95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2007 and 2008
SB2739


 
Introduced 2/15/2008, by Sen. Deanna Demuzio
 
SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 		














415 ILCS 5/55.6a









    Amends the Environmental Protection Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the Emergency Public Health Fund.
















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    AN ACT concerning safety.

 
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    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
 
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represented in the General Assembly:


 
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    Section 5. The Environmental Protection Act is amended  by 
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changing Section 55.6a as follows:
 



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    (415 ILCS 5/55.6a)



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    Sec. 55.6a. Emergency Public Health Fund. 

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    (a) Beginning on July 1, 2003, moneys in the the Emergency 
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Public
Health Fund, subject to appropriation, shall be 
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allocated annually as follows:
(i)
$200,000 to the Department 
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of Natural Resources for the purposes described in
Section 
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55.6(c)(6) and (ii) subject to subsection (b) of this Section, 
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all
remaining amounts to the Department of Public
Health to be 
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used to make vector control grants and surveillance grants
to 
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the Cook County Department of Public Health (for areas of the 
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County
excluding the City of Chicago), to the City of Chicago 
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health department, and
to other certified local health 
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departments.  These grants shall be used for
expenses
related to 
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West Nile Virus and other vector-borne diseases.  The amount of

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each grant shall be based on population and need as supported 
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by information
submitted to the Department of Public Health.  
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For the purposes of this
Section, need shall be determined by 
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the Department based primarily upon
surveillance data and the 
 


 






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number of positive human cases of West Nile Virus and
other 
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vector-borne
diseases occurring during the preceding year and 
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current year in the county or
municipality seeking the grant.

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    (b) Beginning on July 31, 2003, on the last day of each 
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month, the State
Comptroller shall order transferred and the 
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State Treasurer shall transfer
the fees collected in the 
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previous month pursuant to item (1.5) of
subsection (a) of 
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Section 55.8 from the Emergency Public Health Fund to the

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Communications Revolving Fund.  These transfers shall continue 
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until the
cumulative total of the transfers is $3,000,000.

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(Source: P.A. 93-32, eff. 6-20-03; 93-52, eff. 6-30-03.)