Public Act 096-0739
 
SB2172 Enrolled LRB096 07795 RCE 17897 b

    AN ACT concerning State government.
 
    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
 
    Section 5. The Department of Commerce and Economic
Opportunity Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois is
amended by changing Sections 605-25, 605-550, 605-675, and
605-810 and by adding Section 605-725 as follows:
 
    (20 ILCS 605/605-25)  (was 20 ILCS 605/46.30a)
    Sec. 605-25. Charges, gifts, and grants for promotional
products and services; International and Promotional Fund.
    (a) To establish, levy, and collect fees and charges and
accept gifts, grants, and awards from other governmental
entities, for profit organizations, and nonprofit associations
in association with or as consideration for the provision of
various promotional products and services through its tourism,
films production promotion, and international business
promotion programs. The Director may establish and collect
nominal charges for premiums and other promotional materials
produced or acquired as part of the Department's activities
authorized under the Illinois Promotion Act from individuals
and not-for-profit organizations intending to use those
premiums and promotional materials for purposes consistent
with the provisions of the Illinois Promotion Act, provided,
however, that other State agencies shall be charged no more
than the cost of the premium or promotional material to the
Department.
    (b) The Director may collect cost reimbursement monies from
films and media production entities for police and related
production security services in amounts determined by the
provider of the security services and agreed to by the
production entity. The reimbursements shall result only from
the agreed costs of planned police and security services to be
rendered to film and media production sites in the State of
Illinois.
    (c) The Director may establish and collect cost-sharing
assessments and fees and accept gifts, grants, and awards from
private businesses, trade associations, other governmental
entities, and individuals desiring to participate in and
support the development and conduct of overseas trade, catalog,
and distributor shows and activities and to purchase
informational materials to foster export sales of Illinois
products and services as part of the Department's international
business programs.
    (d) All money received pursuant to this Section, except as
provided in subsection (e), shall be deposited into the
International and Promotional Fund within the State treasury
which is hereby created; monies within the Fund shall be
appropriated only for expenditure pursuant to this Section.
    (e) The Department may contract with a vendor for the
production of a tourism travel guide. The Department may allow
the vendor to sell and collect sales revenues, including
in-kind exchanges, for advertisements placed in the travel
guide. The Department may allow the vendor to retain any sales
revenues it collects as its fee and to cover the costs of
producing the travel guide. Any revenue due to the Department,
after the vendor retains its share, shall be deposited into the
International and Promotional Fund.
(Source: P.A. 90-26, eff. 7-1-97; 91-239, eff. 1-1-00.)
 
