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Public Act 91-0664

HB1766 Re-Enrolled                            LRB9104017NTsbA

    AN ACT concerning community college foundations, amending
named Acts.

    Be it enacted by the People of  the  State  of  Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:

    Section  5.  The  State  Finance Act is amended by adding
Section 5.490 as follows:

    (30 ILCS 105/5.490 new)
    Sec. 5.490.  The  Academic  Improvement  Trust  Fund  for
Community College Foundations.

    Section  10.  The Public Community College Act is amended
by adding Section 2-16.04 as follows:

    (110 ILCS 805/2-16.04 new)
    Sec. 2-16.04.  The Academic Improvement  Trust  Fund  for
Community College Foundations.
    (a)  The  Academic  Improvement  Trust Fund for Community
College Foundations is created in  the  State  treasury.  All
moneys transferred, credited, deposited, or otherwise paid to
the  Fund  as  provided  in  this  Section  shall be promptly
invested by the State Treasurer in accordance with  law,  and
all  interest and other earnings accruing or received thereon
shall be credited and paid to the Fund. No moneys,  interest,
or  earnings  transferred,  credited, deposited, or otherwise
paid to the Academic Improvement  Trust  Fund  for  Community
College  Foundations shall be transferred or allocated by the
Comptroller or Treasurer to any other  fund,  nor  shall  the
Governor authorize any such transfer or allocation, nor shall
any  moneys,  interest,  or  earnings  transferred, credited,
deposited, or otherwise paid to the Fund be used, temporarily
or otherwise, for interfund borrowing, or be  otherwise  used
or  appropriated,  except  to  encourage  private  support in
enhancing  community   college   foundations   by   providing
community college foundations with the opportunity to receive
and match challenge grants as provided in this Section.
    (b)  On the first day of fiscal year 2000 and each fiscal
year thereafter, or as soon thereafter as may be practicable,
the  Comptroller  shall  order the transfer and the Treasurer
shall transfer from the General Revenue Fund to the  Academic
Improvement  Trust Fund for Community College Foundations the
amount of the fiscal year appropriation  made  to  the  State
Board  for  making  challenge  grants  to  community  college
foundations as provided in this Section.
    (c)  For  each  fiscal year in which an appropriation and
transfer are made  as  provided  in  subsection  (b),  moneys
sufficient  to provide each community college foundation with
the opportunity to match at least one $25,000 challenge grant
shall be reserved from moneys  in  the  Academic  Improvement
Trust Fund for Community College Foundations, and the balance
of  the moneys in the Fund shall be available for matching by
any community college  foundation.  Moneys  in  the  Academic
Improvement Trust Fund for Community College Foundations that
remain  unmatched by contribution or pledge on April 1 of the
fiscal year in which an appropriation and transfer  are  made
as  provided  in  subsection  (b) shall also be available for
matching by any community college foundation, along with  any
interest or earnings accruing to the unmatched portion of the
Fund.  If  for  any fiscal year in which an appropriation and
transfer are made as provided in subsection (b) there are not
sufficient moneys which  may  be  reserved  in  the  Academic
Improvement  Trust  Fund for Community College Foundations to
provide  each   community   college   foundation   with   the
opportunity  to  match  at least one $25,000 challenge grant,
the amount of the challenge grant that each community college
foundation shall have the opportunity to match for the fiscal
year shall be reduced from $25,000 to an amount equal to  the
result  obtained  when the total of all moneys, interest, and
earnings in the Fund immediately following the  appropriation
and  transfer  made  for  the  fiscal  year is divided by the
number of community college foundations then existing in this
State.  The State Board shall  promulgate  rules  prescribing
the  form  and  content  of  applications  made  by community
college foundations for challenge grants under this Section.
These rules shall provide all community  college  foundations
with  an  opportunity  to  apply  for  challenge grants to be
awarded from any moneys in  the  Academic  Improvement  Trust
Fund  for  Community  College  Foundations  in  excess of the
moneys required to be reserved in the Fund for the purpose of
providing  each  community  college   foundation   with   the
opportunity  to  match  at least one $25,000 challenge grant;
and the opportunity to  apply  for  challenge  grants  to  be
awarded  from  the  excess  moneys  shall  be afforded to all
community college foundations prior to awarding any challenge
grants  from  the  excess  moneys.   No   community   college
foundation  shall  receive  more  than  $100,000 in challenge
grants awarded from the excess moneys.
    (d)  Challenge grants shall be proportionately  allocated
from  the  Academic  Improvement  Trust  Fund  for  Community
College Foundations on the basis of matching each $2 of State
funds  with $3 of local funds.  The matching funds shall come
from contributions made after July 1, 1999, which are pledged
for  the  purpose  of  matching  challenge  grants.   To   be
eligible,  a  minimum  of $10,000 must be raised from private
sources, and the contributions must be in excess of the total
average annual cash contributions made to the  foundation  at
each  community college district in the 3 fiscal years before
July 1, 1999.
    (e)  Funds sufficient to provide the match shall be paid,
subject to appropriation, from the Academic Improvement Trust
Fund for  Community  College  Foundations  to  the  community
college foundation in increments of $5,000, after the initial
$10,000  is  matched  and released, and upon certification to
the Comptroller by  the  State  Board  that  a  proportionate
amount  has  been  received  and  deposited  by the community
college foundation  in  its  own  trust  fund.   However,  no
community  college foundation may receive more than $100,000,
above the original allocation, from the Academic  Improvement
Trust  Fund  for  Community College Foundations in any fiscal
year.
    (f)  The State Board shall certify, prepare,  and  submit
to  the Comptroller vouchers setting forth the amount of each
challenge grant from  time  to  time  to  be  proportionately
allocated  in  accordance with this Section from the Academic
Improvement Trust Fund for Community College  Foundations  to
the  community  college  foundation  entitled  to receive the
challenge grant, and the Comptroller shall cause his  or  her
warrants  to be drawn for the respective amounts due, payable
from the Fund to the foundation.
    (g)  The board of each community college foundation shall
establish an academic improvement trust fund  as a depository
for the private contributions and challenge grants  allocated
to  any  such  community college foundation from the Academic
Improvement Trust Fund  for  Community  College  Foundations.
Each  community  college  foundation  is  responsible for the
maintenance, investment, and administration of  its  academic
improvement trust fund.
    (h)  The  board  of  the  community college foundation is
responsible for determining the uses for the proceeds of  the
academic  improvement  trust fund established.  Such uses may
include:
         (1)  scientific and technical equipment;
         (2)  professional  development  and   training   for
    faculty; and
         (3)  student   scholarships   and  other  activities
    appropriate to improving the quality of education at  the
    community college.
    (i)  The State Board may promulgate such additional rules
as  are  required  to provide for the efficient operation and
administration of the challenge grant program established  by
this Section.

    Section  99.  Effective date.  This Act takes effect upon
becoming a law.

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