Full Text of HB1964 97th General Assembly
HB1964eng 97TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY |
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| 1 | | AN ACT concerning State government.
| 2 | | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
| 3 | | represented in the General Assembly:
| 4 | | Section 5. The Department of Central Management Services | 5 | | Law of the
Civil Administrative Code of Illinois is amended by | 6 | | changing Section 405-335 as follows: | 7 | | (20 ILCS 405/405-335) | 8 | | Sec. 405-335. Illinois Transparency and Accountability | 9 | | Portal (ITAP).
| 10 | | (a) The Department, within 12 months after the effective | 11 | | date of this amendatory Act of the 96th General Assembly, shall | 12 | | establish and maintain a website, known as the Illinois | 13 | | Transparency and Accountability Portal (ITAP), with a | 14 | | full-time webmaster tasked with compiling and updating the ITAP | 15 | | database with information received from all State agencies as | 16 | | defined in this Section. | 17 | | (b) For purposes of this Section: | 18 | | "State agency" means the offices of the constitutional | 19 | | officers identified in Article V of the Illinois Constitution, | 20 | | executive agencies, and departments, boards, commissions, and | 21 | | Authorities under the Governor. | 22 | | "Contracts" means payment obligations with vendors on file | 23 | | with the Office of the Comptroller to purchase goods and |
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| 1 | | services exceeding $10,000 in value (or, in the case of | 2 | | professional or artistic services, exceeding $5,000 in value). | 3 | | "Appropriation" means line-item detail of spending | 4 | | approved by the General Assembly and Governor, categorized by | 5 | | object of expenditure. | 6 | | "Individual consultants" means temporary workers eligible | 7 | | to receive State benefits paid on a State payroll. | 8 | | "Recipients" means State agencies receiving | 9 | | appropriations. | 10 | | (c) The ITAP shall provide direct access to each of the | 11 | | following: | 12 | | (1) A database of all current State employees and | 13 | | individual consultants, except sworn law enforcement | 14 | | officers, sorted separately by: | 15 | | (i) Name. | 16 | | (ii) Employing State agency. | 17 | | (iii) Employing State division. | 18 | | (iv) Employment position title. | 19 | | (v) Current pay rate and year-to-date pay. | 20 | | (2) A database of all current State expenditures, | 21 | | sorted separately by agency, category, recipient, and | 22 | | Representative District. | 23 | | (3) A database of all development assistance | 24 | | reportable pursuant to the Corporate Accountability for | 25 | | Tax Expenditures Act, sorted separately by tax credit | 26 | | category, taxpayer, and Representative District. |
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| 1 | | (4) A database of all revocations and suspensions of | 2 | | State occupation and use tax certificates of registration | 3 | | and all revocations and suspensions of State professional | 4 | | licenses, sorted separately by name, geographic location, | 5 | | and certificate of registration number or license number, | 6 | | as applicable. Professional license revocations and | 7 | | suspensions shall be posted only if resulting from a | 8 | | failure to pay taxes, license fees, or child support. | 9 | | (5) A database of all current State contracts, sorted | 10 | | separately by contractor name, awarding officer or agency, | 11 | | contract value, and goods or services provided. | 12 | | (6) A database of all employees hired after the | 13 | | effective date of this amendatory Act of 2010, sorted | 14 | | searchably by each of the following at the time of | 15 | | employment: | 16 | | (i) Name. | 17 | | (ii) Employing State agency. | 18 | | (iii) Employing State division. | 19 | | (iv) Employment position title. | 20 | | (v) Current pay rate and year-to-date pay. | 21 | | (vi) County of employment location. | 22 | | (vii) Rutan status. | 23 | | (viii) Status of position as subject to collective | 24 | | bargaining, subject to merit compensation, or exempt | 25 | | under Section 4d of the Personnel Code. | 26 | | (ix) Employment status as probationary, trainee, |
