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1 AN ACT concerning the powers and functions of the
2 Department of Commerce and Community Affairs.
3 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
4 represented in the General Assembly:
5 Section 5. The Civil Administrative Code of Illinois is
6 amended by changing Section 46.37 as follows:
7 (20 ILCS 605/46.37) (from Ch. 127, par. 46.37)
8 Sec. 46.37. The Department shall provide for a central
9 clearing house for information concerning local government
10 problems and various solutions to those problems and shall
11 assist and aid local governments of the State in matters
12 relating to budgets, fiscal procedures and administration. In
13 performing this responsibility the Department shall have the
14 power and duty to:
15 (a) Maintain communication with all local governments
16 and assist them, at their request, to improve their
17 administrative procedures and to facilitate improved local
18 government and development;
19 (b) Assemble and disseminate information concerning
20 State and Federal programs, grants, gifts, and subsidies
21 available to local governments and to provide counsel and
22 technical services and other assistance in applying for such
23 programs, grants, gifts and subsidies;
24 (c) Assist in coordinating activities by obtaining
25 information, on forms provided by the Department or by
26 receipt of proposals and applications, concerning State and
27 Federal assisted programs, grants, gifts, and subsidies
28 applied for and received by all local governments;
29 (d) Provide direct consultative services to local
30 governments upon request and provide staff services to
31 special commissions, the Governor, the General Assembly or
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1 its committees;
2 (e) Render advice and assistance with respect to the
3 establishment and maintenance of programs for the training of
4 local government officials and other personnel, including
5 programs of intergovernmental exchange of personnel;
6 (f) To act as the official State agency for the receipt
7 and distribution of federal funds which are or may be
8 provided to the State on a flat grant basis for distribution
9 to local governments or in the event federal law requires a
10 State agency to implement programs affecting local
11 governments and for State funds which are or may be provided
12 for the use of local governments unless otherwise provided by
13 law;
14 (g) To administer such laws relating to local government
15 affairs as the General Assembly may direct;
16 (h) Provide all advice and assistance to improve local
17 government administration, to insure the economical and
18 efficient provision of local government services, and to make
19 this Act effective;
20 (i) Give advice and counsel on fiscal problems of local
21 governments of the State to such local governments;
22 (j) Prepare uniform budgetary forms for use by the local
23 governments of the State;
24 (k) Assist and advise the local governments of the State
25 in matters pertaining to budgets, appropriation requests and
26 ordinances, the determination of property tax levies and
27 rates, and other matters of a financial nature;
28 (l) Be a repository for financial reports and statements
29 required by law of local governments of the State and publish
30 financial summaries thereof;
31 (m) (Blank) At the request of local governments, provide
32 assistance in preparing bond issues, review bonding
33 proposals, and assist in marketing bonds, and provide by
34 January 1, 1985, model forms for the disclosure of all
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1 information of significance to potential purchasers of long
2 or short term debt of local governments and all information
3 required to be disclosed in connection with the sale of long
4 or short term debt by local governments;
5 (n) Prepare proposals and advise on the investment of
6 idle local government funds;
7 (o) Administer the program of grants, loans and loan
8 guarantees under the federal Public Works and Economic
9 Development Act of 1965, as amended, 42 U.S.C. 3121 et seq.,
10 and to receive and disburse State and federal funds provided
11 for that program and moneys received as repayments of loans
12 made under the program;
13 (p) After January 1, 1985, upon the request of local
14 governments, to prepare and provide model financial statement
15 forms designed to communicate to taxpayers, service
16 consumers, voters, government employees and news media, in a
17 non-technical manner, all significant financial information
18 regarding a particular local government, and to prepare and
19 provide to local governments a summary of local governments'
20 obligations concerning the adoption of an annual operating
21 budget which summary shall be set forth in a non-technical
22 manner and shall be designed principally for distribution to,
23 and the use of, taxpayers, service consumers, voters,
24 government employees and news media.
25 (Source: P.A. 83-1362.)
