AN ACT concerning appropriations.

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

     Section 5. The amount of $16,300,000, or so much of that amount as may be necessary, is appropriated from the School Infrastructure Fund to the State Board of Education for school district broadband expansion with the goal that all school districts achieve broadband capability by the beginning of the 2020-2021 school year. The funds shall be distributed to school districts that have been approved for broadband expansion funding under the federal Universal Service Program for Schools and Libraries, with school districts without high speed Internet access receiving priority with respect to the distribution of those funds.

Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect July 1, 2018.