SB3753 102ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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102ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2021 and 2022
SB3753

Introduced 1/21/2022, by Sen. Rachelle Crowe

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

30 ILCS 105/5.970 new
30 ILCS 105/6z-130 new

Amends the State Finance Act. Creates the Fund Mental Health and Substance Use Prevention Fund as a special fund in the State treasury. Provides that the Department of Human Services must make grants, from appropriations made from the Fund, to units of local government and Illinois public universities for the purposes of providing mental health and substance abuse prevention to people who are incarcerated and providing mental health and substance abuse prevention for those encountering the criminal justice system with a primary focus to people who are incarcerated in the county jail or recently discharged. Provides that, as soon as practical after the effective date of the amendatory Act, the State Comptroller shall direct and the State Treasurer shall transfer the sum of $100,000,000 from the General Revenue Fund to the Fund Mental Health and Substance Use Prevention Fund. Provides that notwithstanding any other provision of law, moneys in the Fund Mental Health and Substance Use Prevention Fund may not be appropriated, assigned, or transferred to another State fund.

A BILL FOR

AN ACT concerning finance.

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly:

Section 5. The State Finance Act is amended by adding Sections 5.970 and 6z-130 as follows:

(30 ILCS 105/5.970 new)

Sec. 5.970. The Fund Mental Health and Substance Abuse Prevention Fund.

(30 ILCS 105/6z-130 new)

Sec. 6z-130. Fund Mental Health and Substance Use Prevention Fund.

(a) The Fund Mental Health and Substance Use Prevention Fund is created as a special fund in the State treasury. The Department must make grants, from appropriations made from the Fund, to units of local government and Illinois public universities for the purposes of:

(1) providing mental health and substance use prevention to people who are incarcerated; and

(2) providing mental health and substance use prevention for those encountering the criminal justice system with a primary focus to people who are incarcerated in a county jail or recently discharged.

(b) As soon as practical after the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 102nd General Assembly, the State Comptroller shall direct and the State Treasurer shall transfer the sum of $100,000,000 from the General Revenue Fund to the Fund Mental Health and Substance Use Prevention Fund.

(c) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, moneys in the Fund Mental Health and Substance Use Prevention Fund may not be appropriated, assigned, or transferred to another State fund.