Illinois 2025-2026 Regular Session

Illinois Senate Bill SB1857 Compare Versions

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1	1	104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2025 and 2026 SB1857 Introduced 2/5/2025, by Sen. Graciela Guzmn SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: 305 ILCS 5/16-2 Amends the Survivor Support And Trafficking Prevention Article of the Illinois Public Aid Code. Extends eligibility for cash assistance and Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits to foreign-born victims of trafficking, torture, or other serious crimes who are preparing to file an application for T Nonimmigrant status or other specified nonimmigrant status applications. Removes a provision conditioning such assistance on the availability of funding. Removes a provision excluding from cash assistance and SNAP eligibility foreign-born victims of trafficking, torture, or other serious crimes who are single adults without family members. Removes a provision excluding from SNAP eligibility foreign-born victims of trafficking, torture, or other serious crimes who reside in an institution or other setting that provides the majority of their daily meals. Effective immediately. LRB104 09583 KTG 19646 b A BILL FOR 104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2025 and 2026 SB1857 Introduced 2/5/2025, by Sen. Graciela Guzmn SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: 305 ILCS 5/16-2 305 ILCS 5/16-2 Amends the Survivor Support And Trafficking Prevention Article of the Illinois Public Aid Code. Extends eligibility for cash assistance and Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits to foreign-born victims of trafficking, torture, or other serious crimes who are preparing to file an application for T Nonimmigrant status or other specified nonimmigrant status applications. Removes a provision conditioning such assistance on the availability of funding. Removes a provision excluding from cash assistance and SNAP eligibility foreign-born victims of trafficking, torture, or other serious crimes who are single adults without family members. Removes a provision excluding from SNAP eligibility foreign-born victims of trafficking, torture, or other serious crimes who reside in an institution or other setting that provides the majority of their daily meals. Effective immediately. LRB104 09583 KTG 19646 b LRB104 09583 KTG 19646 b A BILL FOR
2	2	104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2025 and 2026 SB1857 Introduced 2/5/2025, by Sen. Graciela Guzmn SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
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5	5	Amends the Survivor Support And Trafficking Prevention Article of the Illinois Public Aid Code. Extends eligibility for cash assistance and Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits to foreign-born victims of trafficking, torture, or other serious crimes who are preparing to file an application for T Nonimmigrant status or other specified nonimmigrant status applications. Removes a provision conditioning such assistance on the availability of funding. Removes a provision excluding from cash assistance and SNAP eligibility foreign-born victims of trafficking, torture, or other serious crimes who are single adults without family members. Removes a provision excluding from SNAP eligibility foreign-born victims of trafficking, torture, or other serious crimes who reside in an institution or other setting that provides the majority of their daily meals. Effective immediately.
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11	11	1 AN ACT concerning public aid.
12	12	2 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
13	13	3 represented in the General Assembly:
14	14	4 Section 5. The Illinois Public Aid Code is amended by
15	15	5 changing Section 16-2 as follows:
16	16	6 (305 ILCS 5/16-2)
17	17	7 Sec. 16-2. Eligibility. A Subject to available funding, a
18	18	8 foreign-born victim of trafficking, torture, or other serious
19	19	9 crimes and the individual's derivative family members, but not
20	20	10 a single adult without derivative family members, are eligible
21	21	11 for cash assistance or SNAP benefits under this Article if the
22	22	12 individual:
23	23	13 (a) the individual has filed:
24	24	14 (1) has filed or is preparing to file an
25	25	15 application for T Nonimmigrant status with the
26	26	16 appropriate federal agency pursuant to Section
27	27	17 1101(a)(15)(T) of Title 8 of the United States Code,
28	28	18 or is otherwise taking steps to meet the conditions
29	29	19 for federal benefits eligibility under Section 7105 of
30	30	20 Title 22 of the United States Code;
31	31	21 (2) has filed or is preparing to file a formal
32	32	22 application with the appropriate federal agency for
33	33	23 status pursuant to Section 1101(a)(15)(U) of Title 8
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37	37	104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2025 and 2026 SB1857 Introduced 2/5/2025, by Sen. Graciela Guzmn SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
38	38	305 ILCS 5/16-2 305 ILCS 5/16-2
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40	40	Amends the Survivor Support And Trafficking Prevention Article of the Illinois Public Aid Code. Extends eligibility for cash assistance and Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits to foreign-born victims of trafficking, torture, or other serious crimes who are preparing to file an application for T Nonimmigrant status or other specified nonimmigrant status applications. Removes a provision conditioning such assistance on the availability of funding. Removes a provision excluding from cash assistance and SNAP eligibility foreign-born victims of trafficking, torture, or other serious crimes who are single adults without family members. Removes a provision excluding from SNAP eligibility foreign-born victims of trafficking, torture, or other serious crimes who reside in an institution or other setting that provides the majority of their daily meals. Effective immediately.
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68	68	1 of the United States Code; or
69	69	2 (3) has filed or is preparing to file a formal
70	70	3 application with the appropriate federal agency for
71	71	4 status under Section 1158 of Title 8 of the United
72	72	5 States Code; and
73	73	6 (b) is otherwise eligible for cash assistance or SNAP
74	74	7 benefits, as applicable.
75	75	8 An individual residing in an institution or other setting
76	76	9 that provides the majority of the individual's daily meals is
77	77	10 not eligible for SNAP benefits.
78	78	11 (Source: P.A. 103-588, eff. 6-5-24.)
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