Bill Text: IL HB4397 | 2015-2016 | 99th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Illinois Grant Funds Recovery Act and the School Construction Law. Provides that, notwithstanding the Illinois Grant Funds Recovery Act's 2-year time limitation on grant fund expenditures, for school energy efficiency grants awarded in 2014, grant funds may be made available for expenditure by a grantee for a period of 4 years from the date the funds were distributed by the State. Provides that any school energy efficiency grant funds not expended or legally obligated by the end of the grant agreement must be returned to the grantor agency within 45 days if the funds are not already on deposit with the grantor agency or the State Treasurer, and such returned funds must be deposited into the fund from which the original grant disbursement to the grantee was made. Effective immediately.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)

Status: (Passed) 2016-07-22 - Public Act . . . . . . . . . 99-0606 [HB4397 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2015-HB4397-Introduced.html

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99TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2015 and 2016 HB4397 Introduced , by Rep. Jerry F. Costello, II SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
30 ILCS 705/5 from Ch. 127, par. 2305
105 ILCS 230/5-200
Amends the Illinois Grant Funds Recovery Act and the School Construction Law. Provides that, notwithstanding the Illinois Grant Funds Recovery Act's 2-year time limitation on grant fund expenditures, for school energy efficiency grants awarded in 2014, grant funds may be made available for expenditure by a grantee for a period of 4 years from the date the funds were distributed by the State. Provides that any school energy efficiency grant funds not expended or legally obligated by the end of the grant agreement must be returned to the grantor agency within 45 days if the funds are not already on deposit with the grantor agency or the State Treasurer, and such returned funds must be deposited into the fund from which the original grant disbursement to the grantee was made. Effective immediately.
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning education.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Illinois Grant Funds Recovery Act is amended
by changing Section 5 as follows:
(30 ILCS 705/5) (from Ch. 127, par. 2305)
Sec. 5. Time Limit on Expenditure of Grant Funds. Subject
to the restriction of Section 35 of the State Finance Act "An
Act in relation to State finance", approved June 10, 1919, as
amended, no grant funds may be made available for expenditure
by a grantee for a period longer than 2 years, except where
such grant funds are disbursed in reimbursement of costs
previously incurred by the grantee and except as otherwise
provided in subsection (d) of Section 5-200 of the School
Construction Law. Any grant funds not expended or legally
obligated by the end of the grant agreement, or during the time
limitation to grant fund expenditures set forth in this
Section, must be returned to the grantor agency within 45 days,
if the funds are not already on deposit with the grantor agency
or the State Treasurer. Such returned funds shall be deposited
into the fund from which the original grant disbursement to the
grantee was made.
(Source: P.A. 83-640.)

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Section 10. The School Construction Law is amended by
changing Section 5-200 as follows:
(105 ILCS 230/5-200)
Sec. 5-200. School energy efficiency grants.
(a) The State Board of Education is authorized to make
grants to school districts and special education cooperatives,
without regard to enrollment, for school energy efficiency
projects. These grants shall be paid out of moneys appropriated
for that purpose from the School Infrastructure Fund. No grant
under this Section for one fiscal year shall exceed $250,000,
but a school district or special education cooperative may
receive grants for more than one project during one fiscal
year. A school district or special education cooperative must
provide local matching funds in an amount equal to the amount
of the grant under this Section. A school district or special
education cooperative has no entitlement to a grant under this
Section.
(b) The State Board of Education shall adopt rules to
implement this Section. These rules need not be the same as the
rules for school construction project grants or school
maintenance project grants. The rules may specify:
(1) the manner of applying for grants;
(2) project eligibility requirements;
(3) restrictions on the use of grant moneys;

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(4) the manner in which school districts and special
education cooperatives must account for the use of grant
moneys; and
(5) any other provision that the State Board determines
to be necessary or useful for the administration of this
Section.
(c) In each school year in which school energy efficiency
project grants are awarded, 20% of the total amount awarded
shall be awarded to a school district in a city with a
population of more than 500,000, provided that the school
district complies with the requirements of this Section and the
rules adopted under this Section.
(d) Notwithstanding Section 5 of the Illinois Grant Funds
Recovery Act, for school energy efficiency grants awarded in
2014, grant funds may be made available for expenditure by a
grantee for a period of 4 years from the date the funds were
distributed by the State. Any grant funds not expended or
legally obligated by the end of the grant agreement must be
returned to the grantor agency within 45 days if the funds are
not already on deposit with the grantor agency or the State
Treasurer. Such returned funds must be deposited into the fund
from which the original grant disbursement to the grantee was
made.
(Source: P.A. 96-37, eff. 7-13-09; 96-1423, eff. 8-3-10;
97-205, eff. 7-28-11.)
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon

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