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90_HB1755
20 ILCS 605/46.19a from Ch. 127, par. 46.19a
Amends the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois
concerning grants from the Department of Commerce and
Community Affairs. Adds a caption.
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1 AN ACT to amend the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois
2 by changing Section 46.19a.
3 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
4 represented in the General Assembly:
5 Section 5. The Civil Administrative Code of Illinois is
6 amended by changing Section 46.19a as follows:
7 (20 ILCS 605/46.19a) (from Ch. 127, par. 46.19a)
8 (Text of Section before amendment by P.A. 89-507)
9 Sec. 46.19a. (1) Grants to provide training in fields
10 affected by critical demands for certain skills may be made
11 as provided in this subsection.
12 (a) The Director of the Department may make grants
13 to eligible employers or to other eligible entities on
14 behalf of employers as authorized in paragraph (b) to
15 provide training for employees in fields for which there
16 are critical demands for certain skills.
17 (b) The Director may accept applications for
18 training grant funds and grant requests from: (i)
19 entities sponsoring multi-company eligible employee
20 training projects as defined in paragraph (c), including
21 business associations, strategic business partnerships,
22 institutions of secondary or higher education, large
23 manufacturers for supplier network companies, federal Job
24 Training Partnership Act administrative entities or grant
25 recipients, and labor organizations when those projects
26 will address common training needs identified by
27 participating companies; and (ii) individual employers
28 that are undertaking eligible employee training projects
29 as defined in paragraph (c), including intermediaries and
30 training agents.
31 (c) The Director may make grants to eligible
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1 applicants as defined in paragraph (b) for employee
2 training projects that include, but need not be limited
3 to, one or more of the following:
4 (i) training programs in response to new or
5 changing technology being introduced in the
6 workplace;
7 (ii) job-linked training that offers special
8 skills for career advancement or that is preparatory
9 for, and leads directly to, jobs with definite
10 career potential and long-term job security;
11 (iii) training necessary to implement total
12 quality management or improvement or both management
13 and improvement systems within the workplace;
14 (iv) training related to new machinery or
15 equipment;
16 (v) training of employees of companies that
17 are expanding into new markets or expanding exports
18 from Illinois;
19 (vi) basic, remedial, or both basic and
20 remedial training of employees as a prerequisite for
21 other vocational or technical skills training or as
22 a condition for sustained employment;
23 (vii) self-employment training of the
24 unemployed and underemployed with comprehensive,
25 competency-based instructional programs and
26 services; and
27 (viii) other training activities, projects, or
28 both training activities and projects related to the
29 support, development, or evaluation of job training
30 programs, activities, and delivery systems,
31 including training needs assessment and design.
32 (d) Grants shall be made on the terms and
33 conditions that the Department shall determine, provided,
34 however, that no grant made under the provisions of
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1 paragraph (c) of this subsection shall exceed 50% of the
2 direct costs of all approved training programs provided
3 by the employer or the employer's training agent or other
4 entity as defined in paragraph (b). Under this Section,
5 allowable costs include, but are not limited to:
6 (i) administrative costs of tracking,
7 documenting, reporting, and processing training
8 funds or project costs;
9 (ii) curriculum development;
10 (iii) wages and fringe benefits of employees;
11 (iv) training materials, including scrap
12 product costs;
13 (v) trainee travel expenses;
14 (vi) instructor costs, including wages, fringe
15 benefits, tuition, and travel expenses;
16 (vii) rent, purchase, or lease of training
17 equipment; and
18 (viii) other usual and customary training
19 costs.
20 (e) The Director shall ensure that periodic on-site
21 grant monitoring visits are conducted by the Department
22 during the course of the grant period. The Department
23 shall verify that the grantee's financial management
24 system is structured to provide for accurate, current,
25 and complete disclosure of the financial results of the
26 grant program in accordance with all provisions, terms,
27 and conditions contained in the grant contract.
28 (f) The Director may establish and collect a
29 schedule of charges from subgrantee entities and other
30 system users under federal job-training programs for
31 participating in and utilizing the department's automated
32 job-training program information systems where such
33 systems and the necessary participation and utilization
34 is a requirement of the federal job-training programs.
