HB5683 Summary

• Appropriates $28,353,600 total for the Department of Human Rights for fiscal year beginning July 1, 2024, consisting of $17,958,800 in General Funds, $5,600,000 in Other State Funds, and $4,794,800 in Federal Funds.

• Allocates $16,063,800 from General Revenue Fund for operational expenses and $270,000 for employer and employee training programs.

• Provides $625,000 for the Commission on Discrimination and Hate Crimes and $5,000,000 from the Hate Crimes and Bias Incident Prevention and Response Fund for grants and administrative expenses related to eradicating hate crimes and bias incidents.

• Reappropriates $1,000,000 remaining from a prior appropriation to provide a grant to the Simon Wiesenthal Center's Midwest Region Office in Chicago to operate a mobile museum bus for tolerance.

• Takes effect July 1, 2024.