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| | SB1955 Enrolled | | LRB098 05666 AMC 35705 b |
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| 1 | | AN ACT concerning State government.
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| 2 | | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| 3 | | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | | Section 5. The Disaster Relief Act is amended by changing |
| 5 | | Section 3 as follows:
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| 6 | | (15 ILCS 30/3) (from Ch. 127, par. 293.3)
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| 7 | | Sec. 3. Disaster Response and Recovery Fund. |
| 8 | | (a) Whenever funds regularly appropriated to the State and |
| 9 | | local
governmental bodies for disaster response and recovery |
| 10 | | are insufficient to
provide services, and when the Governor has |
| 11 | | declared a disaster by
proclamation in accordance with Section |
| 12 | | 7 of the Illinois Emergency Management
Agency Act or any |
| 13 | | successor Act, the Governor
may draw
upon the Disaster Response |
| 14 | | and Recovery Fund in order to provide services or to
reimburse |
| 15 | | local governmental bodies furnishing services. The fund
may be |
| 16 | | used for the payment of emergency employees, for the payment of
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| 17 | | the Illinois National Guard when called to active duty,
for |
| 18 | | disaster-related expenses of State Agencies and
Departments, |
| 19 | | and for the emergency purchase or renting of
equipment and |
| 20 | | commodities. The fund shall be used for furnishing
emergency |
| 21 | | services and relief to the disaster area as a whole and shall
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| 22 | | not be used to provide private relief to persons sustaining |
| 23 | | property
damages or personal injury as a result of a disaster.
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