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Rep. Barbara Flynn Currie
Filed: 11/27/2013
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| 1 | | AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 1955
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| 2 | | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 1955, AS AMENDED, |
| 3 | | by replacing everything after the enacting clause with the |
| 4 | | following:
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| 5 | | "Section 5. The Disaster Relief Act is amended by changing |
| 6 | | Section 3 as follows:
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| 7 | | (15 ILCS 30/3) (from Ch. 127, par. 293.3)
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| 8 | | Sec. 3. Disaster Response and Recovery Fund. |
| 9 | | (a) Whenever funds regularly appropriated to the State and |
| 10 | | local
governmental bodies for disaster response and recovery |
| 11 | | are insufficient to
provide services, and when the Governor has |
| 12 | | declared a disaster by
proclamation in accordance with Section |
| 13 | | 7 of the Illinois Emergency Management
Agency Act or any |
| 14 | | successor Act, the Governor
may draw
upon the Disaster Response |
| 15 | | and Recovery Fund in order to provide services or to
reimburse |
| 16 | | local governmental bodies furnishing services. The fund
may be |
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| 1 | | used for the payment of emergency employees, for the payment of
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| 2 | | the Illinois National Guard when called to active duty,
for |
| 3 | | disaster-related expenses of State Agencies and
Departments, |
| 4 | | and for the emergency purchase or renting of
equipment and |
| 5 | | commodities. The fund shall be used for furnishing
emergency |
| 6 | | services and relief to the disaster area as a whole and shall
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| 7 | | not be used to provide private relief to persons sustaining |
| 8 | | property
damages or personal injury as a result of a disaster.
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| 9 | | (b) As soon as practical after the effective date of this |
| 10 | | amendatory Act of the 98th General Assembly, the State |
| 11 | | Comptroller shall direct and the State Treasurer shall transfer |
| 12 | | $5,900,000 from the General Revenue Fund to the Disaster |
| 13 | | Response and Recovery Fund to meet the State's cost sharing |
| 14 | | obligations with the Federal Emergency Management Agency under |
| 15 | | the federal Assistance to Individuals and Households Program |
| 16 | | pursuant to 42 U.S.C. 5174. |
| 17 | | (Source: P.A. 98-465, eff. 8-16-13.)
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| 18 | | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon |
| 19 | | becoming law.".
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