Full Text of HB1487 95th General Assembly
HB1487 95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2007 and 2008 HB1487
Introduced 2/21/2007, by Rep. Constance A. Howard - Esther Golar SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: |
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Creates the Sustainable Funding for Community Technology Act. Authorizes the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity to (i) establish community collaboratives for the purpose of strategic planning for computing and telecommunications infrastructure and related community and economic development in low-income rural and urban areas and (ii) award strategic planning grants and telecommunications and computing infrastructure sustainable funding grants to those community collaboratives. Effective July 1, 2007.
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A BILL FOR
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| AN ACT concerning technology.
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| Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| represented in the General Assembly:
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| Section 1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the | 5 |
| Sustainable Funding for Community Technology Act. | 6 |
| Section 5. Findings. | 7 |
| (a) The General Assembly finds that the present structure | 8 |
| of funding for community technology suffers from core | 9 |
| deficiencies. The charity-oriented approach to non-profit | 10 |
| funding has created fundamental instability in the provision of | 11 |
| critical services to low-income communities. Foundations and | 12 |
| private philanthropy are not sufficient to support long-term | 13 |
| development and operation of technological infrastructure. In | 14 |
| addition, grant funding models for non-profits grossly | 15 |
| underestimate the sustained technical assistance, | 16 |
| infrastructure development, and maintenance requirements of | 17 |
| computing and communications technology in non-profit | 18 |
| settings. | 19 |
| (b) The General Assembly further finds that low-income | 20 |
| communities would benefit from a capital development funding | 21 |
| approach that addresses regional planning and collaboration, | 22 |
| creates a sustainable capital base in each region, educates | 23 |
| traditional donors concerning community technology needs, and |
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| coordinates donation of equipment and services in each region | 2 |
| and its associated service area. | 3 |
| Section 10. Definitions. As used in this Act: | 4 |
| "Collaborative" means a community collaborative | 5 |
| established under this Act. | 6 |
| "Department" means the Department of Commerce and Economic | 7 |
| Opportunity. | 8 |
| Section 15. Community collaboratives; board of directors. | 9 |
| (a) Subject to appropriation, the Department may establish | 10 |
| community collaboratives for the purpose of strategic planning | 11 |
| for computing and telecommunications infrastructure and | 12 |
| related community and economic development in low-income rural | 13 |
| and urban areas. A community collaborative established under | 14 |
| this Section shall represent a specified geographic region | 15 |
| determined by the Department by rule. No more than 20 | 16 |
| non-profit agencies within that geographic region shall be | 17 |
| represented in the collaborative. | 18 |
| (b) Each community collaborative shall consist of a board | 19 |
| of directors as follows: | 20 |
| (1) one representative of a technical profession with | 21 |
| broad experience in education, technology, social policy, | 22 |
| and social program implementation; | 23 |
| (2) one representative with experience in the fields of | 24 |
| law, finance, technology, or another relevant field; |
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| (3) one representative of fund-raising constituencies, | 2 |
| such as philanthropic foundations, corporate executives, | 3 |
| private donors, or other fund-raising sources; | 4 |
| (4) one representative of each member agency of the | 5 |
| collaborative; and | 6 |
| (5) one resident of the geographic area that the | 7 |
| collaborative represents. | 8 |
| The majority of the members of the board must be residents | 9 |
| of the geographic area that the collaborative represents. No | 10 |
| member of the board may vote on any funding decision that would | 11 |
| have a direct positive financial impact on that member or any | 12 |
| entity that that member represents or in which the member has | 13 |
| an interest. Members of the board shall serve without | 14 |
| compensation. The board may hire and provide compensation for a | 15 |
| resource development professional and an administrative | 16 |
| assistant. | 17 |
| Section 20. Strategic planning. The Department may award | 18 |
| each collaborative a strategic planning grant for the purpose | 19 |
| of determining the computing and telecommunications | 20 |
| infrastructure needs and related community and economic | 21 |
| development needs of the non-profit agencies and the community | 22 |
| within the geographic area that the collaborative represents. | 23 |
| Within 4 months after receipt of the strategic planning grant, | 24 |
| the collaborative shall deliver the strategic plan to the | 25 |
| Department. The total amount of strategic planning grants |
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| awarded to any one collaborative under this Section shall not | 2 |
| exceed $300,000. | 3 |
| Section 25. Telecommunications and computing | 4 |
| infrastructure sustainable funding grants. | 5 |
| (a) Upon receipt of the strategic plan of a community | 6 |
| collaborative under Section 20, the Department may award to | 7 |
| that community collaborative a sustainable funding grant to | 8 |
| endow or provide the general operating costs of | 9 |
| telecommunications and computing infrastructure and related | 10 |
| community and economic development. | 11 |
| (b) Grants awarded to endow a telecommunications and | 12 |
| computing infrastructure shall not be in an amount less than | 13 |
| $10,000,000. Grants awarded for the general operating costs of | 14 |
| telecommunications and computing infrastructure shall not be | 15 |
| in an amount less than $2,000,000. | 16 |
| (c) Upon receipt of a telecommunications and computing | 17 |
| infrastructure sustainable funding grant, the collaborative | 18 |
| shall distribute those funds to appropriate member agencies.
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| Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect July 1, | 20 |
| 2007.
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