103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2023 and 2024 HB3474 Introduced , by Rep. Justin Slaughter SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: 5 ILCS 120/2 from Ch. 102, par. 42 430 ILCS 69/35-15430 ILCS 69/35-25430 ILCS 69/35-30430 ILCS 69/35-35430 ILCS 69/35-40 Amends the Reimagine Public Safety Act. Removes language requiring grants from the Office of Firearm Violence Prevention to be in specified quantities, specified amounts, or both. Provides that, at the discretion of the Assistant Secretary of Firearm Violence Prevention, the Office of Firearm Violence Prevention may provide grants in each eligible service area that the Office of Firearm Violence Prevention determines to be eligible. Provides that various services must be distributed equitably among various recipients. Removes language requiring initial grants issued by the Department of Human Services and the Office of Firearm Violence Prevention to be named no later than April 1, 2022 and renewed or competitively bid as appropriate in subsequent fiscal years. Provides that 60 days after the Office of Firearm Violence Prevention receives all local advisory council recommendations under specified provisions and distributes funding based on those recommendations, the Office of Firearm Violence Prevention shall have no responsibility to manage, oversee, or exercise administrative authority over any local advisory council and local advisory councils shall be exempt from specified State requirements. Makes other changes. Makes a conforming change in the Open Meetings Act. LRB103 05889 CPF 50910 b A BILL FOR 103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2023 and 2024 HB3474 Introduced , by Rep. Justin Slaughter SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: 5 ILCS 120/2 from Ch. 102, par. 42 430 ILCS 69/35-15430 ILCS 69/35-25430 ILCS 69/35-30430 ILCS 69/35-35430 ILCS 69/35-40 5 ILCS 120/2 from Ch. 102, par. 42 430 ILCS 69/35-15 430 ILCS 69/35-25 430 ILCS 69/35-30 430 ILCS 69/35-35 430 ILCS 69/35-40 Amends the Reimagine Public Safety Act. Removes language requiring grants from the Office of Firearm Violence Prevention to be in specified quantities, specified amounts, or both. Provides that, at the discretion of the Assistant Secretary of Firearm Violence Prevention, the Office of Firearm Violence Prevention may provide grants in each eligible service area that the Office of Firearm Violence Prevention determines to be eligible. Provides that various services must be distributed equitably among various recipients. Removes language requiring initial grants issued by the Department of Human Services and the Office of Firearm Violence Prevention to be named no later than April 1, 2022 and renewed or competitively bid as appropriate in subsequent fiscal years. Provides that 60 days after the Office of Firearm Violence Prevention receives all local advisory council recommendations under specified provisions and distributes funding based on those recommendations, the Office of Firearm Violence Prevention shall have no responsibility to manage, oversee, or exercise administrative authority over any local advisory council and local advisory councils shall be exempt from specified State requirements. Makes other changes. Makes a conforming change in the Open Meetings Act. LRB103 05889 CPF 50910 b LRB103 05889 CPF 50910 b A BILL FOR
103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2023 and 2024 HB3474 Introduced , by Rep. Justin Slaughter SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
5 ILCS 120/2 from Ch. 102, par. 42 430 ILCS 69/35-15430 ILCS 69/35-25430 ILCS 69/35-30430 ILCS 69/35-35430 ILCS 69/35-40 5 ILCS 120/2 from Ch. 102, par. 42 430 ILCS 69/35-15 430 ILCS 69/35-25 430 ILCS 69/35-30 430 ILCS 69/35-35 430 ILCS 69/35-40
5 ILCS 120/2 from Ch. 102, par. 42
430 ILCS 69/35-15
430 ILCS 69/35-25
430 ILCS 69/35-30
430 ILCS 69/35-35
430 ILCS 69/35-40
Amends the Reimagine Public Safety Act. Removes language requiring grants from the Office of Firearm Violence Prevention to be in specified quantities, specified amounts, or both. Provides that, at the discretion of the Assistant Secretary of Firearm Violence Prevention, the Office of Firearm Violence Prevention may provide grants in each eligible service area that the Office of Firearm Violence Prevention determines to be eligible. Provides that various services must be distributed equitably among various recipients. Removes language requiring initial grants issued by the Department of Human Services and the Office of Firearm Violence Prevention to be named no later than April 1, 2022 and renewed or competitively bid as appropriate in subsequent fiscal years. Provides that 60 days after the Office of Firearm Violence Prevention receives all local advisory council recommendations under specified provisions and distributes funding based on those recommendations, the Office of Firearm Violence Prevention shall have no responsibility to manage, oversee, or exercise administrative authority over any local advisory council and local advisory councils shall be exempt from specified State requirements. Makes other changes. Makes a conforming change in the Open Meetings Act.
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1 AN ACT concerning safety.
2 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
4 Section 5. The Open Meetings Act is amended by changing
5 Section 2 as follows:
6 (5 ILCS 120/2) (from Ch. 102, par. 42)
7 Sec. 2. Open meetings.
8 (a) Openness required. All meetings of public bodies shall
9 be open to the public unless excepted in subsection (c) and
10 closed in accordance with Section 2a.
