Full Text of SB2403 103rd General Assembly
SB2403sam001 103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY | Sen. Ram Villivalam Filed: 3/3/2023
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| 1 | | AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 2403
| 2 | | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 2403 by replacing | 3 | | everything after the enacting clause with the following:
| 4 | | "Section 1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the | 5 | | Survivor Transportation Assistance Act. | 6 | | Section 5. Illinois Domestic Violence, Sexual Assault, and | 7 | | Human Trafficking Transportation Assistance Program. | 8 | | (a) No later than 180 days after the effective date of this | 9 | | Act, the Department of Human Services and the Department of | 10 | | Transportation shall establish the Domestic Violence, Sexual | 11 | | Assault, and Human Trafficking Transportation Assistance | 12 | | Program. | 13 | | (b) The Department of Transportation and the Department of | 14 | | Human Services shall coordinate with regional transit | 15 | | authorities across the State to create a universal mass | 16 | | transit card. The transportation card shall be accepted in all |
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| 1 | | regional and local transit authorities across the State for | 2 | | the purposes of transportation for survivors of domestic | 3 | | violence, sexual assault, and human trafficking.
The transit | 4 | | card shall be plastic or laminated and wallet sized, contain | 5 | | no information that would reference the transportation | 6 | | assistance program, and have an expiration date. The card | 7 | | shall also be available electronically and shall be given to | 8 | | domestic violence, sexual assault, and human trafficking | 9 | | direct service providers to distribute to survivors. | 10 | | (c) The Program shall fund the transportation of survivors | 11 | | when employees or volunteers of direct service providers incur | 12 | | expenses for the transportation of a survivor of domestic | 13 | | violence, sexual assault, or human trafficking or the victim's | 14 | | survivor's family or household members. The Program shall | 15 | | provide gas cards to survivors. The Program may provide for | 16 | | the lease of motor vehicles by direct service providers of | 17 | | domestic violence, sexual assault, and human trafficking. | 18 | | (d) The Program shall establish or provide funding for | 19 | | ridesharing arrangements across the State for the | 20 | | transportation of survivors of domestic violence, sexual | 21 | | assault, and human trafficking. | 22 | | (e) In coordination with the Illinois Coalition Against | 23 | | Domestic Violence, the Illinois Coalition Against Sexual | 24 | | Assault, and the operator of the Illinois Domestic Violence | 25 | | Hotline, the Department of Human Services shall create a grant | 26 | | process to administer Program funds for uses related to |
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| 1 | | transportation under subsections (b), (c), and (d).
| 2 | | Section 10. Program funding. | 3 | | (a) All funds appropriated for purposes of the Program | 4 | | must be deposited into the Domestic Violence, Sexual Assault, | 5 | | and Human Trafficking Transportation Assistance Fund, a | 6 | | special fund that is created in the State treasury, and funds | 7 | | within the Fund may be expended for Program purposes described | 8 | | in Section 5. Amounts appropriated into the Fund for | 9 | | designated purposes may only be used for the designated | 10 | | purposes. | 11 | | (b) The Fund is not subject to sweeps, charge-backs, or | 12 | | any other fiscal or budgetary maneuver that would in any way | 13 | | transfer any moneys from the Fund into any other fund. | 14 | | Section 20. Rules. The Department of Human Services and | 15 | | the Department of Transportation may adopt rules or joint | 16 | | rules to implement this Act. | 17 | | Section 100. The State Finance Act is amended by adding | 18 | | Section 5.990 as follows: | 19 | | (30 ILCS 105/5.990 new) | 20 | | Sec. 5.990. The Domestic Violence, Sexual Assault, and | 21 | | Human Trafficking Transportation Assistance Fund. ".
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