HB3761 - 104th General Assembly

HOSP & HOMELESSNESS SUPPORT
Last Action

6/20/2025 - House: Sent to the Governor
Statutes Amended In Order of Appearance

New Act
Synopsis As Introduced

Creates the Hospitals and Homelessness Support Act. Requires the Office to Prevent and End Homelessness within the Department of Human Services to maintain on its publicly accessible website information on how a hospital or healthcare system may connect a patient experiencing homelessness or otherwise in a vulnerable housing situation with shelter and homeless support services for each continuum of care in the State. Requires the Department to ensure that the information required includes, for each continuum of care, any phone number, email address, physical address, primary agencies, or any other information that may be necessary for a person in that continuum of care territory to begin accessing shelter or other homelessness services. Requires the Department to include, where possible, a specific phone number that a hospital or health care facility may call and specific language to use. Requires the Department to also include on its website a way for the hospital or healthcare system to determine which continuum of care applies based on the physical location of the hospital or healthcare system. Requires other information, all of which must be added to the Department's website by October 31, 2025. Contains provisions concerning annual audits.

House Floor Amendment No. 1

Deletes reference to:
New Act
Adds reference to:
20 ILCS 1305/10-80 new
Replaces everything after the enacting clause. Amends the Department of Human Services Act. Requires the Office to Prevent and End Homelessness within the Department of Human Services to maintain on the Department's publicly accessible website information on how a hospital or health care provider may connect a patient who is experiencing homelessness, or is otherwise in a vulnerable housing situation, with shelter and homeless support services for each continuum of care in the State. Requires the Department of Human Services to ensure that the required website information includes for each continuum of care any phone number, email address, physical address, primary agencies, or any other information that may be necessary for a person in that continuum of care territory to begin accessing shelter or other homeless support services. Requires the Department to also include on its website a way for the hospital or health care provider to determine which continuum of care applies based on the physical location of the hospital or health care provider. Contain provisions concerning voluntary training for hospitals and health care providers on how to use the Department's continuum of care website information; and deadline dates by which the continuum of care website information shall be publicly available and updated.
Actions

Date Chamber Action
2/07/2025 House Filed with the Clerk by Rep. Lindsey LaPointe
2/18/2025 House First Reading
2/18/2025 House Referred to Rules Committee
3/11/2025 House Assigned to Human Services Committee
3/12/2025 House Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Will Guzzardi
3/19/2025 House Do Pass / Short Debate Human Services Committee; 012-000-000
3/19/2025 House Placed on Calendar 2nd Reading - Short Debate
3/19/2025 House Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Nicolle Grasse
3/19/2025 House Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Yolonda Morris
3/19/2025 House Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Suzanne M. Ness
3/19/2025 House Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Maurice A. West, II
3/26/2025 House Second Reading - Short Debate
3/26/2025 House Held on Calendar Order of Second Reading - Short Debate
4/07/2025 House House Floor Amendment No. 1 Filed with Clerk by Rep. Lindsey LaPointe
4/07/2025 House House Floor Amendment No. 1 Referred to Rules Committee
4/07/2025 House House Floor Amendment No. 1 Rules Refers to Human Services Committee
4/09/2025 House House Floor Amendment No. 1 Recommends Be Adopted Human Services Committee; 012-000-000
4/09/2025 House Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Camille Y. Lilly
4/10/2025 House House Floor Amendment No. 1 Adopted
4/10/2025 House Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading - Short Debate
4/10/2025 House Third Reading - Short Debate - Passed 113-000-000
4/10/2025 House Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Maura Hirschauer
4/10/2025 House Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Dagmara Avelar
4/10/2025 House Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Mary Gill
4/10/2025 House Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Terra Costa Howard
4/10/2025 House Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Anna Moeller
4/10/2025 House Added Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Michael J. Kelly
4/10/2025 House Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Rita Mayfield
4/10/2025 House Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Hoan Huynh
4/10/2025 House Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Michael Crawford
4/10/2025 House Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Kimberly Du Buclet
4/10/2025 House Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Jehan Gordon-Booth
4/11/2025 House Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Sonya M. Harper
4/14/2025 House Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Mary Beth Canty
4/14/2025 Senate Arrive in Senate
4/14/2025 Senate Placed on Calendar Order of First Reading April 29, 2025
4/23/2025 Senate Chief Senate Sponsor Sen. Mary Edly-Allen
4/23/2025 Senate First Reading
4/23/2025 Senate Referred to Assignments
4/29/2025 Senate Assigned to Health and Human Services
5/07/2025 Senate Do Pass Health and Human Services; 009-000-000
5/07/2025 Senate Placed on Calendar Order of 2nd Reading May 8, 2025
5/07/2025 Senate Added as Alternate Co-Sponsor Sen. Li Arellano, Jr.
5/08/2025 Senate Second Reading
5/08/2025 Senate Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading May 13, 2025
5/14/2025 Senate Added as Alternate Co-Sponsor Sen. Graciela Guzmán
5/20/2025 Senate Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading **
5/22/2025 Senate Added as Alternate Co-Sponsor Sen. Adriane Johnson
5/22/2025 Senate Added as Alternate Co-Sponsor Sen. Rachel Ventura
5/22/2025 Senate Third Reading - Passed; 058-000-000
5/22/2025 House Passed Both Houses
5/26/2025 Senate Added as Alternate Co-Sponsor Sen. Kimberly A. Lightford
5/28/2025 Senate Added as Alternate Co-Sponsor Sen. Mike Simmons
5/29/2025 Senate Added as Alternate Co-Sponsor Sen. Laura M. Murphy
6/20/2025 House Sent to the Governor