Full Text of SB0347 100th General Assembly
SB0347 100TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY |
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State of Illinois
2017 and 2018 SB0347 Introduced 1/24/2017, by Sen. John J. Cullerton SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: | | |
Amends the Shelter Residents Protection Act. Makes a technical change in a
Section concerning homeless persons' savings accounts.
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| 1 | | AN ACT concerning housing.
| 2 | | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, | 3 | | represented in the General Assembly:
| 4 | | Section 5. The Shelter Residents Protection Act is amended | 5 | | by changing Section 5 as follows:
| 6 | | (310 ILCS 80/5)
| 7 | | Sec. 5. Homeless persons; savings.
| 8 | | (a) If a homeless person resides at a shelter, that
that | 9 | | person may open a
passbook savings account at a bank or savings | 10 | | and loan association subject to
the requirements imposed by the | 11 | | bank or savings and loan association. In the
alternative, the | 12 | | homeless person may enter into a written agreement with the
| 13 | | shelter in which he or she resides; the agreement may provide | 14 | | that the shelter
will accept and hold moneys belonging to the | 15 | | homeless person. Under such an
agreement, the shelter shall do | 16 | | the following:
| 17 | | (1) Place the moneys in a non-interest bearing account | 18 | | for the
homeless person, at no cost to that person.
| 19 | | (2) Segregate, from all other moneys or accounts held | 20 | | or maintained by
the shelter, moneys accepted from and held | 21 | | for homeless persons.
| 22 | | (3) Maintain, separately for each homeless person with | 23 | | whom an
agreement is made under this Section, an accurate |
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| 1 | | accounting of the moneys
accepted from, held for, and | 2 | | withdrawn by that person. Upon a homeless
person's request, | 3 | | the shelter shall provide a copy of the accounting
| 4 | | concerning that person's moneys.
| 5 | | (4) Pay to the homeless person, within 48 hours after | 6 | | the person's
request, the amount of the person's moneys | 7 | | held by the shelter or any
lesser amount requested by the | 8 | | homeless person.
| 9 | | (b) Money held by a shelter under this Section shall not be | 10 | | subject to
assignment, attachment, garnishment, set-off, or | 11 | | other process in aid of
creditors.
| 12 | | (c) For purposes of this Section, "homeless person" means | 13 | | either of the
following:
| 14 | | (1) An individual who lacks a fixed, regular, and | 15 | | adequate nighttime
residence; or
| 16 | | (2) An individual who has a primary nighttime residence | 17 | | that is any
of the following:
| 18 | | (A) A supervised publicly or privately operated | 19 | | shelter designed
to provide temporary living | 20 | | accommodations (including welfare hotels,
congregate | 21 | | shelters, and transitional housing for the mentally | 22 | | ill).
| 23 | | (B) An institution that provides a temporary | 24 | | residence for
individuals intended to be | 25 | | institutionalized.
| 26 | | (C) A public or private place not designed for, or |
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| 1 | | ordinarily used
as, a regular sleeping accommodation | 2 | | for human beings.
| 3 | | (Source: P.A. 87-1093.)
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