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90_HB1995 Makes appropriations or reappropriations or both to the Department of Agriculture for fiscal year 1998. Effective July 1, 1997. LRB9005282WHcd LRB9005282WHcd 1 AN ACT making appropriations. 2 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, 3 represented in the General Assembly: 4 Section 1. The following named amounts, or so much 5 thereof as may be necessary, respectively, for the objects 6 and purposes hereinafter named, are appropriated to meet the 7 ordinary and contingent expenses of the Department of 8 Agriculture: 9 FOR OPERATIONS 10 ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES 11 Payable from General Revenue Fund: 12 For Personal Services ........................ $ 873,800 13 For Employee Retirement Contributions 14 Paid by Employer ............................ 35,000 15 For State Contributions to State 16 Employees' Retirement System ................ 44,600 17 For State Contributions to 18 Social Security ............................. 63,000 19 For Contractual Services ..................... 62,400 20 For Travel ................................... 12,000 21 For Commodities .............................. 23,900 22 For Printing ................................. 8,600 23 For Equipment ................................ 10,000 24 For Telecommunications Services .............. 42,700 25 For Operation of Auto Equipment .............. 15,200 26 For Refunds .................................. 15,000 27 For the Expenses of the Board of Agricultural 28 Advisors and Advisory Board of Livestock 29 Commissioners ............................... 1,000 30 For Expenses of the Divisional Advisory 31 Boards ...................................... 2,000 32 For Deposit into the Agricultural -2- LRB9005282WHcd 1 Premium Fund ................................ 6,500,000 2 Total $7,709,200 3 Payable from Wholesome Meat Fund: 4 For Personal Services ........................ $ 470,300 5 For Employee Retirement Contributions 6 Paid by Employer ............................ 18,800 7 For State Contributions to State 8 Employees' Retirement System ................ 24,000 9 For State Contributions to 10 Social Security ............................. 35,900 11 For Group Insurance .......................... 53,000 12 For Contractual Services ..................... 20,000 13 For Travel ................................... 19,700 14 For Commodities .............................. 1,000 15 For Printing ................................. 1,000 16 For Equipment ................................ 8,000 17 For Telecommunications Services .............. 1,000 18 For Operation of Auto Equipment .............. 1,000 19 Total $653,700 20 Payable from Agriculture Federal 21 Projects Fund: 22 For administrative costs incurred 23 through federally funded agriculture 24 projects ........................................$ 150,000 25 Payable from the Horse Racing Tax 26 Allocation Fund: 27 For Deposit into the Agricultural 28 Premium Fund ....................................$ 715,200 29 Payable from the Illinois Rural 30 Rehabilitation Fund: 31 For Illinois' part in administration 32 of Titles I and II of the federal 33 Bankhead-Jones Farm Tenant Act: 34 For Operations ....................................$ 26,900 -3- LRB9005282WHcd 1 Section 1A. The sum of $8,158,300, or so much thereof as 2 may be necessary, is appropriated from the Agricultural 3 Premium Fund to the Department of Agriculture for deposit 4 into the State Cooperative Extension Service Trust Fund. 5 Section 2. The following named amounts, or so much 6 thereof as may be necessary, respectively, are appropriated 7 to the Department of Agriculture for: 8 ELECTRONIC DATA PROCESSING - ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES 9 Payable from General Revenue Fund: 10 For Personal Services ........................ $ 381,800 11 For Employee Retirement Contributions 12 Paid by Employer ............................ 15,300 13 For State Contributions to State 14 Employees' Retirement System ................ 19,500 15 For State Contributions to 16 Social Security ............................. 27,500 17 For Contractual Services ..................... 171,000 18 For Commodities .............................. 8,500 19 For Printing ................................. 11,900 20 For Equipment ................................ 112,500 21 For Telecommunications Services .............. 21,600 22 Total $769,600 23 Payable from Agricultural Premium Fund: 24 For Personal Services ........................ $ 30,200 25 For Employee Retirement Contributions 26 Paid by Employer ............................ 