    (20 ILCS 605/605-550)  (was 20 ILCS 605/46.71)
    Sec. 605-550. Model domestic violence and sexual assault
employee awareness and assistance policy.
    (a) The Department shall convene a task force including
members of the business community, employees, employee
organizations, representatives from the Department of Labor,
and directors of domestic violence and sexual assault programs,
including representatives of statewide advocacy organizations
for the prevention of domestic violence and sexual assault, to
develop a model domestic violence and sexual assault employee
awareness and assistance policy for businesses.
    The Department shall give due consideration to the
recommendations of the Governor, the President of the Senate,
and the Speaker of the House of Representatives for
participation by any person on the task force, and shall make
reasonable efforts to assure regional balance in membership.
    (b) The purpose of the model employee awareness and
assistance policy shall be to provide businesses with the best
practices, policies, protocols, and procedures in order that
they ascertain domestic violence and sexual assault awareness
in the workplace, assist affected employees, and provide a safe
and helpful working environment for employees currently or
potentially experiencing the effects of domestic violence or
sexual assault. The model plan shall include but not be limited
to:
        (1) the establishment of a definite corporate policy
    statement recognizing domestic violence and sexual assault
    as workplace issues as well as promoting the need to
    maintain job security for those employees currently
    involved in domestic violence or sexual assault disputes;
        (2) policy and service publication requirements,
    including posting these policies and service availability
    pamphlets in break rooms, on bulletin boards, and in
    restrooms, and transmitting them through other
    communication methods;
        (3) a listing of current domestic violence and sexual
    assault community resources such as shelters, crisis
    intervention programs, counseling and case management
    programs, and legal assistance and advocacy opportunities
    for affected employees;
        (4) measures to ensure workplace safety including,
    where appropriate, designated parking areas, escort
    services, and other affirmative safeguards;
        (5) training programs and protocols designed to
    educate employees and managers in how to recognize,
    approach, and assist employees experiencing domestic
    violence or sexual assault, including both victims and
    batterers; and
        (6) other issues as shall be appropriate and relevant
    for the task force in developing the model policy.
    (c) The model policy shall be reviewed by the task force to
assure consistency with existing law and shall be made the
subject of public hearings convened by the Department
throughout the State at places and at times which are
convenient for attendance by the public, after which the policy
shall be reviewed by the task force and amended as necessary to
reflect concerns raised at the hearings. If approved by the
task force, the model policy shall be provided as approved with
explanation of its provisions to the Governor and the General
Assembly not later than one year after the effective date of
this amendatory Act of the 91st General Assembly. The
Department shall make every effort to notify businesses of the
availability of the model domestic violence and sexual assault
employee awareness and assistance policy.
    (d) The Department, in consultation with the task force,
providers of services, the advisory council, the Department of
Labor, and representatives of statewide advocacy organizations
for the prevention of domestic violence and sexual assault,
shall provide technical support, information, and
encouragement to businesses to implement the provisions of the
model.
    (e) Nothing contained in this Section shall be deemed to
prevent businesses from adopting their own domestic violence
and sexual assault employee awareness and assistance policy.
    (f) The Department may shall survey businesses within 4
years of the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 91st
General Assembly to determine the level of model policy
adoption amongst businesses and shall take steps necessary to
promote the further adoption of such policy.
(Source: P.A. 91-592, eff. 8-14-99; 92-16, eff. 6-28-01.)
 
    (20 ILCS 605/605-675)  (was 20 ILCS 605/46.66)
    Sec. 605-675. Exporter award program. The Department may
shall establish and operate, in cooperation with the Department
of Agriculture and the Illinois Finance Authority, an annual
awards program to recognize Illinois-based exporters. In
developing criteria for the awards, the Department shall give
consideration to the exporting efforts of small and medium
sized businesses, first-time exporters, and other appropriate
categories.
(Source: P.A. 93-205, eff. 1-1-04.)
 
    (20 ILCS 605/605-725 new)
    Sec. 605-725. Incentive grants for the Metropolitan Pier
and Exposition Authority. The Department and the Metropolitan
Pier and Exposition Authority may enter into grant agreements
to reimburse the Authority for incentives awarded by the
Authority to attract large conventions, meetings, and trade
shows to its facilities. The Department may reimburse the
Authority only for incentives provided in consultation with the
Chicago Convention and Tourism Bureau for conventions,
meetings, or trade shows that (i) the Authority certifies have
registered attendance in excess of 10,000 individuals, (ii) but
for the incentive, would not have used the facilities of the
Authority, (iii) have been approved by the Chief Executive
Officer of the Authority and the Chairman of the Authority at
the time of the incentive, and (iv) have been approved by the
Department. Reimbursements shall be made from amounts
appropriated to the Department from the Metropolitan Pier and
Exposition Authority Incentive Fund for those purposes.
Reimbursements shall not exceed $10,000,000 annually.
    No later than February 15 of each year, the Chairman of the
Metropolitan Pier and Exposition Authority shall certify to the
Department, the State Comptroller, and the State Treasurer the
amounts provided during the previous calendar year as
incentives for conventions, meetings, or trade shows that (i)
have been approved by the Authority and the Department, (ii)
demonstrate registered attendance in excess of 10,000
individuals, and (iii) but for the incentive, would not have
used the facilities of the Authority for the convention,
meeting, or trade show. The Department may audit the accuracy
of the certification.
 
