103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2023 and 2024
HB3474

 

Introduced 2/17/2023, by Rep. Justin Slaughter

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
5 ILCS 120/2  from Ch. 102, par. 42
430 ILCS 69/35-15
430 ILCS 69/35-25
430 ILCS 69/35-30
430 ILCS 69/35-35
430 ILCS 69/35-40

    Amends the Reimagine Public Safety Act. Removes language requiring grants from the Office of Firearm Violence Prevention to be in specified quantities, specified amounts, or both. Provides that, at the discretion of the Assistant Secretary of Firearm Violence Prevention, the Office of Firearm Violence Prevention may provide grants in each eligible service area that the Office of Firearm Violence Prevention determines to be eligible. Provides that various services must be distributed equitably among various recipients. Removes language requiring initial grants issued by the Department of Human Services and the Office of Firearm Violence Prevention to be named no later than April 1, 2022 and renewed or competitively bid as appropriate in subsequent fiscal years. Provides that 60 days after the Office of Firearm Violence Prevention receives all local advisory council recommendations under specified provisions and distributes funding based on those recommendations, the Office of Firearm Violence Prevention shall have no responsibility to manage, oversee, or exercise administrative authority over any local advisory council and local advisory councils shall be exempt from specified State requirements. Makes other changes. Makes a conforming change in the Open Meetings Act.


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A BILL FOR

 

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1    AN ACT concerning safety.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The Open Meetings Act is amended by changing
5Section 2 as follows:
 
6    (5 ILCS 120/2)  (from Ch. 102, par. 42)
7    Sec. 2. Open meetings.
8    (a) Openness required. All meetings of public bodies shall
9be open to the public unless excepted in subsection (c) and
10closed in accordance with Section 2a.
11    (b) Construction of exceptions. The exceptions contained
12in subsection (c) are in derogation of the requirement that
13public bodies meet in the open, and therefore, the exceptions
14are to be strictly construed, extending only to subjects
15clearly within their scope. The exceptions authorize but do
16not require the holding of a closed meeting to discuss a
17subject included within an enumerated exception.
18    (c) Exceptions. A public body may hold closed meetings to
19consider the following subjects:
20        (1) The appointment, employment, compensation,
21    discipline, performance, or dismissal of specific
22    employees, specific individuals who serve as independent
23    contractors in a park, recreational, or educational

 

 

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1    setting, or specific volunteers of the public body or
2    legal counsel for the public body, including hearing
3    testimony on a complaint lodged against an employee, a
4    specific individual who serves as an independent
5    contractor in a park, recreational, or educational
6    setting, or a volunteer of the public body or against
7    legal counsel for the public body to determine its
8    validity. However, a meeting to consider an increase in
9    compensation to a specific employee of a public body that
10    is subject to the Local Government Wage Increase
11    Transparency Act may not be closed and shall be open to the
12    public and posted and held in accordance with this Act.
13        (2) Collective negotiating matters between the public
14    body and its employees or their representatives, or
15    deliberations concerning salary schedules for one or more
16    classes of employees.
17        (3) The selection of a person to fill a public office,
18    as defined in this Act, including a vacancy in a public
19    office, when the public body is given power to appoint
20    under law or ordinance, or the discipline, performance or
21    removal of the occupant of a public office, when the
22    public body is given power to remove the occupant under
23    law or ordinance.
24        (4) Evidence or testimony presented in open hearing,
25    or in closed hearing where specifically authorized by law,
26    to a quasi-adjudicative body, as defined in this Act,

 

 

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1    provided that the body prepares and makes available for
2    public inspection a written decision setting forth its
3    determinative reasoning.
4        (5) The purchase or lease of real property for the use
5    of the public body, including meetings held for the
6    purpose of discussing whether a particular parcel should
7    be acquired.
8        (6) The setting of a price for sale or lease of
9    property owned by the public body.
10        (7) The sale or purchase of securities, investments,
11    or investment contracts. This exception shall not apply to
12    the investment of assets or income of funds deposited into
13    the Illinois Prepaid Tuition Trust Fund.
14        (8) Security procedures, school building safety and
15    security, and the use of personnel and equipment to
16    respond to an actual, a threatened, or a reasonably
17    potential danger to the safety of employees, students,
18    staff, the public, or public property.
19        (9) Student disciplinary cases.
20        (10) The placement of individual students in special
21    education programs and other matters relating to
22    individual students.
23        (11) Litigation, when an action against, affecting or
24    on behalf of the particular public body has been filed and
25    is pending before a court or administrative tribunal, or
26    when the public body finds that an action is probable or

