103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2023 and 2024
HB3474
 
Introduced , 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.

26 (e) Final action. No final action may be taken at a closed 
 
 
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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 
26revitalization initiatives, trauma-informed behavioral health 
 
 
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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;
26  (2) provide management training on how to manage youth 
 
 
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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 
26intervention services established in Section 35-55.
 
 
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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.)