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1 All monies collected pursuant to this paragraph shall be
2 deposited into the Federal Job-Training Information
3 Systems Revolving Fund created in subsection (5).
4 (2) The Department is authorized to establish a program
5 of grants to universities, community colleges, research
6 institutions, research consortiums, other not-for-profit
7 entities, and Illinois businesses for the purpose of
8 fostering research and development in the high technology and
9 the service sector leading to the development of new products
10 and services that can be marketed by Illinois businesses. All
11 grant awards shall include a contract which may provide for
12 payment of negotiated royalties to the Department if the
13 product or service to be developed by the grantee is
14 subsequently licensed for production.
15 (a) Grants may be awarded to universities and
16 research institutions to assist them in making their
17 faculties and facilities available to Illinois
18 businesses. Such grants may be used by a university or
19 research institution for, including but not limited to
20 the following purposes: (i) to establish or enhance
21 computerized cataloging of all research labs and
22 university staff and make such catalogues available to
23 Illinois businesses; (ii) to market products developed by
24 the university to Illinois businesses; (iii) to review
25 publications in order to identify, catalog, and inform
26 Illinois businesses of new practices in areas such as
27 robotics, biotechnology; (iv) to build an on-line,
28 information and technology system that relies on other
29 computerized networks in the United States; (v) to assist
30 in securing temporary replacement for faculty who are
31 granted a leave of absence from their teaching duties for
32 the purpose of working full-time for an Illinois business
33 to assist that business with technology transfer.
34 (b) Grants may be awarded to universities and
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1 research institutions, research consortiums and other
2 not-for-profit entities for the purpose of identifying
3 and supporting Illinois businesses engaged in high
4 technology and service sector enterprises. Such Illinois
5 businesses identified and funded shall include recipients
6 of Small Business Innovation Research Program funds under
7 subsections (e) through (k) of Section 9 of the Small
8 Business Act. (Title 15 United States Codes, subsections
9 638(e)-638(k)). Entities receiving grants under this
10 paragraph (b) shall be known as commercialization centers
11 and shall engage in one or more of the following
12 activities:
13 (i) directing research assistance for new
14 venture creations;
15 (ii) general feasibility studies of new
16 venture ideas;
17 (iii) furthering the technical and
18 intellectual skills of the managers and owners of
19 Illinois small businesses;
20 (iv) commercialization of technology and
21 research;
22 (v) development of prototypes and testing new
23 products;
24 (vi) identify and assist in securing
25 financing;
26 (vii) marketing assistance; and
27 (viii) assisting Illinois inventors in finding
28 Illinois manufacturers to produce and market their
29 inventions.
30 A commercialization center may charge a nominal fee
31 or accept royalty agreements for conducting feasibility
32 studies and other services.
33 (c) Grants may be awarded by the Department to
34 Illinois businesses to fund research and consultation
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1 arrangements between businesses and universities,
2 community colleges, research institutions, research
3 consortiums and other not-for-profit entities within this
4 State.
5 The Department shall give priority to Illinois small
6 businesses in awarding grants. Each grant awarded under
7 this paragraph (c) shall provide funding for up to 50% of
8 the cost of the research or consultation arrangements,
9 not to exceed $100,000; provided that the grant recipient
10 utilizes Illinois not for profit research and academic
11 institutions to perform the research and development
12 function for which grant funds were requested.
13 (d) Grants may be awarded to research consortium
14 and other qualified applicants, in conjunction with
15 private sector or federal funding, for other creative
16 systems that bridge university resources and business,
17 technological, production and development concerns.
