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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 changing Section 605-705 as follows:
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| 7 | | (20 ILCS 605/605-705) (was 20 ILCS 605/46.6a)
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| 8 | | Sec. 605-705. Grants to local tourism and convention |
| 9 | | bureaus.
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| 10 | | (a) To establish a grant program for local tourism and
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| 11 | | convention bureaus. The Department will develop and implement a |
| 12 | | program
for the use of funds, as authorized under this Act, by |
| 13 | | local tourism and
convention bureaus. For the purposes of this |
| 14 | | Act,
bureaus eligible to receive funds are those local tourism |
| 15 | | and
convention bureaus that are (i) either units of local |
| 16 | | government or
incorporated as not-for-profit organizations; |
| 17 | | (ii) in legal existence
for a minimum of 2 years before July 1, |
| 18 | | 2001; (iii) operating with a
paid, full-time staff whose sole |
| 19 | | purpose is to promote tourism in the
designated service area; |
| 20 | | and (iv) affiliated with one or more
municipalities or counties |
| 21 | | that support the bureau with local hotel-motel
taxes. After |
| 22 | | July 1, 2001, bureaus requesting certification in
order to |
| 23 | | receive funds for the first time must be local tourism and
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| 1 | | convention bureaus that are (i) either units of local |
| 2 | | government or
incorporated as not-for-profit organizations; |
| 3 | | (ii) in legal existence
for a minimum of 2 years before the |
| 4 | | request for certification; (iii)
operating with a paid, |
| 5 | | full-time staff whose sole purpose is to promote
tourism in the |
| 6 | | designated service area; and (iv) affiliated with
multiple |
| 7 | | municipalities or counties that support the bureau with local
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| 8 | | hotel-motel taxes. Each bureau receiving funds under this Act |
| 9 | | will be
certified by the Department as the designated recipient |
| 10 | | to serve an area of
the State.
Notwithstanding the criteria set |
| 11 | | forth in this subsection (a), or any rule
adopted under this |
| 12 | | subsection (a), the Director of the Department may
provide for |
| 13 | | the award of grant funds to one or more entities if in the
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| 14 | | Department's judgment that action is necessary in order to |
| 15 | | prevent a loss of
funding critical to promoting tourism in a |
| 16 | | designated geographic area of the
State.
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| 17 | | (b) To distribute grants to local tourism and convention |
| 18 | | bureaus from
appropriations made from the Local Tourism Fund |
| 19 | | for that purpose. Of the
amounts appropriated annually to the |
| 20 | | Department for expenditure under this
Section prior to July 1, |
| 21 | | 2011, one-third of those monies shall be used for grants to |
| 22 | | convention and
tourism bureaus in cities with a population |
| 23 | | greater than 500,000. The
remaining two-thirds of the annual |
| 24 | | appropriation prior to July 1, 2011 shall be used for grants to
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| 25 | | convention and tourism bureaus in the
remainder of the State, |
| 26 | | in accordance with a formula based upon the
population served. |
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| 1 | | Of the amounts appropriated annually to the Department for |
| 2 | | expenditure under this Section beginning July 1, 2011, 18% of |
| 3 | | such moneys shall be used for grants to convention and tourism |
| 4 | | bureaus in cities with a population greater than 500,000. Of |
| 5 | | the amounts appropriated annually to the Department for |
| 6 | | expenditure under this Section beginning July 1, 2011, 82% of |
| 7 | | such moneys shall be used for grants to convention bureaus in |
| 8 | | the remainder of the State, in accordance with a formula based |
| 9 | | upon the population served. The Department may reserve up to 3% |
| 10 | | 10% of total
local tourism funds available for costs of |
| 11 | | administering the program to conduct audits of grants, to |
| 12 | | provide incentive funds to
those
bureaus that will conduct |
| 13 | | promotional activities designed to further the
Department's |
| 14 | | statewide advertising campaign, to fund special statewide
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| 15 | | promotional activities, and to fund promotional activities |
| 16 | | that support an
increased use of the State's parks or historic |
| 17 | | sites. The Department shall require that any convention and |
| 18 | | tourism bureau receiving a grant under this Section that |
| 19 | | requires matching funds shall provide matching funds equal to |
| 20 | | no less than 50% of the grant amount. During fiscal year 2013, |
| 21 | | the Department shall reserve $2,000,000 of the available local |
| 22 | | tourism funds for appropriation to the Historic Preservation |
| 23 | | Agency for the operation of the Abraham Lincoln Presidential |
| 24 | | Library and Museum and State historic sites.
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| 25 | | (Source: P.A. 97-617, eff. 10-26-11; 97-732, eff. 6-30-12; |
| 26 | | 98-252, eff. 8-9-13.)
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