This Community Guide will describe how Illinois is spending its opioid settlements and whether Illinois is working to ensure community access to opioid settlement funds. Last updated September 1, 2024
This Community Guide will describe how Illinois is spending its opioid settlements and whether Illinois is working to ensure community access to opioid settlement funds. Last revised September 1, 2024.
Ultimate Decisionmaker
Local officials for counties, cities, and other municipalities
The “state” (not further specified)
Decision-making Process
The provides recommendations to the Governor’s Opioid Overdose Prevention and Recovery Steering Committee, whose final spending decisions are then administered by the .
Localities decide autonomously
“State” decides (not further specified)
Supplantation
Not prohibited
Not prohibited
Not prohibited
Grant Funding
Yes. See the Illinois Regional Care Coordination Agency’s page (Illinois Opioids Settlements Initiative).
Up to each locality (availability and processes will vary)
No
Public Input
Yes (public comment required at Advisory Board and Steering Committee meetings)
Generally, yes (public comments required at public meetings)
No opportunities available (not required)
Advisory Body
Yes (required). See details on the and the .
The Steering Committee, unlike the Advisory Board, is required to include member(s) with lived and/or living experience.
Up to each locality (not required)
No (not required)
Expenditures
Neither public nor intrastate reporting required, but see approved recommendations on the Illinois Opioid Settlements Initiative’s page
No public reporting required (only some intrastate)
No public reporting required (only some intrastate)
Updates
For updates on the Remediation Fund share, visit the , , and websites, and sign up for email updates from the Regional Care Coordination Agency .
To find updates on the local share, a good starting point is to check the websites for your county commission, city council, or local health department. See also ’s page.
For updates on the state share, visit the ’s page.
$1.32 billion[1]
[1] Total is rounded. See The Official Opioid Settlement Tracker Tally. Accessed September 1, 2024.
55% to the Illinois Opioid Remediation Trust Fund, 25- 33% to local governments, and 12-20% to the state
State-Local Agreement (Illinois Opioid Allocation Agreement, Agreement Relating to the Distributor and J&J Opioid Settlements); Legislation (30 Ill. Comp. Stat. Ann. 105/6Z-133); Executive Orders (Executive Order 2020-02 and Executive Order 2022-19)