Bill Text: IL SB1608 | 2019-2020 | 101st General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Business Enterprise for Minorities, and Persons with Disabilities Act. Specifies further requirements in the awarding of State contracts under the Act concerning diversity and underrepresented groups. Amends the Illinois Procurement Code. Makes changes to provisions concerning competitive sealed bids and the awarding of contracts as related to diversity. Provides for diversity training. Amends the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Establishes the Illinois Small Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Matching Funds Program. Creates the Community Development Loan Guarantee Act. Establishes the Loan Guarantee Program. Provides that the State Treasurer may establish at any eligible financial institution a Loan Guarantee Account as a special account outside the State treasury and with the State Treasurer as custodian. Provides further requirements for the Program. Creates the Illinois Community Reinvestment Act. Requires each covered financial institution to have a continuing and affirmative obligation to meet the financial services needs of the communities in which its offices, branches, and other facilities are maintained, consistent with the safe and sound operation of the financial institution, and for credit unions, consistent with its common bond. Creates the Commission on Equity and Inclusion. Provides for the membership and powers and duties of the Commission. Amends the Illinois Public Aid Code. Requires the Department shall update the Child Care Assistance Program Eligibility Calculator posted on its website to include a question on whether a family is applying for child care assistance for the first time or is applying for a redetermination of eligibility. Makes conforming and other changes. Effective immediately, except that specified provisions take effect January 1, 2022.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 30-0)

Status: (Enrolled - Dead) 2021-01-14 - Added as Chief Co-Sponsor Sen. Kimberly A. Lightford [SB1608 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2019-SB1608-Introduced.html

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101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2019 and 2020 SB1608 Introduced 2/15/2019, by Sen. Elgie R. Sims, Jr. SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
20 ILCS 605/605-1000 rep.
20 ILCS 700/2003 from Ch. 127, par. 3702-3
Amends the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Repeals provisions establishing the Illinois Science and Technology Commission. Effective immediately.
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AN ACT concerning State government.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
(20 ILCS 605/605-1000 rep.)
Section 5. The Department of Commerce and Economic
Opportunity Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois is
amended by repealing Section 605-1000.
Section 10. The Technology Advancement and Development Act
is amended by changing Section 2003 as follows:
(20 ILCS 700/2003) (from Ch. 127, par. 3702-3)
Sec. 2003. Grant evaluation and amounts.
(a) The Department shall evaluate grant applications based
upon criteria provided under this Section. The Department shall
not award any Challenge Grant that is not recommended for
funding by the Illinois Science and Technology Advisory
Committee and the Illinois Coalition. In determining which
grant applicants shall be awarded a Challenge Grant, the
Department shall conduct an evaluation of prior compliance with
loan or grant agreements for any grant applicant previously
funded by the Department. In addition, the Department shall
consider the following criteria in determining grant awards:
the relationship of a proposed advanced technology project to

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the State's future economic growth; the qualifications and
expertise of consultants, firms or organizations undertaking
the effort; the potential for leveraging federal or private
research dollars, or both, for the initiative; the extent of
the capacity of the applicant or the applicant partnership or
consortium to finance the initiative; the potential for
adapting, commercializing or adopting the results of the
applicant's project for the economic benefit of the State; and
the likelihood that the project has a potential for creating
new jobs or retaining current jobs in the State.
(b) The Director of the Department shall determine the
level of the grant award and shall determine the share of total
directly attributable costs of an advanced technology project
which may be considered for funding under this Article.
(c) The Department and the Department of Natural Resources
are hereby authorized to cooperate with and provide support to
the Illinois Science and Technology Advisory Committee and the
Illinois Coalition. Such support may include the provision of
office space and may be technical, advisory or operational in
nature.
(Source: P.A. 91-357, eff. 7-29-99; 91-476, eff. 8-11-99.)
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.