 

 

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1    imminent, in which case the basis for the finding shall be
2    recorded and entered into the minutes of the closed
3    meeting.
4        (12) The establishment of reserves or settlement of
5    claims as provided in the Local Governmental and
6    Governmental Employees Tort Immunity Act, if otherwise the
7    disposition of a claim or potential claim might be
8    prejudiced, or the review or discussion of claims, loss or
9    risk management information, records, data, advice or
10    communications from or with respect to any insurer of the
11    public body or any intergovernmental risk management
12    association or self insurance pool of which the public
13    body is a member.
14        (13) Conciliation of complaints of discrimination in
15    the sale or rental of housing, when closed meetings are
16    authorized by the law or ordinance prescribing fair
17    housing practices and creating a commission or
18    administrative agency for their enforcement.
19        (14) Informant sources, the hiring or assignment of
20    undercover personnel or equipment, or ongoing, prior or
21    future criminal investigations, when discussed by a public
22    body with criminal investigatory responsibilities.
23        (15) Professional ethics or performance when
24    considered by an advisory body appointed to advise a
25    licensing or regulatory agency on matters germane to the
26    advisory body's field of competence.

 

 

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1        (16) Self evaluation, practices and procedures or
2    professional ethics, when meeting with a representative of
3    a statewide association of which the public body is a
4    member.
5        (17) The recruitment, credentialing, discipline or
6    formal peer review of physicians or other health care
7    professionals, or for the discussion of matters protected
8    under the federal Patient Safety and Quality Improvement
9    Act of 2005, and the regulations promulgated thereunder,
10    including 42 C.F.R. Part 3 (73 FR 70732), or the federal
11    Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of
12    1996, and the regulations promulgated thereunder,
13    including 45 C.F.R. Parts 160, 162, and 164, by a
14    hospital, or other institution providing medical care,
15    that is operated by the public body.
16        (18) Deliberations for decisions of the Prisoner
17    Review Board.
18        (19) Review or discussion of applications received
19    under the Experimental Organ Transplantation Procedures
20    Act.
21        (20) The classification and discussion of matters
22    classified as confidential or continued confidential by
23    the State Government Suggestion Award Board.
24        (21) Discussion of minutes of meetings lawfully closed
25    under this Act, whether for purposes of approval by the
26    body of the minutes or semi-annual review of the minutes

 

 

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1    as mandated by Section 2.06.
2        (22) Deliberations for decisions of the State
3    Emergency Medical Services Disciplinary Review Board.
4        (23) The operation by a municipality of a municipal
5    utility or the operation of a municipal power agency or
6    municipal natural gas agency when the discussion involves
7    (i) contracts relating to the purchase, sale, or delivery
8    of electricity or natural gas or (ii) the results or
9    conclusions of load forecast studies.
10        (24) Meetings of a residential health care facility
11    resident sexual assault and death review team or the
12    Executive Council under the Abuse Prevention Review Team
13    Act.
14        (25) Meetings of an independent team of experts under
15    Brian's Law.
16        (26) Meetings of a mortality review team appointed
17    under the Department of Juvenile Justice Mortality Review
18    Team Act.
19        (27) (Blank).
20        (28) Correspondence and records (i) that may not be
21    disclosed under Section 11-9 of the Illinois Public Aid
22    Code or (ii) that pertain to appeals under Section 11-8 of
23    the Illinois Public Aid Code.
24        (29) Meetings between internal or external auditors
25    and governmental audit committees, finance committees, and
26    their equivalents, when the discussion involves internal

 

 

