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Bill
SB 2527
Illinois FY2025 appropriation funds the Department on Aging to cover administration and a wide range of aging services and grants, including meals, caregiver support, and ombudsman.
Note on source material and jurisdiction
- The metadata attached to this request lists SB 2527 as "Mississippi Resident Promise Grant Program; create to provide financial assistance to community college students."
- The bill text provided, however, is an Illinois appropriations bill titled an “Act concerning appropriations” (introduced by Sen. Elgie R. Sims, Jr.) that appropriates funds for the Illinois Department on Aging for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2025. These are two different subjects and jurisdictions. This summary focuses on the substantive text available (Illinois Department on Aging appropriations). Please verify which jurisdiction and version you intended.
Purpose and intent
- The available text would appropriate funds to support the ordinary and contingent expenses of the Illinois Department on Aging for FY 2025, funding administrative divisions, community supportive services, and multiple grant programs that serve older adults across the state.
Key provisions and major funding items
- Top-line funding cited at the start:
- General Funds: $1,796,285,529
- Other State Funds: $13,373,800
- Federal Funds: $212,788,800
- Total: $2,022,448,129
- Office of the Director and administrative divisions:
- Office of the Director — $3,106,900 for personnel, contractual services, travel, etc.
- Division of Finance & Administration — $5,307,600 for personnel, contractual services, communications, equipment, etc.
- Division of Community Supportive Services — $1,373,400 for personnel and operating costs.
- Funds payable from specific state/federal funds:
- Department on Aging Federal Indirect Cost Fund — $125,000 for administrative/programmatic grant costs.
- Services for Older Americans Fund — multiple personnel and operating appropriations and program support (sums listed across staffing, contractual services, and training).
- Department on Aging State Projects Fund — $345,000 for private partnership project administration.
- Major grant and program allocations (selected line items):
- Title III Social Services: $55,000,000 (including prior years’ costs)
- Title III C-1 (Congregate Meals): $35,000,000
- Title III C-2 (Home-Delivered Meals): $45,000,000
- Home Delivered Meals Program (Commitment to Human Services Fund): $63,300,000
- National Family Caregiver Support Program: $13,000,000
- Nutrition Services Incentive Program: $12,000,000
- Title III D Preventive Health: $4,500,000
- Title V Employment Services: $4,000,000
- Planning & Service Grants to Area Agencies on Aging: $17,590,500
- Senior Meal Programs (USDA-related), Senior Employment, Ombudsman programs, and other targeted grants received multi‑million dollar appropriations.
- Tobacco Settlement Recovery Fund — Senior Health Assistance Programs: $2,800,000
- Other smaller grants: grandparents-raising-grandchildren, rural support, Retired Senior Volunteer Program, foster grandparent/ intergenerational programs, caregiver support, etc.
Who would be affected
- Primary beneficiaries: older adults in Illinois who receive services such as congregate meals, home-delivered meals, caregiver supports, preventive health services, and long-term care ombudsman assistance.
- Service providers and intermediaries: Area Agencies on Aging, community-based organizations, senior nutrition vendors, volunteer programs (e.g., RSVP, foster grandparents), and Title III/V program contractors.
- Departmental operations: Illinois Department on Aging staffing, administration, and program oversight functions.
Procedural and timeline status
- Introduced (Illinois version) 2/25/2025 by Sen. Elgie R. Sims, Jr.
- Legislative activity in the record includes readings and committee referrals. The top metadata you supplied indicates the bill “Died In Committee” (date shown: 2025-03-04). If the bill died in committee, the appropriations it proposed were not enacted.
Potential impact
- If enacted, the bill would have maintained or increased funding for a broad set of aging services across Illinois, supporting nutrition, caregiver support, employment for seniors, ombudsman and abuse prevention programs, and administrative capacity of the Department on Aging.
- The largest impacts would be on meal programs (both congregate and home-delivered) and Title III social services, which receive tens of millions of dollars in the text.
Recommendation
- Please confirm whether you intended to summarize:
1) An Illinois FY2025 appropriation for the Department on Aging (text provided), or
2) A Mississippi bill to create the “Resident Promise Grant Program” for community college students (title/metadata).
- If you provide the correct jurisdiction or the intended bill text for the Mississippi Promise Grant, I can prepare a focused summary for that legislation.
Compiled from official sources — confirm details with the bill’s official record.
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