18 (e) For the purposes of subsection (2), (i)
19 "Illinois business" means a "small business concern" as
20 defined in Title 15 United States Code, Section 632,
21 which primarily conducts its business in Illinois; (ii)
22 "high technology" means any area of research or
23 development designed to foster greater knowledge or
24 understanding in fields such as computer science,
25 electronics, physics, chemistry or biology for the
26 purpose of producing designing, developing or improving
27 prototypes and new processes; (iii) "private sector"
28 shall have the meaning ascribed to it in Title 29 United
29 States Code, Section 1503; (iv) "University" means either
30 a degree granting institution located in Illinois as
31 defined in Section 2 of the Academic Degree Act, or a
32 State-supported institution of higher learning
33 administered by the Board of Trustees of the University
34 of Illinois, the Board of Trustees of Southern Illinois
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1 University, the Board of Trustees of Chicago State
2 University, the Board of Trustees of Eastern Illinois
3 University, the Board of Trustees of Governors State
4 University, the Board of Trustees of Illinois State
5 University, the Board of Trustees of Northeastern
6 Illinois University, the Board of Trustees of Northern
7 Illinois University, the Board of Trustees of Western
8 Illinois University, or the Illinois Community College
9 Board; (v) "venture" means any Illinois business engaged
10 in research and development to create new products or
11 services with high growth potential; (vi) Illinois
12 research institutions refers to not-for-profit entities,
13 which include federally-funded research laboratories,
14 that conduct research and development activities for the
15 purpose of producing, designing, developing, or improving
16 prototypes and new processes; and (vii) other
17 not-for-profit entities means non-profit organizations
18 based in Illinois that are primarily devoted to new
19 enterprise or product development.
20 (f) The Department may establish a program of grant
21 assistance on a matching basis to universities, community
22 colleges, small business development centers, community
23 action agencies and other not-for-profit economic
24 development agencies to encourage new enterprise
25 development and new business formation and to encourage
26 enterprises in this State. The Department may provide
27 grants, which shall be exempt from the provisions of
28 subsection (3) of this Section, to universities,
29 community colleges, small business development centers,
30 community action agencies and other not-for-profit
31 economic development entities for the purpose of making
32 loans to small businesses. All grant applications shall
33 contain information as required by the Department,
34 including the following: a program operation plan; a
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1 certification and assurance that the small business
2 applicants have received business development training or
3 education, have a business and finance plan and have
4 experience in the proposed business area; and a
5 description of the support services which the grant
6 recipient will provide to the small business. No more
7 than 10% of the grant may be used by the grant recipient
8 for administrative costs associated with the grant.
9 Grant recipients may use grant funds under this program
10 to make loans on terms and conditions favorable to the
11 small business and shall give priority to those
12 businesses located in high poverty areas, enterprise
13 zones, or both.
14 (3) There is created within the Department, a Technology
15 Innovation and Commercialization Grants-in-Aid Council which
16 shall consist of 2 representatives of the Department of
17 Commerce and Community Affairs appointed by the Department;
18 one representative of the Illinois Board of Higher Education,
19 appointed by the Board; one representative of science or
20 engineering appointed by the Governor; two representatives of
21 business, appointed by the Governor; one representative of
22 small business, appointed by the Governor; one representative
23 of the Department of Agriculture, appointed by the Director
24 of Agriculture; and one representative of agribusiness,
25 appointed by the Director of Agriculture. The Director of
26 Commerce and Community Affairs shall appoint one of the
27 Department's representatives to serve as chairman of the
28 Council. The Council members shall receive no compensation
29 for their services but shall be reimbursed for their expenses
30 actually incurred by them in the performance of their duties
31 under this subsection. The Department shall provide staff
32 services to the Council. The Council shall provide for review
33 and evaluation of all applications received by the Department
34 under subsection (2) of this Section and make recommendations
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1 on those projects to be funded. The Council shall also assist
2 the Department in monitoring the projects and in evaluating
3 the impact of the program on technological innovation and
4 business development within the State.
5 (4) There is hereby created a special fund in the State
6 Treasury to be known as the Technology Innovation and
7 Commercialization Fund. The moneys in such Fund may be used,
8 subject to appropriation, only for making grants pursuant to
9 subsection (2) of this Section and for the purposes of the
10 Technology Advancement and Development Act. All royalties
11 received by the Department shall be deposited in such Fund.
12 (5) There is hereby created a special fund in the State
13 treasury to be known as the Federal Job-Training Information
14 Systems Revolving Fund. The deposit of monies into this fund
15 shall be limited to the collection of charges pursuant to
16 paragraph (f) of subsection (1) of this Section. The monies
17 in the fund may only be used, subject to appropriation by the
18 General Assembly for the purpose of financing the maintenance
19 and operation of the automated Federal Job-Training
20 Information Systems pursuant to paragraph (f) of subsection
21 (1) of this Section.
