Full Text of HB2264 101st General Assembly
HB2264eng 101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY |
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| 1 | | AN ACT concerning agriculture.
| 2 | | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
| 3 | | represented in the General Assembly:
| 4 | | Section 5. The County Cooperative Extension Law is amended | 5 | | by changing Section 8 as follows:
| 6 | | (505 ILCS 45/8) (from Ch. 5, par. 248)
| 7 | | Sec. 8. County extension education funds.
| 8 | | (a) The county governing
board shall annually consider the | 9 | | total budget certified by the county
or multi-county extension | 10 | | board in order to consider the total funds
needed for | 11 | | Cooperative Extension Service programs in the county. The
| 12 | | county governing board may appropriate and pay 50% of the total
| 13 | | so determined from the general corporate fund or other | 14 | | available funds
or from an existing extension education tax of | 15 | | the county for the
extension educational program in the county | 16 | | or multi-county group of
which it is a part, provided that the | 17 | | amount so appropriated shall not
exceed $54,400 in counties of | 18 | | less than 10,000 inhabitants,
$61,200 in
counties of 10,000 or | 19 | | more but less than 20,000 inhabitants, $68,000 in
counties of | 20 | | 20,000 or more but less than 30,000 inhabitants, $91,000 in
| 21 | | counties of 30,000 or more but less than 50,000 inhabitants, | 22 | | $117,000 in
counties of 50,000 or more but less than 100,000 | 23 | | inhabitants, $156,000 in
counties of 100,000 or more but less |
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| 1 | | than 250,000 inhabitants, $233,000
in counties of 250,000 or | 2 | | more but less than 500,000 inhabitants,
$311,000 in counties of | 3 | | 500,000 or more but less than
1,000,000
inhabitants and | 4 | | $583,000 in counties of 1,000,000 or more
inhabitants.
The | 5 | | amount to be so appropriated by the county governing board may | 6 | | be
reduced by the total of any private gifts or grants | 7 | | specifically made to
support the county extension programs | 8 | | included in such determination,
and may also be reduced by the | 9 | | fair market value of office space
furnished the Cooperative | 10 | | Extension Service by the county governing
board, provided it is | 11 | | suitable for extension needs and meets the housing
standards | 12 | | adopted by the Cooperative Extension Service.
| 13 | | In order to provide matching funds, which shall not exceed | 14 | | an amount equal
to 50% of the funds needed as provided herein, | 15 | | and funds
for the purpose of general support to counties for | 16 | | Cooperative
Extension programs the State will recognize those | 17 | | needs and shall may make an
annual appropriation from the | 18 | | Agricultural Premium Fund or any other source
of funding | 19 | | available.
| 20 | | On or before October 15 of each year, the director of | 21 | | extension of the
University of Illinois shall forward to the | 22 | | Director of Agriculture, the
Governor, the Speaker of the House | 23 | | of
Representatives, the Minority Leader of the House of | 24 | | Representatives,
the President of the Senate, and the Minority | 25 | | Leader
of the
Senate, a report of the determinations made by | 26 | | the various county
governing boards of the total funds needed |
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| 1 | | for Cooperative Extension
Service programs in the respective | 2 | | counties. The State matching funds and
funds for the purpose of | 3 | | general support shall
be included in an appropriation request | 4 | | by the Department of Agriculture for
the
next State fiscal | 5 | | year. That request shall be separate and apart from the
| 6 | | operating appropriation request for the Department of | 7 | | Agriculture. The funds
so appropriated
by the State to the | 8 | | Department of Agriculture shall be deposited into the
State | 9 | | Cooperative Extension Service Trust Fund and transferred as | 10 | | provided
in Section 8 (d) of this Act.
The Department of | 11 | | Agriculture shall have no responsibility for or control
over | 12 | | the cooperative extension service or its programs.
| 13 | | All funds provided pursuant to this Act may be used for | 14 | | operations or
facilities.
| 15 | | (b) If sufficient funds are not available from the general | 16 | | corporate
fund or if sums greater than the maximum listed above | 17 | | are needed for the
county's share of the extension education | 18 | | program, the county governing
board shall have the power to | 19 | | increase by not more than .05 per cent,
with approval by | 20 | | referendum, the maximum rate at which it levies, or can
levy, | 21 | | taxes for general county purposes. Such additional rate shall | 22 | | not
be included within any statutory limitation or rate or | 23 | | amount for other
county purposes and shall be in addition | 24 | | thereto.
| 25 | | Any county that under this Cooperative Extension Law has | 26 | | approved a
rate by referendum prior to the effective date of |
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| 1 | | this amendment, shall
have authority to continue such tax as | 2 | | approved, but may use the
provisions of this subsection as | 3 | | amended provided that another
referendum must be held if the | 4 | | rate desired is greater than the rate
previously approved.
| 5 | | (c) Upon approval by resolution the county board shall | 6 | | certify the
resolution and the
question of the adoption of a | 7 | | levy sufficient to produce the sums
determined by the county | 8 | | board to the proper election officials, who shall
submit the | 9 | | question to the electors of the county at an election in | 10 | | accordance
with the general election law. No such
levy shall be | 11 | | made until the adoption by majority vote of the electors
voting | 12 | | on the proposition.
| 13 | | (d) Funds received from local sources and funds | 14 | | appropriated by the
county governing board or the State for the | 15 | | county extension education
program in any county shall be paid | 16 | | over to the University of Illinois.
| 17 | | (Source: P.A. 89-691, eff. 12-31-96; 90-591, eff. 7-1-98.)
| 18 | | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | 19 | | becoming law.
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