person per month
to incarcerate an individual in a department facility,

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according to its FY2024 Financial Impact Statement; and
WHEREAS, IDOC is permitted to contract with
community-based, non-profit providers at that same rate on a
per person, per month basis to house and support these
individuals who would otherwise be incarcerated in a
department facility at the same cost; and
WHEREAS, The contracts would support eligible individuals
when subject to a judicial order to live and be served in a
community-based facility as an alternative to incarceration;
and
WHEREAS, These community-based non-profit facilities could
neither be a private correctional facility nor a private
detention facility pursuant to State law, but a residential
treatment facility is permitted; and
WHEREAS, This approach envisions long-term outcomes such
as reducing recidivism, promoting workforce readiness, and
facilitating smoother transitions for individuals back into
society; therefore, be it
RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ONE
HUNDRED THIRD GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that
we urge the Illinois Department of Corrections under their

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existing statutory authority to draft and adopt administrative
rules authorizing community-based, non-profit residential
treatment providers to apply for the same monthly Financial
Impact Statement funds per person and per month to support
their operations; and be it further
RESOLVED, That we urge that these rules enable IDOC to
automatically fund qualified community-based non-profit
residential providers that meet objective state standards for
service provision, safety, and rehabilitative support; and be
it further
RESOLVED, That IDOC has existing statutory and budget
authority to enter into these funding agreements with
community-based, non-profit residential treatment providers
that are not private correctional facilities or private
detention facilities; and be it further
RESOLVED, That administrative rules governing
applications, standards, and metrics for residential treatment
facilities to qualify for automatic funding with IDOC would
enhance transparency and incentivize more development of these
non-profit residential treatment facilities; and be it further
RESOLVED, That suitable copies of this resolution be
delivered to the Director of the Illinois Department of

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