Full Text of SB0906 95th General Assembly
SB0906 95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2007 and 2008 SB0906
Introduced 2/8/2007, by Sen. Mike Jacobs - Emil Jones, Jr. SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: |
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Amends the Shelter Residents Protection Act. Makes a technical change in a
Section concerning homeless persons' savings accounts.
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A BILL FOR
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| AN ACT concerning housing.
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| Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, | 3 |
| represented in the General Assembly:
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| Section 5. The Shelter Residents Protection Act is amended | 5 |
| by changing Section 5 as follows:
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| (310 ILCS 80/5)
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| Sec. 5. Homeless persons; savings.
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| (a) If a homeless person resides at a shelter, that
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| 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
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| 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:
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| (1) Place the moneys in a non-interest bearing account | 18 |
| for the
homeless person, at no cost to that person.
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| (2) Segregate, from all other moneys or accounts held | 20 |
| or maintained by
the shelter, moneys accepted from and held | 21 |
| for homeless persons.
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| (3) Maintain, separately for each homeless person with | 23 |
| whom an
agreement is made under this Section, an accurate |
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| 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| withdrawn by that person.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
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| concerning that person's moneys.
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| (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.
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| (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.
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| (c) For purposes of this Section, "homeless person" means | 13 |
| either of the
following:
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| (1) An individual who lacks a fixed, regular, and | 15 |
| adequate nighttime
residence; or
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| (2) An individual who has a primary nighttime residence | 17 |
| that is any
of the following:
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| (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).
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| (B) An institution that provides a temporary | 24 |
| residence for
individuals intended to be | 25 |
| institutionalized.
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| (C) A public or private place not designed for, or |
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| ordinarily used
as, a regular sleeping accommodation | 2 |
| for human beings.
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| (Source: P.A. 87-1093.)
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