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Illinois Human Rights Commission asks Senate for $25,000 as HUD payments stall
Summary
Vic Hartman, executive director and general counsel of the Illinois Human Rights Commission, told the Senate Appropriations panel on Jan. 15 the agency needs a $25,000 budget adjustment after expected HUD payments for last year’s fair-housing work have not arrived; Hartman warned proposed HUD rules could limit the Commission’s ability to enforce gender-identity protections and disparate-impact claims.
Vic Hartman, executive director and general counsel of the State of Illinois Human Rights Commission, told the Senate Appropriations panel on Jan. 15 the agency needs a $25,000 budget adjustment after expected federal payments under a long-standing cooperative agreement with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development have not arrived.
Hartman said the Commission normally draws HUD funds in September for cases filed and closed in the prior year, but as of the hearing the office had received none of the anticipated federal payments. “We budgeted to receive around $92,000,” Hartman said, “and we had gotten 0.” The $25,000 request, they said, would keep current staffing and basic…
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