22 (6) When the Department is involved in developing a
23 federal or State funded training or retraining program for
24 any employer, the Department will assist and encourage that
25 employer in making every effort to reemploy individuals
26 previously employed at the facility. Further, the Department
27 will provide a list of said employees to said employer for
28 consideration for reemployment and will report the results of
29 this effort to the Illinois Job Training Coordinating
30 Council. This requirement shall be in effect when the
31 following conditions are met:
32 (a) the employer is reopening, or is proposing to
33 reopen, a facility which was last closed during the
34 preceding 2 years,
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1 (b) a substantial number of the persons who were
2 employed at the facility before its most recent closure
3 remain unemployed, and
4 (c) the product or service produced by, or proposed
5 to be produced by, the employer at the facility is
6 substantially similar to the product or service produced
7 at the facility before its most recent closure.
8 (7) The Department, in cooperation with the Departments
9 of Public Aid and Employment Security, may establish a
10 program to encourage community action agencies to establish
11 programs that will help unemployed and underemployed single
12 parents to identify, access, and develop, through such means
13 as counseling or mentoring, internal and external resources
14 that will enable those single parents to become emotionally
15 and financially self-sufficient. The intended primary
16 beneficiaries of the local programs shall be female heads of
17 households who are at least 22 but less than 46 years of age
18 and who are physically able to work but are unemployed or
19 underemployed. The Department may make grants, subject to
20 the availability of funding, to communities and local
21 agencies for the purpose of establishing local programs as
22 described in this subsection (7). A grant under this
23 subsection (7) shall be made for a period of one year and may
24 be renewed if the Department determines that the program is
25 successful in meeting its objectives. If the Department
26 determines that implementation of a program has resulted in a
27 savings of State moneys that otherwise would have been paid
28 to beneficiaries of the program, the Department, on renewing
29 a grant, may adjust the grant amount for those demonstrated
30 savings. For purposes of this subsection, a person is
31 underemployed if his or her income from employment is less
32 than 185% of the federal official poverty income guideline.
33 (Source: P.A. 88-373; 88-456; 88-670, eff. 12-2-94; 89-4,
34 eff. 1-1-96.)
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1 (Text of Section after amendment by P.A. 89-507)
2 Sec. 46.19a. Employment and technology grants.
3 (1) Grants to provide training in fields affected by
4 critical demands for certain skills may be made as provided
5 in this subsection.
6 (a) The Director of the Department may make grants
7 to eligible employers or to other eligible entities on
8 behalf of employers as authorized in paragraph (b) to
9 provide training for employees in fields for which there
10 are critical demands for certain skills.
11 (b) The Director may accept applications for
12 training grant funds and grant requests from: (i)
13 entities sponsoring multi-company eligible employee
14 training projects as defined in paragraph (c), including
15 business associations, strategic business partnerships,
16 institutions of secondary or higher education, large
17 manufacturers for supplier network companies, federal Job
18 Training Partnership Act administrative entities or grant
19 recipients, and labor organizations when those projects
20 will address common training needs identified by
21 participating companies; and (ii) individual employers
22 that are undertaking eligible employee training projects
23 as defined in paragraph (c), including intermediaries and
24 training agents.
25 (c) The Director may make grants to eligible
26 applicants as defined in paragraph (b) for employee
27 training projects that include, but need not be limited
28 to, one or more of the following:
29 (i) training programs in response to new or
30 changing technology being introduced in the
31 workplace;
32 (ii) job-linked training that offers special
33 skills for career advancement or that is preparatory
34 for, and leads directly to, jobs with definite
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1 career potential and long-term job security;
2 (iii) training necessary to implement total
3 quality management or improvement or both management
4 and improvement systems within the workplace;
5 (iv) training related to new machinery or
6 equipment;
7 (v) training of employees of companies that
8 are expanding into new markets or expanding exports
9 from Illinois;
10 (vi) basic, remedial, or both basic and
11 remedial training of employees as a prerequisite for
12 other vocational or technical skills training or as
13 a condition for sustained employment;
14 (vii) self-employment training of the
15 unemployed and underemployed with comprehensive,
16 competency-based instructional programs and
17 services; and
18 (viii) other training activities, projects, or
19 both training activities and projects related to the
20 support, development, or evaluation of job training
21 programs, activities, and delivery systems,
22 including training needs assessment and design.