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1    control weaknesses, identification of potential fraud risk
2    areas, known or suspected frauds, and fraud interviews
3    conducted in accordance with generally accepted auditing
4    standards of the United States of America.
5        (30) Those meetings or portions of meetings of a
6    fatality review team or the Illinois Fatality Review Team
7    Advisory Council during which a review of the death of an
8    eligible adult in which abuse or neglect is suspected,
9    alleged, or substantiated is conducted pursuant to Section
10    15 of the Adult Protective Services Act.
11        (31) Meetings and deliberations for decisions of the
12    Concealed Carry Licensing Review Board under the Firearm
13    Concealed Carry Act.
14        (32) Meetings between the Regional Transportation
15    Authority Board and its Service Boards when the discussion
16    involves review by the Regional Transportation Authority
17    Board of employment contracts under Section 28d of the
18    Metropolitan Transit Authority Act and Sections 3A.18 and
19    3B.26 of the Regional Transportation Authority Act.
20        (33) Those meetings or portions of meetings of the
21    advisory committee and peer review subcommittee created
22    under Section 320 of the Illinois Controlled Substances
23    Act during which specific controlled substance prescriber,
24    dispenser, or patient information is discussed.
25        (34) Meetings of the Tax Increment Financing Reform
26    Task Force under Section 2505-800 of the Department of

 

 

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1    Revenue Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois.
2        (35) Meetings of the group established to discuss
3    Medicaid capitation rates under Section 5-30.8 of the
4    Illinois Public Aid Code.
5        (36) Those deliberations or portions of deliberations
6    for decisions of the Illinois Gaming Board in which there
7    is discussed any of the following: (i) personal,
8    commercial, financial, or other information obtained from
9    any source that is privileged, proprietary, confidential,
10    or a trade secret; or (ii) information specifically
11    exempted from the disclosure by federal or State law.
12        (37) Deliberations for decisions of the Illinois Law
13    Enforcement Training Standards Board, the Certification
14    Review Panel, and the Illinois State Police Merit Board
15    regarding certification and decertification.
16        (38) Meetings of the Ad Hoc Statewide Domestic
17    Violence Fatality Review Committee of the Illinois
18    Criminal Justice Information Authority Board that occur in
19    closed executive session under subsection (d) of Section
20    35 of the Domestic Violence Fatality Review Act.
21        (39) Meetings of the regional review teams under
22    subsection (a) of Section 75 of the Domestic Violence
23    Fatality Review Act.
24        (40) Meetings of the Firearm Owner's Identification
25    Card Review Board under Section 10 of the Firearm Owners
26    Identification Card Act.

 

 

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1        (41) Meetings of local advisory councils held after
2    the Office of Firearm Violence Prevention receives all
3    local advisory council recommendations and distributes
4    funding based on those recommendations, pursuant to
5    subsection (h) of Section 35-40 of the Reimagine Public
6    Safety Act.
7    (d) Definitions. For purposes of this Section:
8    "Employee" means a person employed by a public body whose
9relationship with the public body constitutes an
10employer-employee relationship under the usual common law
11rules, and who is not an independent contractor.
12    "Public office" means a position created by or under the
13Constitution or laws of this State, the occupant of which is
14charged with the exercise of some portion of the sovereign
15power of this State. The term "public office" shall include
16members of the public body, but it shall not include
17organizational positions filled by members thereof, whether
18established by law or by a public body itself, that exist to
19assist the body in the conduct of its business.
20    "Quasi-adjudicative body" means an administrative body
21charged by law or ordinance with the responsibility to conduct
22hearings, receive evidence or testimony and make
23determinations based thereon, but does not include local
24electoral boards when such bodies are considering petition
25challenges.
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1meeting. Final action shall be preceded by a public recital of
2the nature of the matter being considered and other
3information that will inform the public of the business being
4conducted.
5(Source: P.A. 101-31, eff. 6-28-19; 101-459, eff. 8-23-19;
6101-652, eff. 1-1-22; 102-237, eff. 1-1-22; 102-520, eff.
78-20-21; 102-558, eff. 8-20-21; 102-813, eff. 5-13-22.)
 
8    Section 10. The Reimagine Public Safety Act is amended by
9changing Sections 35-15, 35-25, 35-30, 35-35, and 35-40 as
10follows:
 
11    (430 ILCS 69/35-15)
12    Sec. 35-15. Findings. The Illinois General Assembly finds
13that:
14        (1) Discrete neighborhoods in municipalities across
15    Illinois are experiencing concentrated and perpetual
16    firearm violence that is a public health epidemic.
17        (2) Within neighborhoods experiencing this firearm
18    violence epidemic, violence is concentrated among teens
19    and young adults that have chronic exposure to the risk of
20    violence and criminal legal system involvement and related
21    trauma in small geographic areas where these young people
22    live or congregate.
23        (3) Firearm violence victimization and perpetration is
24    highly concentrated in particular neighborhoods,

