Public Act 0616 98TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

SB1955 Enrolled LRB098 05666 AMC 35705 b

Public Act 098-0616

AN ACT concerning State government.

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

Section 5. The Disaster Relief Act is amended by changing Section 3 as follows:

(15 ILCS 30/3) (from Ch. 127, par. 293.3)

Sec. 3. Disaster Response and Recovery Fund.

(a) Whenever funds regularly appropriated to the State and local governmental bodies for disaster response and recovery are insufficient to provide services, and when the Governor has declared a disaster by proclamation in accordance with Section 7 of the Illinois Emergency Management Agency Act or any successor Act, the Governor may draw upon the Disaster Response and Recovery Fund in order to provide services or to reimburse local governmental bodies furnishing services. The fund may be used for the payment of emergency employees, for the payment of the Illinois National Guard when called to active duty, for disaster-related expenses of State Agencies and Departments, and for the emergency purchase or renting of equipment and commodities. The fund shall be used for furnishing emergency services and relief to the disaster area as a whole and shall not be used to provide private relief to persons sustaining property damages or personal injury as a result of a disaster.

(b) As soon as practical after the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 98th General Assembly, the State Comptroller shall direct and the State Treasurer shall transfer $5,900,000 from the General Revenue Fund to the Disaster Response and Recovery Fund to meet the State's cost sharing obligations with the Federal Emergency Management Agency under the federal Assistance to Individuals and Households Program pursuant to 42 U.S.C. 5174.

(Source: P.A. 98-465, eff. 8-16-13.)

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