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1    AN ACT concerning education.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The Illinois Grant Funds Recovery Act is amended
5by changing Section 5 as follows:
 
6    (30 ILCS 705/5)  (from Ch. 127, par. 2305)
7    Sec. 5. Time Limit on Expenditure of Grant Funds. Subject
8to the restriction of Section 35 of the State Finance Act "An
9Act in relation to State finance", approved June 10, 1919, as
10amended, no grant funds may be made available for expenditure
11by a grantee for a period longer than 2 years, except where
12such grant funds are disbursed in reimbursement of costs
13previously incurred by the grantee and except as otherwise
14provided in subsection (d) of Section 5-200 of the School
15Construction Law. Any grant funds not expended or legally
16obligated by the end of the grant agreement, or during the time
17limitation to grant fund expenditures set forth in this
18Section, must be returned to the grantor agency within 45 days,
19if the funds are not already on deposit with the grantor agency
20or the State Treasurer. Such returned funds shall be deposited
21into the fund from which the original grant disbursement to the
22grantee was made.
23(Source: P.A. 83-640.)
 

 

 

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1    Section 10. The School Construction Law is amended by
2changing Section 5-200 as follows:
 
3    (105 ILCS 230/5-200)
4    Sec. 5-200. School energy efficiency grants.
5    (a) The State Board of Education is authorized to make
6grants to school districts and special education cooperatives,
7without regard to enrollment, for school energy efficiency
8projects. These grants shall be paid out of moneys appropriated
9for that purpose from the School Infrastructure Fund. No grant
10under this Section for one fiscal year shall exceed $250,000,
11but a school district or special education cooperative may
12receive grants for more than one project during one fiscal
13year. A school district or special education cooperative must
14provide local matching funds in an amount equal to the amount
15of the grant under this Section. A school district or special
16education cooperative has no entitlement to a grant under this
17Section.
18    (b) The State Board of Education shall adopt rules to
19implement this Section. These rules need not be the same as the
20rules for school construction project grants or school
21maintenance project grants. The rules may specify:
22        (1) the manner of applying for grants;
23        (2) project eligibility requirements;
24        (3) restrictions on the use of grant moneys;

 

 

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1        (4) the manner in which school districts and special
2    education cooperatives must account for the use of grant
3    moneys; and
4        (5) any other provision that the State Board determines
5    to be necessary or useful for the administration of this
6    Section.
7    (c) In each school year in which school energy efficiency
8project grants are awarded, 20% of the total amount awarded
9shall be awarded to a school district in a city with a
10population of more than 500,000, provided that the school
11district complies with the requirements of this Section and the
12rules adopted under this Section.
13    (d) Notwithstanding Section 5 of the Illinois Grant Funds
14Recovery Act, for school energy efficiency grants awarded in
152014, grant funds may be made available for expenditure by a
16grantee for a period of 4 years from the date the funds were
17distributed by the State. Any grant funds not expended or
18legally obligated by the end of the grant agreement must be
19returned to the grantor agency within 45 days if the funds are
20not already on deposit with the grantor agency or the State
21Treasurer. Such returned funds must be deposited into the fund
22from which the original grant disbursement to the grantee was
23made.
24(Source: P.A. 96-37, eff. 7-13-09; 96-1423, eff. 8-3-10;
2597-205, eff. 7-28-11.)
 
26    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon

 

 

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1becoming law.