1,200 27 For State Contributions to State 28 Employees' Retirement System ................ 1,600 29 For State Contributions to 30 Social Security ............................. 2,300 31 For Contractual Services ..................... 6,000 32 Total $41,300 -4- LRB9005282WHcd 1 Section 3. The following named amounts, or so much 2 thereof as may be necessary, respectively, for the objects 3 and purposes hereinafter named are appropriated to meet the 4 ordinary and contingent expenses of the Department of 5 Agriculture: 6 FOR OPERATIONS 7 AGRICULTURE REGULATION 8 Payable from General Revenue Fund: 9 For Personal Services ........................ $ 3,219,900 10 For Employee Retirement Contributions 11 Paid by Employer ............................ 128,800 12 For State Contributions to State 13 Employees' Retirement System ................ 164,000 14 For State Contributions to 15 Social Security ............................. 232,200 16 For Contractual Services ..................... 79,200 17 For Travel ................................... 250,000 18 For Commodities .............................. 49,700 19 For Printing ................................. 5,700 20 For Equipment ................................ 12,500 21 For Telecommunications Services .............. 41,800 22 For Operation of Auto Equipment .............. 32,000 23 Total $4,215,800 24 Payable from the Agriculture Federal Projects Fund: 25 For Expenses of Various 26 Federal Projects ...........................$ 200,000 27 Section 3A. The sum of $410,000, or so much thereof as 28 may be necessary, is appropriated from the Fertilizer Control 29 Fund to the Department of Agriculture for Fertilizer 30 Research. 31 Section 3B. The following named sums, or so much thereof 32 as may be necessary, is appropriated to the Department of -5- LRB9005282WHcd 1 Agriculture for Feed Control. 2 Payable from the Feed Control Fund ...........$ 500,000 3 Section 4. The following named sums, or so much thereof 4 as may be necessary, respectively, for the objects and 5 purposes hereinafter named, are appropriated to meet the 6 ordinary and contingent expenses of the Department of 7 Agriculture: 8 MARKETING 9 Payable from General Revenue Fund: 10 For Personal Services ........................ $ 792,400 11 For Employee Retirement Contributions 12 Paid by Employer ............................ 31,700 13 For State Contributions to State 14 Employees' Retirement System ................ 40,400 15 For State Contributions to 16 Social Security ............................. 57,200 17 For Contractual Services ..................... 13,500 18 For Travel ................................... 11,300 19 For Commodities .............................. 9,600 20 For Printing ................................. 7,100 21 For Equipment ................................ 14,000 22 For Telecommunications Services .............. 35,700 23 For Operation of Auto Equipment .............. 8,300 24 Total $1,021,200 25 Payable from Agricultural 26 Premium Fund: 27 For Expenses Connected With the 28 Promotion of Agriculture Exports ..............$ 1,711,300 29 Payable from Agricultural Marketing 30 Services Fund: 31 For administering Illinois' part under Public 32 Law No. 733, "An Act to provide for further 33 research into basic laws and principles -6- LRB9005282WHcd 1 relating to agriculture and to improve 2 and facilitate the marketing and 3 distribution of agricultural products" ...........$ 10,000 4 Section 5. The following named amounts, or so much 5 thereof as may be necessary, respectively, are appropriated 6 to the Department of Agriculture for: 7 ANIMAL INDUSTRIES 8 Payable from General Revenue Fund: 9 For Personal Services ........................ $ 3,289,000 10 For Employee Retirement Contributions 11 Paid by Employer ............................ 131,600 12 For State Contributions to State 13 Employees' Retirement System ................ 167,600 14 For State Contributions to 15 Social Security ............................. 237,200 16 For Contractual Services ..................... 847,100 17 For Travel ................................... 95,000 18 For Commodities .............................. 310,600 19 For Printing ................................. 15,800 20 For Equipment ................................ 141,000 21 For Telecommunications Services .............. 47,600 22 For Operation of Auto Equipment .............. 58,200 23 For Swine Disease Research ................... 42,700 24 For Bovine Disease Research .................. 