101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2019 and 2020 HB5415

Introduced , by Rep. Darren Bailey - Grant Wehrli - Amy Grant

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

305 ILCS 5/4-8a new

Amends the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Article of the Illinois Public Aid Code. Provides that no person shall knowingly use or accept cash assistance benefits provided under the Article for the purchase or sale of any firearm or firearms ammunition. Requires the Department of Human Services to adopt any rules necessary to implement the amendatory Act, including rules and practices to prevent recipients of cash assistance from accessing their cash assistance benefits at automated teller machines or point of sale terminals that are located in a store or other establishment in which the principal place of business is the sale of firearms or ammunitions.

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FISCAL NOTE ACT MAY APPLY

A BILL FOR

HB5415

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1 AN ACT concerning public aid.

2 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,

3 represented in the General Assembly:

4 Section 5. The Illinois Public Aid Code is amended by

5 adding Section 4-8a as follows:

6 (305 ILCS 5/4-8a new)

7 Sec. 4-8a. Firearms purchase prohibited using TANF

8 benefits.

9 (a) As used in this Section, "firearm" and "firearm

10 ammunition" shall have the meanings ascribed to those terms in

11 Section 31A-0.1 of the Criminal Code of 2012.

12 (b) No person shall knowingly use or accept cash assistance

13 benefits provided under this Article for the purchase or sale

14 of any firearm or firearms ammunition. The Department shall

15 adopt any rules necessary to implement this Section, including

16 rules and practices to prevent recipients of cash assistance

17 from accessing their cash assistance benefits at automated

18 teller machines or point of sale terminals that are located in

19 a store or other establishment in which the principal place of

20 business is the sale of firearms or ammunitions.