 

 

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1    particular blocks within these neighborhoods, and among a
2    small number of individuals living in these areas.
3        (4) People who are chronically exposed to the risk of
4    firearm violence victimization are substantially more
5    likely to be violently injured or violently injure another
6    person. People who have been violently injured are
7    substantially more likely to be violently reinjured.
8    Chronic exposure to violence additionally leads
9    individuals to engage in behavior, as part of a cycle of
10    community violence, trauma, and retaliation that
11    substantially increases their own risk of violent injury
12    or reinjury.
13        (5) Evidence-based programs that engage individuals at
14    the highest risk of firearm violence and provide life
15    stabilization, case management, and culturally competent
16    group and individual therapy reduce firearm violence
17    victimization and perpetration and can end Illinois'
18    firearm violence epidemic.
19        (6) A public health approach to ending Illinois'
20    firearm violence epidemic requires targeted, integrated
21    behavioral health services and economic opportunity that
22    promotes self-sufficiency for victims of firearm violence
23    and those with chronic exposure to the risk of firearm
24    violence victimization, including, but not limited to,
25    services for criminal and juvenile justice-involved
26    populations, community revitalization initiatives, and

 

 

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1    crisis response services, such as psychological first aid.
2        (7) A public health approach to ending Illinois'
3    firearm violence epidemic further requires broader
4    preventive investments in the census tracts and blocks
5    that reduce risk factors for youth and families living in
6    areas at the highest risk of firearm violence
7    victimization.
8        (8) A public health approach to ending Illinois'
9    firearm violence epidemic requires empowering residents
10    and community-based organizations within impacted
11    neighborhoods to provide culturally competent care based
12    on lived experience in these areas and long-term
13    relationships of mutual interest that promote safety and
14    stability.
15        (9) A public health approach to ending Illinois'
16    firearm violence epidemic further requires that preventive
17    youth development services for youth in these
18    neighborhoods be fully integrated with a team-based model
19    of mental health care to address trauma recovery for those
20    young people at the highest risk of firearm violence
21    victimization.
22        (10) Community revitalization can be an effective
23    violence prevention strategy, provided that revitalization
24    is targeted to the highest risk geographies within
25    communities and revitalization efforts are designed and
26    led by individuals living and working in the impacted

 

 

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1    communities.
2(Source: P.A. 102-16, eff. 6-17-21; 102-679, eff. 12-10-21.)
 
3    (430 ILCS 69/35-25)
4    Sec. 35-25. Integrated violence prevention and other
5services.
6    (a) Subject to appropriation, for municipalities with
71,000,000 or more residents, the Office of Firearm Violence
8Prevention shall make grants to violence prevention
9organizations for evidence-based violence prevention services.
10Approved technical assistance and training providers shall
11create learning communities for the exchange of information
12between community-based organizations in the same or similar
13fields. Firearm violence prevention organizations shall
14prioritize individuals at the highest risk of firearm violence
15victimization and provide these individuals with
16evidence-based comprehensive services that reduce their
17exposure to chronic firearm violence.
18    (b) In the geographic areas they serve, violence Violence
19prevention organizations shall develop the following expertise
20in the geographic areas that they cover:
21        (1) Analyzing and leveraging data to identify the
22    individuals who will most benefit from evidence-based
23    violence prevention services in their geographic areas.
24        (2) Identifying the conflicts that are responsible for
25    recurring violence.

 

 

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1        (3) Having relationships with individuals who are most
2    able to reduce conflicts.
3        (4) Addressing the stabilization and trauma recovery
4    needs of individuals impacted by violence by providing
5    direct services for their unmet needs or referring them to
6    other qualified service providers.
7        (5) Having and building relationships with community
8    members and community organizations that provide
9    evidence-based violence prevention services and get
10    referrals of people who will most benefit from
11    evidence-based violence prevention services in their
12    geographic areas.
13        (6) Providing training and technical assistance to
14    local law enforcement agencies to improve their
15    effectiveness without having any role, requirement, or
16    mandate to participate in the policing, enforcement, or
17    prosecution of any crime.
18    (c) Violence prevention organizations receiving grants
19under this Act shall coordinate services with other violence
20prevention organizations in their area.
21    (d) The Office of Firearm Violence Prevention shall
22identify, for each separate eligible service area under this
23Act, an experienced violence prevention organization to serve
24as the Lead Violence Prevention Convener for that area and
25provide each Lead Violence Prevention Convener with a grant of
26up to $100,000 to these organizations to coordinate monthly