26 Section 10. The Center for Business Ownership Succession
27 and Employee Ownership Act is amended by changing Section 2
28 as follows:
29 (20 ILCS 609/2)
30 Sec. 2. Center for Business Ownership Succession and
31 Employee Ownership.
32 (a) There is created within the Department of Commerce
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1 and Community Affairs the Center for Business Ownership
2 Succession and Employee Ownership.
3 The purpose of the Center is to foster greater awareness
4 of the most effective techniques that facilitate business
5 ownership succession and employee ownership with an emphasis
6 on the retention and creation of job opportunities.
7 (b) The Center shall have the authority to do the
8 following:
9 (1) Develop and disseminate materials to promote
10 effective business ownership succession and employee
11 ownership strategies.
12 (2) Provide counseling to individual companies and
13 referral services to provide professional advisors expert
14 in the field of business ownership succession and
15 employee ownership.
16 (3) Plan, organize, sponsor, or conduct conferences
17 and workshops on business ownership succession and
18 employee ownership issues.
19 (4) Network and contract with local economic
20 development agencies, business organizations, and
21 professional advisors to accomplish the goals of the
22 Center.
23 (5) Raise money from private sources to support the
24 work of the Center.
25 (c) (Blank) The work of the Center shall be supported
26 and guided by an Advisory Task Force on Business Ownership
27 Succession and Employee Ownership. The Task Force shall
28 consist of individuals from the private and public sectors,
29 at least two-thirds of whom shall be from the private sector.
30 The members and the Task Force chairperson shall be chosen by
31 the Governor.
32 (Source: P.A. 89-364, eff. 8-18-95.)
33 Section 15. The Illinois Coal and Energy Development
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1 Bond Act is amended by changing Section 6 as follows:
2 (20 ILCS 1110/6) (from Ch. 96 1/2, par. 4106)
3 Sec. 6. The Department of Commerce and Community Affairs
4 is authorized to use $120,000,000 for the purposes specified
5 in this Act. These funds shall be expended only on projects
6 for which previous approval of the Illinois Energy Resources
7 Commission has been granted or for a grant to the owner of a
8 generating station located in Illinois and having at least
9 three coal-fired generating units with accredited summer
10 capacity greater than 500 megawatts each at such generating
11 station as specifically authorized by this paragraph.
12 Notwithstanding any of the other provisions of this Act, in
13 considering the approval of projects to be funded under this
14 Act, the Department of Commerce and Community Affairs and the
15 Illinois Energy Resources Commission shall give special
16 consideration to projects which are designed to remove sulfur
17 and other pollutants in the preparation and utilization of
18 coal, and in the use and operation of electric utility
19 generating plants and industrial facilities which utilize
20 Illinois coal as their primary source of fuel. The
21 Department of Commerce and Community Affairs is directed to
22 enter into a contract with the owner of a generating station
23 located in Illinois and having at least three coal-fired
24 generating units with accredited summer capability greater
25 than 500 megawatts each at such generating station for a
26 grant of $35,000,000 to be made by the State of Illinois to
27 such owner to be used to pay costs of designing, acquiring,
28 constructing, installing and testing facilities to reduce
29 sulfur dioxide emissions at one such generating unit to allow
30 that unit to meet the requirements of the Federal Clean Air
31 Act Amendments of 1990 (P.L. 101-549) while continuing to use
32 coal mined in Illinois as its source of fuel.
33 (Source: P.A. 89-445, eff. 2-7-96.)
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1 Section 20. The Recycled Newsprint Use Act is amended by
2 changing Section 2004 as follows:
3 (415 ILCS 110/2004) (from Ch. 96 1/2, par. 9754)
4 Sec. 2004. Consumer usage certification. Each consumer
5 of newsprint within the State shall, on or before March 1 of
6 each year, certify to the Department the amount in tons of
7 every type of newsprint used by the consumer of newsprint the
8 previous year and the percentage of recycled fibers present
9 in each type of newsprint, so that the Department can
10 calculate the recycled fiber usage for that consumer of
11 newsprint. All Illinois consumers of newsprint shall submit
12 the first consumer usage certificate by March 1, 1992, for
13 the calendar year 1991. The Department shall submit to the
14 General Assembly a report compiling the data contained in the
15 consumer usage certificates no later than May 1 of each year.
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