Public Act 097-0675
 
HB0588 EnrolledLRB097 03418 HLH 43455 b

    AN ACT concerning local government.
 
    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
 
    Section 5. The Illinois Library System Act is amended by
changing Section 8.1 as follows:
 
    (75 ILCS 10/8.1)  (from Ch. 81, par. 118.1)
    Sec. 8.1. The State Librarian shall make grants annually
under this Section to all qualified public libraries in the
State from funds appropriated by the General Assembly. Such
grants shall be in the amount of up to $1.25 per capita for the
population of the area served by the respective public library
and, in addition, the amount of up to $0.19 per capita to
libraries serving populations over 500,000 under the Illinois
Major Urban Library Program. If the moneys appropriated for
grants under this Section are not sufficient the State
Librarian shall reduce the per capita amount of the grants so
that the qualifying public libraries receive the same amount
per capita.
    To be eligible for grants under this Section, a public
library must:
        (1) Provide, as determined by the State Librarian,
    library services which either meet or show progress toward
    meeting the Illinois library standards, as most recently
    adopted by the Illinois Library Association.
        (2) Be a public library for which is levied a tax for
    library purposes at a rate not less than .13% or a county
    library for which is levied a tax for library purposes at a
    rate not less than .07%. If a library is subject to the
    Property Tax Extension Limitation Law in the Property Tax
    Code and its tax levy for library purposes has been lowered
    to a rate of less than .13%, this requirement will be
    waived if the library qualified for this grant in the
    previous year and if the tax levied for library purposes in
    the current year produces tax revenue for library purposes
    that is an increase over the previous year's extension of
    5% or the percentage increase in the Consumer Price Index,
    whichever is less. Beginning in State Fiscal Year 2012 and
    continuing through and including State Fiscal Year 2015,
    the eligibility requirement in this subsection shall be
    waived if a library's tax levy for library purposes has
    been lowered to a rate of less than 0.13%, and the State
    Librarian determines that the library (i) continues to meet
    the requirements of item (1) of this Section and (ii)
    received a grant under this Section in the previous fiscal
    year.
    Any other language in this Section to the contrary
notwithstanding, grants under this Section 8.1 shall be made
only upon application of the public library concerned, which
applications shall be entirely voluntary and within the sole
discretion of the public library concerned.
    In order to be eligible for a grant under this Section, the
corporate authorities, in lieu of a tax levy at a particular
rate, may provide funds from other sources, an amount
equivalent to the amount to be produced by that levy.
(Source: P.A. 93-527, eff. 8-14-03.)
 
    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.

Effective Date: 2/6/2012