96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2009 and 2010
SB0779


 
Introduced 2/6/2009, by Sen. John J. Cullerton
 
SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 		













310 ILCS 80/5









    Amends the Shelter Residents Protection Act.  Makes a technical change in a
Section concerning homeless persons' savings accounts.
















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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 Shelter Residents Protection Act is amended 
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by changing Section 5 as follows:
 



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    (310 ILCS 80/5)



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    Sec. 5. Homeless persons; savings. 

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    (a) If a homeless person resides at a shelter, that
that 
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person may open a
passbook savings account at a bank or savings 
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and loan association subject to
the requirements imposed by the 
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bank or savings and loan association.  In the
alternative, the 
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homeless person may enter into a written agreement with the

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shelter in which he or she resides; the agreement may provide 
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that the shelter
will accept and hold moneys belonging to the 
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homeless person.  Under such an
agreement, the shelter shall do 
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the following:

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        (1) Place the moneys in a non-interest bearing account 
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    for the
homeless person, at no cost to that person.


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        (2) Segregate, from all other moneys or accounts held 
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    or maintained by
the shelter, moneys accepted from and held 
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    for homeless persons.


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        (3) Maintain, separately for each homeless person with 
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    whom an
agreement is made under this Section, an accurate 
 


 






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    accounting of the moneys
accepted from, held for, and 
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    withdrawn by that person.  Upon a homeless
person's request, 
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    the shelter shall provide a copy of the accounting

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    concerning that person's moneys.


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        (4) Pay to the homeless person, within 48 hours after 
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    the person's
request, the amount of the person's moneys 
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    held by the shelter or any
lesser amount requested by the 
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    homeless person.

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    (b) Money held by a shelter under this Section shall not be 
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subject to
assignment, attachment, garnishment, set-off, or 
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other process in aid of
creditors.

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    (c) For purposes of this Section, "homeless person" means 
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either of the
following:


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        (1) An individual who lacks a fixed, regular, and 
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    adequate nighttime
residence; or


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        (2) An individual who has a primary nighttime residence 
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    that is any
of the following:


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            (A) A supervised publicly or privately operated 
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        shelter designed
to provide temporary living 
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        accommodations (including welfare hotels,
congregate 
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        shelters, and transitional housing for the mentally 
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        ill).


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            (B) An institution that provides a temporary 
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        residence for
individuals intended to be 
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        institutionalized.


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            (C) A public or private place not designed for, or 
 


 






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        ordinarily used
as, a regular sleeping accommodation 
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        for human beings.

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(Source: P.A. 87-1093.)