Bill Text: IL SB2005 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Housing Authorities Act. Requires housing authorities to develop and implement policies granting housing preferences to veterans who are homeless. Provides that such preferences shall be cumulative with any other preference allowed by a housing authority for which the veteran qualifies. Provides that nothing in the amendatory Act shall be construed to supersede any federal law or regulation.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 23-8)

Status: (Passed) 2023-06-30 - Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0247 [SB2005 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2023-SB2005-Introduced.html

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103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2023 and 2024 SB2005 Introduced 2/9/2023, by Sen. Craig Wilcox SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
310 ILCS 10/34 new
Amends the Housing Authorities Act. Requires housing authorities to develop and implement policies granting housing preferences to veterans who are homeless. Provides that such preferences shall be cumulative with any other preference allowed by a housing authority for which the veteran qualifies. Provides that nothing in the amendatory Act shall be construed to supersede any federal law or regulation.
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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 Housing Authorities Act is amended by
adding Section 34 as follows:
(310 ILCS 10/34 new)
Sec. 34. Housing preference for veterans.
(a) As used in this Section:
"Homeless individual" means an individual:
(1) who lacks a fixed, regular, and adequate nighttime
residence;
(2) with a primary nighttime residence that is a
public or private place not designed for or ordinarily
used as a regular sleeping accommodation for human beings,
including a car, park, abandoned building, bus or train
station, airport, or campground;
(3) in a supervised publicly or privately operated
shelter designated to provide temporary living
arrangements, including, but not limited to, hotels and
motels paid for by a government program for low-income
individuals or by charitable organizations, congregate
shelters, and transitional housing;
(4) who resides in a shelter or place not meant for

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human habitation and who is exiting an institution where
he or she temporarily resided; and
(5) who:
(A) will imminently lose his or her housing,
including housing he or she owns, rents, lives in
without paying rent, or is sharing with others, and
rooms in hotels or motels not paid for by a
governmental program for low-income individuals or by
charitable organizations, as evidenced by:
(i) a court order resulting from an eviction
action that notifies the individual that he or she
must leave within 14 days;
(ii) such individual having a primary
nighttime residence that is a room in a hotel or
motel and where he or she lacks the resources
necessary to reside there for more than 14 days;
(iii) credible indications that the owner or
renter of such housing will not allow such
individual to stay for more than 14 days; or
(iv) any oral statement from an individual
seeking homeless assistance that is found to be
credible;
(B) has no subsequent residence identified; and
(C) lacks the resources or support networks needed to
obtain other permanent housing.
"Veteran" means an individual who has served as a member

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of the armed forces of the United States or the Illinois
National Guard.
(b) Any housing authority created in accordance with this
Act shall develop and implement policies granting housing
preferences to veterans who are homeless. Such preferences
shall be cumulative with any other preference allowed by such
housing authority for which the veteran qualifies. Nothing in
this Section shall be construed to supersede any federal law
or regulation.