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 1        AN  ACT  concerning  the  powers  and  functions  of  the
 2    Department of Commerce and Community Affairs.

 3        Be  it  enacted  by  the People of the State of Illinois,
 4    represented in the General Assembly:

 5        Section 5.  The Civil Administrative Code of Illinois  is
 6    amended by changing Section 46.37 as follows:

 7        (20 ILCS 605/46.37) (from Ch. 127, par. 46.37)
 8        Sec.  46.37.   The Department shall provide for a central
 9    clearing house for information  concerning  local  government
10    problems  and  various  solutions to those problems and shall
11    assist and aid local governments  of  the  State  in  matters
12    relating to budgets, fiscal procedures and administration. In
13    performing  this responsibility the Department shall have the
14    power and duty to:
15        (a)  Maintain communication with  all  local  governments
16    and   assist   them,  at  their  request,  to  improve  their
17    administrative procedures and to  facilitate  improved  local
18    government and development;
19        (b)  Assemble   and  disseminate  information  concerning
20    State and Federal  programs,  grants,  gifts,  and  subsidies
21    available  to  local  governments  and to provide counsel and
22    technical services and other assistance in applying for  such
23    programs, grants, gifts and subsidies;
24        (c)  Assist   in  coordinating  activities  by  obtaining
25    information, on  forms  provided  by  the  Department  or  by
26    receipt  of  proposals and applications, concerning State and
27    Federal  assisted  programs,  grants,  gifts,  and  subsidies
28    applied for and received by all local governments;
29        (d)  Provide  direct  consultative  services   to   local
30    governments  upon  request  and  provide  staff  services  to
31    special  commissions,  the  Governor, the General Assembly or
 
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 1    its committees;
 2        (e)  Render advice and assistance  with  respect  to  the
 3    establishment and maintenance of programs for the training of
 4    local  government  officials  and  other personnel, including
 5    programs of intergovernmental exchange of personnel;
 6        (f)  To act as the official State agency for the  receipt
 7    and  distribution  of  federal  funds  which  are  or  may be
 8    provided to the State on a flat grant basis for  distribution
 9    to  local  governments or in the event federal law requires a
10    State  agency   to   implement   programs   affecting   local
11    governments  and for State funds which are or may be provided
12    for the use of local governments unless otherwise provided by
13    law;
14        (g)  To administer such laws relating to local government
15    affairs as the General Assembly may direct;
16        (h)  Provide all advice and assistance to  improve  local
17    government  administration,  to  insure  the  economical  and
18    efficient provision of local government services, and to make
19    this Act effective;
20        (i)  Give  advice and counsel on fiscal problems of local
21    governments of the State to such local governments;
22        (j)  Prepare uniform budgetary forms for use by the local
23    governments of the State;
24        (k)  Assist and advise the local governments of the State
25    in matters pertaining to budgets, appropriation requests  and
26    ordinances,  the  determination  of  property  tax levies and
27    rates, and other matters of a financial nature;
28        (l)  Be a repository for financial reports and statements
29    required by law of local governments of the State and publish
30    financial summaries thereof;
31        (m)  (Blank) At the request of local governments, provide
32    assistance  in  preparing   bond   issues,   review   bonding
33    proposals,  and  assist  in  marketing  bonds, and provide by
34    January 1, 1985,  model  forms  for  the  disclosure  of  all
 
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 1    information  of  significance to potential purchasers of long
 2    or short term debt of local governments and  all  information
 3    required  to be disclosed in connection with the sale of long
 4    or short term debt by local governments;
 5        (n)  Prepare proposals and advise on  the  investment  of
 6    idle local government funds;
 7        (o)  Administer  the  program  of  grants, loans and loan
 8    guarantees  under  the  federal  Public  Works  and  Economic
 9    Development Act of 1965, as amended, 42 U.S.C. 3121 et  seq.,
10    and  to receive and disburse State and federal funds provided
11    for that program and moneys received as repayments  of  loans
12    made under the program;
13        (p)  After  January  1,  1985,  upon the request of local
14    governments, to prepare and provide model financial statement
15    forms  designed  to   communicate   to   taxpayers,   service
16    consumers,  voters, government employees and news media, in a
17    non-technical manner, all significant  financial  information
18    regarding  a  particular local government, and to prepare and
19    provide to local governments a summary of local  governments'
20    obligations  concerning  the  adoption of an annual operating
21    budget which summary shall be set forth  in  a  non-technical
22    manner and shall be designed principally for distribution to,
23    and   the  use  of,  taxpayers,  service  consumers,  voters,
24    government employees and news media.
25    (Source: P.A. 83-1362.)

