Bill Text: IL HB5127 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Grant Accountability and Transparency Act. Provides that the Governor's Office of Management and Budget shall adopt rules pertaining to expedient and efficient processing of grants awarded to public safety agencies though the State's awarding agencies, including those awards provided through the Illinois Law Enforcement Training Standards Board. Provides that the rules pertaining to the issuance of awards to public safety agencies shall include, but are not limited to, the following: (1) in accordance with the Grant Accountability and Transparency Act, continued uniform administrative requirements, cost principles, and audit requirements for State and federal pass-through awards to non-federal public safety entities; (2) an application process for public safety agencies that proceeds to process applicants, upon the receipt of their application on a first-come, first-serve basis; and (3) an award process that proceeds on a chronological case-by-case basis where a public safety agency's award is processed with no delay upon that agency's completion of all requirements, including the application process, reporting requirements, monitoring, and all other considerations and regulations as required under the Act. Provides that the Grant Accountability and Transparency Unit and the Office of the State Comptroller shall consider and determine revised factors when determining permanent or temporary cease payments, the garnishment of funds, or any other action by a State agency to hinder receipt of an award by a public safety agency recipient or subrecipient. Provides that those factors shall be disseminated to all State agencies that award grants to public safety agencies. Effective immediately.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 8-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-04-26 - Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Tony M. McCombie [HB5127 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2023-HB5127-Introduced.html

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103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2023 and 2024 HB5127 Introduced 2/8/2024, by Rep. John M. Cabello - Amy L. Grant - Jackie Haas - Kevin Schmidt - Dan Ugaste, et al. SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
30 ILCS 708/96 new
Amends the Grant Accountability and Transparency Act. Provides that the Governor's Office of Management and Budget shall adopt rules pertaining to expedient and efficient processing of grants awarded to public safety agencies though the State's awarding agencies, including those awards provided through the Illinois Law Enforcement Training Standards Board. Provides that the rules pertaining to the issuance of awards to public safety agencies shall include, but are not limited to, the following: (1) in accordance with the Grant Accountability and Transparency Act, continued uniform administrative requirements, cost principles, and audit requirements for State and federal pass-through awards to non-federal public safety entities; (2) an application process for public safety agencies that proceeds to process applicants, upon the receipt of their application on a first-come, first-serve basis; and (3) an award process that proceeds on a chronological case-by-case basis where a public safety agency's award is processed with no delay upon that agency's completion of all requirements, including the application process, reporting requirements, monitoring, and all other considerations and regulations as required under the Act. Provides that the Grant Accountability and Transparency Unit and the Office of the State Comptroller shall consider and determine revised factors when determining permanent or temporary cease payments, the garnishment of funds, or any other action by a State agency to hinder receipt of an award by a public safety agency recipient or subrecipient. Provides that those factors shall be disseminated to all State agencies that award grants to public safety agencies. Effective immediately.
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning finance.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Grant Accountability and Transparency Act
is amended by adding Section 96 as follows:
(30 ILCS 708/96 new)
Sec. 96. Processing of grants to public safety agencies.
(a) The Governor's Office of Management and Budget shall
adopt rules pertaining to expedient and efficient processing
of grants awarded to public safety agencies though the State's
awarding agencies, including those awards provided through the
Illinois Law Enforcement Training Standards Board. The rules
pertaining to the issuance of awards to public safety agencies
shall include, but are not limited to, the following:
(1) in accordance with the Grant Accountability and
Transparency Act, continued uniform administrative
requirements, cost principles, and audit requirements for
State and federal pass-through awards to non-federal
public safety entities;
(2) an application process for public safety agencies
that proceeds to process applicants upon the receipt of
their application on a first-come, first-serve basis; and
(3) an award process that proceeds on a chronological

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case-by-case basis where a public safety agency's award is
processed with no delay upon that agency's completion of
all requirements, including the application process,
reporting requirements, monitoring, and all other
considerations and regulations as required under this Act.
(b) The Grant Accountability and Transparency Unit and the
Office of the State Comptroller shall consider and determine
revised factors when determining permanent or temporary cease
payments, the garnishment of funds, or any other action by a
State agency to hinder receipt of an award by a public safety
agency recipient or subrecipient. Those factors shall be
disseminated to all State agencies that award grants to public
safety agencies.