Public Act 093-1054
 
HB7029 Enrolled LRB093 19876 AMC 45619 b

    AN ACT concerning nursing.
 
    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
 
    Section 5. The State Finance Act is amended by changing
Section 8h as follows:
 
    (30 ILCS 105/8h)
    Sec. 8h. Transfers to General Revenue Fund.
Notwithstanding any other State law to the contrary, the
Director of the Governor's Office of Management and Budget may
from time to time direct the State Treasurer and Comptroller to
transfer a specified sum from any fund held by the State
Treasurer to the General Revenue Fund in order to help defray
the State's operating costs for the fiscal year. The total
transfer under this Section from any fund in any fiscal year
shall not exceed the lesser of 8% of the revenues to be
deposited into the fund during that year or 25% of the
beginning balance in the fund. No transfer may be made from a
fund under this Section that would have the effect of reducing
the available balance in the fund to an amount less than the
amount remaining unexpended and unreserved from the total
appropriation from that fund for that fiscal year. This Section
does not apply to any funds that are restricted by federal law
to a specific use, or to any funds in the Motor Fuel Tax Fund or
the Hospital Provider Fund, or to any funds to which subsection
(f) of Section 20-40 of the Nursing and Advanced Practice
Nursing Act applies. Notwithstanding any other provision of
this Section, the total transfer under this Section from the
Road Fund or the State Construction Account Fund shall not
exceed 5% of the revenues to be deposited into the fund during
that year.
    In determining the available balance in a fund, the
Director of the Governor's Office of Management and Budget may
include receipts, transfers into the fund, and other resources
anticipated to be available in the fund in that fiscal year.
    The State Treasurer and Comptroller shall transfer the
amounts designated under this Section as soon as may be
practicable after receiving the direction to transfer from the
Director of the Governor's Office of Management and Budget.
(Source: P.A. 93-32, eff. 6-20-03; 93-659, eff. 2-3-04.)
 
    Section 10. The Nursing and Advanced Practice Nursing Act
is amended by changing Section 20-40 as follows:
 
    (225 ILCS 65/20-40)
    (Section scheduled to be repealed on January 1, 2008)
    Sec. 20-40. Fund. There is hereby created within the State
Treasury the Nursing Dedicated and Professional Fund. The
monies in the Fund may be used by and at the direction of the
Department for the administration and enforcement of this Act,
including but not limited to:
        (a) Distribution and publication of the Nursing and
    Advanced Practice Nursing Act and the rules at the time of
    renewal to all persons licensed by the Department under
    this Act.
        (b) Employment of secretarial, nursing,
    administrative, enforcement, and other staff for the
    administration of this Act.
        (c) Conducting a survey, as prescribed by rule of the
    Department, once every 4 years during the license renewal
    period.
        (d) Conducting of training seminars for licensees
    under this Act relating to the obligations,
    responsibilities, enforcement and other provisions of the
    Act and its rules.
        (e) Disposition of Fees:
            (i) (Blank).
            (ii) All of the fees and fines collected pursuant
        to this Act shall be deposited in the Nursing Dedicated
        and Professional Fund.
            (iii) For the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1988,
        the moneys deposited in the Nursing Dedicated and
        Professional Fund shall be appropriated to the
        Department for expenses of the Department and the Board
        in the administration of this Act. All earnings
        received from investment of moneys in the Nursing
        Dedicated and Professional Fund shall be deposited in
        the Nursing Dedicated and Professional Fund and shall
        be used for the same purposes as fees deposited in the
        Fund.
            (iv) For the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2004
        2001 and for each fiscal year thereafter, $1,200,000
        $750,000 of the moneys deposited in the Nursing
        Dedicated and Professional Fund each year shall be set
        aside and appropriated to the Illinois Department of
        Public Health for nursing scholarships awarded
        pursuant to the Nursing Education Scholarship Law.
        Representatives of the Department and the Nursing
        Education Scholarship Program Advisory Council shall
        review this requirement and the scholarship awards
        every 2 years.
            (v) Moneys in the Fund may be transferred to the
        Professions Indirect Cost Fund as authorized under
        Section 2105-300 of the Department of Professional
        Regulation Law (20 ILCS 2105/2105-300).
    (f) Moneys set aside for nursing scholarships awarded
pursuant to the Nursing Education Scholarship Law as provided
in item (iv) of subsection (e) of this Section may not be
transferred under Section 8h of the State Finance Act.
(Source: P.A. 91-239, 1-1-00; 92-46, eff. 7-1-01.)
 
    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.

Effective Date: 11/18/2004