 

 

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1meetings between violence prevention organizations and youth
2development organizations under this Act. The Lead Violence
3Prevention Convener may also receive, from the Office of
4Firearm Violence Prevention, technical assistance or training
5through approved providers when needs are jointly identified.
6The Lead Violence Prevention Convener shall:
7        (1) provide the convened organizations with summary
8    notes recommendations made at the monthly meetings to
9    improve the effectiveness of evidence-based violence
10    prevention services based on review of timely data on
11    shootings and homicides in his or her relevant
12    neighborhood;
13        (2) attend monthly meetings where the cause of
14    violence and other neighborhood disputes is discussed and
15    strategize on how to resolve ongoing conflicts and execute
16    on agreed plans;
17        (3) (blank);
18        (4) on behalf of the convened organizations, make
19    consensus recommendations to the Office of Firearm
20    Violence Prevention and local law enforcement on how to
21    reduce violent conflict in his or her neighborhood;
22        (5) meet on an emergency basis when conflicts that
23    need immediate attention and resolution arise;
24        (6) share knowledge and strategies of the community
25    violence dynamic in monthly meetings with local youth
26    development specialists receiving grants under this Act;

 

 

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1        (7) select when and where needed an approved Office of
2    Violence Prevention-funded technical assistance and
3    training service provider to receive agreed upon services;
4    and
5        (8) after meeting with community residents and other
6    community organizations that have expertise in housing,
7    mental health, economic development, education, and social
8    services, make recommendations to the Office of Firearm
9    Violence Prevention on how to target community
10    revitalization resources available from federal and State
11    funding sources.
12    The Office of Firearm Violence Prevention shall compile
13recommendations from all Lead Violence Prevention Conveners
14and report to the General Assembly bi-annually on these
15funding recommendations. The Lead Violence Prevention Convener
16may also serve as a violence prevention or youth development
17provider.
18    (d-5) At the discretion of the Assistant Secretary of
19Firearm Violence Prevention and taking into consideration
20funding recommendations provided by Lead Violence Prevention
21Conveners, community needs and trends, and emerging best
22practices, the Office of Firearm Violence Prevention may
23provide grants, in each eligible service area, for activities
24that include, but are not limited to, interventions for
25justice-involved or re-entry populations, community
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1services, restorative justice initiatives, and crisis response
2services, such as psychological first aid.
3    (e) The Illinois Office of Firearm Violence Prevention
4shall select, when possible and appropriate, no fewer than 2
5and no more than 3 approved technical assistance and training
6providers to deliver technical assistance and training to the
7violence prevention organizations that request to receive
8approved technical assistance and training. Violence
9prevention organizations shall have the opportunity complete
10authority to select among the approved technical assistance
11services providers funded by the Office of Firearm Violence
12Prevention, to the extent that the approved technical
13assistance services providers can distribute technical
14assistance and training equitably among violence prevention
15organizations.
16    (f) Approved technical assistance and training providers
17may:
18        (1) provide training and certification to violence
19    prevention professionals on how to perform violence
20    prevention services and other professional development to
21    violence prevention professionals.
22        (2) provide management training on how to manage
23    violence prevention professionals;
24        (3) provide training and assistance on how to develop
25    memorandum of understanding for referral services or
26    create approved provider lists for these referral

 

 

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1    services, or both;
2        (4) share lessons learned among violence prevention
3    professionals and service providers in their network; and
4        (5) provide technical assistance and training on human
5    resources, grants management, capacity building, and
6    fiscal management strategies.
7    (g) Approved technical assistance and training providers
8shall:
9        (1) provide additional services identified as
10    necessary by the Office of Firearm Violence Prevention and
11    service providers in their network; and
12        (2) receive a base grant of up to $250,000 plus
13    negotiated service rates to provide group and
14    individualized services to participating violence
15    prevention organizations.
16    (h) (Blank).
17    (i) The Office of Firearm Violence Prevention shall issue
18grants to , when possible and appropriate, to no fewer than 2
19violence prevention organizations in each of the eligible
20service areas and no more than 6 organizations. When possible,
21the Office of Firearm Violence Prevention shall work to ensure
22that grant resources are equitably distributed across eligible
23service areas grants shall be for no less than $300,000 per
24violence prevention organization. The Office of Firearm
25Violence Prevention may establish grant award ranges to ensure
26grants will have the potential to reduce violence in each

