HB1727ham004 95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

Rep. Kevin Joyce

Filed: 4/20/2007

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AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 1727

AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 1727 as follows:

on page 3, by deleting lines 19 through 24; and

by deleting page 4; and

on page 5, by replacing lines 1 through 23 with the following:

"Section 20. Rules; annual attestation.

(a) The State Librarian shall adopt rules to implement and administer this Act.

(b) The head of each administrative unit must annually attest in writing, under penalty of perjury, that all public library locations within the jurisdiction of the administrative unit are in compliance with Section 15, as a condition of the receipt of any State grants distributed through the State Librarian under the Illinois Library Systems Act.

Section 25. Internet Screening in Public Libraries Fund. The"; and

on page 6, immediately below line 8, by inserting the following:

"Section 85. 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.

(3) Be in compliance with the requirements set forth in the Internet Screening in Public Libraries Act and the administrative unit in whose jurisdiction the library is located must have submitted the annual attestation required under Section 20 of that Act.

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.)".