100TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2017 and 2018
SB0347
 
Introduced 1/24/2017, by Sen. John J. Cullerton
 
SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 


310 ILCS 80/5

    Amends the Shelter Residents Protection Act.  Makes a technical change in a
Section concerning homeless persons' savings accounts.



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A BILL FOR
 


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1    AN ACT concerning housing.

 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, 
3represented in the General Assembly: 

 
4    Section 5. The Shelter Residents Protection Act is amended 
5by changing Section 5 as follows:
 



6    (310 ILCS 80/5)



7    Sec. 5. Homeless persons; savings. 

8    (a) If a homeless person resides at a shelter, that
that 
9person may open a
passbook savings account at a bank or savings 
10and loan association subject to
the requirements imposed by the 
11bank or savings and loan association.  In the
alternative, the 
12homeless person may enter into a written agreement with the

13shelter in which he or she resides; the agreement may provide 
14that the shelter
will accept and hold moneys belonging to the 
15homeless person.  Under such an
agreement, the shelter shall do 
16the following:

17        (1) Place the moneys in a non-interest bearing account 
18    for the
homeless person, at no cost to that person.


19        (2) Segregate, from all other moneys or accounts held 
20    or maintained by
the shelter, moneys accepted from and held 
21    for homeless persons.


22        (3) Maintain, separately for each homeless person with 
23    whom an
agreement is made under this Section, an accurate 
 
 
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1    accounting of the moneys
accepted from, held for, and 
2    withdrawn by that person.  Upon a homeless
person's request, 
3    the shelter shall provide a copy of the accounting

4    concerning that person's moneys.


5        (4) Pay to the homeless person, within 48 hours after 
6    the person's
request, the amount of the person's moneys 
7    held by the shelter or any
lesser amount requested by the 
8    homeless person.

9    (b) Money held by a shelter under this Section shall not be 
10subject to
assignment, attachment, garnishment, set-off, or 
11other process in aid of
creditors.

12    (c) For purposes of this Section, "homeless person" means 
13either of the
following:


14        (1) An individual who lacks a fixed, regular, and 
15    adequate nighttime
residence; or


16        (2) An individual who has a primary nighttime residence 
17    that is any
of the following:


18            (A) A supervised publicly or privately operated 
19        shelter designed
to provide temporary living 
20        accommodations (including welfare hotels,
congregate 
21        shelters, and transitional housing for the mentally 
22        ill).


23            (B) An institution that provides a temporary 
24        residence for
individuals intended to be 
25        institutionalized.


26            (C) A public or private place not designed for, or 
 
 
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1        ordinarily used
as, a regular sleeping accommodation 
2        for human beings.

3(Source: P.A. 87-1093.)