 

 

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1neighborhood.
2    (j) No violence prevention organization can serve more
3than 3 eligible service areas unless the Office of Firearm
4Violence Prevention is unable to identify violence prevention
5organizations to provide adequate coverage.
6    (k) No approved technical assistance and training provider
7shall provide evidence-based violence prevention services in
8an eligible service area under this Act unless the Office of
9Firearm Violence Prevention is unable to identify qualified
10violence prevention organizations to provide adequate
11coverage.
12(Source: P.A. 102-16, eff. 6-17-21; 102-679, eff. 12-10-21.)
 
13    (430 ILCS 69/35-30)
14    Sec. 35-30. Integrated youth services.
15    (a) Subject to appropriation, for municipalities with
161,000,000 or more residents, the Office of Firearm Violence
17Prevention shall make grants to youth development
18organizations for evidence-based youth programming, including,
19but not limited to, after-school and summer programming.
20Evidence-based youth development programs shall provide
21services to teens and young adults that increase their school
22attendance, and school performance, reduce involvement in the
23criminal and juvenile justice systems, develop employment and
24life skills, and develop nonacademic interests that build
25social emotional persistence and intelligence.

 

 

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1    (b) The Office of Firearm Violence Prevention shall
2identify municipal blocks where more than 35% of all fatal and
3nonfatal firearm-shot incidents take place and focus youth
4development service grants to residents of these identified
5blocks in the designated eligible service areas. The
6Department of Human Services shall prioritize funding to youth
7development service programs that serve the following teens
8before expanding services to the broader community:
9        (1) criminal and juvenile justice-involved youth;
10        (2) students who are attending or have attended option
11    schools;
12        (3) family members of individuals working with
13    violence prevention organizations; and
14        (4) youth living on the blocks where more than 35% of
15    the violence takes place in a neighborhood.
16    (c) Each program participant enrolled in a youth
17development program under this Act, when possible and
18appropriate, shall receive an individualized needs assessment
19to determine if the participant requires intensive youth
20services as provided for in Section 35-35 of this Act. The
21needs assessment should be the best available instrument that
22considers the physical and mental condition of each youth
23based on the youth's family ties, financial resources, past
24substance use, criminal justice involvement, and trauma
25related to chronic exposure to firearm violence behavioral
26health assessment to determine the participant's broader

 

 

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1support and mental health needs. The Office of Firearm
2Violence Prevention shall determine best practices for
3referring program participants who are at the highest risk of
4violence and justice involvement to be referred to a high-risk
5youth intervention program established in Section 35-35.
6    (d) Youth development prevention program participants
7shall receive services designed to empower participants with
8the social and emotional skills necessary to forge paths of
9healthy development and disengagement from high-risk
10behaviors. Within the context of engaging social, physical,
11and personal development activities, participants should build
12resilience and the skills associated with healthy social,
13emotional, and identity development.
14    (e) Youth development providers shall develop the
15following expertise in the geographic areas they cover:
16        (1) Knowledge of the teens and their social
17    organization in the blocks they are designated to serve.
18        (2) Youth development organizations receiving grants
19    under this Act shall be required to coordinate services
20    with other youth development organizations in their
21    neighborhood by sharing lessons learned in monthly
22    meetings.
23        (3) (Blank).
24        (4) Meeting on an emergency basis when conflicts
25    related to program participants that need immediate
26    attention and resolution arise.