11 (b) Construction of exceptions. The exceptions contained
12 in subsection (c) are in derogation of the requirement that
13 public bodies meet in the open, and therefore, the exceptions
14 are to be strictly construed, extending only to subjects
15 clearly within their scope. The exceptions authorize but do
16 not require the holding of a closed meeting to discuss a
17 subject included within an enumerated exception.
18 (c) Exceptions. A public body may hold closed meetings to
19 consider the following subjects:
20 (1) The appointment, employment, compensation,
21 discipline, performance, or dismissal of specific
22 employees, specific individuals who serve as independent
23 contractors in a park, recreational, or educational
103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2023 and 2024 HB3474 Introduced , by Rep. Justin Slaughter SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
5 ILCS 120/2 from Ch. 102, par. 42 430 ILCS 69/35-15430 ILCS 69/35-25430 ILCS 69/35-30430 ILCS 69/35-35430 ILCS 69/35-40 5 ILCS 120/2 from Ch. 102, par. 42 430 ILCS 69/35-15 430 ILCS 69/35-25 430 ILCS 69/35-30 430 ILCS 69/35-35 430 ILCS 69/35-40
5 ILCS 120/2 from Ch. 102, par. 42
430 ILCS 69/35-15
430 ILCS 69/35-25
430 ILCS 69/35-30
430 ILCS 69/35-35
430 ILCS 69/35-40
Amends the Reimagine Public Safety Act. Removes language requiring grants from the Office of Firearm Violence Prevention to be in specified quantities, specified amounts, or both. Provides that, at the discretion of the Assistant Secretary of Firearm Violence Prevention, the Office of Firearm Violence Prevention may provide grants in each eligible service area that the Office of Firearm Violence Prevention determines to be eligible. Provides that various services must be distributed equitably among various recipients. Removes language requiring initial grants issued by the Department of Human Services and the Office of Firearm Violence Prevention to be named no later than April 1, 2022 and renewed or competitively bid as appropriate in subsequent fiscal years. Provides that 60 days after the Office of Firearm Violence Prevention receives all local advisory council recommendations under specified provisions and distributes funding based on those recommendations, the Office of Firearm Violence Prevention shall have no responsibility to manage, oversee, or exercise administrative authority over any local advisory council and local advisory councils shall be exempt from specified State requirements. Makes other changes. Makes a conforming change in the Open Meetings Act.
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5 ILCS 120/2 from Ch. 102, par. 42
430 ILCS 69/35-15
430 ILCS 69/35-25
430 ILCS 69/35-30
430 ILCS 69/35-35
430 ILCS 69/35-40
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1 setting, or specific volunteers of the public body or
2 legal counsel for the public body, including hearing
3 testimony on a complaint lodged against an employee, a
4 specific individual who serves as an independent
5 contractor in a park, recreational, or educational
6 setting, or a volunteer of the public body or against
7 legal counsel for the public body to determine its
8 validity. However, a meeting to consider an increase in
9 compensation to a specific employee of a public body that
10 is subject to the Local Government Wage Increase
11 Transparency Act may not be closed and shall be open to the
12 public and posted and held in accordance with this Act.
13 (2) Collective negotiating matters between the public
14 body and its employees or their representatives, or
15 deliberations concerning salary schedules for one or more
16 classes of employees.
17 (3) The selection of a person to fill a public office,
18 as defined in this Act, including a vacancy in a public
19 office, when the public body is given power to appoint
20 under law or ordinance, or the discipline, performance or
21 removal of the occupant of a public office, when the
22 public body is given power to remove the occupant under
23 law or ordinance.
24 (4) Evidence or testimony presented in open hearing,
25 or in closed hearing where specifically authorized by law,
26 to a quasi-adjudicative body, as defined in this Act,
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1 provided that the body prepares and makes available for
2 public inspection a written decision setting forth its
3 determinative reasoning.
4 (5) The purchase or lease of real property for the use
5 of the public body, including meetings held for the
6 purpose of discussing whether a particular parcel should
7 be acquired.
8 (6) The setting of a price for sale or lease of
9 property owned by the public body.
10 (7) The sale or purchase of securities, investments,
11 or investment contracts. This exception shall not apply to
12 the investment of assets or income of funds deposited into
13 the Illinois Prepaid Tuition Trust Fund.
14 (8) Security procedures, school building safety and
15 security, and the use of personnel and equipment to
16 respond to an actual, a threatened, or a reasonably
17 potential danger to the safety of employees, students,
18 staff, the public, or public property.
19 (9) Student disciplinary cases.
20 (10) The placement of individual students in special
21 education programs and other matters relating to
22 individual students.
23 (11) Litigation, when an action against, affecting or
24 on behalf of the particular public body has been filed and
25 is pending before a court or administrative tribunal, or
26 when the public body finds that an action is probable or
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1 imminent, in which case the basis for the finding shall be
2 recorded and entered into the minutes of the closed
3 meeting.
