Rep. Fred Crespo

Filed: 5/12/2011

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AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 124

    AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 124, AS AMENDED, with reference to page and line numbers of House Amendment No. 1, by inserting immediately before line 5 of page 1 the following:

“ARTICLE 0.5

    Section 5.  “AN ACT making appropriations”, Public Act 96-956, approved July 1, 2010, as amended, is amended by adding Sections 30, 35, and 40 to Article 35 as follows:

    (P.A. 96-956, Art. 35, Sec. 30 new)

Sec. 30.  The amount of $500,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is appropriated from the General Revenue Fund to the Court of Claims for payment of awards solely as a result of the lapsing of an appropriation originally made from any funds held by the State Treasurer.

    (P.A. 96-956, Art. 35, Sec. 35 new)

Sec. 35.  The sum of $14,000,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is appropriated from the General Revenue Fund to the Court of Claims for payment of line of duty awards.

    (P.A. 96-956, Art. 35, Sec. 40 new)

Sec. 40.  The following named amount, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is appropriated to the Court of Claims for payment of claims as follows:

For claims other than Crime Victims:

Payable from the General

Revenue Fund........................... 10,000,000”; and

on page 62, line 19 by changing “1,001,601” to “1,173,800”; and

on page 63, line 1 by changing “40,065” to “47,000”; and

on page 63, line 3 by changing “76,622” to “90,100”; and

on page 63, line 13 by changing “1,205,468” to “1,398,080”; and

by replacing lines 3 through 11 on page 64 with the following:

    “Section 20.  The amount of $500,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary and remains unexpended from an appropriation hereto made for such purpose in Section 30 of Article 35 of Public Act 96-956, as amended, is re-appropriated from the General Revenue Fund to the Court of Claims for payment of awards solely as a result of the lapsing of an appropriation originally made from any funds held by the State Treasurer.

    Section 25.  The sum of $14,000,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary and remains unexpended from an appropriation hereto made for such purpose in Section 35 of Article 35 of Public Act 96-956, as amended, is re-appropriated from the General Revenue Fund to the Court of Claims for payment of line of duty awards.”; and

on page 64, line 18 by changing “10,000,000” to “9,807,400”; and

by deleting lines 19 through 21 on page 64; and

by replacing “$39,775,000” with “$29,775,000” on line 10 of page 65; and

by inserting below line 10 of page 65 the following:

    “Section 35.  The following named amount, or so much thereof as may be necessary and remains unexpended from an appropriation hereto made for such purpose in Section 40 of Article 35 of Public Act 96-956, as amended, is re-appropriated to the Court of Claims for payment of claims as follows:

For claims other than Crime Victims:

  Payable from the General

   Revenue Fund........................... 10,000,000”; and

on page 100, line 1 by changing “for which” to “regardless of whether”; and

on page 100, immediately below line 9, by inserting the following:

    “Section 375.  The following named amounts are appropriated from the General Revenue Fund to the Court of Claims to pay claims in conformity with awards and recommendations made by the Court of Claims as follows:

No. 04-CC-4021, Four Rivers Special

 Education District, Breach of Contract,

 against the State Board of Education........... $45,047.80

No. 05-CC-1931, Michelle Del Valle, Personal

 Injury, against the Department of

 Transportation................................. $49,500.00

No. 11-CC-0625, Heartland Human Care Services,

 Inc., Debt, against the Department of

 Human Services................................ $396,900.30

No. 11-CC-2536, Aunt Martha’s Youth Service

 Center, Inc., Debt, against the

 Department of Human Services............ $122,774.00”; and

by replacing lines 19 through 20 on page 179 with the following:

    “Section 999.  Effective date.  This Act takes effect on July 1, 2011, except that Article 0.5 and this Section take effect upon becoming law.”.