20,200 25 Total $5,403,600 26 Payable from the Illinois Department 27 of Agriculture Laboratory 28 Services Revolving Fund: 29 For Expenses Authorized 30 by the Animal Disease 31 Laboratories Act ................................$ 400,000 32 Payable from the Agriculture 33 Federal Projects Fund: -7- LRB9005282WHcd 1 For Expenses of Various 2 Federal Projects ................................$ 300,000 3 Section 6. The following named amounts, or so much 4 thereof as may be necessary, respectively, are appropriated 5 to the Department of Agriculture for: 6 BUREAU OF MEAT AND POULTRY INSPECTION 7 Payable from the General Revenue Fund 8 For Personal Services ........................ $ 2,793,200 9 For Employee Retirement Contributions 10 Paid by Employer ............................ 111,700 11 For State Contributions to State 12 Employees' Retirement System ................ 142,400 13 For State Contributions to 14 Social Security ............................. 201,400 15 For Contractual Services ..................... 13,500 16 For Travel ................................... 50,000 17 For Commodities .............................. 1,000 18 For Printing ................................. 1,900 19 For Equipment ................................ 1,000 20 For Telecommunications Services .............. 5,800 21 For Operation of Auto Equipment .............. 3,500 22 Total $3,325,400 23 Payable from Wholesome Meat Fund: 24 For Personal Services ........................ $ 2,757,800 25 For Employee Retirement Contributions 26 Paid by Employer ............................ 110,300 27 For State Contributions to State 28 Employees' Retirement System ................ 140,600 29 For State Contributions to 30 Social Security ............................. 211,000 31 For Group Insurance .......................... 404,600 32 For Contractual Services ..................... 98,200 33 For Travel ................................... 400,000 -8- LRB9005282WHcd 1 For Commodities .............................. 19,000 2 For Printing ................................. 9,000 3 For Equipment ................................ 115,800 4 For Telecommunications Services .............. 40,000 5 For Operation of Auto Equipment .............. 40,000 6 Total $4,346,300 7 Section 7. The following named amounts, or so much 8 thereof as may be necessary, respectively, are appropriated 9 to the Department of Agriculture for: 10 BUREAU OF WEIGHTS AND MEASURES 11 Payable from the General Revenue Fund: 12 For Personal Services ........................ $ 717,900 13 For Employee Retirement Contributions 14 Paid by Employer ............................ 28,700 15 For State Contributions to State 16 Employees' Retirement System ................ 36,600 17 For State Contributions to 18 Social Security ............................. 51,800 19 For Contractual Services ..................... 14,900 20 For Travel ................................... 27,400 21 For Commodities .............................. 4,100 22 For Printing ................................. 11,700 23 For Equipment ................................ 36,800 24 For Telecommunications Services .............. 8,500 25 For Operation of Auto Equipment .............. 55,000 26 For Expenses of a Motor Fuel and 27 Petroleum Standards Program 28 pursuant to PA86-0232 ...................... 85,000 29 Total $1,078,400 30 Payable from Agricultural Master Fund: 31 For Expenses Relating to 32 Administering Federal Cooperative 33 Agreements Relating to Enforcement of -9- LRB9005282WHcd 1 Marketing Regulations: .......................$ 400,000 2 Payable from the Weights and Measures Fund: 3 For the Personal Services and 4 Related Expenses of the Weights 5 and Measures Program ........................ $ 885,000 6 For the Operational Expenses of the 7 Weights and Measures Program ................ 1,115,000 8 Total $2,000,000 9 Section 8. The following named amounts, or so much 10 thereof as may be necessary, respectively, are appropriated 11 to the Department of Agriculture for: 12 ENVIRONMENTAL PROGRAMS 13 Payable from the General Revenue Fund: 14 For Personal Services ........................ $ 631,100 15 For Employee Retirement Contributions 16 Paid by Employer ............................ 25,200 17 For State Contributions to State 18 Employees' Retirement System ................ 32,200 19 For State Contributions to 20 Social Security ............................. 45,500 21 For Contractual Services ..................... 1,900 22 For Travel ................................... 47,300 23 For Commodities .............................. 800 24 For Printing ................................. 