4 (12) The establishment of reserves or settlement of
5 claims as provided in the Local Governmental and
6 Governmental Employees Tort Immunity Act, if otherwise the
7 disposition of a claim or potential claim might be
8 prejudiced, or the review or discussion of claims, loss or
9 risk management information, records, data, advice or
10 communications from or with respect to any insurer of the
11 public body or any intergovernmental risk management
12 association or self insurance pool of which the public
13 body is a member.
14 (13) Conciliation of complaints of discrimination in
15 the sale or rental of housing, when closed meetings are
16 authorized by the law or ordinance prescribing fair
17 housing practices and creating a commission or
18 administrative agency for their enforcement.
19 (14) Informant sources, the hiring or assignment of
20 undercover personnel or equipment, or ongoing, prior or
21 future criminal investigations, when discussed by a public
22 body with criminal investigatory responsibilities.
23 (15) Professional ethics or performance when
24 considered by an advisory body appointed to advise a
25 licensing or regulatory agency on matters germane to the
26 advisory body's field of competence.
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1 (16) Self evaluation, practices and procedures or
2 professional ethics, when meeting with a representative of
3 a statewide association of which the public body is a
4 member.
5 (17) The recruitment, credentialing, discipline or
6 formal peer review of physicians or other health care
7 professionals, or for the discussion of matters protected
8 under the federal Patient Safety and Quality Improvement
9 Act of 2005, and the regulations promulgated thereunder,
10 including 42 C.F.R. Part 3 (73 FR 70732), or the federal
11 Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of
12 1996, and the regulations promulgated thereunder,
13 including 45 C.F.R. Parts 160, 162, and 164, by a
14 hospital, or other institution providing medical care,
15 that is operated by the public body.
16 (18) Deliberations for decisions of the Prisoner
17 Review Board.
18 (19) Review or discussion of applications received
19 under the Experimental Organ Transplantation Procedures
20 Act.
21 (20) The classification and discussion of matters
22 classified as confidential or continued confidential by
23 the State Government Suggestion Award Board.
24 (21) Discussion of minutes of meetings lawfully closed
25 under this Act, whether for purposes of approval by the
26 body of the minutes or semi-annual review of the minutes
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1 as mandated by Section 2.06.
2 (22) Deliberations for decisions of the State
3 Emergency Medical Services Disciplinary Review Board.
4 (23) The operation by a municipality of a municipal
5 utility or the operation of a municipal power agency or
6 municipal natural gas agency when the discussion involves
7 (i) contracts relating to the purchase, sale, or delivery
8 of electricity or natural gas or (ii) the results or
9 conclusions of load forecast studies.
10 (24) Meetings of a residential health care facility
11 resident sexual assault and death review team or the
12 Executive Council under the Abuse Prevention Review Team
13 Act.
14 (25) Meetings of an independent team of experts under
15 Brian's Law.
16 (26) Meetings of a mortality review team appointed
17 under the Department of Juvenile Justice Mortality Review
18 Team Act.
19 (27) (Blank).
20 (28) Correspondence and records (i) that may not be
21 disclosed under Section 11-9 of the Illinois Public Aid
22 Code or (ii) that pertain to appeals under Section 11-8 of
23 the Illinois Public Aid Code.
24 (29) Meetings between internal or external auditors
25 and governmental audit committees, finance committees, and
26 their equivalents, when the discussion involves internal
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1 control weaknesses, identification of potential fraud risk
2 areas, known or suspected frauds, and fraud interviews
3 conducted in accordance with generally accepted auditing
4 standards of the United States of America.
5 (30) Those meetings or portions of meetings of a
6 fatality review team or the Illinois Fatality Review Team
7 Advisory Council during which a review of the death of an
8 eligible adult in which abuse or neglect is suspected,
9 alleged, or substantiated is conducted pursuant to Section
10 15 of the Adult Protective Services Act.
11 (31) Meetings and deliberations for decisions of the
12 Concealed Carry Licensing Review Board under the Firearm
13 Concealed Carry Act.
14 (32) Meetings between the Regional Transportation
15 Authority Board and its Service Boards when the discussion
16 involves review by the Regional Transportation Authority
17 Board of employment contracts under Section 28d of the
18 Metropolitan Transit Authority Act and Sections 3A.18 and
19 3B.26 of the Regional Transportation Authority Act.
20 (33) Those meetings or portions of meetings of the
21 advisory committee and peer review subcommittee created
22 under Section 320 of the Illinois Controlled Substances
23 Act during which specific controlled substance prescriber,
24 dispenser, or patient information is discussed.
25 (34) Meetings of the Tax Increment Financing Reform
26 Task Force under Section 2505-800 of the Department of
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1 Revenue Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois.
2 (35) Meetings of the group established to discuss
3 Medicaid capitation rates under Section 5-30.8 of the
4 Illinois Public Aid Code.
5 (36) Those deliberations or portions of deliberations
6 for decisions of the Illinois Gaming Board in which there
7 is discussed any of the following: (i) personal,
8 commercial, financial, or other information obtained from
9 any source that is privileged, proprietary, confidential,
10 or a trade secret; or (ii) information specifically
11 exempted from the disclosure by federal or State law.
