Illinois General Assembly - Full Text of HB1352

Rep. Kyle Moore

Filed: 3/12/2025

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AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 1352

AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 1352 on page 27, by inserting immediately below line 24 the following:

"(o)(1) In counties that do not have a Veterans Assistance Commission prior to January 1, 2026, and in which there exists a judicial circuit whose jurisdictional boundaries include multiple counties, veteran service organizations located within any of those counties that are within the judicial circuit's jurisdictional boundaries may come together and form a Jurisdictional Veterans Assistance Commission that shall provide services to veterans and their families who reside in those participating counties. Each participating county shall levy a tax at the minimum amount of 0.02%, as provided in Section 2, and deposit the proceeds in the county treasury of the seat of that judicial circuit. These proceeds shall be used for the employment of staff at the Veterans Assistance Commission and for financial assistance for the veterans and their families that reside within the geographical boundaries of that judicial circuit. The Veterans Assistance Commission shall be known as the Veterans Assistance Commission of that judicial circuit.

(2) Participating counties shall provide the support and materials required to administer a Jurisdictional Veterans Assistance Commission in the same manner individual counties are required under this Act to provide support and materials to single-county Veterans Assistance Commissions.

(3) The superintendent of a Veterans Assistance Commission formed in accordance with paragraph (1) shall be selected from among all honorably discharged veterans of all participating counties within that judicial circuit's boundaries and shall maintain a centrally located office within that judicial circuit. However, for a Veterans Assistance Commission formed within a large judicial circuit, the superintendent is not precluded from having multiple offices that shall be owned and maintained by the Veterans Assistance Commission.

(4) Delegates and alternates shall be selected by the veterans service organizations of that judicial circuit in the same manner as prescribed in paragraph (1) of subsection (a).

(5) Any existing Veterans Assistance Commission that is part of a judicial circuit that is comprised of multiple counties, as of January 1, 2025, may merge into a Veterans Assistance Commission of that judicial circuit with its neighboring counties. Those existing Veterans Assistance Commissions that choose not to merge may continue to exist independently while the other counties combine to form a new Veterans Assistance Commission of that judicial circuit.".