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| | 102ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2021 and 2022
SB0871 Introduced 2/25/2021, by Sen. Don Harmon SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
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Amends the Eliminate the Digital Divide Law. Makes a technical change in a
Section concerning legislative findings.
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| | SB0871 | | LRB102 04736 RJF 14755 b |
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| 1 | | AN ACT concerning finance.
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| 2 | | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, |
| 3 | | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | | Section 5. The Eliminate the Digital Divide Law is amended |
| 5 | | by changing Section 5-3 as follows:
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| 6 | | (30 ILCS 780/5-3)
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| 7 | | Sec. 5-3. Statement of legislative findings and purposes. |
| 8 | | The
The General
Assembly finds that the growth of high |
| 9 | | technology industry,
including computers, the Internet, and |
| 10 | | advanced telecommunications, has created
a division in |
| 11 | | society. Those who are able to master the tools of the new
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| 12 | | digital technology and have access to the technology have |
| 13 | | benefited in the form
of improved employment possibilities and |
| 14 | | a higher standard of life. Those who
are unfamiliar with the |
| 15 | | new technologies, or do not have access to them, are
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| 16 | | increasingly constrained to marginal employment and a standard |
| 17 | | of living near
the poverty level. This "digital divide" |
| 18 | | parallels existing economic, racial,
and gender divisions in |
| 19 | | society, with the more privileged members of society
having |
| 20 | | much greater opportunity to benefit from the new technologies |
| 21 | | than those
who are less favorably situated. It is the purpose |
| 22 | | of this Law to establish
educational and economic development |
| 23 | | initiatives that will bridge the digital
divide, making |