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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 Sections 605-456, 605-460, and 605-465 as |
| 7 | | follows:
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| 8 | | (20 ILCS 605/605-456 new) |
| 9 | | Sec. 605-456. Survey and report on business incentives. |
| 10 | | (a) The Department shall contact businesses that are |
| 11 | | located in the State or have been identified as having left the |
| 12 | | State. The Department shall request that the business complete |
| 13 | | a survey, developed by the Department, that includes |
| 14 | | information regarding (i) why the business left, if applicable, |
| 15 | | and the location to which the business relocated and (ii) any |
| 16 | | incentives that are needed to keep and attract the business. |
| 17 | | (b) The Department shall compile the results of the surveys |
| 18 | | and any other relevant information provided to the Department. |
| 19 | | By each July 1, the Department shall report to the General |
| 20 | | Assembly upon its compilation of the previous year's survey |
| 21 | | responses and any of the other relevant information. The report |
| 22 | | must identify, at a minimum, the most common responses, |
| 23 | | categorized by industry and region, regarding (i) why |
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| 1 | | businesses left Illinois, (ii) what incentives would have |
| 2 | | influenced businesses to remain in Illinois, and (iii) to which |
| 3 | | cities and states the businesses have relocated. |
| 4 | | (c) For the purposes of this Section, a business is defined |
| 5 | | as one that is engaged in interstate or intrastate commerce for |
| 6 | | the purpose of manufacturing, processing, assembling, |
| 7 | | warehousing, or distributing products, conducting research and |
| 8 | | development, providing tourism services, or providing services |
| 9 | | in interstate commerce, office industries, or agricultural |
| 10 | | processing, but excluding retail, retail food, health, or |
| 11 | | professional services. |
| 12 | | (d) The Department shall adopt rules for the implementation |
| 13 | | of this Section.
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| 14 | | (20 ILCS 605/605-460 new) |
| 15 | | Sec. 605-460. Engineering excellence program. |
| 16 | | (a) Coordination between engineering schools and private |
| 17 | | business is an important tool in fostering innovation. |
| 18 | | Universities have eager students, experienced faculty, and |
| 19 | | state-of-the-art research facilities. Businesses have existing |
| 20 | | markets, production capital, and evolving needs. The General |
| 21 | | Assembly believes that universities and businesses should |
| 22 | | share resources to allow students to participate in the |
| 23 | | research and development area of innovative design and to allow |
| 24 | | businesses to benefit from the developing skills of these |
| 25 | | students. |
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| 1 | | (b) In order to facilitate engineering excellence, the |
| 2 | | Department shall develop a program to achieve the goals set |
| 3 | | forth in subsection (a). Under this program, the Department |
| 4 | | must: |
| 5 | | (1) Annually contact the State's major public and |
| 6 | | private universities with engineering schools. |
| 7 | | (2) Request a one-page written summary of the |
| 8 | | internship, externship, or residency programs operated by |
| 9 | | the engineering college of each of the contacted |
| 10 | | universities. |
| 11 | | (3) Identify the manufacturing businesses within 50 |
| 12 | | miles of each university that responded under paragraph (2) |
| 13 | | that could benefit from assistance in the area of |
| 14 | | innovative design. |
| 15 | | (4) Send a letter to each manufacturer identified under |
| 16 | | paragraph (3), informing it of the university's program and |
| 17 | | advising the business to contact the university if it |
| 18 | | wishes to participate in the engineering school's program. |
| 19 | | (c) The Department shall adopt rules for the implementation |
| 20 | | of this Section.
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| 21 | | (20 ILCS 605/605-465 new) |
| 22 | | Sec. 605-465. Comprehensive website information. |
| 23 | | (a) The Department's official website must contain a |
| 24 | | comprehensive list of State, local, and federal economic |
| 25 | | benefits available to businesses in each of the State's |
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| 1 | | counties and municipalities that the Department includes on its |
| 2 | | website. In order to do so: |
| 3 | | (1) The Department annually must request a summary of |
| 4 | | available economic benefits from each of the State's |
| 5 | | counties and municipalities that are linked to the |
| 6 | | Department's website. |
| 7 | | (2) The information obtained under paragraph (1) must |
| 8 | | be published on the related web pages of the Department's |
| 9 | | website. |
| 10 | | (3) The Department's website shall also provide |
| 11 | | information regarding available federal economic benefits |
| 12 | | to the extent possible. |
| 13 | | (b) The Department shall adopt rules for the implementation |
| 14 | | of this Section.
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