26        Section 10.  The Center for Business Ownership Succession
27    and Employee Ownership Act is amended by changing  Section  2
28    as follows:

29        (20 ILCS 609/2)
30        Sec.  2.   Center  for  Business Ownership Succession and
31    Employee Ownership.
32        (a)  There is created within the Department  of  Commerce
 
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 1    and  Community  Affairs  the  Center  for  Business Ownership
 2    Succession and Employee Ownership.
 3        The purpose of the Center is to foster greater  awareness
 4    of  the  most  effective  techniques that facilitate business
 5    ownership succession and employee ownership with an  emphasis
 6    on the retention and creation of job opportunities.
 7        (b)  The  Center  shall  have  the  authority  to  do the
 8    following:
 9             (1)  Develop and disseminate  materials  to  promote
10        effective  business  ownership  succession  and  employee
11        ownership strategies.
12             (2)  Provide  counseling to individual companies and
13        referral services to provide professional advisors expert
14        in  the  field  of  business  ownership  succession   and
15        employee ownership.
16             (3)  Plan, organize, sponsor, or conduct conferences
17        and   workshops  on  business  ownership  succession  and
18        employee ownership issues.
19             (4)  Network  and  contract  with   local   economic
20        development   agencies,   business   organizations,   and
21        professional  advisors  to  accomplish  the  goals of the
22        Center.
23             (5)  Raise money from private sources to support the
24        work of the Center.
25        (c)  (Blank) The work of the Center  shall  be  supported
26    and  guided  by  an Advisory Task Force on Business Ownership
27    Succession and Employee  Ownership.   The  Task  Force  shall
28    consist  of  individuals from the private and public sectors,
29    at least two-thirds of whom shall be from the private sector.
30    The members and the Task Force chairperson shall be chosen by
31    the Governor.
32    (Source: P.A. 89-364, eff. 8-18-95.)

33        Section 15.  The Illinois  Coal  and  Energy  Development
 
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 1    Bond Act is amended by changing Section 6 as follows:

 2        (20 ILCS 1110/6) (from Ch. 96 1/2, par. 4106)
 3        Sec. 6.  The Department of Commerce and Community Affairs
 4    is  authorized to use $120,000,000 for the purposes specified
 5    in this Act.  These funds shall be expended only on  projects
 6    for  which previous approval of the Illinois Energy Resources
 7    Commission has been granted or for a grant to the owner of  a
 8    generating  station  located  in Illinois and having at least
 9    three coal-fired  generating  units  with  accredited  summer
10    capacity  greater  than 500 megawatts each at such generating
11    station  as  specifically  authorized  by   this   paragraph.
12    Notwithstanding  any  of the other provisions of this Act, in
13    considering the approval of projects to be funded under  this
14    Act, the Department of Commerce and Community Affairs and the
15    Illinois  Energy  Resources  Commission  shall  give  special
16    consideration to projects which are designed to remove sulfur
17    and  other  pollutants  in the preparation and utilization of
18    coal, and in  the  use  and  operation  of  electric  utility
19    generating  plants  and  industrial  facilities which utilize
20    Illinois  coal  as  their  primary  source  of  fuel.     The
21    Department  of  Commerce and Community Affairs is directed to
22    enter into a contract with the owner of a generating  station
23    located  in  Illinois  and  having  at least three coal-fired
24    generating units with accredited  summer  capability  greater
25    than  500  megawatts  each  at  such generating station for a
26    grant of $35,000,000 to be made by the State of  Illinois  to
27    such  owner  to be used to pay costs of designing, acquiring,
28    constructing, installing and  testing  facilities  to  reduce
29    sulfur dioxide emissions at one such generating unit to allow
30    that  unit  to meet the requirements of the Federal Clean Air
31    Act Amendments of 1990 (P.L. 101-549) while continuing to use
32    coal mined in Illinois as its source of fuel.
33    (Source: P.A. 89-445, eff. 2-7-96.)
 
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 1        Section 20.  The Recycled Newsprint Use Act is amended by
 2    changing Section 2004 as follows:

 3        (415 ILCS 110/2004) (from Ch. 96 1/2, par. 9754)
 4        Sec. 2004.  Consumer usage certification.  Each  consumer
 5    of  newsprint within the State shall, on or before March 1 of
 6    each year, certify to the Department the amount  in  tons  of
 7    every type of newsprint used by the consumer of newsprint the
 8    previous  year  and the percentage of recycled fibers present
 9    in each  type  of  newsprint,  so  that  the  Department  can
10    calculate  the  recycled  fiber  usage  for  that consumer of
11    newsprint.  All Illinois consumers of newsprint shall  submit
12    the  first  consumer  usage certificate by March 1, 1992, for
13    the calendar year 1991. The Department shall  submit  to  the
14    General Assembly a report compiling the data contained in the
15    consumer usage certificates no later than May 1 of each year.
16       Only  consumers  of  newsprint  who  provide  timely usage
17    certificates shall receive credit for recycled fiber usage.
18    (Source: P.A. 86-1443.)

19        Section 999.  Effective  date.   This  Act  takes  effect
20    January 1, 2000.
 
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 1                                INDEX
 2               Statutes amended in order of appearance
 3    20 ILCS 605/46.37         from Ch. 127, par. 46.37
 4    20 ILCS 609/2
 5    20 ILCS 1110/6            from Ch. 96 1/2, par. 4106
 6    415 ILCS 110/2004         from Ch. 96 1/2, par. 9754

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