Full Text of SB2148 96th General Assembly
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| AN ACT concerning State government.
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| Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| represented in the General Assembly:
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| Section 5. The Military Code of Illinois is amended by | 5 |
| changing Section 22-9 as follows:
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| (20 ILCS 1805/22-9)
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| Sec. 22-9. Power to make grants from the Illinois Military
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| Family Relief Fund. Subject to appropriation, the Department of | 9 |
| Military
Affairs shall have the power to make grants from the | 10 |
| Illinois Military
Family Relief Fund, a special fund created in | 11 |
| the State treasury, to (i) single persons who are members of | 12 |
| the Illinois National Guard or Illinois residents who are | 13 |
| members of the reserves of the armed forces of the United | 14 |
| States and who have been called to active duty as a result of | 15 |
| the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks ; (ii) for the | 16 |
| casualty-based grant only: Illinois National Guard members or | 17 |
| Illinois residents who are members of the reserves of the armed | 18 |
| forces of the United States and who, while deployed in support | 19 |
| of operations as a result of the September 11th terrorist | 20 |
| attacks, sustained an injury as a result of terrorist activity; | 21 |
| sustained an injury in combat, or related to combat, as a | 22 |
| direct result of hostile action; or sustained an injury going | 23 |
| to or returning from a combat mission, provided that the |
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| incident leading to the injury was directly related to hostile | 2 |
| action; this includes injuries to service members who are | 3 |
| wounded mistakenly or accidentally by friendly fire directed at | 4 |
| a hostile force or what is thought to be a hostile force; and | 5 |
| (iii) to families
of the classes of persons listed in items (i) | 6 |
| and (ii) of this Section who are members of the Illinois | 7 |
| National Guard or Illinois residents
who are members of the | 8 |
| reserves of the armed forces of the United States and
who have | 9 |
| been called to active duty as a result of the September 11, | 10 |
| 2001
terrorist attacks . The Department of Military Affairs | 11 |
| shall establish
eligibility criteria for all the grants by | 12 |
| rule.
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| On and after the effective date of this amendatory Act of | 14 |
| the 96th General Assembly, the Department must award at least | 15 |
| $5,000 to each recipient of a casualty-based grant and must | 16 |
| include Illinois residents who are active duty members of the | 17 |
| armed forces of the United States in the eligibility for the | 18 |
| casualty-based grant in item (ii) of this Section. Each | 19 |
| recipient may receive only one casualty-based grant for | 20 |
| injuries received during, or arising out of, the same | 21 |
| engagement or incident. | 22 |
| Grants awarded from the Illinois Military Family Relief | 23 |
| Fund shall not be subject to garnishment, wage levy, | 24 |
| forfeiture, or other remedy, unless the denial of that remedy | 25 |
| is inconsistent with the requirements of any other State or | 26 |
| federal law. |
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| In addition to amounts transferred into the Fund under | 2 |
| Section 510 of the
Illinois Income Tax Act, the State Treasurer | 3 |
| shall accept and deposit into the
Fund all gifts, grants,
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| transfers, appropriations, and other amounts
from any legal | 5 |
| source, public or private, that are
designated for deposit into | 6 |
| the Fund. To prevent a delay of 30 or more days in the payment | 7 |
| of casualty-based grants, the Department may use, for | 8 |
| administration of the program, as much as 5% of the | 9 |
| appropriations designated for the casualty-based grant | 10 |
| program.
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| (Source: P.A. 92-886, eff. 2-7-03; 93-506, eff. 8-11-03; | 12 |
| 93-976, eff. 8-20-04.)
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| Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | 14 |
| becoming law.
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