State of Illinois
Introduced 3/9/2017, by Rep. Sonya M. Harper - Cynthia Soto - Litesa E. Wallace - Carol Ammons - Camille Y. Lilly
SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
Appropriates $56,000,000 from the General Revenue Fund to the Office of the Secretary of State for 28 non-competitively awarded grants, each in the amount of $2,000,000, to community-based organizations based entirely within 28 specified Representative Districts that address violence prevention using a culturally competent approach and that are capable of decreasing violence in those Representative Districts. Provides that the grants shall support violence prevention, youth services, after school programming, counseling services, summer jobs, vocational programs, public awareness campaigns, and other priority areas. Effective immediately.
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AN ACT concerning appropriations.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The amount of $56,000,000, or so much of that amount as may be necessary, is appropriated from the General Revenue Fund to the Office of the Secretary of State for 28 non-competitively awarded grants, each in the amount of $2,000,000, to community-based organizations based entirely within each of the following 28 Representative Districts: the 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 21st, 24th, 26th, 27th, 29th, 30th, 31st, 32nd, 33rd, 34th, 38th, 40th, 44th, 60th, 67th, 78th, 83rd, 92nd, 103rd, and 114th, that address violence prevention using a culturally competent approach and that are capable of decreasing violence in those Representative Districts. The grants shall support violence prevention, youth services, after school programming, counseling services, summer jobs, vocational programs, public awareness campaigns, and other priority areas.
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon becoming law.