 

 

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1        (5) Sharing knowledge and strategies of the
2    neighborhood violence dynamic in monthly meetings with
3    local violence prevention organizations receiving grants
4    under this Act.
5        (6) Selecting an approved technical assistance and
6    training service provider to receive agreed upon services.
7    (f) The Illinois Office of Firearm Violence Prevention
8shall select, when possible and appropriate, no fewer than 2
9and no more than 3 approved technical assistance and training
10providers to deliver technical assistance and training to the
11youth development organizations that request to receive
12approved technical assistance and training. Youth development
13organizations must use an approved technical assistance and
14training provider but have complete authority to select among
15the approved technical assistance services providers funded by
16the Office of Firearm Violence Prevention. Youth development
17organizations shall have the opportunity to select among the
18approved technical assistance services providers funded by the
19Office of Firearm Violence Prevention, to the extent that
20youth development organizations can be distributed equitably
21among approved technical assistance services providers.
22    (g) Approved technical assistance and training providers
23may:
24        (1) provide training to youth development workers on
25    how to perform outreach services;
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1    development workers;
2        (3) provide training and assistance on how to develop
3    memorandum of understanding for referral services or
4    create approved provider lists for these referral
5    services, or both;
6        (4) share lessons learned among youth development
7    service providers in their network; and
8        (5) provide technical assistance and training on human
9    resources, grants management, capacity building, and
10    fiscal management strategies.
11    (h) Approved technical assistance and training providers
12shall:
13        (1) provide additional services identified as
14    necessary by the Office of Firearm Violence Prevention and
15    youth development service providers in their network; and
16        (2) receive an annual base grant of up to $250,000
17    plus negotiated service rates to provide group and
18    individualized services to participating youth development
19    service organizations.
20    (i) (Blank).
21    (j) The Office of Firearm Violence Prevention shall issue
22youth development services grants to , when possible and
23appropriate, to no fewer than 4 youth services organizations
24in each of the eligible service areas and no more than 8
25organizations. When possible, the Office of Firearm Violence
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1equitably distributed across eligible service areas grants
2shall be for no less than $300,000 per youth development
3organization. The Office of Firearm Violence Prevention may
4establish award ranges to ensure grants will have the
5potential to reduce violence in each neighborhood.
6    (k) No youth development organization can serve more than
73 eligible service areas unless the Office of Firearm Violence
8Prevention is unable to identify youth development
9organizations to provide adequate coverage.
10    (l) No approved technical assistance and training provider
11shall provide youth development services in any neighborhood
12under this Act.
13(Source: P.A. 102-16, eff. 6-17-21; 102-679, eff. 12-10-21.)
 
14    (430 ILCS 69/35-35)
15    Sec. 35-35. Intensive youth intervention services.
16    (a) Subject to appropriation, for municipalities with
171,000,000 or more residents, the Office of Firearm Violence
18Prevention shall issue grants to high-risk youth intervention
19organizations for evidence-based intervention services that
20reduce involvement in the criminal and juvenile justice
21system, increase school attendance, and refer high-risk teens
22into therapeutic programs that address trauma recovery and
23other mental health improvements. Each program participant
24enrolled in a high-risk youth intervention program under this
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1health assessment delivered by a qualified mental health
2professional certified to provide services to Medicaid
3recipients.
4    (b) High-risk youth intervention program participants
5shall receive needed services as determined by the
6individualized assessment which may include, but is not
7limited to:
8        (1) receive group-based emotional regulation therapy
9    that helps them control their emotions and understand how
10    trauma and stress impacts their thinking and behavior; and
11        (2) have youth advocates that accompany them to their
12    group therapy sessions, assist them with issues that
13    prevent them from attending school, and address life
14    skills development activities through weekly coaching.
15    (b-5) High-risk youth intervention service organizations
16shall have trained clinical staff managing the youth advocate
17interface with program participants.
18    (c) Youth development service organizations and providers
19of evidence-based violence prevention services shall be
20assigned to the youth intervention service providers for
21referrals by the Office of Firearm Violence Prevention.
22    (d) The youth receiving intervention services who are
23evaluated to need trauma recovery and other behavioral health
24interventions and who have the greatest risk of firearm
25violence victimization shall be referred to the family systems
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1    (e) The Office of Firearm Violence Prevention shall issue
2high-risk youth intervention grants, when possible and
3appropriate, to no less than 2 youth intervention
4organizations and no more than 4 organizations in
5municipalities with 1,000,000 or more residents.
6    (f) No high-risk youth intervention organization can serve
7more than 13 eligible service areas.
8    (g) The approved technical assistance and training
9providers for youth development programs provided in
10subsection (d) of Section 35-30 shall also provide technical
11assistance and training to the affiliated high-risk youth
12intervention service providers.
13    (h) (Blank).
14(Source: P.A. 102-16, eff. 6-17-21; 102-679, eff. 12-10-21.)
 