23 (d) Grants shall be made on the terms and
24 conditions that the Department shall determine, provided,
25 however, that no grant made under the provisions of
26 paragraph (c) of this subsection shall exceed 50% of the
27 direct costs of all approved training programs provided
28 by the employer or the employer's training agent or other
29 entity as defined in paragraph (b). Under this Section,
30 allowable costs include, but are not limited to:
31 (i) administrative costs of tracking,
32 documenting, reporting, and processing training
33 funds or project costs;
34 (ii) curriculum development;
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1 (iii) wages and fringe benefits of employees;
2 (iv) training materials, including scrap
3 product costs;
4 (v) trainee travel expenses;
5 (vi) instructor costs, including wages, fringe
6 benefits, tuition, and travel expenses;
7 (vii) rent, purchase, or lease of training
8 equipment; and
9 (viii) other usual and customary training
10 costs.
11 (e) The Director shall ensure that periodic on-site
12 grant monitoring visits are conducted by the Department
13 during the course of the grant period. The Department
14 shall verify that the grantee's financial management
15 system is structured to provide for accurate, current,
16 and complete disclosure of the financial results of the
17 grant program in accordance with all provisions, terms,
18 and conditions contained in the grant contract.
19 (f) The Director may establish and collect a
20 schedule of charges from subgrantee entities and other
21 system users under federal job-training programs for
22 participating in and utilizing the department's automated
23 job-training program information systems where such
24 systems and the necessary participation and utilization
25 is a requirement of the federal job-training programs.
26 All monies collected pursuant to this paragraph shall be
27 deposited into the Federal Job-Training Information
28 Systems Revolving Fund created in subsection (5).
29 (2) The Department is authorized to establish a program
30 of grants to universities, community colleges, research
31 institutions, research consortiums, other not-for-profit
32 entities, and Illinois businesses for the purpose of
33 fostering research and development in the high technology and
34 the service sector leading to the development of new products
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1 and services that can be marketed by Illinois businesses. All
2 grant awards shall include a contract which may provide for
3 payment of negotiated royalties to the Department if the
4 product or service to be developed by the grantee is
5 subsequently licensed for production.
6 (a) Grants may be awarded to universities and
7 research institutions to assist them in making their
8 faculties and facilities available to Illinois
9 businesses. Such grants may be used by a university or
10 research institution for, including but not limited to
11 the following purposes: (i) to establish or enhance
12 computerized cataloging of all research labs and
13 university staff and make such catalogues available to
14 Illinois businesses; (ii) to market products developed by
15 the university to Illinois businesses; (iii) to review
16 publications in order to identify, catalog, and inform
17 Illinois businesses of new practices in areas such as
18 robotics, biotechnology; (iv) to build an on-line,
19 information and technology system that relies on other
20 computerized networks in the United States; (v) to assist
21 in securing temporary replacement for faculty who are
22 granted a leave of absence from their teaching duties for
23 the purpose of working full-time for an Illinois business
24 to assist that business with technology transfer.
25 (b) Grants may be awarded to universities and
26 research institutions, research consortiums and other
27 not-for-profit entities for the purpose of identifying
28 and supporting Illinois businesses engaged in high
29 technology and service sector enterprises. Such Illinois
30 businesses identified and funded shall include recipients
31 of Small Business Innovation Research Program funds under
32 subsections (e) through (k) of Section 9 of the Small
33 Business Act. (Title 15 United States Codes, subsections
34 638(e)-638(k)). Entities receiving grants under this
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1 paragraph (b) shall be known as commercialization centers
2 and shall engage in one or more of the following
3 activities:
4 (i) directing research assistance for new
5 venture creations;
6 (ii) general feasibility studies of new
7 venture ideas;
8 (iii) furthering the technical and
9 intellectual skills of the managers and owners of
10 Illinois small businesses;
11 (iv) commercialization of technology and
12 research;
13 (v) development of prototypes and testing new
14 products;
15 (vi) identify and assist in securing
16 financing;
17 (vii) marketing assistance; and
18 (viii) assisting Illinois inventors in finding
19 Illinois manufacturers to produce and market their
20 inventions.