1,000 25 For Equipment ................................ 900 26 For Telecommunications Services .............. 16,000 27 For Operation of Auto Equipment .............. 12,000 28 For Administration of the Livestock 29 Management Facilities Act ................... 200,000 30 Total $1,013,900 31 Payable from Agriculture Pesticide 32 Control Act Fund: 33 For Certification of Pesticide Applicators . $ 70,000 -10- LRB9005282WHcd 1 For Expenses of Pesticide Enforcement Program . 700,000 2 Total $770,000 3 Payable from Pesticide Control Fund: 4 For Administration and Enforcement 5 of the Pesticide Act of 1979 ..................$ 1,700,000 6 Payable from the Agriculture Federal Projects Fund: 7 For Expenses of Various Federal 8 Projects ........................................$ 530,000 9 Section 9. The following named amounts, or so much 10 thereof as may be necessary, respectively, are appropriated 11 to the Department of Agriculture for: 12 NATURAL RESOURCES 13 Payable from the Agricultural Premium Fund: 14 For Personal Services ........................ $ 679,200 15 For Employee Retirement Contributions 16 Paid by Employer ............................ 27,200 17 For State Contributions to State 18 Employees' Retirement System ................ 34,600 19 For State Contributions to 20 Social Security ............................. 52,000 21 For Contractual Services ..................... 42,900 22 For Travel ................................... 38,000 23 For Commodities .............................. 6,800 24 For Printing ................................. 3,600 25 For Equipment ................................ 12,000 26 For Telecommunications Services .............. 29,300 27 For Operation of Auto Equipment .............. 21,600 28 For the Ordinary and Contingent Expenses 29 of the Natural Resources Advisory Board ..... 4,200 30 Total $951,400 31 Payable from the Agriculture 32 Federal Projects Fund: 33 For Expenses Relating to -11- LRB9005282WHcd 1 Various Federal Projects ........................$ 535,000 2 Section 9A. The sum of $4,200,000, or so much thereof as 3 may be necessary, is appropriated to the Department of 4 Agriculture from the Conservation 2000 Fund for the 5 Conservation 2000 Program to implement agricultural resource 6 enhancement programs for Illinois' natural resources, 7 consisting of the following elements at the approximate costs 8 set forth below: 9 Conservation Practices 10 Cost Sharing Program .............$ 2,000,000 11 Sustainable Agriculture Programs ......600,000 12 Soil and Water Conservation Grants ..1,125,000 13 Streambank Restoration ................475,000 14 Section 9B. The amount of $1,000,000 is appropriated 15 from the Capital Development Fund to the Department of 16 Agriculture for deposit into the Conservation 2000 Projects 17 Fund. 18 Section 9C. The amount of $1,000,000 or so much thereof 19 as may be necessary, is appropriated from the Conservation 20 2000 Projects Fund to the Department of Agriculture for the 21 following projects at the approximate costs set forth below: 22 Conservation Practices Cost-Share program......$ 1,000,000 23 DIVISION OF FAIRS AND HORSE RACING 24 Section 10. The following named sums, or so much thereof 25 as may be necessary, respectively, for the objects and 26 purposes hereinafter named, are appropriated to meet the 27 ordinary and contingent expenses of the Department of 28 Agriculture: 29 BUREAU OF SPRINGFIELD BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS -12- LRB9005282WHcd 1 Payable from General Revenue Fund: 2 For Personal Services: 3 For regular positions ....................... $ 1,069,100 4 For regular positions-crafts ................ 691,100 5 For Extra Help: 6 For extra help .............................. 213,600 7 For extra help-crafts ....................... 162,600 8 For Employee Retirement Contributions 9 Paid by Employer ............................ 72,400 10 For State Contributions to State 11 Employees' Retirement System ................ 108,900 12 For State Contributions to 13 Social Security ............................. 154,200 14 For Contractual Services ..................... 1,458,200 15 For Commodities .............................. 85,000 16 For Equipment ................................ 1,000 17 For Telecommunications Services .............. 35,500 18 For Operation of Auto Equipment .............. 