Bill Text: IL SB2589 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Disaster Relief Act. Provides that the Illinois Emergency Management Agency and Office of Homeland Security may provide State supplemental grants to meet disaster-related necessary expenses or serious needs of individuals and households adversely affected by any disaster declared by the President of the United States in those cases in which individuals and households are unable to meet those expenses or needs through other assistance. Sets eligibility, application, and other requirements for the grants.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-05-03 - Rule 3-9(a) / Re-referred to Assignments [SB2589 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2023-SB2589-Introduced.html

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103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2023 and 2024 SB2589 Introduced 10/18/2023, by Sen. Kimberly A. Lightford SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
15 ILCS 30/5 new
Amends the Disaster Relief Act. Provides that the Illinois Emergency Management Agency and Office of Homeland Security may provide State supplemental grants to meet disaster-related necessary expenses or serious needs of individuals and households adversely affected by any disaster declared by the President of the United States in those cases in which individuals and households are unable to meet those expenses or needs through other assistance. Sets eligibility, application, and other requirements for the grants.
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning State government.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Disaster Relief Act is amended by adding
Section 5 as follows:
(15 ILCS 30/5 new)
Sec. 5. Supplemental disaster relief grants.
(a) The Illinois Emergency Management Agency and Office of
Homeland Security may provide State supplemental grants to
meet disaster-related necessary expenses or serious needs of
individuals and households adversely affected by any disaster
declared by the President of the United States in those cases
in which individuals and households are unable to meet those
expenses or needs through assistance under Section 408 of the
federal Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency
Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5174) or from other sources.
(b) Grants under this Section shall be made only to
individuals and households that, in either case, are
determined, by the Illinois Emergency Management Agency and
Office of Homeland Security, to be eligible for federal
assistance under 42 U.S.C. 5174, that have unmet serious
needs, and that have suffered losses reimbursable under that
program in excess of the maximum federal grant amount.

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(c) The Illinois Emergency Management Agency and Office of
Homeland Security may make a grant to an eligible individual
or eligible household in an amount equal to the difference
between the federal grant awarded to the individual or
household and the federally eligible appraised loss of the
individual or household, not to exceed $10,000 per individual
or household.
(d) The Illinois Emergency Management Agency and Office of
Homeland Security shall adopt rules establishing application
procedures for grants awarded under this Section. The adopted
rules must, at a minimum, specify that:
(1) all application procedures must conform to the
procedures required in the federal Robert T. Stafford
Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act, as amended;
(2) the Illinois Emergency Management Agency and
Office of Homeland Security must ensure that applicants
for relief under this Section have exhausted all other
available means of seeking relief for disaster damage
prior to receiving any grants under this Section;
(3) all applications, forms, and other written
materials to be presented to persons seeking assistance
must be available in English and in the same language as
that used by the largest non-English-speaking population
within the disaster area; and
(4) bilingual staff who reflect the demographics of
the disaster area must be available to applicants.