    (20 ILCS 605/605-810)  (was 20 ILCS 605/46.19a in part)
    Sec. 605-810. Reemployment of former employees. When the
Department is involved in developing a federal or State funded
training or retraining program for any employer, the Department
may will assist and encourage that employer in making every
effort to reemploy individuals previously employed at the
facility. Further, the Department may will provide a list of
those employees to the employer for consideration for
reemployment and will report the results of this effort to the
Illinois Job Training Coordinating Council. This requirement
shall be in effect when all of the following conditions are
met:
        (1) The employer is reopening, or is proposing to
    reopen, a facility that was last closed during the
    preceding 2 years.
        (2) A substantial number of the persons who were
    employed at the facility before its most recent closure
    remain unemployed.
        (3) The product or service produced by, or proposed to
    be produced by, the employer at the facility is
    substantially similar to the product or service produced at
    the facility before its most recent closure.
(Source: P.A. 90-454, eff. 8-16-97; 91-239, eff. 1-1-00.)
 
    Section 10. The Energy Conservation and Coal Development
Act is amended by changing Section 8 as follows:
 
    (20 ILCS 1105/8)  (from Ch. 96 1/2, par. 7408)
    Sec. 8. Illinois Coal Development Board.
    (a) There may shall be established as an advisory board to
the Department, the Illinois Coal Development Board,
hereinafter in this Section called the Board. The Board shall
be composed of the following voting members: the Director of
the Department, who shall be Chairman thereof; the Deputy
Director of the Bureau of Business Development within the
Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity; the President
of the University of Illinois or his or her designee; the
Director of Natural Resources or that Director's designee; the
Director of the Office of Mines and Minerals within the
Department of Natural Resources; 4 members of the General
Assembly (one each appointed by the President of the Senate,
the Senate Minority Leader, the Speaker of the House, and the
House Minority Leader); and 8 persons appointed by the
Governor, with the advice and consent of the Senate, including
representatives of Illinois industries that are involved in the
extraction, utilization or transportation of Illinois coal,
persons representing financial or banking interests in the
State, and persons experienced in international business and
economic development. These members shall be chosen from
persons of recognized ability and experience in their
designated field. The members appointed by the Governor shall
serve for terms of 4 years, unless otherwise provided in this
subsection. The initial terms of the original appointees shall
expire on July 1, 1985, except that the Governor shall
designate 3 of the original appointees to serve initial terms
that shall expire on July 1, 1983. The initial term of the
member appointed by the Governor to fill the office created
after July 1, 1985 shall expire on July 1, 1989. The initial
terms of the members appointed by the Governor to fill the
offices created by this amendatory Act of 1993 shall expire on
July 1, 1995, and July 1, 1997, as determined by the Governor.
A member appointed by a Legislative Leader shall serve for the
duration of the General Assembly for which he or she is
appointed, so long as the member remains a member of that
General Assembly.
    The Board may shall meet at least annually or at the call
of the Chairman. At any time the majority of the Board may
petition the Chairman for a meeting of the Board. Nine members
of the Board shall constitute a quorum. Members of the Board
shall be reimbursed for actual and necessary expenses incurred
while performing their duties as members of the Board from
funds appropriated to the Department for such purpose.
    (b) The Board shall provide advice and make recommendations
on the following Department powers and duties:
        (1) To develop an annual agenda which may include but
    is not limited to research and methodologies conducted for
    the purpose of increasing the utilization of Illinois' coal
    and other fossil fuel resources, with emphasis on high
    sulfur coal, in the following areas: coal extraction,
    preparation and characterization; coal technologies
    (combustion, gasification, liquefaction, and related
    processes); marketing; public awareness and education, as
    those terms are used in the Illinois Coal Technology
    Development Assistance Act; transportation; procurement of
    sites and issuance of permits; and environmental impacts.
        (2) To support and coordinate Illinois coal research,
    and to approve projects consistent with the annual agenda
    and budget for coal research and the purposes of this Act
    and to approve the annual budget and operating plan for
    administration of the Board.
