Full Text of HB6992 93rd General Assembly
HB6992eng 93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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| AN ACT concerning finance.
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| Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| represented in the General Assembly:
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| Section 5. The Eliminate the Digital Divide Law is amended | 5 |
| by changing Sections 5-20 and 5-30 as follows:
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| (30 ILCS 780/5-20)
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| Sec. 5-20. Digital Divide Elimination Fund. The Digital | 8 |
| Divide Elimination
Fund is created as a special fund
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| State treasury. All moneys in the
Fund shall
be used, subject | 10 |
| to appropriation by the General Assembly, by the Department
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| grants and contracts pursuant to the Community Technology Grant | 12 |
| Program
made under Section 5-30 of this Act . All interest | 13 |
| earned on moneys in the Digital Divide Elimination Fund shall | 14 |
| be deposited into the Fund.
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| (Source: P.A. 92-22, eff. 6-30-01.)
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| (30 ILCS 780/5-30)
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| Sec. 5-30. Community Technology Grant Program.
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| (a) Subject to appropriation, the Department shall | 19 |
| administer
the Community Technology Center Grant Program under | 20 |
| which the
Department shall make grants in accordance with this | 21 |
| Article
for planning, establishment, administration, and | 22 |
| expansion
of Community Technology Centers and for assisting | 23 |
| public hospitals,
libraries, and park districts in eliminating | 24 |
| the digital divide. The purposes
of the grants shall include, | 25 |
| but
not be limited to, volunteer recruitment and management, | 26 |
| training and
instruction, infrastructure, and
related goods | 27 |
| and services for Community Technology Centers and public
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| hospitals, libraries, and park districts. The total amount
of | 29 |
| grants under this Section in fiscal year 2001 shall not exceed | 30 |
| $2,000,000,
except that this limit on grants shall not apply to | 31 |
| grants funded by
appropriations from the Digital Divide |
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| Elimination Fund.
No Community Technology Center may receive a | 2 |
| grant of more than $100,000
$50,000 under
this Section in a | 3 |
| particular fiscal year.
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| (b) Public hospitals, libraries, park districts, and State | 5 |
| educational
agencies, local educational
agencies, institutions | 6 |
| of higher education, and other public and
private nonprofit or | 7 |
| for-profit agencies and organizations are eligible
to receive | 8 |
| grants under this Program, provided that a local educational
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| agency or public or private educational
agency or organization | 10 |
| must, in order to be eligible to receive grants under
this | 11 |
| Program, provide computer access and educational services | 12 |
| using
information technology to the public at one or more of | 13 |
| its educational
buildings or facilities at least 12 hours each | 14 |
| week. A group of eligible
entities is
also eligible to receive | 15 |
| a grant if the group follows the procedures
for group | 16 |
| applications in 34 CFR 75.127-129 of the Education Department | 17 |
| General
Administrative Regulations.
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| To be eligible to apply for a grant, a Community
Technology | 19 |
| Center, public hospital, library, or park district must serve a
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| community in which not less than 40%
of the
students are | 21 |
| eligible for a free or reduced price lunch under the national
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| school lunch program or in which not less than 30% of the | 23 |
| students
are eligible
for a free lunch under the national | 24 |
| school lunch program; however, if funding
is insufficient to | 25 |
| approve all grant applications for a particular fiscal year,
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| the Department may impose a higher minimum percentage threshold | 27 |
| for that fiscal
year. Determinations of communities and | 28 |
| determinations of the percentage of
students in a community who | 29 |
| are eligible for a free or reduced price lunch
under the | 30 |
| national school lunch program shall be in accordance with rules
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| adopted by the Department.
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| Any entities that have received a Community
Technology | 33 |
| Center grant under the federal Community Technology Centers | 34 |
| Program
are also eligible to apply for grants under this | 35 |
| Program.
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| The Department shall
provide assistance to Community |
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| Technology Centers in making those
determinations for purposes | 2 |
| of applying for grants.
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| (c) Grant applications shall be submitted to the Department | 4 |
| not later than
March 15 for the next fiscal year.
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| (d) The Department shall adopt rules setting forth the | 6 |
| required form
and contents of grant applications.
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| (e) There is created
the Digital Divide Elimination | 8 |
| Advisory Committee. The advisory committee
shall consist of 5 | 9 |
| members appointed one each by the Governor, the President of
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| the Senate, the Senate Minority Leader, the Speaker of the | 11 |
| House, and the House
Minority Leader. The members of the | 12 |
| advisory committee shall receive no
compensation for their | 13 |
| services as members of the advisory committee but may be
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| reimbursed for their actual expenses incurred in serving on the | 15 |
| advisory
committee. The Digital Divide Elimination Advisory | 16 |
| Committee shall advise the
Department in establishing criteria | 17 |
| and priorities for identifying recipients
of
grants under this | 18 |
| Act. The advisory committee shall obtain advice from the
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| technology industry regarding current technological standards. | 20 |
| The advisory
committee shall seek any available federal | 21 |
| funding.
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| (Source: P.A. 91-704, eff. 7-1-00; 92-22, eff. 6-30-01.)
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| Section 10. The Public Utilities Act is amended by changing | 24 |
| Section 13-301.2 as follows:
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| (220 ILCS 5/13-301.2)
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| (Section scheduled to be repealed on July 1, 2005)
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| Sec. 13-301.2. Program to Foster Elimination of the Digital | 28 |
| Divide. The Commission shall require by rule that each
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| telecommunications carrier providing local exchange | 30 |
| telecommunications
service notify its end-user customers that | 31 |
| if the customer wishes to
participate in the funding of the | 32 |
| Program to Foster Elimination of the Digital
Divide he or she | 33 |
| may do so by electing to contribute, on a monthly basis, a
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| fixed
amount that will be included in the customer's monthly |
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| bill. The obligations
imposed in this Section shall not be | 2 |
| imposed upon a telecommunications carrier
for any of its | 3 |
| end-users subscribing to the services listed below: (1) private
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| line service which is not directly or indirectly used for the | 5 |
| origination or
termination of switched telecommunications | 6 |
| service, (2) cellular radio service,
(3) high-speed | 7 |
| point-to-point data transmission at or above 9.6 kilobits, (4)
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| the provision of telecommunications service by a company or | 9 |
| person otherwise
subject to subsection (c) of Section 13-202 to | 10 |
| a telecommunications carrier,
which is
incidental to the | 11 |
| provision of service subject to subsection (c) of Section
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| 13-202; (5) pay
telephone service; or (6) interexchange | 13 |
| telecommunications service.
The customer
may
cease | 14 |
| contributing at any time upon providing notice to the | 15 |
| telecommunications
carrier. The notice shall state that any | 16 |
| contribution made will not reduce the
customer's bill for | 17 |
| telecommunications services. Failure to remit the amount
of | 18 |
| increased payment will reduce the contribution accordingly. | 19 |
| The Commission
shall specify the monthly fixed amount or | 20 |
| amounts that customers wishing to
contribute to the funding of | 21 |
| the Program to Foster Elimination of the Digital
Divide may | 22 |
| choose from in making their contributions. A | 23 |
| telecommunications
carrier subject to this obligation shall | 24 |
| remit the amounts contributed by
its customers to the | 25 |
| Department
of Revenue
Commerce and
Community Affairs for | 26 |
| deposit in the Digital Divide Elimination
Fund at the intervals | 27 |
| specified in the Commission rules.
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| (Source: P.A. 92-22, eff. 6-30-01; 93-358, eff. 1-1-04; revised | 29 |
| 12-6-03.)
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| Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | 31 |
| becoming law.
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