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| 1 | | intern, certified, or exempt from certification. | 2 | | (x) Status as a military veteran. | 3 | | (7) A database of all grant funds awarded by a State | 4 | | agency during the current and previous fiscal years, sorted | 5 | | separately by: | 6 | | (i) Name of grantor agency. | 7 | | (ii) Name of the grantee. | 8 | | (iii) Total amount of grants per grantee by State | 9 | | agency. | 10 | | (d) The ITAP shall include all information required to be | 11 | | published by subsection (c) of this Section that is available | 12 | | to the Department in a format the Department can compile and | 13 | | publish on the ITAP. The Department shall update the ITAP as | 14 | | additional information becomes available in a format that can | 15 | | be compiled and published on the ITAP by the Department. | 16 | | (e) Each State agency shall cooperate with the Department | 17 | | in furnishing the information necessary for the implementation | 18 | | of this Section within a timeframe specified by the Department. | 19 | | (Source: P.A. 96-225, eff. 1-1-10; 96-1387, eff. 1-1-11.) | 20 | | Section 10. The Illinois Grant Funds Recovery Act is | 21 | | amended by changing Section 4 as follows:
| 22 | | (30 ILCS 705/4) (from Ch. 127, par. 2304)
| 23 | | Sec. 4. Grant Application and Agreement Requirements. | 24 | | (a) Any person or organization, public or private, desiring |
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| 1 | | to receive grant funds must submit a grant application to the | 2 | | appropriate grantor agency. Applications for grant funds shall | 3 | | be made on prescribed forms developed by the grantor agency, | 4 | | and shall include, without being limited to, the following | 5 | | provisions: | 6 | | (1) the name, address, chief officers, and general | 7 | | description of the applicant and the name of and the amount | 8 | | of compensation paid to each of the 3 highest paid | 9 | | employees of the applicant during the fiscal year preceding | 10 | | the submission of the grant application ; | 11 | | (2) a general description of the program, project, or | 12 | | use for which grant funding is requested; | 13 | | (3) such plans, equipment lists, and other documents as | 14 | | may be required to show the type, structure, and general | 15 | | character of the program, project, or use for which grant | 16 | | funding is requested; | 17 | | (4) cost estimates of developing, constructing, | 18 | | operating, or completing the program, project, or use for | 19 | | which grant funding is requested; and | 20 | | (5) a program of proposed expenditures for the grant | 21 | | funds , including but not limited to an itemization by | 22 | | employees of all grant funds that will be expended for | 23 | | compensation of grantee's employees . | 24 | | (b) Grant funds may not be used except
pursuant to a | 25 | | written grant agreement, and any disbursement of grant funds
| 26 | | without a grant agreement is void. At a minimum, a grant |
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| 1 | | agreement must:
| 2 | | (1) describe the purpose of the grant and be signed by | 3 | | the grantor agency
making the grant and all grantees of the | 4 | | grant;
| 5 | | (2) specify how payments shall be made, what | 6 | | constitutes permissible expenditure
of the grant funds, | 7 | | and the financial controls applicable to the grant, | 8 | | including, for those grants in excess of $25,000, the | 9 | | filing of quarterly reports describing the progress of the | 10 | | program, project, or use and the expenditure of the grant | 11 | | funds related thereto;
| 12 | | (3) specify the period of time for which the grant is | 13 | | valid and, subject
to the limitation of Section 5, the | 14 | | period of time during which grant funds
may be expended by | 15 | | the grantee;
| 16 | | (4) contain a provision that any grantees receiving | 17 | | grant funds are required to permit the grantor agency, the | 18 | | Auditor General, or the Attorney General to inspect and | 19 | | audit any books, records, or papers related to the program, | 20 | | project, or use for which grant funds were provided; | 21 | | (5) contain a provision that all funds remaining at the | 22 | | end of the grant
agreement or at the expiration of the | 23 | | period of time grant funds are available
for expenditure or | 24 | | obligation by the grantee shall be returned to the
State | 25 | | within 45 days; and | 26 | | (6) contain a provision in which the grantee certifies |
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| 1 | | under oath that all information in the grant agreement is | 2 | | true and correct to the best of the grantee's knowledge, | 3 | | information, and belief; that the funds shall be used only | 4 | | for the purposes described in the grant agreement; and that | 5 | | the award of grant funds is conditioned upon such | 6 | | certification.
| 7 | | (c) All information provided under this Section shall be | 8 | | open to the public. | 9 | | (Source: P.A. 96-795, eff. 7-1-10 (see Section 5 of P.A. 96-793 | 10 | | for the effective date of changes made by P.A. 96-795) .)
| 11 | | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | 12 | | becoming law.
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