28,600 19 Total $4,080,200 20 Section 10A. The sum of $750,000, or so much thereof as 21 may be necessary, is appropriated from the Illinois State 22 Fair Fund to the Department of Agriculture to conduct 23 activities at the Illinois State Fairgrounds at Springfield 24 other than the Illinois State Fair, including administrative 25 expenses. No expenditures from the appropriation shall be 26 authorized until revenues from fairgrounds uses sufficient to 27 offset such expenditures have been collected and deposited 28 into the Illinois State Fair Fund. 29 Section 10B. The following named amounts, or so much 30 thereof as may be necessary, respectively, are appropriated 31 to the Department of Agriculture for: 32 BUREAU OF DUQUOIN BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS -13- LRB9005282WHcd 1 Payable from General Revenue Fund: 2 For Personal Services: 3 For regular positions ....................... $ 443,600 4 For regular positions-crafts ................ 229,700 5 For Extra Help ............................... 118,600 6 For Employee Retirement Contributions 7 Paid by Employer ............................ 28,800 8 For State Contributions to State 9 Employees' Retirement System ................ 40,300 10 For State Contributions to 11 Social Security ............................. 57,200 12 For Contractual Services ..................... 275,400 13 For Travel ................................... 7,400 14 For Commodities .............................. 64,900 15 For Equipment ................................ 15,000 16 For Telecommunications Services .............. 19,000 17 For Operation of Auto Equipment .............. 7,500 18 Total $1,307,400 19 Section 10C. The sum of $300,000, or so much thereof as 20 may be necessary, is appropriated from the Agricultural 21 Premium Fund to the Department of Agriculture to conduct 22 activities at the Illinois State Fairgrounds at Du Quoin 23 other than the Illinois State Fair, including administrative 24 expenses. No expenditures from the appropriation shall be 25 authorized until revenues from fairgrounds uses sufficient to 26 offset such expenditures have been collected and deposited 27 into the Agricultural Premium Fund. 28 Section 11. The following named amounts, or so much 29 thereof as may be necessary, respectively, are appropriated 30 to the Department of Agriculture for: 31 BUREAU OF DUQUOIN STATE FAIR 32 Payable from General Revenue Fund: -14- LRB9005282WHcd 1 For Personal Services: 2 For regular positions ........................ $ 106,300 3 For Extra Help ............................... 113,200 4 For Employee Retirement Contributions 5 Paid by Employer ............................ 6,300 6 For State Contributions to State 7 Employees' Retirement System ................. 11,100 8 For State Contributions to 9 Social Security ............................. 15,800 10 For Contractual Services ..................... 381,100 11 For Travel ................................... 6,500 12 For Commodities .............................. 24,400 13 For Printing ................................. 8,700 14 For Equipment ................................ 9,000 15 For Telecommunications Services .............. 35,700 16 For Operation of Auto Equipment .............. 2,200 17 For Refunds .................................. 1,500 18 For Entertainment at the 19 DuQuoin State Fair .......................... 491,400 20 Total $1,213,200 21 Payable from the Agricultural Premium Fund: 22 For Financial Assistance for the 23 DuQuoin State Fair ...............................$380,200 24 Section 11A. The following named amounts, or so much 25 thereof as may be necessary, are appropriated to the 26 Department of Agriculture for: 27 BUREAU OF STATE FAIR 28 Payable from the Illinois State Fair Fund: 29 For Operations of the 1996 State Fair ........ $1,814,900 30 For Entertainment at the 1996 31 State Fair .................................. 939,900 32 Total $2,754,800 -15- LRB9005282WHcd 1 Section 12. The following named amounts, or so much 2 thereof as may be necessary, respectively, are appropriated 3 to the Department of Agriculture for: 4 BUREAU OF COUNTY FAIRS 5 Payable from the Agricultural Premium Fund: 6 For Personal Services ........................ $ 114,000 7 For Employee Retirement Contributions 8 Paid by Employer ............................ 4,600 9 For State Contributions to State 10 Employees' Retirement System ................ 5,800 11 For State Contributions to 12 Social Security ............................. 8,700 13 For Contractual Services ..................... 6,300 14 For Travel ................................... 4,400 15 For Commodities .............................. 3,200 16 For Printing ................................. 5,100 17 For Equipment ................................ 11,300 18 For Telecommunications Services .............. 