102ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2021 and 2022
SB3753

 

Introduced 1/21/2022, by Sen. Rachelle Crowe

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
30 ILCS 105/5.970 new
30 ILCS 105/6z-130 new

    Amends the State Finance Act. Creates the Fund Mental Health and Substance Use Prevention Fund as a special fund in the State treasury. Provides that the Department of Human Services must make grants, from appropriations made from the Fund, to units of local government and Illinois public universities for the purposes of providing mental health and substance abuse prevention to people who are incarcerated and providing mental health and substance abuse prevention for those encountering the criminal justice system with a primary focus to people who are incarcerated in the county jail or recently discharged. Provides that, as soon as practical after the effective date of the amendatory Act, the State Comptroller shall direct and the State Treasurer shall transfer the sum of $100,000,000 from the General Revenue Fund to the Fund Mental Health and Substance Use Prevention Fund. Provides that notwithstanding any other provision of law, moneys in the Fund Mental Health and Substance Use Prevention Fund may not be appropriated, assigned, or transferred to another State fund.


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A BILL FOR

 

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1    AN ACT concerning finance.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The State Finance Act is amended by adding
5Sections 5.970 and 6z-130 as follows:
 
6    (30 ILCS 105/5.970 new)
7    Sec. 5.970. The Fund Mental Health and Substance Abuse
8Prevention Fund.
 
9    (30 ILCS 105/6z-130 new)
10    Sec. 6z-130. Fund Mental Health and Substance Use
11Prevention Fund.
12    (a) The Fund Mental Health and Substance Use Prevention
13Fund is created as a special fund in the State treasury. The
14Department must make grants, from appropriations made from the
15Fund, to units of local government and Illinois public
16universities for the purposes of:
17        (1) providing mental health and substance use
18    prevention to people who are incarcerated; and
19        (2) providing mental health and substance use
20    prevention for those encountering the criminal justice
21    system with a primary focus to people who are incarcerated
22    in a county jail or recently discharged.

 

 

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1    (b) As soon as practical after the effective date of this
2amendatory Act of the 102nd General Assembly, the State
3Comptroller shall direct and the State Treasurer shall
4transfer the sum of $100,000,000 from the General Revenue Fund
5to the Fund Mental Health and Substance Use Prevention Fund.
6    (c) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, moneys in
7the Fund Mental Health and Substance Use Prevention Fund may
8not be appropriated, assigned, or transferred to another State
9fund.