        (3) To promote the coordination of available research
    information on the production, preparation, distribution
    and uses of Illinois coal. The Board shall advise the
    existing research institutions within the State on areas
    where research may be necessary.
        (4) To cooperate to the fullest extent possible with
    State and federal agencies and departments, independent
    organizations, and other interested groups, public and
    private, for the purposes of promoting Illinois coal
    resources.
        (5) To submit an annual report to the Governor and the
    General Assembly outlining the progress and
    accomplishments made in the year, providing an accounting
    of funds received and disbursed, reviewing the status of
    research contracts, and furnishing other relevant
    information.
        (6) To focus on existing coal research efforts in
    carrying out its mission; to make use of existing research
    facilities in Illinois or other institutions carrying out
    research on Illinois coal; as far as practicable, to make
    maximum use of the research facilities available at the
    Illinois State Geological Survey of the University of
    Illinois, the Coal Extraction and Utilization Research
    Center, the Illinois Coal Development Park and
    universities and colleges located within the State of
    Illinois; and to create a consortium or center which
    conducts, coordinates and supports coal research
    activities in the State of Illinois. Programmatic
    activities of such a consortium or center shall be subject
    to approval by the Department and shall be consistent with
    the purposes of this Act. The Department may authorize
    expenditure of funds in support of the administrative and
    programmatic operations of such a center or consortium
    consistent with its statutory authority. Administrative
    actions undertaken by or for such a center or consortium
    shall be subject to the approval of the Department.
        (7) To make a reasonable attempt, before initiating any
    research under this Act, to avoid duplication of effort and
    expense by coordinating the research efforts among various
    agencies, departments, universities or organizations, as
    the case may be.
        (8) To adopt, amend and repeal rules, regulations and
    bylaws governing the Board's organization and conduct of
    business.
        (9) To authorize the expenditure of monies from the
    Coal Technology Development Assistance Fund, the Public
    Utility Fund and other funds in the State Treasury
    appropriated to the Department, consistent with the
    purposes of this Act.
        (10) To seek, accept, and expend gifts or grants in any
    form, from any public agency or from any other source. Such
    gifts and grants may be held in trust by the Department and
    expended at the direction of the Department and in the
    exercise of the Department's powers and performance of the
    Department's duties.
        (11) To publish, from time to time, the results of
    Illinois coal research projects funded through the
    Department.
        (12) To authorize loans from appropriations from the
    Build Illinois Bond Purposes Fund, the Build Illinois Bond
    Fund and the Illinois Industrial Coal Utilization Fund.
        (13) To authorize expenditures of monies for coal
    development projects under the authority of Section 13 of
    the General Obligation Bond Act.
    (c) The Board shall also provide advice and make
recommendations on the following Department powers and duties:
        (1) To create and maintain thorough, current and
    accurate records on all markets for and actual uses of coal
    mined in Illinois, and to make such records available to
    the public upon request.
        (2) To identify all current and anticipated future
    technical, economic, institutional, market, environmental,
    regulatory and other impediments to the utilization of
    Illinois coal.
        (3) To monitor and evaluate all proposals and plans of
    public utilities related to compliance with the
    requirements of Title IV of the federal Clean Air Act
    Amendments of 1990, or with any other law which might
    affect the use of Illinois coal, for the purposes of (i)
    determining the effects of such proposals or plans on the
    use of Illinois coal, and (ii) identifying alternative
    plans or actions which would maintain or increase the use
    of Illinois coal.
        (4) To develop strategies and to propose policies to
    promote environmentally responsible uses of Illinois coal
    for meeting electric power supply requirements and for
    other purposes.
        (5) (Blank).
(Source: P.A. 94-793, eff. 5-19-06; 95-728, eff. date - See
Sec. 999.)
 
    Section 15. The State Finance Act is amended by adding
Section 5.723 as follows:
 
    (30 ILCS 105/5.723 new)
    Sec. 5.723. The Metropolitan Pier and Exposition Authority
Incentive Fund.
 