21 A commercialization center may charge a nominal fee
22 or accept royalty agreements for conducting feasibility
23 studies and other services.
24 (c) Grants may be awarded by the Department to
25 Illinois businesses to fund research and consultation
26 arrangements between businesses and universities,
27 community colleges, research institutions, research
28 consortiums and other not-for-profit entities within this
29 State.
30 The Department shall give priority to Illinois small
31 businesses in awarding grants. Each grant awarded under
32 this paragraph (c) shall provide funding for up to 50% of
33 the cost of the research or consultation arrangements,
34 not to exceed $100,000; provided that the grant recipient
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1 utilizes Illinois not for profit research and academic
2 institutions to perform the research and development
3 function for which grant funds were requested.
4 (d) Grants may be awarded to research consortium
5 and other qualified applicants, in conjunction with
6 private sector or federal funding, for other creative
7 systems that bridge university resources and business,
8 technological, production and development concerns.
9 (e) For the purposes of subsection (2), (i)
10 "Illinois business" means a "small business concern" as
11 defined in Title 15 United States Code, Section 632,
12 which primarily conducts its business in Illinois; (ii)
13 "high technology" means any area of research or
14 development designed to foster greater knowledge or
15 understanding in fields such as computer science,
16 electronics, physics, chemistry or biology for the
17 purpose of producing designing, developing or improving
18 prototypes and new processes; (iii) "private sector"
19 shall have the meaning ascribed to it in Title 29 United
20 States Code, Section 1503; (iv) "University" means either
21 a degree granting institution located in Illinois as
22 defined in Section 2 of the Academic Degree Act, or a
23 State-supported institution of higher learning
24 administered by the Board of Trustees of the University
25 of Illinois, the Board of Trustees of Southern Illinois
26 University, the Board of Trustees of Chicago State
27 University, the Board of Trustees of Eastern Illinois
28 University, the Board of Trustees of Governors State
29 University, the Board of Trustees of Illinois State
30 University, the Board of Trustees of Northeastern
31 Illinois University, the Board of Trustees of Northern
32 Illinois University, the Board of Trustees of Western
33 Illinois University, or the Illinois Community College
34 Board; (v) "venture" means any Illinois business engaged
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1 in research and development to create new products or
2 services with high growth potential; (vi) Illinois
3 research institutions refers to not-for-profit entities,
4 which include federally-funded research laboratories,
5 that conduct research and development activities for the
6 purpose of producing, designing, developing, or improving
7 prototypes and new processes; and (vii) other
8 not-for-profit entities means non-profit organizations
9 based in Illinois that are primarily devoted to new
10 enterprise or product development.
11 (f) The Department may establish a program of grant
12 assistance on a matching basis to universities, community
13 colleges, small business development centers, community
14 action agencies and other not-for-profit economic
15 development agencies to encourage new enterprise
16 development and new business formation and to encourage
17 enterprises in this State. The Department may provide
18 grants, which shall be exempt from the provisions of
19 subsection (3) of this Section, to universities,
20 community colleges, small business development centers,
21 community action agencies and other not-for-profit
22 economic development entities for the purpose of making
23 loans to small businesses. All grant applications shall
24 contain information as required by the Department,
25 including the following: a program operation plan; a
26 certification and assurance that the small business
27 applicants have received business development training or
28 education, have a business and finance plan and have
29 experience in the proposed business area; and a
30 description of the support services which the grant
31 recipient will provide to the small business. No more
32 than 10% of the grant may be used by the grant recipient
33 for administrative costs associated with the grant.
34 Grant recipients may use grant funds under this program
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1 to make loans on terms and conditions favorable to the
2 small business and shall give priority to those
3 businesses located in high poverty areas, enterprise
4 zones, or both.
