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90_HB2249

      20 ILCS 3305/5            from Ch. 127, par. 1055
      20 ILCS 3305/9            from Ch. 127, par. 1059
      30 ILCS 330/2             from Ch. 127, par. 652
      30 ILCS 330/6c new
          Amends the Illinois Emergency Management Agency  Act  and
      the  General  Obligation  Bond  Act.  Requires  the Agency to
      establish,  in  cooperation  with  other  State  agencies,  a
      computer system that will enable disaster victims to promptly
      contact State or  federal  agencies  electronically  for  the
      purpose  of  applying for governmental benefits for which the
      disaster victim may be  entitled.  Authorizes  the  State  to
      issue  $100,000,000  in  intermediate  or  long-term  general
      obligation bonds, with maturity not to exceed 40 years.
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 1        AN  ACT  in  relation  to  State services, amending named
 2    Acts.
 3        Be it enacted by the People of  the  State  of  Illinois,
 4    represented in the General Assembly:
 5        Section  5.  The Illinois Emergency Management Agency Act
 6    is amended by changing Sections 5 and 9 as follows:
 7        (20 ILCS 3305/5) (from Ch. 127, par. 1055)
 8        Sec. 5.  Illinois Emergency Management Agency.
 9        (a)  There is created within the executive branch of  the
10    State  Government an Illinois Emergency Management Agency and
11    a Director  of  the  Illinois  Emergency  Management  Agency,
12    herein  called  the "Director" who shall be the head thereof.
13    The Director shall be appointed by  the  Governor,  with  the
14    advice  and consent of the Senate, and shall serve for a term
15    of 2 years beginning on the third Monday in  January  of  the
16    odd-numbered  year,  and until his successor is appointed and
17    has qualified; except that the term  of  the  first  Director
18    appointed  under this Act shall expire on the third Monday in
19    January,  1989.   The  Director  shall  not  hold  any  other
20    remunerative public office. The  Director  shall  receive  an
21    annual   salary   of   $70,197  or  the  amount  set  by  the
22    Compensation Review Board, whichever is higher.
23        (b)  The  Illinois  Emergency  Management  Agency   shall
24    obtain,   under   the   provisions  of  the  Personnel  Code,
25    technical, clerical, stenographic  and  other  administrative
26    personnel, and may make expenditures within the appropriation
27    therefor as may be necessary to carry out the purpose of this
28    Act.   The  agency  created  by  this Act is intended to be a
29    successor to the agency created under the Illinois  Emergency
30    Services  and  Disaster Agency Act of 1975 and the personnel,
31    equipment, records, and appropriations  of  that  agency  are
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 1    transferred  to the successor agency as of the effective date
 2    of this Act.
 3        (c)  The Director, subject to the direction  and  control
 4    of  the Governor, shall be the executive head of the Illinois
 5    Emergency Management Agency and the State Emergency  Response
 6    Commission  and  shall  be responsible under the direction of
 7    the Governor, for carrying  out  the  program  for  emergency
 8    management of this State.  He shall also maintain liaison and
 9    cooperate with the emergency management organizations of this
10    State and other states and of the federal government.
11        (d)  The  Illinois Emergency Management Agency shall take
12    an integral part in the development and revision of political
13    subdivision  emergency  operations   plans   prepared   under
14    paragraph  (f) of Section 10.  To this end it shall employ or
15    otherwise secure the services of professional  and  technical
16    personnel  capable  of  providing  expert  assistance  to the
17    emergency services and disaster  agencies.   These  personnel
18    shall  consult  with emergency services and disaster agencies
19    on a regular basis and shall make field examinations  of  the
20    areas,   circumstances,   and   conditions   that  particular
21    political subdivision emergency operations plans are intended
22    to apply, and may recommend revisions under State rules.
23        (e)  The  Illinois   Emergency  Management   Agency   and
24    political   subdivisions  shall  be  encouraged  to  form  an
25    emergency management advisory committee composed  of  private
26    and  public  personnel  representing the emergency management
27    phases of mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery.
28        (f)  The Illinois Emergency Management Agency shall:
29             (1)  Coordinate  the  overall  emergency  management
30        program of the State.
31             (2)  Cooperate with local governments,  the  federal
32        government  and any public or private agency or entity in
33        achieving any purpose of this  Act  and  in  implementing
34        emergency    management    programs    for    mitigation,
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 1        preparedness, response, and recovery.
 2             (3)  Prepare,   for   issuance   by   the  Governor,
 3        executive  orders,  proclamations,  and  regulations   as
 4        necessary or appropriate in coping with disasters.
 5             (4)  Promulgate rules and requirements for political
 6        subdivision  emergency  operations  plans,  in accordance
 7        with federal guidelines.
 8             (5)  Review    political    subdivision    emergency
 9        operations plans  and  recommend  revisions  under  State
10        rules.
11             (6)  Determine  requirements  of  the  State and its
12        political subdivisions  for  food,  clothing,  and  other
13        necessities in event of a disaster.
14             (7)  Establish  a  register of persons with types of
15        emergency management training and skills  in  mitigation,
16        preparedness, response, and recovery.
17             (8)  Establish  a register of government and private
18        response resources available for use in a disaster.
19             (8.5)  Establish, in cooperation  with  other  State
20        agencies,  a  computer  system  that will enable disaster
21        victims to promptly contact  State  or  federal  agencies
22        electronically   for   the   purpose   of   applying  for
23        governmental benefits for which the disaster  victim  may
24        be entitled.
