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92_HB3353eng HB3353 Engrossed LRB9206933MWcd 1 AN ACT concerning technology. 2 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, 3 represented in the General Assembly: 4 Section 5. The Eliminate the Digital Divide Law is 5 amended by adding Sections 5-50, 5-55, 5-60, 5-65, and 5-70 6 as follows: 7 (30 ILCS 780/5-50 new) 8 Sec. 5-50. Community Technology Network Grants. 9 (a) Subject to appropriation, the Department must 10 administer a special program of Community Technology Network 11 Grants in coordination with the Community Technology Center 12 Grant Program. The purpose of the grants is to provide 13 business planning tools, sustainability planning assistance, 14 and outcome tracking tools and services for community 15 technology centers and initiatives. The focus of the program 16 shall be on the integration of centers and initiatives into 17 community area-wide networks of nonprofit organizations; 18 public agencies; education, library, and cultural 19 institutions; and businesses and chambers of commerce. 20 Grants must be made to applicants that currently have 21 broad-based community networks serving multiple communities 22 in need, and that will provide community improvement, 23 community mapping, technology skill development, technology 24 staff and volunteer development, educational content, health 25 and public safety or other network support. The total amount 26 of grants awarded in fiscal year 2002 may not exceed 27 $1,500,000. An applicant for a grant under this subsection 28 may also apply for a grant under the Community Technology 29 Center Grant Program. 30 (b) Subject to appropriation, the Department may expend 31 not more than $2,500,000 in fiscal year 2002 to establish and HB3353 Engrossed -2- LRB9206933MWcd 1 support a Statewide Community Technology Center Network to 2 (i) assist in local and regional planning and evaluation 3 under this Law, (ii) support coordination among community 4 technology center initiatives, community computer recycling 5 center network activities, community-university information 6 extension activities, (iii) plan for public-private 7 sustainability of community technology centers and community 8 information networks, and (iv) match or coordinate funding 9 support for statewide activities to improve the capacity and 10 productivity of community technology centers, initiatives, 11 and networks. 12 (30 ILCS 780/5-55 new) 13 Sec. 5-55. Community Computer Recycling Network Grant 14 Program. 15 (a) Subject to appropriation, the Department must 16 administer the Community Computer Recycling Center Network 17 Grant Program under which the Department shall make grants in 18 accordance with this Law for the planning, establishment, 19 administration, and expansion of community, area-wide, 20 countywide, and multi-countywide networks of centers that 21 undertake community computer recycling, refurbishment, earned 22 technology, technology-based training, small technology 23 business programs, and community and nonprofit institutional 24 distribution programs for low-income and underserved 25 populations. Grants shall be made to networks of centers 26 that (i) work together to serve their areas or districts, 27 (ii) link those programs to social services, health care, 28 public safety, housing, and basic human resource networks 29 that support improvement in the quality of lives of 30 individuals, families, and the nonprofit institutions, (iii) 31 are part of the community support networks, and (iv) 32 coordinate activities with grantees of the Department's 33 Illinois Recycling Grants Program. The total amount of HB3353 Engrossed -3- LRB9206933MWcd 1 grants awarded under this Section in fiscal year 2002 may not 2 exceed $2,000,000. No network may receive a grant in excess 3 of $75,000. 4 (b) Subject to appropriation, the Department shall 5 expend not more than $200,000 in fiscal year 2002 to 6 establish and support a Statewide Community Computer 7 Recycling Network in coordination with other statewide 8 community technology support initiatives and with a focus on 9 the development and adoption of standardized software and 10 hardware licensing agreements for the use of donated 11 computers and other technology by nonprofit 12 institution-managed programs for community recycling and 13 earned computer programs. 14 (30 ILCS 780/5-60 new) 15 Sec. 5-60. Community-Higher Education Information 16 Extension Program. Subject to appropriation, the Illinois 17 Century Network, in cooperation with the Department, must: 18 (1) Establish a Community-Higher Education 19 Information Extension Consortium that will link community 20 and social service nonprofit organizations, including 21 community technology centers, chambers of commerce, and 22 economic development organizations. The Community-Higher 23 Education Information Extension Consortium shall focus on 24 building local human resource networks and computer 25 technology user networks that link community, education, 26 business, and public agencies in local communities or 27 district areas with not fewer than 60,000 and not more 28 than 250,000 residents. The Consortium shall also 29 develop a special planning initiative to link the current 30 Illinois Century Network learning institutions with 31 community institutions that have an interest in 32 connection to the Illinois Century Network's learner 33 information networks. For the purposes of this HB3353 Engrossed -4- LRB9206933MWcd 1 paragraph, "Illinois Century Network learning 2 institution" means any schools, higher education 3 institutions, libraries, and cultural institutions in the 4 State included in the Illinois Century Network. 5 (2) Conduct planning and program development 6 activities for the current Illinois Century Network 7 community-higher education and community-learning 8 institutions in each district and subdistrict that 9 involve the development of local consortia of community 10 institutions and the preparation and recommendations on 11 cooperative activities statewide and for each district 12 and subdistrict. 13 (30 ILCS 780/5-65 new) 14 Sec. 5-65. Technology planning. Subject to 15 appropriation, the Department, working with the Illinois 16 Century Network, the Governor's Office of Technology, other 17 public agencies, and a cross-section of private community, 18 nonprofit, and business sector parties, in person and through 19 distance learning and on-line communications, must review 20 developments in priorities for community technology planning 21 and support by federal agencies, including the United States 22 Department of Commerce, the United States Department of 23 Education, the United States Department of Housing and Urban 24 Development, the United States Department of Justice, the 25 United States Department of Health and Human Services, and 26 other federal agencies and federally-supported programs, and 27 must prepare recommendations concerning the best use of 28 State-funded community technology programs to provide 29 sustainability planning in relation to federal programs. 30 During the course of the review, at least one distance 31 learning conference using the preliminary findings must be 32 conducted at locations around the State in order to obtain 33 public comments on the findings. A report and HB3353 Engrossed -5- LRB9206933MWcd 1 recommendations must be completed no later than December 1, 2 2001 in order to assist in planning for the State budget for 3 fiscal year 2003. 4 (30 ILCS 780/5-70 new) 5 Sec. 5-70. Community-based technology job training. 6 (a) Subject to appropriation, the Department must, 7 through grants, support the development and delivery of 8 community-based technology job training initiatives to help 9 disadvantaged job seekers and low-wage and displaced workers 10 in Illinois with one or more of the following: 11 (1) Obtaining technology workplace literacy skills 12 and other technology job readiness skills identified by 13 an individual employer or by an industrial sector, and 14 obtaining initial employment. 15 (2) Developing technology job and career management 16 skills, as demonstrated by employer-endorsed credentials 17 and portfolios of proven work experience, and obtaining 18 and retaining stable employment. 19 (3) Advancing in employment through certified 20 technology skills, necessary work experience, and career 21 management skills that meet the needs of employers. 22 Eligible applicants for community-based technology job 23 training grants include community-based organizations, 24 community technology centers, and community colleges that 25 primarily serve low-income persons and that facilitate 26 working partnerships with employers in both technology and 27 non-technology sectors. 28 (b) Subject to appropriation, the Department shall expend 29 not more the $4,000,000 in any fiscal year to make grants 30 under this Section. 31 Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon 32 becoming law.