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1    AN ACT concerning State government.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The Department of Central Management Services
5Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois is amended by
6changing Section 405-335 as follows:
 
7    (20 ILCS 405/405-335)
8    Sec. 405-335. Illinois Transparency and Accountability
9Portal (ITAP).
10    (a) The Department, within 12 months after the effective
11date of this amendatory Act of the 96th General Assembly, shall
12establish and maintain a website, known as the Illinois
13Transparency and Accountability Portal (ITAP), with a
14full-time webmaster tasked with compiling and updating the ITAP
15database with information received from all State agencies as
16defined in this Section.
17    (b) For purposes of this Section:
18    "State agency" means the offices of the constitutional
19officers identified in Article V of the Illinois Constitution,
20executive agencies, and departments, boards, commissions, and
21Authorities under the Governor.
22    "Contracts" means payment obligations with vendors on file
23with the Office of the Comptroller to purchase goods and

 

 

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1services exceeding $10,000 in value (or, in the case of
2professional or artistic services, exceeding $5,000 in value).
3    "Appropriation" means line-item detail of spending
4approved by the General Assembly and Governor, categorized by
5object of expenditure.
6    "Individual consultants" means temporary workers eligible
7to receive State benefits paid on a State payroll.
8    "Recipients" means State agencies receiving
9appropriations.
10    (c) The ITAP shall provide direct access to each of the
11following:
12        (1) A database of all current State employees and
13    individual consultants, except sworn law enforcement
14    officers, sorted separately by:
15            (i) Name.
16            (ii) Employing State agency.
17            (iii) Employing State division.
18            (iv) Employment position title.
19            (v) Current pay rate and year-to-date pay.
20        (2) A database of all current State expenditures,
21    sorted separately by agency, category, recipient, and
22    Representative District.
23        (3) A database of all development assistance
24    reportable pursuant to the Corporate Accountability for
25    Tax Expenditures Act, sorted separately by tax credit
26    category, taxpayer, and Representative District.

 

 

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1        (4) A database of all revocations and suspensions of
2    State occupation and use tax certificates of registration
3    and all revocations and suspensions of State professional
4    licenses, sorted separately by name, geographic location,
5    and certificate of registration number or license number,
6    as applicable. Professional license revocations and
7    suspensions shall be posted only if resulting from a
8    failure to pay taxes, license fees, or child support.
9        (5) A database of all current State contracts, sorted
10    separately by contractor name, awarding officer or agency,
11    contract value, and goods or services provided.
12        (6) A database of all employees hired after the
13    effective date of this amendatory Act of 2010, sorted
14    searchably by each of the following at the time of
15    employment:
16            (i) Name.
17            (ii) Employing State agency.
18            (iii) Employing State division.
19            (iv) Employment position title.
20            (v) Current pay rate and year-to-date pay.
21            (vi) County of employment location.
22            (vii) Rutan status.
23            (viii) Status of position as subject to collective
24        bargaining, subject to merit compensation, or exempt
25        under Section 4d of the Personnel Code.
26            (ix) Employment status as probationary, trainee,

 

 

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1        intern, certified, or exempt from certification.
2            (x) Status as a military veteran.
3        (7) A database of all grant funds awarded by a State
4    agency during the current and previous fiscal years, sorted
5    separately by:
6            (i) Name of grantor agency.
7            (ii) Name of the grantee.
8            (iii) Total amount of grants per grantee by State
9        agency.
10    (d) The ITAP shall include all information required to be
11published by subsection (c) of this Section that is available
12to the Department in a format the Department can compile and
13publish on the ITAP. The Department shall update the ITAP as
14additional information becomes available in a format that can
15be compiled and published on the ITAP by the Department.
16    (e) Each State agency shall cooperate with the Department
17in furnishing the information necessary for the implementation
18of this Section within a timeframe specified by the Department.
19(Source: P.A. 96-225, eff. 1-1-10; 96-1387, eff. 1-1-11.)
 
20    Section 10. The Illinois Grant Funds Recovery Act is
21amended by changing Section 4 as follows:
 
22    (30 ILCS 705/4)  (from Ch. 127, par. 2304)
23    Sec. 4. Grant Application and Agreement Requirements.
24    (a) Any person or organization, public or private, desiring

 

 

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1to receive grant funds must submit a grant application to the
2appropriate grantor agency. Applications for grant funds shall
3be made on prescribed forms developed by the grantor agency,
4and shall include, without being limited to, the following
5provisions:
6        (1) the name, address, chief officers, and general
7    description of the applicant and the name of and the amount
8    of compensation paid to each of the 3 highest paid
9    employees of the applicant during the fiscal year preceding
10    the submission of the grant application;
11        (2) a general description of the program, project, or
12    use for which grant funding is requested;
13        (3) such plans, equipment lists, and other documents as
14    may be required to show the type, structure, and general
15    character of the program, project, or use for which grant
16    funding is requested;
17        (4) cost estimates of developing, constructing,
18    operating, or completing the program, project, or use for
19    which grant funding is requested; and
20        (5) a program of proposed expenditures for the grant
21    funds, including but not limited to an itemization by
22    employees of all grant funds that will be expended for
23    compensation of grantee's employees.
24    (b) Grant funds may not be used except pursuant to a
25written grant agreement, and any disbursement of grant funds
26without a grant agreement is void. At a minimum, a grant

 

 

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1agreement must:
2        (1) describe the purpose of the grant and be signed by
3    the grantor agency making the grant and all grantees of the
4    grant;
5        (2) specify how payments shall be made, what
6    constitutes permissible expenditure of the grant funds,
7    and the financial controls applicable to the grant,
8    including, for those grants in excess of $25,000, the
9    filing of quarterly reports describing the progress of the
10    program, project, or use and the expenditure of the grant
11    funds related thereto;
12        (3) specify the period of time for which the grant is
13    valid and, subject to the limitation of Section 5, the
14    period of time during which grant funds may be expended by
15    the grantee;
16        (4) contain a provision that any grantees receiving
17    grant funds are required to permit the grantor agency, the
18    Auditor General, or the Attorney General to inspect and
19    audit any books, records, or papers related to the program,
20    project, or use for which grant funds were provided;
21        (5) contain a provision that all funds remaining at the
22    end of the grant agreement or at the expiration of the
23    period of time grant funds are available for expenditure or
24    obligation by the grantee shall be returned to the State
25    within 45 days; and
26        (6) contain a provision in which the grantee certifies

 

 

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1    under oath that all information in the grant agreement is
2    true and correct to the best of the grantee's knowledge,
3    information, and belief; that the funds shall be used only
4    for the purposes described in the grant agreement; and that
5    the award of grant funds is conditioned upon such
6    certification.
7    (c) All information provided under this Section shall be
8open to the public.
9(Source: P.A. 96-795, eff. 7-1-10 (see Section 5 of P.A. 96-793
10for the effective date of changes made by P.A. 96-795).)
 
11    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
12becoming law.