25             (9)  Expand the Earthquake Awareness Program and its
26        efforts  to  distribute earthquake preparedness materials
27        to schools,  political  subdivisions,  community  groups,
28        civic  organizations,  and  the  media.  Emphasis will be
29        placed on those areas of the State most at risk  from  an
30        earthquake.   Maintain  the list of all school districts,
31        hospitals,  airports,  power  plants,  including  nuclear
32        power plants, lakes, dams, emergency response  facilities
33        of  all  types,  and  all  other  major public or private
34        structures which are at the greatest risk of damage  from
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 1        earthquakes  under  circumstances  where the damage would
 2        cause subsequent harm to the surrounding communities  and
 3        residents.
 4             (10)  Disseminate  all  information,  completely and
 5        without delay, on water levels for rivers and streams and
 6        any other data pertaining to potential flooding  supplied
 7        by  the Division of Water Resources within the Department
 8        of Natural Resources to all political subdivisions to the
 9        maximum extent possible.
10             (11)  Develop agreements  with  medical  supply  and
11        equipment  firms  to supply resources as are necessary to
12        respond to an earthquake or any other disaster as defined
13        in this Act.  These resources will be made available upon
14        notifying the vendor of the disaster.   Payment  for  the
15        resources  will  be  in accordance with Section 7 of this
16        Act.  The Illinois  Department  of  Public  Health  shall
17        determine which resources will be required and requested.
18             (12)  Do  all  other things necessary, incidental or
19        appropriate for the implementation of this Act.
20    (Source: P.A. 89-445, eff. 2-7-96; 89-703, eff. 1-17-97.)
21        (20 ILCS 3305/9) (from Ch. 127, par. 1059)
22        Sec.  9.   Financing.   (a)  It  is  the  intent  of  the
23    Legislature and declared to be the policy of the  State  that
24    funds to meet disasters shall always be available.
25        (b)  It is the legislative intent that the first recourse
26    shall  be  to  funds  regularly  appropriated  to  State  and
27    political  subdivision  departments  and  agencies.   If  the
28    Governor  finds  that  the demands placed upon these funds in
29    coping with a particular disaster are unreasonably great,  he
30    may  make  funds available from the Disaster Relief Fund.  If
31    monies available from the Fund are insufficient, and  if  the
32    Governor  finds  that other sources of money to cope with the
33    disaster are not available or are insufficient, the  Governor
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 1    shall request the General Assembly to enact legislation as it
 2    may deem necessary to transfer and expend monies appropriated
 3    for  other  purposes  or  borrow,  for a term not to exceed 2
 4    years from the United States government or  other  public  or
 5    private  source.   If  the General Assembly is not sitting in
 6    regular session to enact such legislation for  the  transfer,
 7    expenditure  or loan of such monies, and the President of the
 8    Senate and the Speaker of the House certify that  the  Senate
 9    and  House  are not in session, the Governor is authorized to
10    carry out those decisions until such time as a quorum of  the
11    General  Assembly  can  convene in a regular or extraordinary
12    session.
13        (b-5)  For  the  purpose  of  establishing  the  computer
14    system mandated by  paragraph  (8.5)  of  subsection  (f)  of
15    Section  5  of  this Act, the State may issue intermediate or
16    long-term general obligation  bonds,  with  maturity  not  to
17    exceed 40 years.
18        (c)  Nothing contained in this Section shall be construed
19    to  limit  the  Governor's authority to apply for, administer
20    and expend grants, gifts  or  payments  in  aid  of  disaster
21    mitigation, preparedness, response or recovery.
22    (Source: P.A. 85-1027.)
23        Section 10. The General Obligation Bond Act is amended by
24    changing Section 2 and adding Section 6c as follows:
25        (30 ILCS 330/2) (from Ch. 127, par. 652)
26        Sec.  2.  Authorization for Bonds.  The State of Illinois
27    is authorized to issue, sell and provide for  the  retirement
28    of  General  Obligation Bonds of the State of Illinois in the
29    total amount of $8,905,508,392 $8,805,508,392  herein  called
30    "Bonds".
31        Of  the  total  amount  of  bonds authorized above, up to
32    $2,200,000,000 in aggregate original principal amount may  be
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 1    issued  and sold in accordance with the Baccalaureate Savings
 2    Act in the form of General Obligation College Savings Bonds.
 3        Of the total amount of  bonds  authorized  above,  up  to
 4    $300,000,000  in  aggregate  original principal amount may be
 5    issued and sold in accordance with the Retirement Savings Act
 6    in the form of General Obligation Retirement Savings Bonds.
 7        The issuance and sale of Bonds pursuant  to  the  General
 8    Obligation  Bond Act is an economical and efficient method of
 9    financing the capital needs of  the  State.   This  Act  will
10    permit  the  issuance  of  a multi-purpose General Obligation
11    Bond with uniform terms and features.   This  will  not  only
12    lower  the  cost  of registration but also reduce the overall
13    cost of  issuing  debt  by  improving  the  marketability  of
14    Illinois General Obligation Bonds.
15        Bonds  shall  be  issued  for the categories and specific
16    purposes expressed in Sections 2 through 8 and Section 16  of
17    this Act.
18    (Source: P.A. 90-1, eff. 2-20-97.)
19        (30 ILCS 330/6c new)
20        Sec.  6c.  Computer system. The amount of $100,000,000 is
21    authorized to be used by the  Illinois  Emergency  Management
22    Agency  for  the purpose of establishing, in cooperation with
23    other  State  agencies,  the  computer  system  mandated   by
24    paragraph  (8.5)  of  subsection  (f)  of  Section  5  of the
25    Illinois Emergency Management Agency Act.

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