Rep. Ricca Slone
Filed: 3/31/2004
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1 | AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 6848
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2 | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 6848, AS AMENDED, by | ||||||
3 | replacing everything after the enacting clause with the | ||||||
4 | following:
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5 | "Section 5. The Local Planning Technical Assistance Act is | ||||||
6 | amended by adding Section 42 as follows: | ||||||
7 | (20 ILCS 662/42 new) | ||||||
8 | Sec. 42. Local Planning Task Force.
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9 | (a) The Local Planning Task Force is hereby created. The | ||||||
10 | Task Force shall consist of the following members: (i) the | ||||||
11 | Director of Commerce and Economic Opportunity, or his or her | ||||||
12 | designee, who shall serve as the chair of the Task Force; (ii) | ||||||
13 | the Secretary of Transportation, or his or her designee; (iii) | ||||||
14 | the Director of the Illinois Housing Development Authority, or | ||||||
15 | his or her designee; (iv) the Director of Natural Resources, or | ||||||
16 | his or designee; (v) the Director of the Environmental | ||||||
17 | Protection Agency, or his or her designee; and (vi) the | ||||||
18 | Director of Agriculture, or his or her designee. | ||||||
19 | (b) The Task Force shall meet at the call of the chair.
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20 | Meetings of the Task Force are subject to the Open Meetings | ||||||
21 | Act, and
the Task
Force must afford an opportunity for public | ||||||
22 | comment at each of its meetings. | ||||||
23 | (c) The Task Force shall: | ||||||
24 | (1) Identify existing State planning programs within |
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1 | the State departments and agencies represented on the Task | ||||||
2 | Force. | ||||||
3 | (2) Recommend that the State departments or agencies | ||||||
4 | responsible for the for the identified programs adopt rules | ||||||
5 | to require those programs to comply with Section 25 of this | ||||||
6 | Act. | ||||||
7 | (2) Develop a system of preferences for grants to local | ||||||
8 | communities that have completed a comprehensive plan in | ||||||
9 | accordance with this Act to receive additional | ||||||
10 | infrastructure, natural resource, agriculture, | ||||||
11 | transportation, housing, economic development, and | ||||||
12 | workforce development grant programs. | ||||||
13 | (3) Identify additional State resources to provide | ||||||
14 | local planning grants. | ||||||
15 | (4) Report to the General Assembly by December 31, 2004 | ||||||
16 | concerning the completion of the tasks required by this | ||||||
17 | Section.
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18 | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | ||||||
19 | becoming law.".
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