12 (37) Deliberations for decisions of the Illinois Law
13 Enforcement Training Standards Board, the Certification
14 Review Panel, and the Illinois State Police Merit Board
15 regarding certification and decertification.
16 (38) Meetings of the Ad Hoc Statewide Domestic
17 Violence Fatality Review Committee of the Illinois
18 Criminal Justice Information Authority Board that occur in
19 closed executive session under subsection (d) of Section
20 35 of the Domestic Violence Fatality Review Act.
21 (39) Meetings of the regional review teams under
22 subsection (a) of Section 75 of the Domestic Violence
23 Fatality Review Act.
24 (40) Meetings of the Firearm Owner's Identification
25 Card Review Board under Section 10 of the Firearm Owners
26 Identification Card Act.
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1 (41) Meetings of local advisory councils held after
2 the Office of Firearm Violence Prevention receives all
3 local advisory council recommendations and distributes
4 funding based on those recommendations, pursuant to
5 subsection (h) of Section 35-40 of the Reimagine Public
6 Safety Act.
7 (d) Definitions. For purposes of this Section:
8 "Employee" means a person employed by a public body whose
9 relationship with the public body constitutes an
10 employer-employee relationship under the usual common law
11 rules, and who is not an independent contractor.
12 "Public office" means a position created by or under the
13 Constitution or laws of this State, the occupant of which is
14 charged with the exercise of some portion of the sovereign
15 power of this State. The term "public office" shall include
16 members of the public body, but it shall not include
17 organizational positions filled by members thereof, whether
18 established by law or by a public body itself, that exist to
19 assist the body in the conduct of its business.
20 "Quasi-adjudicative body" means an administrative body
21 charged by law or ordinance with the responsibility to conduct
22 hearings, receive evidence or testimony and make
23 determinations based thereon, but does not include local
24 electoral boards when such bodies are considering petition
25 challenges.
26 (e) Final action. No final action may be taken at a closed
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1 meeting. Final action shall be preceded by a public recital of
2 the nature of the matter being considered and other
3 information that will inform the public of the business being
4 conducted.
5 (Source: P.A. 101-31, eff. 6-28-19; 101-459, eff. 8-23-19;
6 101-652, eff. 1-1-22; 102-237, eff. 1-1-22; 102-520, eff.
7 8-20-21; 102-558, eff. 8-20-21; 102-813, eff. 5-13-22.)
8 Section 10. The Reimagine Public Safety Act is amended by
9 changing Sections 35-15, 35-25, 35-30, 35-35, and 35-40 as
10 follows:
11 (430 ILCS 69/35-15)
12 Sec. 35-15. Findings. The Illinois General Assembly finds
13 that:
14 (1) Discrete neighborhoods in municipalities across
15 Illinois are experiencing concentrated and perpetual
16 firearm violence that is a public health epidemic.
17 (2) Within neighborhoods experiencing this firearm
18 violence epidemic, violence is concentrated among teens
19 and young adults that have chronic exposure to the risk of
20 violence and criminal legal system involvement and related
21 trauma in small geographic areas where these young people
22 live or congregate.
23 (3) Firearm violence victimization and perpetration is
24 highly concentrated in particular neighborhoods,
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1 particular blocks within these neighborhoods, and among a
2 small number of individuals living in these areas.
3 (4) People who are chronically exposed to the risk of
4 firearm violence victimization are substantially more
5 likely to be violently injured or violently injure another
6 person. People who have been violently injured are
7 substantially more likely to be violently reinjured.
8 Chronic exposure to violence additionally leads
9 individuals to engage in behavior, as part of a cycle of
10 community violence, trauma, and retaliation that
11 substantially increases their own risk of violent injury
12 or reinjury.
13 (5) Evidence-based programs that engage individuals at
14 the highest risk of firearm violence and provide life
15 stabilization, case management, and culturally competent
16 group and individual therapy reduce firearm violence
17 victimization and perpetration and can end Illinois'
18 firearm violence epidemic.
19 (6) A public health approach to ending Illinois'
20 firearm violence epidemic requires targeted, integrated
21 behavioral health services and economic opportunity that
22 promotes self-sufficiency for victims of firearm violence
23 and those with chronic exposure to the risk of firearm
24 violence victimization, including, but not limited to,
25 services for criminal and juvenile justice-involved
26 populations, community revitalization initiatives, and
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1 crisis response services, such as psychological first aid.
2 (7) A public health approach to ending Illinois'
3 firearm violence epidemic further requires broader
4 preventive investments in the census tracts and blocks
5 that reduce risk factors for youth and families living in
6 areas at the highest risk of firearm violence
7 victimization.
8 (8) A public health approach to ending Illinois'
9 firearm violence epidemic requires empowering residents
10 and community-based organizations within impacted
11 neighborhoods to provide culturally competent care based
12 on lived experience in these areas and long-term
13 relationships of mutual interest that promote safety and
14 stability.
15 (9) A public health approach to ending Illinois'
16 firearm violence epidemic further requires that preventive
17 youth development services for youth in these
18 neighborhoods be fully integrated with a team-based model
19 of mental health care to address trauma recovery for those
20 young people at the highest risk of firearm violence
21 victimization.
