Public Act 093-1054
 		





HB7029 Enrolled
LRB093 19876 AMC 45619 b






    AN ACT concerning nursing.

 
    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 changing 
Section 8h as follows:
 
    (30 ILCS 105/8h)


    Sec. 8h. Transfers to General Revenue Fund.  
Notwithstanding any other
State law to the contrary, the 
Director of the
Governor's Office of Management and Budget

may 
from time to time direct the State Treasurer and Comptroller to 
transfer
a specified sum from any fund held by the State 
Treasurer to the General
Revenue Fund in order to help defray 
the State's operating costs for the
fiscal year.  The total 
transfer under this Section from any fund in any
fiscal year 
shall not exceed the lesser of 8% of the revenues to be 
deposited
into the fund during that year or 25% of the 
beginning balance in the fund.
No transfer may be made from a 
fund under this Section that would have the
effect of reducing 
the available balance in the fund to an amount less than
the 
amount remaining unexpended and unreserved from the total 
appropriation
from that fund for that fiscal year.  This Section 
does not apply to any
funds that are restricted by federal law 
to a specific use,
or to any funds in
the Motor Fuel Tax Fund or 
the Hospital Provider Fund, or to any
funds to which subsection 
(f) of Section 20-40 of the Nursing and Advanced Practice 
Nursing Act applies.  Notwithstanding any
other provision of 
this Section,
the total transfer under this Section from the 
Road Fund or the State
Construction Account Fund shall not 
exceed 5% of the revenues to be deposited
into the fund during 
that year.


    In determining the available balance in a fund, the 
Director of the
Governor's Office of Management and Budget

may 
include receipts, transfers into the fund, and other
resources 
anticipated to be available in the fund in that fiscal year.


    The State Treasurer and Comptroller shall transfer the 
amounts designated
under this Section as soon as may be 
practicable after receiving the direction
to transfer from the 
Director of the Governor's Office of Management and
Budget.


(Source: P.A. 93-32, eff. 6-20-03; 93-659, eff. 2-3-04.)



 
    Section 10. The Nursing and Advanced Practice Nursing Act 
is amended  by changing Section 20-40 as follows:
 



    (225 ILCS 65/20-40)



    (Section scheduled to be repealed on January 1, 2008)

    Sec. 20-40. Fund. There is hereby created within the State 
Treasury the
Nursing Dedicated and Professional Fund.  The 
monies in the Fund may be
used by and at the direction of the 
Department for the administration and
enforcement of this Act, 
including but not limited to:


        (a) Distribution and publication of the Nursing and 
    Advanced Practice
Nursing Act and the rules at the time of 
    renewal to all persons licensed by
the Department under 
    this Act.


        (b) Employment of secretarial, nursing, 
    administrative, enforcement, and
other staff for the 
    administration of this Act.


        (c) Conducting a survey, as prescribed by rule of the 
    Department, once
every 4 years during the license renewal 
    period.


        (d) Conducting of training seminars for licensees 
    under this Act relating
to the obligations, 
    responsibilities, enforcement and other provisions of
the 
    Act and its rules.


        (e) Disposition of Fees:


            (i) (Blank).


            (ii) All of the fees and fines collected pursuant 
        to
this Act shall be deposited in the Nursing Dedicated 
        and Professional Fund.


            (iii) For the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1988, 
        the moneys deposited
in the Nursing Dedicated and 
        Professional Fund shall be appropriated to the

        Department for expenses of the Department and the Board 
        in the
administration of this Act.  All earnings 
        received from investment of
moneys in the Nursing 
        Dedicated and Professional Fund shall be
deposited in 
        the Nursing Dedicated and Professional Fund and shall 
        be used
for the same purposes as fees deposited in the 
        Fund.


            (iv) For the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2004

        2001 and for
each fiscal
year thereafter, $1,200,000

        $750,000 of the moneys deposited in the
Nursing 
        Dedicated
and Professional Fund each year shall be set 
        aside and appropriated to the
Illinois
Department of 
        Public Health for nursing scholarships awarded 
        pursuant to
the Nursing Education Scholarship Law.

        Representatives
of the Department and the Nursing 
        Education Scholarship Program Advisory
Council shall 
        review this requirement and
the scholarship awards 
        every 2 years.


            (v) Moneys in the Fund may be transferred to the 
        Professions
Indirect Cost Fund as authorized under 
        Section 2105-300 of the
Department of Professional 
        Regulation Law (20 ILCS 2105/2105-300).

    (f) Moneys set aside for nursing scholarships awarded 
pursuant to
the Nursing Education Scholarship Law as provided 
in item (iv) of subsection (e) of this Section may not be 
transferred under Section 8h of the State Finance Act.

(Source: P.A. 91-239, 1-1-00; 92-46, eff. 7-1-01.)

 

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