Bill Text: IL SB3586 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Illinois Highway Code. Provides that the Department of Transportation or any county may, as a part of the cost of construction, make a payment not to exceed the maximum funding permitted under the Uniform Relocation Assistance Program (rather than $22,500) to any displaced person who is displaced from a dwelling acquired for a State highway or federal aid highway project actually owned and occupied by such displaced person for not less than 180 days prior to the initiation of negotiations for the acquisition of such property.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-05-03 - Senate Committee Amendment No. 2 Rule 3-9(a) / Re-referred to Assignments [SB3586 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2023-SB3586-Introduced.html

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103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2023 and 2024 SB3586 Introduced 2/9/2024, by Sen. Christopher Belt SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
605 ILCS 5/3-107.1c from Ch. 121, par. 3-107.1c
Amends the Illinois Highway Code. Provides that the Department of Transportation or any county may, as a part of the cost of construction, make a payment not to exceed the maximum funding permitted under the Uniform Relocation Assistance Program (rather than $22,500) to any displaced person who is displaced from a dwelling acquired for a State highway or federal aid highway project actually owned and occupied by such displaced person for not less than 180 days prior to the initiation of negotiations for the acquisition of such property.
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning transportation.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Illinois Highway Code is amended by
changing Section 3-107.1c as follows:
(605 ILCS 5/3-107.1c) (from Ch. 121, par. 3-107.1c)
Sec. 3-107.1c. In addition to the amounts authorized to be
paid in Sections 3-107.1, 3-107.1a, and 3-107.1b of this Code
by the Department or any county, the Department or any county
may, as a part of the cost of construction, make a payment not
to exceed the maximum funding permitted under the Uniform
Relocation Assistance Program (42 U.S.C. Chapter 61,
Subchapter II) $22,500 to any displaced person who is
displaced from a dwelling acquired for a State highway or
federal aid highway project actually owned and occupied by
such displaced person for not less than 180 days prior to the
initiation of negotiations for the acquisition of such
property. Such payment shall include the following elements:
(A) The amount, if any, which, when added to the
acquisition cost of the dwelling acquired equals the
reasonable cost of a comparable replacement dwelling
determined in accordance with standards established by the
Department to be a decent, safe and sanitary dwelling adequate

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to accommodate the displaced person, reasonably accessible to
public services and places of employment and available on the
private market.
(B) The amount, if any, which will compensate such
displaced person for any increased interest costs which such
person is required to pay for financing the acquisition of any
such comparable replacement dwelling. Such amount shall be
paid only if the dwelling acquired by the Department or any
county was encumbered by a bona fide mortgage which was a valid
lien on such dwelling for not less than 180 days prior to the
initiation of negotiations for the acquisition of such
dwelling.
(C) Reasonable expenses incurred by such displaced person
for evidence of title, recording fees, and other closing costs
incident to the purchase of the replacement dwelling, but not
including prepaid expenses.
The additional payment authorized by this Section, which
shall not exceed the sum of the maximum funding permitted
under the Uniform Relocation Assistance Program (42 U.S.C.
Chapter 61, Subchapter II) $22,500, shall be made only to such
a displaced person who purchases and occupies a replacement
dwelling that meets the standards established by the
Department to be decent, safe and sanitary, not later than the
end of the one year period beginning on the date on which he
receives from the Department or any county final payment of
all costs of the acquired dwelling, or on the date on which he

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moves from the dwelling acquired for the highway project,
whichever is the later date.
Any displaced person not eligible to receive such payment,
who is displaced from any dwelling which dwelling was actually
and lawfully occupied by such displaced person for not less
than 90 days prior to the initiation of negotiations for
acquisition of such dwelling, may be paid by the Department or
any county, either (1) an amount necessary to enable such
displaced person to lease or rent for a period not to exceed 42
months, a decent, safe and sanitary dwelling of standards
adequate to accommodate such person in areas not generally
less desirable in regard to public utilities and public and
commercial facilities and reasonably accessible to his place
of employment, but not to exceed the sum of $5,250, or (2) the
amount necessary to enable such person to make a down payment
(including incidental expenses described in part (C) of this
Section) on the purchase of a decent, safe and sanitary
dwelling of standards adequate to accommodate such person in
areas not generally less desirable in regard to public
utilities and public and commercial facilities, but not to
exceed the amount payable under (1) of this paragraph except
that in the case of a homeowner who owned and occupied the
displaced dwelling for at least 90 days, but not more than 180
days immediately prior to the initiating of negotiations, the
down payment cannot exceed the amount payable under 3-107.1c
for the persons who owned and occupied the property for 180

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