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90_HB3129ham001
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1 AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 3129
2 AMENDMENT NO. . Amend House Bill 3129 on page 1, by
3 replacing lines 1 and 2 with the following:
4 "AN ACT concerning environmental conservation."; and
5 on page 3, by replacing lines 25 and 26 with the following:
6 "Section 10. The County Cooperative Extension Law is
7 amended by changing Section 8 as follows:
8 (505 ILCS 45/8) (from Ch. 5, par. 248)
9 Sec. 8. County extension education funds.
10 (a) The county governing board shall annually consider
11 the total budget certified by the county or multi-county
12 extension board in order to consider the total funds needed
13 for Cooperative Extension Service programs in the county. The
14 county governing board may appropriate and pay 75%, then
15 beginning on July 1, 1979, 70%, then beginning on July 1,
16 1980, 65%, then beginning on July 1, 1981, 60%, then
17 beginning on July 1, 1982, 55% and then beginning on July 1,
18 1983 and continuing thereafter, 50%, of the total so
19 determined from the general corporate fund or other available
20 funds or from an existing extension education tax of the
21 county for the extension educational program in the county or
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1 multi-county group of which it is a part, provided that the
2 amount so appropriated shall not exceed $54,400 $25,200 in
3 counties of less than 10,000 inhabitants, $61,200 $28,350 in
4 counties of 10,000 or more but less than 20,000 inhabitants,
5 $68,000 $31,500 in counties of 20,000 or more but less than
6 30,000 inhabitants, $91,000 $42,000 in counties of 30,000 or
7 more but less than 50,000 inhabitants, $117,000 $54,000 in
8 counties of 50,000 or more but less than 100,000 inhabitants,
9 $156,000 $72,000 in counties of 100,000 or more but less than
10 250,000 inhabitants, $233,000 $108,000 in counties of 250,000
11 or more but less than 500,000 inhabitants, $311,000 $144,000
12 in counties of 500,000 or more but less than 1,000,000
13 inhabitants and $583,000 $270,000 in counties of 1,000,000 or
14 more inhabitants. The amount to be so appropriated by the
15 county governing board may be reduced by the total of any
16 private gifts or grants specifically made to support the
17 county extension programs included in such determination, and
18 may also be reduced by the fair market value of office space
19 furnished the Cooperative Extension Service by the county
20 governing board, provided it is suitable for extension needs
21 and meets the housing standards adopted by the Cooperative
22 Extension Service.
23 In order to provide matching funds to counties for
24 Cooperative Extension programs the State will recognize those
25 needs and may make an annual appropriation from the General
26 Revenue Agricultural Premium Fund, in an amount equal to 50%
27 of the total funds needed as provided herein.
28 On or before October 15 of each year, the director of
29 extension of the University of Illinois shall forward to the
30 Director of Agriculture, the Governor, the Speaker of the
31 House of Representatives, the Minority Leader of the House of
32 Representatives, the President of the Senate, and the
33 Minority Leader of the Senate, a report of the determinations
34 made by the various county governing boards of the total
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1 funds needed for Cooperative Extension Service programs in
2 the respective counties. The State matching funds shall be
3 included in an appropriation request by the Department of
4 Agriculture for the next State fiscal year. That request
5 shall be separate and apart from the operating appropriation
6 request for the Department of Agriculture. The funds so
7 appropriated by the State to the Department of Agriculture
8 shall be deposited into the State Cooperative Extension
9 Service Trust Fund and transferred as provided in Section 8
10 (d) of this Act. The Department of Agriculture shall have no
11 responsibility for or control over the cooperative extension
12 service or its programs.
13 All funds provided pursuant to this Act may be used for
14 operations or facilities.
15 (b) If sufficient funds are not available from the
16 general corporate fund or if sums greater than the maximum
17 listed above are needed for the county's share of the
18 extension education program, the county governing board shall
19 have the power to increase by not more than .05 per cent,
20 with approval by referendum, the maximum rate at which it
21 levies, or can levy, taxes for general county purposes. Such
22 additional rate shall not be included within any statutory
23 limitation or rate or amount for other county purposes and
24 shall be in addition thereto.
25 Any county that under this Cooperative Extension Law has
26 approved a rate by referendum prior to the effective date of
27 this amendment, shall have authority to continue such tax as
28 approved, but may use the provisions of this subsection as
29 amended provided that another referendum must be held if the
30 rate desired is greater than the rate previously approved.
31 (c) Upon approval by resolution the county board shall
32 certify the resolution and the question of the adoption of a
33 levy sufficient to produce the sums determined by the county
34 board to the proper election officials, who shall submit the
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1 question to the electors of the county at an election in
2 accordance with the general election law. No such levy shall
3 be made until the adoption by majority vote of the electors
4 voting on the proposition.
5 (d) Funds received from local sources and funds
6 appropriated by the county governing board or the State for
7 the county extension education program in any county shall be
8 paid over to the University of Illinois.
9 (Source: P.A. 89-691, eff. 12-31-96.)
10 Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
11 becoming law except that Section 10 takes effect July 1,
12 1999.".