104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2025 and 2026
HB5577

 

Introduced 2/13/2026, by Rep. Sonya M. Harper

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 


    Appropriates $2,000,000 from the General Revenue Fund to the Department of Agriculture for the Illinois Down Payment Assistant Grant Program to offer grants for eligible applicants purchasing their first farms in the State. Effective July 1, 2026.


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1    AN ACT concerning appropriations.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The amount of $2,000,000, or so much of that
5amount as may be necessary, is appropriated from the General
6Revenue Fund to the Department of Agriculture for the Illinois
7Down Payment Assistant Grant Program to offer grants for
8eligible applicants purchasing their first farms in the State.
 
 
9    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect July 1,
102026.