Rep. Kevin Joyce
Filed: 4/20/2007
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1 | AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 1727
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2 | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 1727 as follows:
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3 | on page 3, by deleting lines 19 through 24; and | ||||||
4 | by deleting page 4; and | ||||||
5 | on page 5, by replacing lines 1 through 23 with the following: | ||||||
6 | "Section 20. Rules; annual attestation. | ||||||
7 | (a) The State Librarian shall
adopt rules to implement and | ||||||
8 | administer this Act. | ||||||
9 | (b) The head of
each administrative unit must annually | ||||||
10 | attest in writing, under
penalty of perjury, that all public | ||||||
11 | library locations within
the jurisdiction of the | ||||||
12 | administrative unit are in compliance
with Section 15, as a | ||||||
13 | condition of the receipt of any State
grants distributed | ||||||
14 | through the State Librarian under the Illinois Library Systems | ||||||
15 | Act. |
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1 | Section 25. Internet Screening in Public Libraries Fund. | ||||||
2 | The"; and | ||||||
3 | on page 6, immediately below line 8, by inserting the | ||||||
4 | following: | ||||||
5 | "Section 85. The Illinois Library System Act is amended by | ||||||
6 | changing Section 8.1 as follows:
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7 | (75 ILCS 10/8.1) (from Ch. 81, par. 118.1)
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8 | Sec. 8.1. The State Librarian shall make grants annually
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9 | under this Section to all qualified public libraries in the
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10 | State from funds appropriated by the General Assembly. Such
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11 | grants shall be in the amount of up to $1.25 per capita for the
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12 | population of the area served by the respective public
library | ||||||
13 | and, in addition, the amount of up to $0.19 per capita to | ||||||
14 | libraries
serving populations over 500,000 under the Illinois | ||||||
15 | Major Urban Library
Program. If the moneys appropriated for | ||||||
16 | grants under this
Section are not sufficient the State | ||||||
17 | Librarian shall reduce
the per capita amount of the grants so | ||||||
18 | that the qualifying
public libraries receive the same amount | ||||||
19 | per capita.
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20 | To be eligible for grants under this Section, a public | ||||||
21 | library must:
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22 | (1) Provide, as determined by the State Librarian, | ||||||
23 | library services
which either meet or show progress toward |
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1 | meeting the Illinois library
standards, as most recently | ||||||
2 | adopted by the Illinois Library Association.
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3 | (2) Be a public library for which is levied a tax for
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4 | library purposes at a rate not less than .13% or a county | ||||||
5 | library for which
is levied a tax for library purposes at a | ||||||
6 | rate not less than .07%.
If a library is subject to the | ||||||
7 | Property Tax Extension Limitation Law in the
Property Tax | ||||||
8 | Code and its tax levy for library purposes has been lowered | ||||||
9 | to a
rate of less than .13%, this requirement will be | ||||||
10 | waived if the library
qualified
for this grant in the | ||||||
11 | previous year and if the tax levied for library purposes
in | ||||||
12 | the current year produces tax revenue for library purposes | ||||||
13 | that is an
increase over the previous year's extension of | ||||||
14 | 5% or the percentage increase in
the Consumer Price Index, | ||||||
15 | whichever is less. | ||||||
16 | (3) Be in compliance with the requirements set forth in | ||||||
17 | the Internet Screening in Public Libraries Act and the | ||||||
18 | administrative unit in whose jurisdiction the library is | ||||||
19 | located must have submitted the annual attestation | ||||||
20 | required under Section 20 of that Act.
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21 | Any other language in this Section to the contrary
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22 | notwithstanding, grants under this Section 8.1 shall be made
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23 | only upon application of the public library concerned, which
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24 | applications shall be entirely voluntary and within the sole
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25 | discretion of the public library concerned.
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26 | In order to be eligible for a grant under this Section, the |
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1 | corporate
authorities, in lieu of a tax levy at a particular | ||||||
2 | rate, may provide
funds from other sources, an amount | ||||||
3 | equivalent to the amount to be produced
by that levy.
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4 | (Source: P.A. 93-527, eff. 8-14-03.)".
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