5 (3) There is created within the Department, a Technology
6 Innovation and Commercialization Grants-in-Aid Council which
7 shall consist of 2 representatives of the Department of
8 Commerce and Community Affairs appointed by the Department;
9 one representative of the Illinois Board of Higher Education,
10 appointed by the Board; one representative of science or
11 engineering appointed by the Governor; two representatives of
12 business, appointed by the Governor; one representative of
13 small business, appointed by the Governor; one representative
14 of the Department of Agriculture, appointed by the Director
15 of Agriculture; and one representative of agribusiness,
16 appointed by the Director of Agriculture. The Director of
17 Commerce and Community Affairs shall appoint one of the
18 Department's representatives to serve as chairman of the
19 Council. The Council members shall receive no compensation
20 for their services but shall be reimbursed for their expenses
21 actually incurred by them in the performance of their duties
22 under this subsection. The Department shall provide staff
23 services to the Council. The Council shall provide for review
24 and evaluation of all applications received by the Department
25 under subsection (2) of this Section and make recommendations
26 on those projects to be funded. The Council shall also assist
27 the Department in monitoring the projects and in evaluating
28 the impact of the program on technological innovation and
29 business development within the State.
30 (4) There is hereby created a special fund in the State
31 Treasury to be known as the Technology Innovation and
32 Commercialization Fund. The moneys in such Fund may be used,
33 subject to appropriation, only for making grants pursuant to
34 subsection (2) of this Section and for the purposes of the
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1 Technology Advancement and Development Act. All royalties
2 received by the Department shall be deposited in such Fund.
3 (5) There is hereby created a special fund in the State
4 treasury to be known as the Federal Job-Training Information
5 Systems Revolving Fund. The deposit of monies into this fund
6 shall be limited to the collection of charges pursuant to
7 paragraph (f) of subsection (1) of this Section. The monies
8 in the fund may only be used, subject to appropriation by the
9 General Assembly for the purpose of financing the maintenance
10 and operation of the automated Federal Job-Training
11 Information Systems pursuant to paragraph (f) of subsection
12 (1) of this Section.
13 (6) When the Department is involved in developing a
14 federal or State funded training or retraining program for
15 any employer, the Department will assist and encourage that
16 employer in making every effort to reemploy individuals
17 previously employed at the facility. Further, the Department
18 will provide a list of said employees to said employer for
19 consideration for reemployment and will report the results of
20 this effort to the Illinois Job Training Coordinating
21 Council. This requirement shall be in effect when the
22 following conditions are met:
23 (a) the employer is reopening, or is proposing to
24 reopen, a facility which was last closed during the
25 preceding 2 years,
26 (b) a substantial number of the persons who were
27 employed at the facility before its most recent closure
28 remain unemployed, and
29 (c) the product or service produced by, or proposed
30 to be produced by, the employer at the facility is
31 substantially similar to the product or service produced
32 at the facility before its most recent closure.
33 (7) The Department, in cooperation with the Departments
34 of Human Services and Employment Security, may establish a
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1 program to encourage community action agencies to establish
2 programs that will help unemployed and underemployed single
3 parents to identify, access, and develop, through such means
4 as counseling or mentoring, internal and external resources
5 that will enable those single parents to become emotionally
6 and financially self-sufficient. The intended primary
7 beneficiaries of the local programs shall be female heads of
8 households who are at least 22 but less than 46 years of age
9 and who are physically able to work but are unemployed or
10 underemployed. The Department may make grants, subject to
11 the availability of funding, to communities and local
12 agencies for the purpose of establishing local programs as
13 described in this subsection (7). A grant under this
14 subsection (7) shall be made for a period of one year and may
15 be renewed if the Department determines that the program is
16 successful in meeting its objectives. If the Department
17 determines that implementation of a program has resulted in a
18 savings of State moneys that otherwise would have been paid
19 to beneficiaries of the program, the Department, on renewing
20 a grant, may adjust the grant amount for those demonstrated
21 savings. For purposes of this subsection, a person is
22 underemployed if his or her income from employment is less
23 than 185% of the federal official poverty income guideline.
24 (Source: P.A. 88-373; 88-456; 88-670, eff. 12-2-94; 89-4,
25 eff. 1-1-96; 89-507, eff. 7-1-97.)
26 Section 95. No acceleration or delay. Where this Act
27 makes changes in a statute that is represented in this Act by
28 text that is not yet or no longer in effect (for example, a
29 Section represented by multiple versions), the use of that
30 text does not accelerate or delay the taking effect of (i)
31 the changes made by this Act or (ii) provisions derived from
32 any other Public Act.