22 (10) Community revitalization can be an effective
23 violence prevention strategy, provided that revitalization
24 is targeted to the highest risk geographies within
25 communities and revitalization efforts are designed and
26 led by individuals living and working in the impacted
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1 communities.
2 (Source: P.A. 102-16, eff. 6-17-21; 102-679, eff. 12-10-21.)
3 (430 ILCS 69/35-25)
4 Sec. 35-25. Integrated violence prevention and other
5 services.
6 (a) Subject to appropriation, for municipalities with
7 1,000,000 or more residents, the Office of Firearm Violence
8 Prevention shall make grants to violence prevention
9 organizations for evidence-based violence prevention services.
10 Approved technical assistance and training providers shall
11 create learning communities for the exchange of information
12 between community-based organizations in the same or similar
13 fields. Firearm violence prevention organizations shall
14 prioritize individuals at the highest risk of firearm violence
15 victimization and provide these individuals with
16 evidence-based comprehensive services that reduce their
17 exposure to chronic firearm violence.
18 (b) In the geographic areas they serve, violence Violence
19 prevention organizations shall develop the following expertise
20 in the geographic areas that they cover:
21 (1) Analyzing and leveraging data to identify the
22 individuals who will most benefit from evidence-based
23 violence prevention services in their geographic areas.
24 (2) Identifying the conflicts that are responsible for
25 recurring violence.
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1 (3) Having relationships with individuals who are most
2 able to reduce conflicts.
3 (4) Addressing the stabilization and trauma recovery
4 needs of individuals impacted by violence by providing
5 direct services for their unmet needs or referring them to
6 other qualified service providers.
7 (5) Having and building relationships with community
8 members and community organizations that provide
9 evidence-based violence prevention services and get
10 referrals of people who will most benefit from
11 evidence-based violence prevention services in their
12 geographic areas.
13 (6) Providing training and technical assistance to
14 local law enforcement agencies to improve their
15 effectiveness without having any role, requirement, or
16 mandate to participate in the policing, enforcement, or
17 prosecution of any crime.
18 (c) Violence prevention organizations receiving grants
19 under this Act shall coordinate services with other violence
20 prevention organizations in their area.
21 (d) The Office of Firearm Violence Prevention shall
22 identify, for each separate eligible service area under this
23 Act, an experienced violence prevention organization to serve
24 as the Lead Violence Prevention Convener for that area and
25 provide each Lead Violence Prevention Convener with a grant of
26 up to $100,000 to these organizations to coordinate monthly
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1 meetings between violence prevention organizations and youth
2 development organizations under this Act. The Lead Violence
3 Prevention Convener may also receive, from the Office of
4 Firearm Violence Prevention, technical assistance or training
5 through approved providers when needs are jointly identified.
6 The Lead Violence Prevention Convener shall:
7 (1) provide the convened organizations with summary
8 notes recommendations made at the monthly meetings to
9 improve the effectiveness of evidence-based violence
10 prevention services based on review of timely data on
11 shootings and homicides in his or her relevant
12 neighborhood;
13 (2) attend monthly meetings where the cause of
14 violence and other neighborhood disputes is discussed and
15 strategize on how to resolve ongoing conflicts and execute
16 on agreed plans;
17 (3) (blank);
18 (4) on behalf of the convened organizations, make
19 consensus recommendations to the Office of Firearm
20 Violence Prevention and local law enforcement on how to
21 reduce violent conflict in his or her neighborhood;
22 (5) meet on an emergency basis when conflicts that
23 need immediate attention and resolution arise;
24 (6) share knowledge and strategies of the community
25 violence dynamic in monthly meetings with local youth
26 development specialists receiving grants under this Act;
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1 (7) select when and where needed an approved Office of
2 Violence Prevention-funded technical assistance and
3 training service provider to receive agreed upon services;
4 and
5 (8) after meeting with community residents and other
6 community organizations that have expertise in housing,
7 mental health, economic development, education, and social
8 services, make recommendations to the Office of Firearm
9 Violence Prevention on how to target community
10 revitalization resources available from federal and State
11 funding sources.
12 The Office of Firearm Violence Prevention shall compile
13 recommendations from all Lead Violence Prevention Conveners
14 and report to the General Assembly bi-annually on these
15 funding recommendations. The Lead Violence Prevention Convener
16 may also serve as a violence prevention or youth development
17 provider.
18 (d-5) At the discretion of the Assistant Secretary of
19 Firearm Violence Prevention and taking into consideration
20 funding recommendations provided by Lead Violence Prevention
21 Conveners, community needs and trends, and emerging best
22 practices, the Office of Firearm Violence Prevention may
23 provide grants, in each eligible service area, for activities
24 that include, but are not limited to, interventions for
25 justice-involved or re-entry populations, community
26 revitalization initiatives, trauma-informed behavioral health
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1 services, restorative justice initiatives, and crisis response
2 services, such as psychological first aid.