4,900 19 For Operation of Auto Equipment .............. 2,000 20 Total $170,300 21 Section 13. The following named amounts, or so much 22 thereof as may be necessary, respectively, are appropriated 23 to the Department of Agriculture for: 24 BUREAU OF HORSE RACING 25 Payable from Illinois Standardbred 26 Breeders Fund: 27 For Personal Services ........................ $ 213,300 28 For Employee Retirement Contributions 29 Paid by Employer ............................ 8,600 30 For State Contributions to State 31 Employees' Retirement System ................ 10,900 32 For State Contributions to 33 Social Security ............................. 16,300 -16- LRB9005282WHcd 1 For Contractual Services ..................... 22,500 2 For Travel ................................... 8,500 3 For Commodities .............................. 2,000 4 For Printing ................................. 2,100 5 For Equipment ................................ 13,000 6 For Telecommunications Services .............. 7,800 7 For Operation of Auto Equipment .............. 13,300 8 Total $318,300 9 Payable from Illinois Thoroughbred 10 Breeders Fund: 11 For Personal Services ........................ $ 213,300 12 For Employee Retirement Contributions 13 Paid by Employer ............................ 8,600 14 For State Contributions to State 15 Employees' Retirement System ................ 10,900 16 For State Contributions to 17 Social Security ............................. 16,300 18 For Contractual Services ..................... 22,500 19 For Travel ................................... 8,500 20 For Commodities .............................. 2,000 21 For Printing ................................. 2,100 22 For Equipment ................................ 13,000 23 For Telecommunications Services .............. 7,800 24 For Operation of Auto Equipment .............. 13,300 25 Total $318,300 26 Section 14. The following named amounts, or so much 27 thereof as may be necessary, respectively, are appropriated 28 to the Department of Agriculture for: 29 AWARDS AND GRANTS 30 ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES 31 Payable from the Illinois Rural 32 Rehabilitation Fund: 33 For Illinois' part in administration -17- LRB9005282WHcd 1 of Titles I and II of the federal 2 Bankhead-Jones Farm Tenant Act: 3 For Programs, Loans and Grants ................. $ 445,000 4 Payable from the Agricultural Premium Fund: 5 For Expenses of the Agricultural 6 Research and Development 7 Consortium at Peoria .......................... $ 140,000 8 Payable from the General Revenue Fund: 9 For the Agricultural Leadership Foundation ... $ 10,000 10 For distribution of institutional agricultural 11 research grants to public universities 12 authorized by the Food and Agriculture 13 Research Act to include administrative costs 14 incurred by the Department of Agriculture 15 pursuant to Section 15 of the Food and 16 Agriculture Research Act (Public 17 Act 89-182) ................................. 9,000,000 18 Total $9,010,000 19 Section 15. The following named amount, or so much 20 thereof as may be necessary, is appropriated to the 21 Department of Agriculture for: 22 AWARDS AND GRANTS 23 ANIMAL INDUSTRIES 24 Payable from General Revenue Fund: 25 For awards for destruction of livestock, 26 as provided by law ................................$ 5,100 27 Section 16. The following named amounts, or so much 28 thereof as may be necessary, respectively, are appropriated 29 to the Department of Agriculture for: 30 AWARDS AND GRANTS 31 NATURAL RESOURCES 32 Payable from the General Revenue Fund: -18- LRB9005282WHcd 1 For Soil Surveys in Mapping Illinois 2 Soil ........................................ $ 423,800 3 For grants to Soil and Water Conservation 4 Districts for clerical and other personnel, 5 for education and promotional assistance, 6 and for expenses of Water Conservation 7 District Boards and administrative 8 expenses .................................... 4,122,200 9 Total $4,546,000 10 Section 17. The following named amounts, or so much 11 thereof as may be necessary, are appropriated to the 12 Department of Agriculture for: 13 AWARDS AND GRANTS 14 ILLINOIS STATE FAIR 15 Payable from the General Revenue Fund: 16 For Awards to Livestock Breeders at 17 rates provided by law ....................... $ 172,400 18 For Awards and Premiums at the 19 Illinois State Fair ......................... 319,500 20 For Awards and Premiums for Grand 21 Circuit Horse Racing at the 22 Illinois State Fairgrounds .................. 