HB1959sam001 93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY

Sen. George P. Shadid

Filed: 4/27/2004

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AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 1959

AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 1959 by replacing everything after the enacting clause with the following:

"Section 5. The State Property Control Act is amended by adding Section 8.2 as follows:

(30 ILCS 605/8.2 new)

Sec. 8.2. Zeller Mental Health Center.

(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act or any other law to the contrary, the administrator is authorized under this Section to sell the property formerly known as the George A. Zeller Mental Health Center located at 5407 North University Street, Peoria, Illinois to the property's current occupant, Illinois Central College, at a value of not less than the 2002 appraised value as determined by an independent appraiser selected by the Department of Central Management Services, adjusted by any customary amounts in commercial real estate transactions of this type, as negotiated and agreed upon by the Department of Cental Management Services.

(b) The first $1,200,000 of the moneys received from the sale of real property under this Section shall be deposited into the Mental Health Transportation Fund. The balance of the moneys received from the sale of real property under this Section shall be deposited into the General Revenue Fund.

(c) The Mental Health Transportation Fund is created as a special fund in the State treasury. Subject to appropriation, moneys in the Fund shall be used by the Department of Human Services to pay for the costs of appropriately transporting and arranging the transportation of mental health patients to mental health facilities as well as transporting these patients between these facilities.

(d) Any agreement to sell the property formerly known as the George A. Zeller Mental Health Center under this Section shall be entered into no later than one year after the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 93rd General Assembly.

Section 10. The State Finance Act is amended by adding Section 5.625 as follows:

(30 ILCS 105/5.625 new)

Sec. 5.625. The Mental Health Transportation Fund.

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