Public Act 101-0469
 
HB2304 EnrolledLRB101 06225 KTG 51250 b


  
    AN ACT concerning State government.
  
 
    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
 
represented in the General Assembly:
  







  
 
    Section 5. The Department of Commerce and Economic

Opportunity Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois is

amended by adding Section 605-1025 as follows:
 
    (20 ILCS 605/605-1025 new)
    Sec. 605-1025. Training in the Building Trades Program.
    (a) Subject to appropriation, the Department of Commerce 
and Economic Opportunity may establish a Training in the 
Building Trades Program to award grants to community-based 
organizations for the purpose of establishing training 
programs for persons who are 18 through 35 years of age and 
have an interest in the building trades. Persons eligible to 
participate in the Program shall include youth who have aged 
out of foster care and have an interest in the building trades. 
The Department of Children and Family Services, in consultation 
with the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity, shall 
identify and refer eligible youth to those community-based 
organizations that receive grants under this Section. Under the 
training programs, each participating person shall receive the 
following:
        (1) Formal training and education in the fundamentals 
    and core competencies in the person's chosen trade. Such 
    training and education shall be provided by a trained and 
    skilled tradesman or journeyman who is a member of a trade 
    union and who is paid the general prevailing rate of hourly 
    wages in the locality in which the work is to be performed.
        (2) Hands-on experience to further develop the 
    person's building trade skills by participating in 
    community improvement projects involving the 
    rehabilitation of vacant and abandoned residential 
    property in economically depressed areas of the State.
    Selected organizations shall also use the grant money to 
establish an entrepreneurship program to provide eligible 
persons with the capital and business management skills 
necessary to successfully launch their own businesses as 
contractors, subcontractors, real estate agents, or property 
managers or as any other entrepreneurs in the building trades. 
Eligibility under the entrepreneurship program shall be 
restricted to persons who reside in one of the economically 
depressed areas selected to receive community improvement 
projects in accordance with this subsection and who have 
obtained the requisite skill set for a particular building 
trade after successfully completing a training program 
established in accordance with this subsection. Grants 
provided under this Section may also be used to purchase the 
equipment and materials needed to rehabilitate any vacant and 
abandoned residential property that is eligible for 
acquisition as described in subsection (b).
    (b) Property eligible for acquisition and rehabilitation 
under the Training in the Building Trades Program. 
        (1) A community-based organization that is selected to 
    participate in the Training in the Building Trades Program 
    may enter into an agreement with a financial institution to 
    rehabilitate abandoned residential property in foreclosure 
    with the express condition that, after the rehabilitation 
    project is complete, the financial institution shall: 
            (A) sell the residential property for no less than 
        its fair market value; and 
            (B) use any proceeds from the sale to (i) reimburse 
        the community-based organization for all costs 
        associated with rehabilitating the property and (ii) 
        make satisfactory payment for any other claims against 
        the property. Any remaining sale proceeds of the 
        residential property  shall be retained by the 
        financial institution. 
        (2)(A) A unit of local government may enact an 
    ordinance that permits the acquisition and rehabilitation 
    of abandoned residential property under the Training in the 
    Building Trades Program. Under the ordinance, any owner of 
    residential property that has been abandoned for at least 3 
    years shall be notified that the abandoned property is 
    subject to acquisition and rehabilitation under the 
    Program and that if the owner does not respond to the 
    notice within the time period prescribed by the unit of 
    local government, the owner shall lose all right, title, 
    and interest in the property. Such notice shall be given as 
    follows: 
            (i) by mailing a copy of the notice by certified 
        mail to the owner's last known mailing address; 
            (ii) by publication in a newspaper published in the 
        municipality or county where the property is located; 
        and 
            (iii) by recording the notice with the office of 
        the recorder of the county in which the property is 
        located. 
        (B) If the owner responds to the notice within the time 
    period prescribed by the unit of local government, the 
    owner shall be given the option to either bring the 
    property into compliance with all applicable fire, 
    housing, and building codes within 6 months or enter into 
    an agreement with a community-based organization under the 
    Program to rehabilitate the residential property. If the 
    owner  chooses to enter into an agreement with a 
    community-based organization to rehabilitate the 
    residential property, such agreement shall be made with the 
    express condition that, after the rehabilitation project 
    is complete, the owner shall: 
            (i) sell the residential property for no less than 
        its fair market value; and 
            (ii) use any proceeds from the sale to (a) 
        reimburse the community-based organization for all 
        costs associated with rehabilitating the property and 
        (b) make satisfactory payment for any other claims 
        against the property. Any remaining sale proceeds of 
        the residential property  shall be distributed as 
        follows: 
                (I) 20% shall be distributed to the owner. 
                (II) 80% shall be deposited into the Training 
            in the Building Trades Fund created under 
            subsection (e). 
    (c) The Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity 
shall select from each of the following geographical regions of 
the State a community-based organization with experience 
working with the building trades:
        (1) Central Illinois. 
        (2) Northeastern Illinois. 
        (3) Southern (Metro-East) Illinois. 
        (4) Southern Illinois. 
        (5) Western Illinois. 
    (d) Grants awarded under this Section shall be funded 
through appropriations from the Training in the Building Trades 
Fund created under subsection (e). The Department of Commerce 
and Economic Opportunity may adopt any rules necessary to 
implement the provisions of this Section. 
    (e) The Training in the Building Trades Fund is created as 
a special fund in the State treasury. The Fund shall consist of 
any moneys deposited into the Fund as provided in subparagraph 
(B) of paragraph (2) of subsection (b) and any moneys 
appropriated to the Department of Commerce and Economic 
Opportunity for the Training in the Building Trades Program. 
Moneys in the Fund shall be expended for the Training in the 
Building Trades Program under subsection (a)  and for no other 
purpose. All interest earned on moneys in the Fund shall be 
deposited into the Fund. 
 
    Section 10. The State Finance Act is amended by adding 
Section 5.891 as follows:
 
    (30 ILCS 105/5.891 new)
    Sec. 5.891. The Training in the Building Trades Fund.
 
    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect January 
1, 2020.