Bill Text: IL SB3351 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Engrossed

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Bill Title: Amends the Subsidized Housing Joint Occupancy Act. Provides that an elderly parent with an adult child with disabilities of the opposite sex shall not be required to occupy subsidized housing with only one bedroom. Provides that exceptions to the largest permissible unit size for subsidized housing shall be made when the elderly parent and adult child with disabilities of the opposite sex otherwise meet all other eligibility requirements.

Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 10-1)

Status: (Passed) 2024-08-09 - Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0981 [SB3351 Detail]

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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 Subsidized Housing Joint Occupancy Act is
amended by changing Sections 2 and 4 as follows:
(310 ILCS 75/2) (from Ch. 67 1/2, par. 1352)
Sec. 2. Legislative findings. The General Assembly makes
the following findings:
(1) Elderly persons and persons with disabilities
frequently desire to share a residence (i) to maximize the
effectiveness of the portion of their often limited incomes
that is spent for housing; (ii) for protection; and (iii) for
assistance in performing necessary daily tasks of life such as
cooking and cleaning.
(1-5) Elderly parents of adult children with disabilities
frequently desire to share a residence with their adult child
with disabilities (i) to maximize the effectiveness of the
portion of their often-limited incomes that is spent for
housing; (ii) for protection; and (iii) for assistance in
performing necessary daily tasks of life such as cooking and
cleaning.
(2) Many elderly persons and persons with disabilities
desire to live in federally subsidized housing units because

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of their limited incomes.
(3) Rules of the federal Department of Housing and Urban
Development permit 2 or more unrelated elderly persons or
persons with disabilities to occupy the same unit in federally
subsidized housing, although local housing authorities
frequently do not permit those persons to occupy the same
unit.
(3-5) Rules of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban
Development do not force persons of different generations or
opposite sex to share the same bedroom in federally subsidized
housing, although local housing authorities frequently require
that living situation based upon the local housing authority's
occupancy standards.
(4) The State of Illinois should do all it can to assist
its elderly persons and persons with disabilities in
maximizing the effectiveness of their incomes and to insure
that those citizens are not unnecessarily burdened in
accomplishing the daily tasks of life.
(Source: P.A. 99-143, eff. 7-27-15.)
(310 ILCS 75/4) (from Ch. 67 1/2, par. 1354)
Sec. 4. Joint occupancy of subsidized housing.
(a) Two elderly persons or two persons with disabilities
who are not related to each other by blood or marriage shall
not be prohibited from jointly occupying subsidized housing or
a unit of subsidized housing solely because they are not

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