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| 1 | AN ACT concerning State government.
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| 2 | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| 3 | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | Section 5. The Department of Commerce and Economic | ||||||
| 5 | Opportunity Law of the
Civil Administrative Code of Illinois is | ||||||
| 6 | amended by adding Section 605-1005 as follows: | ||||||
| 7 | (20 ILCS 605/605-1005 new) | ||||||
| 8 | Sec. 605-1005. Retail Energy Efficiency Appliance Program; | ||||||
| 9 | contingency allotment. | ||||||
| 10 | (a) For the purposes of this Section: | ||||||
| 11 | (1) "Program" means the white goods appliances (Earth | ||||||
| 12 | Day 2010) portion of the Retail Energy Efficiency Appliance | ||||||
| 13 | Program administered by the Department. | ||||||
| 14 | (2) "Department" means the Department of Commerce and | ||||||
| 15 | Economic Opportunity. | ||||||
| 16 | (b) The Department, as the department responsible for | ||||||
| 17 | administering the Program, may establish and administer a | ||||||
| 18 | contingency allotment for the purpose of reimbursing sellers | ||||||
| 19 | who participated in the Program for the costs of rebates paid | ||||||
| 20 | under the Program that have not been reimbursed because the | ||||||
| 21 | federal allocation for that purpose was insufficient. The | ||||||
| 22 | contingency allotment shall consist of moneys appropriated to | ||||||
| 23 | the Department for that specific purpose. | ||||||
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| 1 | (c) The contingency allotment may be used only if the | ||||||
| 2 | Program first expends its entire funding allotment for | ||||||
| 3 | reimbursing sellers for the costs of rebates on sales of white | ||||||
| 4 | goods appliances that were reported from the first day of the | ||||||
| 5 | program, Friday, April 16, 2010, through the third sales data | ||||||
| 6 | reporting period ending at noon on Monday, April 19, 2010. | ||||||
| 7 | (d) If it is determined that the contingency allotment is | ||||||
| 8 | needed to pay program participants, the Program will terminate | ||||||
| 9 | at 6:00 pm on Monday, April 19, 2010, and the Department shall | ||||||
| 10 | release, by Monday, May 10, 2010, the additional funds to the | ||||||
| 11 | Midwest Energy Efficiency Alliance for distribution to program | ||||||
| 12 | participants. If it is determined that some or all of the | ||||||
| 13 | contingency allotment is not needed, the remaining funds shall | ||||||
| 14 | not be spent and any remaining funds in the possession of the | ||||||
| 15 | Alliance shall be deposited into the General Revenue Fund. | ||||||
| 16 | (e) Total expenditures from the contingency allotment | ||||||
| 17 | shall not exceed $3,400,000.
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| 18 | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | ||||||
| 19 | becoming law.
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