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91_HB1105
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1 AN ACT to amend the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois
2 by changing Section 46.19c.
3 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
4 represented in the General Assembly:
5 Section 5. The Civil Administrative Code of Illinois is
6 amended by changing Section 46.19c as follows:
7 (20 ILCS 605/46.19c) (from Ch. 127, par. 46.19c)
8 Sec. 46.19c. The Department shall provide for, staff and
9 administer an Office of Urban Assistance which shall plan and
10 coordinate existing State programs designed to aid and
11 stimulate the economic growth of depressed urban areas.
12 Among other duties assigned by the Department, the Office
13 shall have the following duties:
14 (a) To coordinate the activities of the following units
15 and programs of the Department of Commerce and Community
16 Affairs and all other present and future units and programs
17 of the Department which impact depressed urban areas to the
18 extent that they impact upon or concern urban economics:
19 (1) Enterprise Zone Program;
20 (2) Small Business Development Center Program;
21 (3) Program which assist in the development of community
22 infrastructure;
23 (4) Illinois House Energy Assistance Program;
24 (5) Illinois Home Weatherization Assistance Program;
25 (6) Programs financed with Community Services Block
26 Grant funds;
27 (7) Industrial Training Program;
28 (8) Technology Transfer and Innovation Program;
29 (9) Rental Rehabilitation Program;
30 (10) Displaced Homemaker Program; and
31 (11) Programs under the federal Job Training Partnership
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1 Act.
2 The office shall convene quarterly meetings of
3 representatives who are designated by the Department to
4 represent the units and programs listed in paragraphs (1)
5 through (11).
6 (b) To gather information concerning any State or
7 federal program which is designed to revitalize or assist
8 depressed urban areas in the State and to provide this
9 information to public and private entities upon request.
10 (c) To promote and assist in developing urban inner city
11 industrial parks.
12 (d) To promote economic parity and the autonomy of
13 citizens of this State through promoting and assisting the
14 development of urban inner city small business development
15 centers, urban youth unemployment projects, small business
16 incubators, family resource centers, urban developments
17 banks; self managed urban businesses, plans for urban
18 infrastructure projects over the next 25 years.
19 (e) To recommend economic policies for urban areas and
20 planning models that will result in the reconstruction of the
21 economy of urban areas, especially those urban areas where
22 economically and socially disadvantaged people live, to the
23 General Assembly and the Governor.
24 (f) To make recommendations to the General Assembly and
25 the Governor on the establishment of urban economic policy in
26 the areas of (1) housing, (2) scientific research, (3) urban
27 youth unemployment, (4) business incubators and family
28 resource centers in urban inner cities, and (5) alternative
29 energy resource development, and the need thereof, in urban
30 areas as part of the department's five year plan for Economic
31 Development.
32 (g) To make any rules and regulations necessary to carry
33 out its responsibilities under this Act.
34 (h) To encourage new industrial enterprises to locate in
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1 urban areas through educational promotions which point out
2 the opportunities of any such area as a commercial and
3 industrial field of opportunity, and by the solicitation of
4 industrial enterprises; and to do such other acts as shall,
5 in the judgment of the Office, be necessary and proper in
6 fostering and promoting the industrial development and
7 economic welfare of any urban area, however the Office shall
8 have no power to require reports from or to regulate any
9 business.
10 (i) To accept grants, loans or appropriations from the
11 Federal government or the State, or any agency or
12 instrumentality thereof, to be used for the operating
13 expenses of the Office, or for any purposes of the Office,
14 including the making of direct loans or grants of such funds
15 for public, private, experimental or cooperative housing,
16 scientific research, urban inner city industrial parks, urban
17 youth employment projects, business incubators, urban
18 infrastructure development, alternative energy resource
19 development community facilities needed in urban areas and
20 any other purpose related to the revitalization of urban
21 areas.
22 (j) To establish within each local branch of the Office
23 a local board of directors to act as an advisory board to the
24 Department. Each local board of directors shall consist of 9
25 members appointed by the Director of the Department. Five
26 members of the local board of directors shall be from private
27 industry and 4 members shall be from community based
28 organizations and community leadership.
29 (Source: P.A. 84-1090.)
30 Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
31 becoming law.