Public Act 098-0616
 
SB1955 EnrolledLRB098 05666 AMC 35705 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 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.