3 (e) The Illinois Office of Firearm Violence Prevention
4 shall select, when possible and appropriate, no fewer than 2
5 and no more than 3 approved technical assistance and training
6 providers to deliver technical assistance and training to the
7 violence prevention organizations that request to receive
8 approved technical assistance and training. Violence
9 prevention organizations shall have the opportunity complete
10 authority to select among the approved technical assistance
11 services providers funded by the Office of Firearm Violence
12 Prevention, to the extent that the approved technical
13 assistance services providers can distribute technical
14 assistance and training equitably among violence prevention
15 organizations.
16 (f) Approved technical assistance and training providers
17 may:
18 (1) provide training and certification to violence
19 prevention professionals on how to perform violence
20 prevention services and other professional development to
21 violence prevention professionals.
22 (2) provide management training on how to manage
23 violence prevention professionals;
24 (3) provide training and assistance on how to develop
25 memorandum of understanding for referral services or
26 create approved provider lists for these referral
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1 services, or both;
2 (4) share lessons learned among violence prevention
3 professionals and service providers in their network; and
4 (5) provide technical assistance and training on human
5 resources, grants management, capacity building, and
6 fiscal management strategies.
7 (g) Approved technical assistance and training providers
8 shall:
9 (1) provide additional services identified as
10 necessary by the Office of Firearm Violence Prevention and
11 service providers in their network; and
12 (2) receive a base grant of up to $250,000 plus
13 negotiated service rates to provide group and
14 individualized services to participating violence
15 prevention organizations.
16 (h) (Blank).
17 (i) The Office of Firearm Violence Prevention shall issue
18 grants to , when possible and appropriate, to no fewer than 2
19 violence prevention organizations in each of the eligible
20 service areas and no more than 6 organizations. When possible,
21 the Office of Firearm Violence Prevention shall work to ensure
22 that grant resources are equitably distributed across eligible
23 service areas grants shall be for no less than $300,000 per
24 violence prevention organization. The Office of Firearm
25 Violence Prevention may establish grant award ranges to ensure
26 grants will have the potential to reduce violence in each
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1 neighborhood.
2 (j) No violence prevention organization can serve more
3 than 3 eligible service areas unless the Office of Firearm
4 Violence Prevention is unable to identify violence prevention
5 organizations to provide adequate coverage.
6 (k) No approved technical assistance and training provider
7 shall provide evidence-based violence prevention services in
8 an eligible service area under this Act unless the Office of
9 Firearm Violence Prevention is unable to identify qualified
10 violence prevention organizations to provide adequate
11 coverage.
12 (Source: P.A. 102-16, eff. 6-17-21; 102-679, eff. 12-10-21.)
13 (430 ILCS 69/35-30)
14 Sec. 35-30. Integrated youth services.
15 (a) Subject to appropriation, for municipalities with
16 1,000,000 or more residents, the Office of Firearm Violence
17 Prevention shall make grants to youth development
18 organizations for evidence-based youth programming, including,
19 but not limited to, after-school and summer programming.
20 Evidence-based youth development programs shall provide
21 services to teens and young adults that increase their school
22 attendance, and school performance, reduce involvement in the
23 criminal and juvenile justice systems, develop employment and
24 life skills, and develop nonacademic interests that build
25 social emotional persistence and intelligence.
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1 (b) The Office of Firearm Violence Prevention shall
2 identify municipal blocks where more than 35% of all fatal and
3 nonfatal firearm-shot incidents take place and focus youth
4 development service grants to residents of these identified
5 blocks in the designated eligible service areas. The
6 Department of Human Services shall prioritize funding to youth
7 development service programs that serve the following teens
8 before expanding services to the broader community:
9 (1) criminal and juvenile justice-involved youth;
10 (2) students who are attending or have attended option
11 schools;
12 (3) family members of individuals working with
13 violence prevention organizations; and
14 (4) youth living on the blocks where more than 35% of
15 the violence takes place in a neighborhood.
16 (c) Each program participant enrolled in a youth
17 development program under this Act, when possible and
18 appropriate, shall receive an individualized needs assessment
19 to determine if the participant requires intensive youth
20 services as provided for in Section 35-35 of this Act. The
21 needs assessment should be the best available instrument that
22 considers the physical and mental condition of each youth
23 based on the youth's family ties, financial resources, past
24 substance use, criminal justice involvement, and trauma
25 related to chronic exposure to firearm violence behavioral
26 health assessment to determine the participant's broader
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1 support and mental health needs. The Office of Firearm
2 Violence Prevention shall determine best practices for
3 referring program participants who are at the highest risk of
4 violence and justice involvement to be referred to a high-risk
5 youth intervention program established in Section 35-35.
6 (d) Youth development prevention program participants
7 shall receive services designed to empower participants with
8 the social and emotional skills necessary to forge paths of
9 healthy development and disengagement from high-risk
10 behaviors. Within the context of engaging social, physical,
11 and personal development activities, participants should build
12 resilience and the skills associated with healthy social,
13 emotional, and identity development.
14 (e) Youth development providers shall develop the
15 following expertise in the geographic areas they cover:
16 (1) Knowledge of the teens and their social
17 organization in the blocks they are designated to serve.
