Full Text of SB3181 093rd General Assembly
SB3181 93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2003 and 2004 SB3181
Introduced 2/6/2004, by Ira I. Silverstein SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: |
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30 ILCS 780/5-20 |
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30 ILCS 780/5-30 |
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220 ILCS 5/13-301.2 |
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Amends the Eliminate the Digital Divide Law (i) concerning use of moneys in the Digital Divide Fund and interest being retained in the Fund and (ii) to increase the amount of a grant that a Community Technology Center may receive from $50,000 to $100,000 per fiscal year. Amends the Public Utilities Act to provide for the Department of Revenue (instead of Commerce and Economic Opportunity) to make deposits into the Digital Divide Elimination Fund. Effective immediately.
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| AN ACT concerning finance.
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| Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| represented in the General Assembly:
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| Section 5. The Eliminate the Digital Divide Law is amended | 5 |
| by changing Sections 5-20 and 5-30 as follows:
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| (30 ILCS 780/5-20)
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| Sec. 5-20. Digital Divide Elimination Fund. The Digital | 8 |
| Divide Elimination
Fund is created as a special fund
in the | 9 |
| State treasury. All moneys in the
Fund shall
be used, subject | 10 |
| to appropriation by the General Assembly, by the Department
for | 11 |
| grants , contracts, and administrative expenses pursuant to the | 12 |
| Community Technology Grant Program
made under Section 5-30 of | 13 |
| this Act . All interest earned on moneys in the Digital Divide | 14 |
| Elimination Fund shall be deposited into the Fund.
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| (Source: P.A. 92-22, eff. 6-30-01.)
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| (30 ILCS 780/5-30)
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| Sec. 5-30. Community Technology Grant Program.
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| (a) Subject to appropriation, the Department shall | 19 |
| administer
the Community Technology Center Grant Program under | 20 |
| which the
Department shall make grants in accordance with this | 21 |
| Article
for planning, establishment, administration, and | 22 |
| expansion
of Community Technology Centers and for assisting | 23 |
| public hospitals,
libraries, and park districts in eliminating | 24 |
| the digital divide. The purposes
of the grants shall include, | 25 |
| but
not be limited to, volunteer recruitment and management, | 26 |
| training and
instruction, infrastructure, and
related goods | 27 |
| and services for Community Technology Centers and public
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| hospitals, libraries, and park districts. The total amount
of | 29 |
| grants under this Section in fiscal year 2001 shall not exceed | 30 |
| $2,000,000,
except that this limit on grants shall not apply to | 31 |
| grants funded by
appropriations from the Digital Divide |
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| Elimination Fund.
No Community Technology Center may receive a | 2 |
| grant of more than $100,000
$50,000 under
this Section in a | 3 |
| particular fiscal year.
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| (b) Public hospitals, libraries, park districts, and State | 5 |
| educational
agencies, local educational
agencies, institutions | 6 |
| of higher education, and other public and
private nonprofit or | 7 |
| for-profit agencies and organizations are eligible
to receive | 8 |
| grants under this Program, provided that a local educational
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| agency or public or private educational
agency or organization | 10 |
| must, in order to be eligible to receive grants under
this | 11 |
| Program, provide computer access and educational services | 12 |
| using
information technology to the public at one or more of | 13 |
| its educational
buildings or facilities at least 12 hours each | 14 |
| week. A group of eligible
entities is
also eligible to receive | 15 |
| a grant if the group follows the procedures
for group | 16 |
| applications in 34 CFR 75.127-129 of the Education Department | 17 |
| General
Administrative Regulations.
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| To be eligible to apply for a grant, a Community
Technology | 19 |
| Center, public hospital, library, or park district must serve a
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| community in which not less than 40%
of the
students are | 21 |
| eligible for a free or reduced price lunch under the national
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| school lunch program or in which not less than 30% of the | 23 |
| students
are eligible
for a free lunch under the national | 24 |
| school lunch program; however, if funding
is insufficient to | 25 |
| approve all grant applications for a particular fiscal year,
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| the Department may impose a higher minimum percentage threshold | 27 |
| for that fiscal
year. Determinations of communities and | 28 |
| determinations of the percentage of
students in a community who | 29 |
| are eligible for a free or reduced price lunch
under the | 30 |
| national school lunch program shall be in accordance with rules
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| adopted by the Department.