148,100 23 Total $640,000 24 Payable from the Illinois State Fair Fund: 25 For Awards to Livestock Breeders at 26 rates provided by law ....................... $ 57,400 27 For Awards and Premiums at the 28 Illinois State Fair ......................... 173,200 29 For Awards and Premiums for Grand 30 Circuit Horse Racing at the 31 Illinois State Fairgrounds .................. 49,400 32 Total $280,000 -19- LRB9005282WHcd 1 Section 18. The following named amounts, or so much 2 thereof as may be necessary, respectively, are appropriated 3 to the Department of Agriculture for: 4 AWARDS AND GRANTS 5 DUQUOIN STATE FAIR 6 Payable from General Revenue Fund: 7 For awards and premiums to the 8 DuQuoin State Fair........................... $ 149,500 9 For harness racing at the 10 DuQuoin State Fair .......................... 31,600 11 Total $181,100 12 Section 19. The following named amounts, or so much 13 thereof as may be necessary is appropriated to the Department 14 of Agriculture for: 15 AWARDS AND GRANTS 16 BUREAU OF HORSE RACING 17 Payable from the Horse Racing Tax 18 Allocation Fund: 19 For promotion of the Illinois horse 20 racing and breeding industry ................ $ 715,200 21 Payable from Illinois Standardbred 22 Breeders Fund: 23 For grants and other purposes authorized 24 in Section 31 of the Illinois Horse 25 Racing Act of 1975, but not including 26 the administrative expenses provided 27 for in subparagraph (g) (7) of said 28 Section 31 .................................. 1,480,000 29 Payable from Illinois Thoroughbred 30 Breeders Fund: 31 For grants and other purposes authorized 32 in Section 30 of the Illinois Horse 33 Racing Act of 1975, but not including -20- LRB9005282WHcd 1 the administrative expenses as provided 2 for in said subparagraph (g) (10) of 3 said Section 30 ............................. 1,991,600 4 Total $4,186,800 5 Section 19a. The sum of $300,000, or so much thereof as 6 may be available through subsection (g) of Section 27 of the 7 Illinois Horse Racing Act of 1975, is appropriated from the 8 Illinois Standardbred Breeders Fund to the Department of 9 Agriculture for grants and other purposes authorized in 10 Section 31 of the Illinois Horse Racing Act of 1975, but not 11 including the administrative expenses provided for in 12 subparagraph (g)(7) of said Section 31. 13 Section 20. The following named amounts, or so much 14 thereof as may be necessary is appropriated to the Department 15 of Agriculture for: 16 AWARDS AND GRANTS 17 BUREAU OF COUNTY FAIRS 18 Payable from the Agricultural Premium Fund: 19 For distribution to encourage and aid 20 county fairs and other agricultural 21 societies. This distribution shall be 22 prorated and approved by the Department 23 of Agriculture: ............................. $ 2,209,100 24 For premiums to agricultural extension 25 or 4-H clubs to be distributed at the 26 uniform rate of $10.50 per member ........... 762,000 27 For premiums to vocational 28 agriculture fairs ........................... 179,500 29 For rehabilitation of county fairgrounds ..... 1,809,000 30 For county fair incentive grants ............. 42,700 31 For awards to Mid-Continent Livestock 32 Exposition .................................. 7,600 -21- LRB9005282WHcd 1 For grants and other purposes for county fair 2 and state fair horse racing ................. 325,000 3 Total $5,334,900 4 Payable from the Horse Racing Tax 5 Allocation Fund: 6 For distribution to county fairs for 7 premiums and rehabilitation as set 8 forth in the Agriculture Fair Act ...............$ 715,200 9 Payable from Fair and Exposition Fund: 10 For distribution to County Fairs and 11 Fair and Exposition Authorities, as 12 provided by law ...............................$ 1,428,900 13 Section 21. The following named amounts, or so much 14 thereof as may be necessary, are appropriated to the 15 Department of Agriculture for repairs, maintenance, and 16 capital improvements including construction, reconstruction, 17 improvement, repair and installation of capital facilities, 18 cost of planning, supplies, materials, equipment, services 19 and all other expenses required to complete the work: 20 Payable from General Revenue Fund: 21 For various projects at the State 22 Fairgrounds ................................. $ 150,000 23 For various projects at the DuQuoin State 24 Fairgrounds ................................. 112,500 25 Total $262,500 26 No contract shall be entered into or obligation incurred 27 for any expenditures from appropriations made in this section 28 until after all purposes and amounts have been approved in 29 writing by the Governor. 30 Section 999. Effective date. This Act takes effect on 31 July 1, 1997.