Public Act 0589 98TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

SB2381 Enrolled LRB098 10592 JWD 40854 b

Public Act 098-0589

AN ACT concerning finance.

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly:

Section 1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the Grant Information Collection Act.

Section 5. Definitions. For the purposes of this Act, unless the context otherwise requires:

"Grant funds" means any public funds dispensed by a grantor agency to any person or entity for obligation, expenditure, or use by that person or entity for a specific purpose or purposes and any funds disbursed by the State Comptroller pursuant to an appropriation made by the General Assembly to a named entity or person. Funds disbursed in accordance with a fee for service purchase of care contract are not grant funds for purposes of this Act.

Neither the method by which funds are dispensed, whether by contract, agreement, grant subsidy, letter of credit, or any other method, nor the purpose for which the funds are used can change the character of funds which otherwise would be considered grant funds as defined in this Section.

"Grantee" means the person or entity which may use grant funds.

"Grantor agency" means a State agency that dispenses grant funds.

"State agency" means State-supported universities and colleges and any department, office, commission, board, or authority within the Executive Department, other than the Office of the Lieutenant Governor, the Office of the Attorney General, the Office of the Secretary of State, the Office of the Comptroller, or the Office of the Treasurer.

Section 10. Grant information collection. The Chief Information Officer of the State, as designated by the Governor, shall coordinate with each State agency to develop, with any existing or newly available resources and technology, appropriate systems to accurately report data containing financial information. These systems shall include a module that is specific to the management and administration of grant funds.

Each grantor agency that is authorized to award grant funds to an entity other than the State of Illinois shall coordinate with the Chief Information Officer of the State to provide for the publication, at data.illinois.gov or any other publicly accessible website designated by the Chief Information Officer, of data sets containing information regarding awards of grant funds that the grantor agency has made during the previous fiscal year. Data sets shall be published on at least a quarterly basis and shall include, at a minimum, the following:

(1) the name of the grantor agency;

(2) the name and postal zip code of the grantee;

(3) a short description of the purpose of the award of grant funds;

(4) the amount of each award of grant funds;

(5) the date of each award of grant funds; and

(6) the duration of each award of grant funds.

In addition, each grantor agency shall make best efforts, with available resources and technology, to make available in the data sets any other data that is relevant to its award of grant funds.

Data not subject to the requirements of this Section include data to which a State agency may deny access pursuant to any provision of a federal, State, or local law, rule, or regulation.

Effective Date: 1/1/2014