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| Any entities that have received a Community
Technology | 33 |
| Center grant under the federal Community Technology Centers | 34 |
| Program
are also eligible to apply for grants under this | 35 |
| Program.
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| The Department shall
provide assistance to Community |
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| Technology Centers in making those
determinations for purposes | 2 |
| of applying for grants.
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| (c) Grant applications shall be submitted to the Department | 4 |
| not later than
March 15 for the next fiscal year.
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| (d) The Department shall adopt rules setting forth the | 6 |
| required form
and contents of grant applications.
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| (e) There is created
the Digital Divide Elimination | 8 |
| Advisory Committee. The advisory committee
shall consist of 5 | 9 |
| members appointed one each by the Governor, the President of
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| the Senate, the Senate Minority Leader, the Speaker of the | 11 |
| House, and the House
Minority Leader. The members of the | 12 |
| advisory committee shall receive no
compensation for their | 13 |
| services as members of the advisory committee but may be
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| reimbursed for their actual expenses incurred in serving on the | 15 |
| advisory
committee. The Digital Divide Elimination Advisory | 16 |
| Committee shall advise the
Department in establishing criteria | 17 |
| and priorities for identifying recipients
of
grants under this | 18 |
| Act. The advisory committee shall obtain advice from the
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| technology industry regarding current technological standards. | 20 |
| The advisory
committee shall seek any available federal | 21 |
| funding.
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| (Source: P.A. 91-704, eff. 7-1-00; 92-22, eff. 6-30-01.)
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| Section 10. The Public Utilities Act is amended by changing | 24 |
| Section 13-301.2 as follows:
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| (220 ILCS 5/13-301.2)
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| (Section scheduled to be repealed on July 1, 2005)
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| Sec. 13-301.2. Program to Foster Elimination of the Digital | 28 |
| Divide. The Commission shall require by rule that each
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| telecommunications carrier providing local exchange | 30 |
| telecommunications
service notify its end-user customers that | 31 |
| if the customer wishes to
participate in the funding of the | 32 |
| Program to Foster Elimination of the Digital
Divide he or she | 33 |
| may do so by electing to contribute, on a monthly basis, a
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| fixed
amount that will be included in the customer's monthly |
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| bill. The obligations
imposed in this Section shall not be | 2 |
| imposed upon a telecommunications carrier
for any of its | 3 |
| end-users subscribing to the services listed below: (1) private
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| line service which is not directly or indirectly used for the | 5 |
| origination or
termination of switched telecommunications | 6 |
| service, (2) cellular radio service,
(3) high-speed | 7 |
| point-to-point data transmission at or above 9.6 kilobits, (4)
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| the provision of telecommunications service by a company or | 9 |
| person otherwise
subject to subsection (c) of Section 13-202 to | 10 |
| a telecommunications carrier,
which is
incidental to the | 11 |
| provision of service subject to subsection (c) of Section
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| 13-202; (5) pay
telephone service; or (6) interexchange | 13 |
| telecommunications service.
The customer
may
cease | 14 |
| contributing at any time upon providing notice to the | 15 |
| telecommunications
carrier. The notice shall state that any | 16 |
| contribution made will not reduce the
customer's bill for | 17 |
| telecommunications services. Failure to remit the amount
of | 18 |
| increased payment will reduce the contribution accordingly. | 19 |
| The Commission
shall specify the monthly fixed amount or | 20 |
| amounts that customers wishing to
contribute to the funding of | 21 |
| the Program to Foster Elimination of the Digital
Divide may | 22 |
| choose from in making their contributions. A | 23 |
| telecommunications
carrier subject to this obligation shall | 24 |
| remit the amounts contributed by
its customers to the | 25 |
| Department
of Revenue
Commerce and
Community Affairs for | 26 |
| deposit in the Digital Divide Elimination
Fund at the intervals | 27 |
| specified in the Commission rules.
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| (Source: P.A. 92-22, eff. 6-30-01; 93-358, eff. 1-1-04; revised | 29 |
| 12-6-03.)
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| Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | 31 |
| becoming law.
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