    Section 20. The Metropolitan Pier and Exposition Authority
Act is amended by changing Section 5 as follows:
 
    (70 ILCS 210/5)  (from Ch. 85, par. 1225)
    Sec. 5. The Metropolitan Pier and Exposition Authority
shall also have the following rights and powers:
        (a) To accept from Chicago Park Fair, a corporation, an
    assignment of whatever sums of money it may have received
    from the Fair and Exposition Fund, allocated by the
    Department of Agriculture of the State of Illinois, and
    Chicago Park Fair is hereby authorized to assign, set over
    and transfer any of those funds to the Metropolitan Pier
    and Exposition Authority. The Authority has the right and
    power hereafter to receive sums as may be distributed to it
    by the Department of Agriculture of the State of Illinois
    from the Fair and Exposition Fund pursuant to the
    provisions of Sections 5, 6i, and 28 of the State Finance
    Act. All sums received by the Authority shall be held in
    the sole custody of the secretary-treasurer of the
    Metropolitan Pier and Exposition Board.
        (b) To accept the assignment of, assume and execute any
    contracts heretofore entered into by Chicago Park Fair.
        (c) To acquire, own, construct, equip, lease, operate
    and maintain grounds, buildings and facilities to carry out
    its corporate purposes and duties, and to carry out or
    otherwise provide for the recreational, cultural,
    commercial or residential development of Navy Pier, and to
    fix and collect just, reasonable and nondiscriminatory
    charges for the use thereof. The charges so collected shall
    be made available to defray the reasonable expenses of the
    Authority and to pay the principal of and the interest upon
    any revenue bonds issued by the Authority. The Authority
    shall be subject to and comply with the Lake Michigan and
    Chicago Lakefront Protection Ordinance, the Chicago
    Building Code, the Chicago Zoning Ordinance, and all
    ordinances and regulations of the City of Chicago contained
    in the following Titles of the Municipal Code of Chicago:
    Businesses, Occupations and Consumer Protection; Health
    and Safety; Fire Prevention; Public Peace, Morals and
    Welfare; Utilities and Environmental Protection; Streets,
    Public Ways, Parks, Airports and Harbors; Electrical
    Equipment and Installation; Housing and Economic
    Development (only Chapter 5-4 thereof); and Revenue and
    Finance (only so far as such Title pertains to the
    Authority's duty to collect taxes on behalf of the City of
    Chicago).
        (d) To enter into contracts treating in any manner with
    the objects and purposes of this Act.
        (e) To lease any buildings to the Adjutant General of
    the State of Illinois for the use of the Illinois National
    Guard or the Illinois Naval Militia.
        (f) To exercise the right of eminent domain by
    condemnation proceedings in the manner provided by the
    Eminent Domain Act, including, with respect to Site B only,
    the authority to exercise quick take condemnation by
    immediate vesting of title under Article 20 of the Eminent
    Domain Act, to acquire any privately owned real or personal
    property and, with respect to Site B only, public property
    used for rail transportation purposes (but no such taking
    of such public property shall, in the reasonable judgment
    of the owner, interfere with such rail transportation) for
    the lawful purposes of the Authority in Site A, at Navy
    Pier, and at Site B. Just compensation for property taken
    or acquired under this paragraph shall be paid in money or,
    notwithstanding any other provision of this Act and with
    the agreement of the owner of the property to be taken or
    acquired, the Authority may convey substitute property or
    interests in property or enter into agreements with the
    property owner, including leases, licenses, or
    concessions, with respect to any property owned by the
    Authority, or may provide for other lawful forms of just
    compensation to the owner. Any property acquired in
    condemnation proceedings shall be used only as provided in
    this Act. Except as otherwise provided by law, the City of
    Chicago shall have a right of first refusal prior to any
    sale of any such property by the Authority to a third party
    other than substitute property. The Authority shall
    develop and implement a relocation plan for businesses
    displaced as a result of the Authority's acquisition of
    property. The relocation plan shall be substantially
    similar to provisions of the Uniform Relocation Assistance
    and Real Property Acquisition Act and regulations
    promulgated under that Act relating to assistance to
    displaced businesses. To implement the relocation plan the
    Authority may acquire property by purchase or gift or may
    exercise the powers authorized in this subsection (f),
    except the immediate vesting of title under Article 20 of
    the Eminent Domain Act, to acquire substitute private
    property within one mile of Site B for the benefit of
    displaced businesses located on property being acquired by
    the Authority. However, no such substitute property may be
    acquired by the Authority unless the mayor of the
    municipality in which the property is located certifies in
