Full Text of SB2577 96th General Assembly
SB2577 96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2009 and 2010 SB2577
Introduced 1/21/2010, by Sen. Larry K. Bomke SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: |
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Amends the Rental Housing Support Program Act. Provides that any grant money distributed to a local administering agency under the Rental Housing Support Program that has not been used within 2 years of the distribution date shall be allocated to that local administering agency's county general fund, if and only if a resolution is passed by the county board urging such action.
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| AN ACT concerning housing.
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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 Rental Housing Support
Program Act is | 5 |
| amended by changing Section 15 as follows: | 6 |
| (310 ILCS 105/15)
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| Sec. 15. Grants to local administering agencies. | 8 |
| (a) Under the program, the Authority shall make grants to | 9 |
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administering agencies to provide subsidies to landlords | 10 |
| to enable the
landlords to charge rent affordable for | 11 |
| low-income tenants. Grants shall also
include an amount for the | 12 |
| operating expenses of local administering agencies.
Operating | 13 |
| expenses for local administering agencies shall not exceed 10% | 14 |
| for grants under $500,000 and shall not exceed 7% for grants | 15 |
| over $500,000.
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| (b) The Authority shall develop a request-for-proposals | 17 |
| process for
soliciting proposals from local administering | 18 |
| agencies and for
awarding grants. The request-for-proposals | 19 |
| process and the funded projects must
be consistent with the | 20 |
| criteria set forth in Section 25 and with
additional criteria | 21 |
| set forth by the Authority in rules implementing this Act.
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| (c) Local administering agencies may be local governmental | 23 |
| bodies, local
housing authorities, or not-for-profit |
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| organizations. The Authority shall
set forth in rules the | 2 |
| financial and capacity requirements necessary for an
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| organization to qualify as a local administering agency and the | 4 |
| parameters for administration of the grants by local | 5 |
| administering agencies.
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| (d) The Authority shall distribute grants to local | 7 |
| administering agencies
according to a formula based on U.S. | 8 |
| Census data. The formula shall determine
percentages of the | 9 |
| funds to be distributed to the following geographic areas:
(i)
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| Chicago; (ii) suburban areas: Cook County (excluding Chicago), | 11 |
| DuPage County,
Lake County, Kane County, Will County, and | 12 |
| McHenry County; (iii) small
metropolitan areas: Springfield, | 13 |
| Rockford, Peoria, Decatur, Champaign-Urbana,
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| Bloomington-Normal, Rock Island, DeKalb, Madison County, | 15 |
| Moline, Pekin,
Rantoul, and St. Clair County; and (iv) rural | 16 |
| areas, defined as all areas of the State not specifically named | 17 |
| in items (i), (ii), and (iii) of this subsection. A geographic | 18 |
| area's
percentage share shall be determined by the total number | 19 |
| of households that
have an annual income of less than 50% of | 20 |
| State median income for a household
of 4, as determined by the | 21 |
| U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, and that are | 22 |
| paying more than 30% of their income for rent. The geographic | 23 |
| distribution shall be re-determined
by the Authority each time | 24 |
| new U.S. Census data becomes available. The
Authority shall | 25 |
| phase in any changes to the geographic formula to prevent a
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| large
withdrawal of resources from one area that could |
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| negatively impact households
receiving rental housing support.
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| Up to 20% of the funds allocated for rural areas, as defined in | 3 |
| this subsection, may be set aside and awarded to one | 4 |
| administering agency to be distributed throughout the rural | 5 |
| areas in the State to localities that desire a number of | 6 |
| subsidized units of housing that is too small to justify the | 7 |
| establishment of a full local program. In those localities, the | 8 |
| administering agency may contract with local agencies to share | 9 |
| the administrative tasks of the program, such as inspections of | 10 |
| units.
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| (e) In order to ensure applications from all geographic | 12 |
| areas of the
State, the
Authority shall create a plan to ensure | 13 |
| that potential local
administering agencies have
ample time and | 14 |
| support to consider making an application and to prepare an
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| application.
Such a plan must include, but is not limited to: | 16 |
| an outreach and education plan
regarding
the program and the | 17 |
| requirements for a local administering agency; ample time
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| between the
initial
notice of funding ability and the deadline | 19 |
| to submit an application, which
shall not be less than 9
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| months;
and access to assistance from the Authority or another | 21 |
| agency in considering
and preparing the application.
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| (f) In order to maintain consistency for households | 23 |
| receiving rental housing
support, the Authority shall, to the | 24 |
| extent possible given funding resources available in the Rental | 25 |
| Housing Support Program,
continue to fund local administering | 26 |
| agencies at the same level on an annual
basis, unless the |
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| Authority determines that a local administering agency is not
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| meeting the criteria set forth in Section 25 or is not adhering | 3 |
| to other standards set forth by rule by the Authority.
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| (g) If and only if a resolution is passed by the county | 5 |
| board urging such action, any grant money distributed to a | 6 |
| local administering agency under the program that has not been | 7 |
| used within 2 years of the distribution date shall be allocated | 8 |
| to that local administering agency's county general fund. | 9 |
| (Source: P.A. 94-118, eff. 7-5-05.)
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