15    (430 ILCS 69/35-40)
16    Sec. 35-40. Services for municipalities with less than
171,000,000 residents.
18    (a) The Office of Firearm Violence Prevention shall
19identify the 10 municipalities or geographically contiguous
20areas in Illinois with less than 1,000,000 residents and more
21than 35,000 residents that have the largest concentration of
22fatal and nonfatal firearm-shot victims over the 5-year period
23considered for eligibility. These areas shall qualify for
24grants under this Act. The Office of Firearm Violence
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1geographically contiguous areas with less than 1,000,000
2residents that would benefit from evidence-based violence
3prevention services. In identifying the additional
4municipalities that qualify for funding under Section 35-40,
5the Office of Firearm Violence Prevention shall consider the
6following factors when possible:
7        (1) the total number of fatal and nonfatal firearms
8    victims, excluding self-inflicted incidents, in a
9    potential municipality over the 5-year period considered
10    for eligibility;
11        (2) the per capita rate of fatal and nonfatal firearms
12    victims, excluding self-inflicted incidents, in a
13    potential municipality over the 5-year period considered
14    for eligibility; and
15        (3) the total potential firearms violence reduction
16    benefit for the entire State of Illinois by serving the
17    additional municipalities compared to the total benefit of
18    investing in all other municipalities identified for
19    grants to municipalities with more than 35,000 residents
20    and less than 1,000,000 residents.
21    (b) Resources for each of these areas shall be distributed
22based on a formula to be developed by the Office of Firearm
23Violence Prevention that will maximize the total potential
24reduction in firearms victimization for all municipalities
25receiving grants under this Act.
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1local advisory councils for each of the designated service
2areas for the purpose of obtaining recommendations on how to
3distribute funds in these areas to reduce firearm violence
4incidents. Local advisory councils shall have a minimum of 5
5members with the following expertise or experience:
6        (1) a representative of a nonelected official in local
7    government from the designated area;
8        (2) a representative of an elected official at the
9    local or state level for the area;
10        (3) a representative with public health experience in
11    firearm violence prevention or youth development;
12        (4) two residents of the subsection of each area with
13    the most concentrated firearm violence incidents; and
14        (5) additional members as determined by the individual
15    local advisory council.
16    (d) The Office of Firearm Violence Prevention shall
17provide data to each local council on the characteristics of
18firearm violence in the designated area and other relevant
19information on the physical and demographic characteristics of
20the designated area. The Office of Firearm Violence Prevention
21shall also provide best available evidence on how to address
22the social determinants of health in the designated area in
23order to reduce firearm violence.
24    (e) Each local advisory council shall make recommendations
25on how to allocate distributed resources for its area based on
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1Prevention, local law enforcement data, and other locally
2available data.
3    (f) The Office of Firearm Violence Prevention shall
4consider the recommendations and determine how to distribute
5funds through grants to community-based organizations and
6local governments. To the extent the Office of Firearm
7Violence Prevention does not follow a local advisory council's
8recommendation on allocation of funds, the Office of Firearm
9Violence Prevention shall explain in writing why a different
10allocation of resources is more likely to reduce firearm
11violence in the designated area.
12    (g) Subject to appropriation, the Department of Human
13Services and the Office of Firearm Violence Prevention shall
14issue grants to local governmental agencies or community-based
15organizations, or both, to maximize firearm violence reduction
16each year. When possible, initial grants shall be named no
17later than April 1, 2022 and renewed or competitively bid as
18appropriate in subsequent fiscal years.
19    (h) Sixty days after the Office of Firearm Violence
20Prevention receives all local advisory council recommendations
21under subsection (f) and distributes funding based on those
22recommendations:
23        (1) the Office of Firearm Violence Prevention shall
24    have no responsibility to manage, oversee, or exercise
25    administrative authority over any local advisory council;
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1    the governing body of its designated service area;
2        (3) each local advisory council meeting shall be
3    exempt from the requirements of the Open Meetings Act in
4    accordance with paragraph (41) of subsection (c) of
5    Section 2 of that Act; and
6        (4) each local advisory council meeting shall be
7    exempt from any other State requirement under this Act.
8(Source: P.A. 102-16, eff. 6-17-21; 102-679, eff. 12-10-21.)