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1 AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 3353
2 AMENDMENT NO. . Amend House Bill 3353 by replacing
3 everything after the enacting clause with the following:
4 "Section 5. The Eliminate the Digital Divide Law is
5 amended by adding Sections 5-50, 5-55, 5-60, 5-65, and 5-70
6 as follows:
7 (30 ILCS 780/5-50 new)
8 Sec. 5-50. Community Technology Network Grants.
9 (a) Subject to appropriation, the Department must
10 administer a special program of Community Technology Network
11 Grants in coordination with the Community Technology Center
12 Grant Program. The purpose of the grants is to provide
13 business planning tools, sustainability planning assistance,
14 and outcome tracking tools and services for community
15 technology centers and initiatives. The focus of the program
16 shall be on the integration of centers and initiatives into
17 community area-wide networks of nonprofit organizations;
18 public agencies; education, library, and cultural
19 institutions; and businesses and chambers of commerce.
20 Grants must be made to applicants that currently have
21 broad-based community networks serving multiple communities
22 in need, and that will provide community improvement,
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1 community mapping, technology skill development, technology
2 staff and volunteer development, educational content, health
3 and public safety or other network support. The total amount
4 of grants awarded in fiscal year 2002 may not exceed
5 $1,500,000. An applicant for a grant under this subsection
6 may also apply for a grant under the Community Technology
7 Center Grant Program.
8 (b) Subject to appropriation, the Department may expend
9 not more than $2,500,000 in fiscal year 2002 to establish and
10 support a Statewide Community Technology Center Network to
11 (i) assist in local and regional planning and evaluation
12 under this Law, (ii) support coordination among community
13 technology center initiatives, community computer recycling
14 center network activities, community-university information
15 extension activities, (iii) plan for public-private
16 sustainability of community technology centers and community
17 information networks, and (iv) match or coordinate funding
18 support for statewide activities to improve the capacity and
19 productivity of community technology centers, initiatives,
20 and networks.
21 (30 ILCS 780/5-55 new)
22 Sec. 5-55. Community Computer Recycling Network Grant
23 Program.
24 (a) Subject to appropriation, the Department must
25 administer the Community Computer Recycling Center Network
26 Grant Program under which the Department shall make grants in
27 accordance with this Law for the planning, establishment,
28 administration, and expansion of community, area-wide,
29 countywide, and multi-countywide networks of centers that
30 undertake community computer recycling, refurbishment, earned
31 technology, technology-based training, small technology
32 business programs, and community and nonprofit institutional
33 distribution programs for low-income and underserved
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1 populations. Grants shall be made to networks of centers
2 that (i) work together to serve their areas or districts,
3 (ii) link those programs to social services, health care,
4 public safety, housing, and basic human resource networks
5 that support improvement in the quality of lives of
6 individuals, families, and the nonprofit institutions, (iii)
7 are part of the community support networks, and (iv)
8 coordinate activities with grantees of the Department's
9 Illinois Recycling Grants Program. The total amount of
10 grants awarded under this Section in fiscal year 2002 may not
11 exceed $2,000,000. No network may receive a grant in excess
12 of $75,000.
13 (b) Subject to appropriation, the Department shall
14 expend not more than $200,000 in fiscal year 2002 to
15 establish and support a Statewide Community Computer
16 Recycling Network in coordination with other statewide
17 community technology support initiatives and with a focus on
18 the development and adoption of standardized software and
19 hardware licensing agreements for the use of donated
20 computers and other technology by nonprofit
21 institution-managed programs for community recycling and
22 earned computer programs.
23 (30 ILCS 780/5-60 new)
24 Sec. 5-60. Community-Higher Education Information
25 Extension Program. The Illinois Century Network, in
26 cooperation with the Department, must:
27 (1) Establish a Community-Higher Education
28 Information Extension Consortium that will link community
29 and social service nonprofit organizations, including
30 community technology centers, chambers of commerce, and
31 economic development organizations. The Community-Higher
32 Education Information Extension Consortium shall focus on
33 building local human resource networks and computer
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1 technology user networks that link community, education,
2 business, and public agencies in local communities or
3 district areas with not fewer than 60,000 and not more
4 250,000 residents. The Consortium shall also develop a
5 special planning initiative to link the current Illinois
6 Century Network learning institutions with community
7 institutions that have an interest in connection to the
8 Illinois Century Network's learner information networks.
9 For the purposes of this paragraph, "Illinois Century
10 Network learning institution" means any schools, higher
11 education institutions, libraries, and cultural
12 institutions in the State included in the Illinois
13 Century Network.
14 (2) Conduct planning and program development
15 activities for the current Illinois Century Network
16 community-higher education and community-learning
17 institutions in each district and subdistrict that
18 involve the development of local consortia of community
19 institutions and the preparation and recommendations on
20 cooperative activities statewide and for each district
21 and subdistrict.
22 (30 ILCS 780/5-65 new)
23 Sec. 5-65. Technology planning. The Department, working
24 with the Illinois Century Network, the Governor's Office of
25 Technology, other public agencies, and a cross-section of
26 private community, nonprofit, and business sector parties, in
27 person and through distance learning and on-line
28 communications, must review developments in priorities for
29 community technology planning and support by federal
30 agencies, including the United States Department of Commerce,
31 the United States Department of Education, the United States
32 Department of Housing and Urban Development, the United
33 States Department of Justice, the United States Department of
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1 Health and Human Services, and other federal agencies and
2 federally-supported programs, and must prepare
3 recommendations concerning the best use of State-funded
4 community technology programs to provide sustainability
5 planning in relation to federal programs. During the course
6 of the review, at least one distance learning conference
7 using the preliminary findings must be conducted at locations
8 around the State in order to obtain public comments on the
9 findings. A report and recommendations must be completed no
10 later than December 1, 2001 in order to assist in planning
11 for the State budget for fiscal year 2003.
12 (30 ILCS 780/5-70 new)
13 Sec. 5-70. Community-based technology job training.
14 (a) The Department must, through grants, support the
15 development and delivery of community-based technology job
16 training initiatives to help disadvantaged job seekers and
17 low-wage and displaced workers in Illinois with one or more
18 of the following:
19 (1) Obtaining technology workplace literacy skills
20 and other technology job readiness skills identified by
21 an individual employer or by an industrial sector, and
22 obtaining initial employment.
23 (2) Developing technology job and career management
24 skills, as demonstrated by employer-endorsed credentials
25 and portfolios of proven work experience, and obtaining
26 and retaining stable employment.
27 (3) Advancing in employment through certified
28 technology skills, necessary work experience, and career
29 management skills that meet the needs of employers.
30 Eligible applicants for community-based technology job
31 training grants include community-based organizations,
32 community technology centers, and community colleges that
33 primarily serve low-income persons and that facilitate
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1 working partnerships with employers in both technology and
2 non-technology sectors.
3 (b) Subject to appropriation, the Department shall expend
4 not more the $4,000,000 in any fiscal year to make grants
5 under this Section.
6 Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
7 becoming law.".