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91_HB3973
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1 AN ACT to amend the Department of Commerce and Community
2 Affairs Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois by
3 changing Section 605-400.
4 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
5 represented in the General Assembly:
6 Section 5. The Department of Commerce and Community
7 Affairs Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois is
8 amended by changing Section 605-400 as follows:
9 (20 ILCS 605/605-400) (was 20 ILCS 605/46.19c)
10 Sec. 605-400. Office of Urban Assistance. The Department
11 shall provide for, staff, and administer an Office of Urban
12 Assistance, which shall plan and coordinate existing State
13 programs designed to aid and stimulate the economic growth of
14 depressed urban areas. Among other duties assigned by the
15 Department, the Office shall have the following duties:
16 (1) To coordinate the activities of the following
17 units and programs of the Department and all other
18 present and future units and programs of the Department
19 that impact depressed urban areas to the extent that they
20 impact upon or concern urban economics:
21 (A) Enterprise Zone Program.
22 (B) Small Business Development Center Program.
23 (C) Programs that assist in the development of
24 community infrastructure.
25 (D) Illinois House Energy Assistance Program.
26 (E) Illinois Home Weatherization Assistance
27 Program.
28 (F) Programs financed with Community Services Block
29 Grant funds.
30 (G) Industrial Training Program.
31 (H) Technology Transfer and Innovation Program.
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1 (I) Rental Rehabilitation Program.
2 (J) Displaced Homemaker Program.
3 (K) Programs under the federal Job Training
4 Partnership Act.
5 The Office shall convene quarterly meetings of
6 representatives who are designated by the Department to
7 represent the units and programs listed in items (A) through
8 (K).
9 (2) To gather information concerning any State or
10 federal program that is designed to revitalize or assist
11 depressed urban areas in the State and to provide this
12 information to public and private entities upon request.
13 (3) To promote and assist in developing urban inner city
14 industrial parks.
15 (4) To promote economic parity and the autonomy of
16 citizens of this State through promoting and assisting the
17 development of urban inner city small business development
18 centers, urban youth unemployment projects, small business
19 incubators, family resource centers, urban developments
20 banks, self managed urban businesses, and plans for urban
21 infrastructure projects over the next 25 years.
22 (5) To recommend to the General Assembly and the
23 Governor economic policies for urban areas and planning
24 models that will result in the reconstruction of the economy
25 of urban areas, especially those urban areas where
26 economically and socially disadvantaged people live.
27 (6) To make recommendations to the General Assembly and
28 the Governor on the establishment of urban economic policy in
29 the areas of (i) housing, (ii) scientific research, (iii)
30 urban youth unemployment, (iv) business incubators and family
31 resource centers in urban inner cities, and (v) alternative
32 energy resource development, and the need thereof, in urban
33 areas as part of the department's 5-year plan for economic
34 development.
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1 (7) To make any rules and regulations necessary to carry
2 out its responsibilities under the Civil Administrative Code
3 of Illinois.
4 (8) To encourage new industrial enterprises to locate in
5 urban areas (i) through educational promotions that point out
6 the opportunities of any such area as a commercial and
7 industrial field of opportunity and (ii) by the solicitation
8 of industrial enterprises; and to do other acts that, in the
9 judgment of the Office, are necessary and proper in fostering
10 and promoting the industrial development and economic welfare
11 of any urban area. The Office, however, shall have no power
12 to require reports from or to regulate any business.
13 (9) To accept grants, loans, or appropriations from the
14 federal government or the State, or any agency or
15 instrumentality thereof, to be used for the operating
16 expenses of the Office or for any purposes of the Office,
17 including the making of direct loans or grants of those funds
18 for public, private, experimental, or cooperative housing,
19 scientific research, urban inner city industrial parks, urban
20 youth employment projects, business incubators, urban
21 infrastructure development, alternative energy resource
22 development, community facilities needed in urban areas, and
23 any other purpose related to the revitalization of urban
24 areas.
25 (10) To establish within each local branch of the Office
26 a local board of directors to act as an advisory board to the
27 Department. Each local board of directors shall consist of 9
28 members appointed by the Director of the Department. Five
29 members of the local board of directors shall be from private
30 industry and 4 members shall be from community-based
31 organizations and community leadership.
32 (Source: P.A. 91-239, eff. 1-1-00.)
33 Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
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1 becoming law.