18 (2) Youth development organizations receiving grants
19 under this Act shall be required to coordinate services
20 with other youth development organizations in their
21 neighborhood by sharing lessons learned in monthly
22 meetings.
23 (3) (Blank).
24 (4) Meeting on an emergency basis when conflicts
25 related to program participants that need immediate
26 attention and resolution arise.
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1 (5) Sharing knowledge and strategies of the
2 neighborhood violence dynamic in monthly meetings with
3 local violence prevention organizations receiving grants
4 under this Act.
5 (6) Selecting an approved technical assistance and
6 training service provider to receive agreed upon services.
7 (f) The Illinois Office of Firearm Violence Prevention
8 shall select, when possible and appropriate, no fewer than 2
9 and no more than 3 approved technical assistance and training
10 providers to deliver technical assistance and training to the
11 youth development organizations that request to receive
12 approved technical assistance and training. Youth development
13 organizations must use an approved technical assistance and
14 training provider but have complete authority to select among
15 the approved technical assistance services providers funded by
16 the Office of Firearm Violence Prevention. Youth development
17 organizations shall have the opportunity to select among the
18 approved technical assistance services providers funded by the
19 Office of Firearm Violence Prevention, to the extent that
20 youth development organizations can be distributed equitably
21 among approved technical assistance services providers.
22 (g) Approved technical assistance and training providers
23 may:
24 (1) provide training to youth development workers on
25 how to perform outreach services;
26 (2) provide management training on how to manage youth
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1 development workers;
2 (3) provide training and assistance on how to develop
3 memorandum of understanding for referral services or
4 create approved provider lists for these referral
5 services, or both;
6 (4) share lessons learned among youth development
7 service providers in their network; and
8 (5) provide technical assistance and training on human
9 resources, grants management, capacity building, and
10 fiscal management strategies.
11 (h) Approved technical assistance and training providers
12 shall:
13 (1) provide additional services identified as
14 necessary by the Office of Firearm Violence Prevention and
15 youth development service providers in their network; and
16 (2) receive an annual base grant of up to $250,000
17 plus negotiated service rates to provide group and
18 individualized services to participating youth development
19 service organizations.
20 (i) (Blank).
21 (j) The Office of Firearm Violence Prevention shall issue
22 youth development services grants to , when possible and
23 appropriate, to no fewer than 4 youth services organizations
24 in each of the eligible service areas and no more than 8
25 organizations. When possible, the Office of Firearm Violence
26 Prevention shall work to ensure that grant resources are
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1 equitably distributed across eligible service areas grants
2 shall be for no less than $300,000 per youth development
3 organization. The Office of Firearm Violence Prevention may
4 establish award ranges to ensure grants will have the
5 potential to reduce violence in each neighborhood.
6 (k) No youth development organization can serve more than
7 3 eligible service areas unless the Office of Firearm Violence
8 Prevention is unable to identify youth development
9 organizations to provide adequate coverage.
10 (l) No approved technical assistance and training provider
11 shall provide youth development services in any neighborhood
12 under this Act.
13 (Source: P.A. 102-16, eff. 6-17-21; 102-679, eff. 12-10-21.)
14 (430 ILCS 69/35-35)
15 Sec. 35-35. Intensive youth intervention services.
16 (a) Subject to appropriation, for municipalities with
17 1,000,000 or more residents, the Office of Firearm Violence
18 Prevention shall issue grants to high-risk youth intervention
19 organizations for evidence-based intervention services that
20 reduce involvement in the criminal and juvenile justice
21 system, increase school attendance, and refer high-risk teens
22 into therapeutic programs that address trauma recovery and
23 other mental health improvements. Each program participant
24 enrolled in a high-risk youth intervention program under this
25 Act shall receive a nationally recognized comprehensive mental
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1 health assessment delivered by a qualified mental health
2 professional certified to provide services to Medicaid
3 recipients.
4 (b) High-risk youth intervention program participants
5 shall receive needed services as determined by the
6 individualized assessment which may include, but is not
7 limited to:
8 (1) receive group-based emotional regulation therapy
9 that helps them control their emotions and understand how
10 trauma and stress impacts their thinking and behavior; and
11 (2) have youth advocates that accompany them to their
12 group therapy sessions, assist them with issues that
13 prevent them from attending school, and address life
14 skills development activities through weekly coaching.
15 (b-5) High-risk youth intervention service organizations
16 shall have trained clinical staff managing the youth advocate
17 interface with program participants.
18 (c) Youth development service organizations and providers
19 of evidence-based violence prevention services shall be
20 assigned to the youth intervention service providers for
21 referrals by the Office of Firearm Violence Prevention.
22 (d) The youth receiving intervention services who are
23 evaluated to need trauma recovery and other behavioral health
24 interventions and who have the greatest risk of firearm
25 violence victimization shall be referred to the family systems
26 intervention services established in Section 35-55.
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1 (e) The Office of Firearm Violence Prevention shall issue
2 high-risk youth intervention grants, when possible and
3 appropriate, to no less than 2 youth intervention
4 organizations and no more than 4 organizations in
5 municipalities with 1,000,000 or more residents.
