Full Text of HB4248 94th General Assembly
HB4248 94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2005 and 2006 HB4248
Introduced 12/13/05, by Rep. Bill Mitchell SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: |
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310 ILCS 65/10 |
from Ch. 67 1/2, par. 1260 |
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Amends the Illinois Affordable Housing Act. Provides that Illinois Affordable Housing Trust Fund moneys may not be used to make a grant, mortgage, or other payment or loan to or on behalf of an individual who is an illegal alien. Effective immediately.
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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,
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| represented in the General Assembly:
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| Section 5. The Illinois Affordable Housing Act is amended | 5 |
| by changing Section 10 as follows:
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| (310 ILCS 65/10) (from Ch. 67 1/2, par. 1260)
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| Sec. 10. Trust Fund restrictions and stipulations. (a) All | 8 |
| housing
financed and all assistance provided from the Trust | 9 |
| Fund shall be available to
all eligible persons regardless of | 10 |
| race, color, ancestry, unfavorable
military discharge, | 11 |
| familial status, marital status, national origin,
religion, | 12 |
| creed,
sex, age, or disability.
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| (b) There shall be, on all assisted housing, a deed | 14 |
| restriction,
agreement, or other legal document which provides | 15 |
| for the recapture of
assistance upon terms and conditions to be | 16 |
| specified in rules and
regulations promulgated by the Program | 17 |
| Administrator.
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| (c) Loans made by the Trust Fund may be at no interest or | 19 |
| at below
market interest rates, with or without security, and | 20 |
| may include loans for
predevelopment financing.
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| (d) Assistance may be provided for housing units for low | 22 |
| and very
low-income households within multi-family housing | 23 |
| which is occupied partly by
low and very low-income households | 24 |
| and partly by households not qualifying
as low or very | 25 |
| low-income, subject to rules and regulations promulgated by
the | 26 |
| Program Administrator.
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| (e) Except to the extent provided in rules and regulations | 28 |
| promulgated
by the Program Administrator, no household shall be | 29 |
| required to vacate or
move from any assisted housing as a | 30 |
| result of ceasing to qualify as a low
or very low-income | 31 |
| household under this Act.
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| (f) Rates not to exceed fair market rental may be charged |
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| to any person
or household which occupies any single family | 2 |
| housing or unit of
multi-family housing for the period that | 3 |
| person or household does not
qualify as low or very low-income.
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| (g) All housing assisted by the Trust Fund shall provide a | 5 |
| residential
antidisplacement and relocation assistance plan | 6 |
| consistent with Section 507
of the federal Housing and | 7 |
| Community Development Act of 1987.
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| (h) Multi-family housing assisted by the Trust Fund shall | 9 |
| be prohibited from
refusing to accept tenants for occupancy | 10 |
| solely because the tenant receives
governmental rental | 11 |
| assistance.
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| (i) Trust Fund assisted multi-family housing is prohibited | 13 |
| from evicting
tenants without good cause.
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| (j) Assistance may be provided to housing whether or not | 15 |
| such housing
satisfies the definition of a "qualified | 16 |
| residential rental project" set
forth in Section 142 of the | 17 |
| Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.
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| (k) Housing assisted by the Trust Fund shall be required to | 19 |
| meet energy
efficiency standards which shall be established by | 20 |
| the Program
Administrator. Any review for affordability of | 21 |
| assisted housing must
include a review of energy costs.
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| (l) Manufactured housing which is manufactured entirely | 23 |
| within the State
shall be given priority over housing | 24 |
| manufactured in whole or in part
outside of the State.
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| (m) It is intended that Trust Fund monies not be used to | 26 |
| supplant existing
resources and that the Trust Fund shall be a | 27 |
| funder of last resort.
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| (n) Prior to application of Trust Fund assets to provide | 29 |
| assistance to
affordable housing under this Act, Trust Fund | 30 |
| assets may be invested in
mortgage participation certificates | 31 |
| representing undivided interests in
specified, first-lien | 32 |
| conventional residential Illinois mortgages which are
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| underwritten, insured, guaranteed or purchased by the Federal | 34 |
| Home Loan
Mortgage Corporation. Trust Fund assets may also be | 35 |
| used in such
investments as may be lawful for fiduciaries in | 36 |
| this State or in such
investments which shall reduce the risk |
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| associated with fluctuations in
interest rates or market price | 2 |
| of investments. | 3 |
| (o) Moneys in the Trust Fund may not be used to make a | 4 |
| grant, mortgage, or other payment or loan to or on behalf of an | 5 |
| individual who is an illegal alien.
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| (Source: P.A. 89-286, eff. 8-10-95.)
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| Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | 8 |
| becoming law.
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