    writing that the acquisition is consistent with the
    municipality's land use and economic development policies
    and goals. The acquisition of substitute property is
    declared to be for public use. In exercising the powers
    authorized in this subsection (f), the Authority shall use
    its best efforts to relocate businesses within the area of
    McCormick Place or, failing that, within the City of
    Chicago.
        (g) To enter into contracts relating to construction
    projects which provide for the delivery by the contractor
    of a completed project, structure, improvement, or
    specific portion thereof, for a fixed maximum price, which
    contract may provide that the delivery of the project,
    structure, improvement, or specific portion thereof, for
    the fixed maximum price is insured or guaranteed by a third
    party capable of completing the construction.
        (h) To enter into agreements with any person with
    respect to the use and occupancy of the grounds, buildings,
    and facilities of the Authority, including concession,
    license, and lease agreements on terms and conditions as
    the Authority determines. Notwithstanding Section 24,
    agreements with respect to the use and occupancy of the
    grounds, buildings, and facilities of the Authority for a
    term of more than one year shall be entered into in
    accordance with the procurement process provided for in
    Section 25.1.
        (i) To enter into agreements with any person with
    respect to the operation and management of the grounds,
    buildings, and facilities of the Authority or the provision
    of goods and services on terms and conditions as the
    Authority determines.
        (j) After conducting the procurement process provided
    for in Section 25.1, to enter into one or more contracts to
    provide for the design and construction of all or part of
    the Authority's Expansion Project grounds, buildings, and
    facilities. Any contract for design and construction of the
    Expansion Project shall be in the form authorized by
    subsection (g), shall be for a fixed maximum price not in
    excess of the funds that are authorized to be made
    available for those purposes during the term of the
    contract, and shall be entered into before commencement of
    construction.
        (k) To enter into agreements, including project
    agreements with labor unions, that the Authority deems
    necessary to complete the Expansion Project or any other
    construction or improvement project in the most timely and
    efficient manner and without strikes, picketing, or other
    actions that might cause disruption or delay and thereby
    add to the cost of the project.
        (l) To provide incentives to organizations and
    entities that agree to make use of the grounds, buildings,
    and facilities of the Authority for conventions, meetings,
    or trade shows. The incentives may take the form of
    discounts from regular fees charged by the Authority,
    subsidies for or assumption of the costs incurred with
    respect to the convention, meeting, or trade show, or other
    inducements. The Authority shall be reimbursed by the
    Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity for
    incentives that qualify under the provisions of Section
    605-725 of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois.
        No later than February 15 of each year, the Chairman of
    the Metropolitan Pier and Exposition Authority shall
    certify to the Department of Commerce and Economic
    Opportunity, the State Comptroller, and the State
    Treasurer the amounts provided during the previous
    calendar year as incentives for conventions, meetings, or
    trade shows that (i) have been approved by the Authority
    and the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity,
    (ii) demonstrate registered attendance in excess of 10,000
    individuals, and (iii) but for the incentive, would not
    have used the facilities of the Authority for the
    convention, meeting, or trade show. The Department of
    Commerce and Economic Opportunity may audit the accuracy of
    the certification. Subject to appropriation, on July 15 of
    each year the Comptroller shall order transferred and the
    Treasurer shall transfer into the Metropolitan Pier and
    Exposition Authority Incentive Fund from the General
    Revenue Fund the lesser of the amount certified by the
    Chairman or $10,000,000. No later than 30 days after the
    transfer, amounts in the Fund shall be paid by the
    Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity to the
    Authority to reimburse the Authority for incentives paid to
    attract large conventions, meetings, and trade shows to its
    facilities in the previous calendar year as provided in
    Section 605-725 of the Civil Administrative Code of
    Illinois. Provided that all amounts certified by the
    Authority have been paid, on the last day of each fiscal
    year moneys remaining in the Fund shall be transferred to
    the General Revenue Fund.
     Nothing in this Act shall be construed to authorize the
Authority to spend the proceeds of any bonds or notes issued
under Section 13.2 or any taxes levied under Section 13 to
construct a stadium to be leased to or used by professional
sports teams.
(Source: P.A. 94-1055, eff. 1-1-07.)