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 1                    AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 3353

 2        AMENDMENT NO.     .  Amend House Bill 3353  by  replacing
 3    everything after the enacting clause with the following:

 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,
 
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 1    community mapping, technology skill  development,  technology
 2    staff  and volunteer development, educational content, health
 3    and public safety or other network support.  The total amount
 4    of  grants  awarded  in  fiscal  year  2002  may  not  exceed
 5    $1,500,000.  An applicant for a grant under  this  subsection
 6    may  also  apply  for  a grant under the Community Technology
 7    Center Grant Program.
 8        (b)  Subject to appropriation, the Department may  expend
 9    not more than $2,500,000 in fiscal year 2002 to establish and
10    support  a  Statewide  Community Technology Center Network to
11    (i) assist in local  and  regional  planning  and  evaluation
12    under  this  Law,  (ii)  support coordination among community
13    technology center initiatives, community  computer  recycling
14    center  network  activities, community-university information
15    extension   activities,   (iii)   plan   for   public-private
16    sustainability of community technology centers and  community
17    information  networks,  and  (iv) match or coordinate funding
18    support for statewide activities to improve the capacity  and
19    productivity  of  community  technology centers, initiatives,
20    and networks.

21        (30 ILCS 780/5-55 new)
22        Sec. 5-55. Community  Computer  Recycling  Network  Grant
23    Program.
24        (a)  Subject   to   appropriation,  the  Department  must
25    administer the Community Computer  Recycling  Center  Network
26    Grant Program under which the Department shall make grants in
27    accordance  with  this  Law  for the planning, establishment,
28    administration,  and  expansion  of   community,   area-wide,
29    countywide,  and  multi-countywide  networks  of centers that
30    undertake community computer recycling, refurbishment, earned
31    technology,  technology-based  training,   small   technology
32    business  programs, and community and nonprofit institutional
33    distribution  programs   for   low-income   and   underserved
 
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 1    populations.   Grants  shall  be  made to networks of centers
 2    that (i) work together to serve  their  areas  or  districts,
 3    (ii)  link  those  programs  to social services, health care,
 4    public safety, housing, and  basic  human  resource  networks
 5    that   support   improvement  in  the  quality  of  lives  of
 6    individuals, families, and the nonprofit institutions,  (iii)
 7    are   part  of  the  community  support  networks,  and  (iv)
 8    coordinate  activities  with  grantees  of  the  Department's
 9    Illinois Recycling  Grants  Program.   The  total  amount  of
10    grants awarded under this Section in fiscal year 2002 may not
11    exceed  $2,000,000.  No network may receive a grant in excess
12    of $75,000.
13        (b)  Subject  to  appropriation,  the  Department   shall
14    expend  not  more  than  $200,000  in  fiscal  year  2002  to
15    establish   and   support   a  Statewide  Community  Computer
16    Recycling  Network  in  coordination  with  other   statewide
17    community  technology support initiatives and with a focus on
18    the development and adoption  of  standardized  software  and
19    hardware   licensing   agreements  for  the  use  of  donated
20    computers    and    other     technology     by     nonprofit
21    institution-managed  programs  for  community  recycling  and
22    earned computer programs.

23        (30 ILCS 780/5-60 new)
24        Sec.    5-60.    Community-Higher  Education  Information
25    Extension  Program.   The  Illinois   Century   Network,   in
26    cooperation with the Department, must:
27             (1)  Establish    a    Community-Higher    Education
28        Information Extension Consortium that will link community
29        and  social  service  nonprofit  organizations, including
30        community technology centers, chambers of  commerce,  and
31        economic development organizations.  The Community-Higher
32        Education Information Extension Consortium shall focus on
33        building  local  human  resource  networks  and  computer
 
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 1        technology  user networks that link community, education,
 2        business, and public agencies  in  local  communities  or
 3        district  areas  with  not fewer than 60,000 and not more
 4        250,000 residents.  The Consortium shall also  develop  a
 5        special  planning initiative to link the current Illinois
 6        Century  Network  learning  institutions  with  community
 7        institutions that have an interest in connection  to  the
 8        Illinois  Century Network's learner information networks.
 9        For the purposes of  this  paragraph,  "Illinois  Century
10        Network  learning  institution" means any schools, higher
11        education   institutions,   libraries,    and    cultural
12        institutions  in  the  State  included  in  the  Illinois
13        Century Network.
14             (2)  Conduct   planning   and   program  development
15        activities  for  the  current  Illinois  Century  Network
16        community-higher   education    and    community-learning
17        institutions   in  each  district  and  subdistrict  that
18        involve the development of local consortia  of  community
19        institutions  and  the preparation and recommendations on
20        cooperative activities statewide and  for  each  district
21        and subdistrict.

22        (30 ILCS 780/5-65 new)
23        Sec.  5-65. Technology planning.  The Department, working
24    with the Illinois Century Network, the Governor's  Office  of
25    Technology,  other  public  agencies,  and a cross-section of
26    private community, nonprofit, and business sector parties, in
27    person   and   through   distance   learning   and    on-line
28    communications,  must  review  developments in priorities for
29    community  technology  planning  and   support   by   federal
30    agencies, including the United States Department of Commerce,
31    the  United States Department of Education, the United States
32    Department of  Housing  and  Urban  Development,  the  United
33    States Department of Justice, the United States Department of
 
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 1    Health  and  Human  Services,  and other federal agencies and
 2    federally-supported    programs,     and     must     prepare
 3    recommendations  concerning  the  best  use  of  State-funded
 4    community   technology  programs  to  provide  sustainability
 5    planning in relation to federal programs.  During the  course
 6    of  the  review,  at  least  one distance learning conference
 7    using the preliminary findings must be conducted at locations
 8    around the State in order to obtain public  comments  on  the
 9    findings.   A report and recommendations must be completed no
10    later than December 1, 2001 in order to  assist  in  planning
11    for the State budget for fiscal year 2003.

12        (30 ILCS 780/5-70 new)
13        Sec. 5-70.  Community-based technology job training.
14        (a)  The  Department  must,  through  grants, support the
15    development and delivery of  community-based  technology  job
16    training  initiatives  to  help disadvantaged job seekers and
17    low-wage and displaced workers in Illinois with one  or  more
18    of the following:
19             (1)  Obtaining  technology workplace literacy skills
20        and other technology job readiness skills  identified  by
21        an  individual  employer  or by an industrial sector, and
22        obtaining initial employment.
23             (2) Developing technology job and career  management
24        skills,  as demonstrated by employer-endorsed credentials
25        and portfolios of proven work experience,  and  obtaining
26        and retaining stable employment.
27             (3)   Advancing   in  employment  through  certified
28        technology skills, necessary work experience, and  career
29        management skills that meet the needs of employers.
30        Eligible  applicants  for  community-based technology job
31    training  grants   include   community-based   organizations,
32    community  technology  centers,  and  community colleges that
33    primarily  serve  low-income  persons  and  that   facilitate
 
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 1    working  partnerships  with  employers in both technology and
 2    non-technology sectors.
 3        (b) Subject to appropriation, the Department shall expend
 4    not more the $4,000,000 in any fiscal  year  to  make  grants
 5    under this Section.

 6        Section  99.  Effective date.  This Act takes effect upon
 7    becoming law.".

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