6 (f) No high-risk youth intervention organization can serve
7 more than 13 eligible service areas.
8 (g) The approved technical assistance and training
9 providers for youth development programs provided in
10 subsection (d) of Section 35-30 shall also provide technical
11 assistance and training to the affiliated high-risk youth
12 intervention service providers.
13 (h) (Blank).
14 (Source: P.A. 102-16, eff. 6-17-21; 102-679, eff. 12-10-21.)
15 (430 ILCS 69/35-40)
16 Sec. 35-40. Services for municipalities with less than
17 1,000,000 residents.
18 (a) The Office of Firearm Violence Prevention shall
19 identify the 10 municipalities or geographically contiguous
20 areas in Illinois with less than 1,000,000 residents and more
21 than 35,000 residents that have the largest concentration of
22 fatal and nonfatal firearm-shot victims over the 5-year period
23 considered for eligibility. These areas shall qualify for
24 grants under this Act. The Office of Firearm Violence
25 Prevention may identify up to 5 additional municipalities or
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1 geographically contiguous areas with less than 1,000,000
2 residents that would benefit from evidence-based violence
3 prevention services. In identifying the additional
4 municipalities that qualify for funding under Section 35-40,
5 the Office of Firearm Violence Prevention shall consider the
6 following factors when possible:
7 (1) the total number of fatal and nonfatal firearms
8 victims, excluding self-inflicted incidents, in a
9 potential municipality over the 5-year period considered
10 for eligibility;
11 (2) the per capita rate of fatal and nonfatal firearms
12 victims, excluding self-inflicted incidents, in a
13 potential municipality over the 5-year period considered
14 for eligibility; and
15 (3) the total potential firearms violence reduction
16 benefit for the entire State of Illinois by serving the
17 additional municipalities compared to the total benefit of
18 investing in all other municipalities identified for
19 grants to municipalities with more than 35,000 residents
20 and less than 1,000,000 residents.
21 (b) Resources for each of these areas shall be distributed
22 based on a formula to be developed by the Office of Firearm
23 Violence Prevention that will maximize the total potential
24 reduction in firearms victimization for all municipalities
25 receiving grants under this Act.
26 (c) The Office of Firearm Violence Prevention shall create
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1 local advisory councils for each of the designated service
2 areas for the purpose of obtaining recommendations on how to
3 distribute funds in these areas to reduce firearm violence
4 incidents. Local advisory councils shall have a minimum of 5
5 members with the following expertise or experience:
6 (1) a representative of a nonelected official in local
7 government from the designated area;
8 (2) a representative of an elected official at the
9 local or state level for the area;
10 (3) a representative with public health experience in
11 firearm violence prevention or youth development;
12 (4) two residents of the subsection of each area with
13 the most concentrated firearm violence incidents; and
14 (5) additional members as determined by the individual
15 local advisory council.
16 (d) The Office of Firearm Violence Prevention shall
17 provide data to each local council on the characteristics of
18 firearm violence in the designated area and other relevant
19 information on the physical and demographic characteristics of
20 the designated area. The Office of Firearm Violence Prevention
21 shall also provide best available evidence on how to address
22 the social determinants of health in the designated area in
23 order to reduce firearm violence.
24 (e) Each local advisory council shall make recommendations
25 on how to allocate distributed resources for its area based on
26 information provided to them by the Office of Firearm Violence
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1 Prevention, local law enforcement data, and other locally
2 available data.
3 (f) The Office of Firearm Violence Prevention shall
4 consider the recommendations and determine how to distribute
5 funds through grants to community-based organizations and
6 local governments. To the extent the Office of Firearm
7 Violence Prevention does not follow a local advisory council's
8 recommendation on allocation of funds, the Office of Firearm
9 Violence Prevention shall explain in writing why a different
10 allocation of resources is more likely to reduce firearm
11 violence in the designated area.
12 (g) Subject to appropriation, the Department of Human
13 Services and the Office of Firearm Violence Prevention shall
14 issue grants to local governmental agencies or community-based
15 organizations, or both, to maximize firearm violence reduction
16 each year. When possible, initial grants shall be named no
17 later than April 1, 2022 and renewed or competitively bid as
18 appropriate in subsequent fiscal years.
19 (h) Sixty days after the Office of Firearm Violence
20 Prevention receives all local advisory council recommendations
21 under subsection (f) and distributes funding based on those
22 recommendations:
23 (1) the Office of Firearm Violence Prevention shall
24 have no responsibility to manage, oversee, or exercise
25 administrative authority over any local advisory council;
26 (2) each local advisory council shall operate under
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1 the governing body of its designated service area;
2 (3) each local advisory council meeting shall be
3 exempt from the requirements of the Open Meetings Act in
4 accordance with paragraph (41) of subsection (c) of
5 Section 2 of that Act; and
6 (4) each local advisory council meeting shall be
7 exempt from any other State requirement under this Act.
8 (Source: P.A. 102-16, eff. 6-17-21; 102-679, eff. 12-10-21.)
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