HB2532 Summary

• Appropriates $48.8 million from the General Revenue Fund to local government units for non-competitive grants to community-based organizations addressing violence prevention using culturally competent approaches in specified Illinois representative districts.

• Grants must support violence prevention, youth services, after-school programming, trauma-informed counseling, job readiness training, public awareness campaigns, street-level outreach, organizational capacity building, and related priority areas.

• Allocates $2 million per district to most representative districts (distributed to Cook County, City of Chicago, and other specified municipalities), with reduced allocations of $400,000 to $1 million for the 29th and 34th Representative Districts across multiple municipalities.

• Covers 24 representative districts across multiple Illinois counties including Cook, Lake, Winnebago, Kane, Peoria, Champaign, and St. Clair counties.

• Effective date is July 1, 2023.