(25 ILCS 130/Art. 4 heading)
ARTICLE 4.
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(25 ILCS 130/4-1) (from Ch. 63, par. 1004-1)
Sec. 4-1. For purposes of the Successor Agency Act and Section 9b of the
State
Finance
Act, the Legislative Research Unit is the successor to the
Illinois Commission on
Intergovernmental Cooperation.
The Legislative Research Unit succeeds to and assumes all powers, duties,
rights, responsibilities, personnel, assets, liabilities, and indebtedness of
the Illinois Commission on Intergovernmental Cooperation.
Any reference in any law, rule, form, or other
document to the
Illinois Commission on
Intergovernmental Cooperation
is
deemed to be a reference to the Legislative Research Unit.
(Source: P.A. 93-632, eff. 2-1-04.)
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(25 ILCS 130/4-2) (from Ch. 63, par. 1004-2)
Sec. 4-2. Intergovernmental functions. It shall be the function of the
Legislative Research Unit:
(1) To carry forward the participation of this State
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(2) To encourage and assist the legislative,
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(3) To endeavor to advance cooperation between this
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(a) The adoption of compacts.
(b) The enactment of uniform or reciprocal
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(c) The adoption of uniform or reciprocal
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(d) The informal cooperation of governmental
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(e) The personal cooperation of governmental
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(f) The interchange and clearance of research and
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(g) Any other suitable process, and
(h) To do all such acts as will enable this State
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(Source: P.A. 93-632, eff. 2-1-04.)
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(25 ILCS 130/4-2.1)
Sec. 4-2.1. Federal program functions. The Legislative
Research Unit is established as the information
center for the
General Assembly in the field of federal-state relations and as State
Central Information Reception Agency for the purpose of receiving
information from federal agencies under the United States Office
of Management and Budget circular A-98 and the United States Department
of the Treasury Circular TC-1082 or any successor circulars promulgated
under authority of the United States Inter-governmental Cooperation Act of
1968. Its powers and duties in this capacity include, but are not limited to:
(a) Compiling and maintaining current information on
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(b) Analyzing the relationship of federal aid
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(c) Reporting annually to the General Assembly on the
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(d) Cooperating with the Governor's Office of
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(e) Cooperating with the Governor's Office of
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(f) Receiving from every State agency, other than
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(g) Forwarding to the Governor's Office of Management
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(h) Reporting such information as is received under
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The State colleges and universities, the agencies of the legislative
and judicial branches of State government, and the elected State
executive officers, not including the Governor, shall submit to
the Legislative Research Unit, in a manner prescribed by
the Legislative Research Unit, summaries
of applications for federal funds filed and grants of federal funds awarded.
(Source: P.A. 93-632, eff. 2-1-04.)
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(25 ILCS 130/4-3) (from Ch. 63, par. 1004-3)
Sec. 4-3. The Legislative Research Unit
shall
establish such committees as it deems
advisable, in order that they may confer and formulate proposals concerning
effective means to secure intergovernmental harmony, and may perform other
functions for the Unit in obedience to its decision. Subject
to the
approval of the Unit, the member or members of each such
committee
shall be appointed by the co-chairmen of the Unit. State
officials or
employees who are not members of the Unit may be appointed as members of any such committee, but private
citizens holding no governmental position in this State shall not be
eligible. The Unit may provide such other rules as it
considers
appropriate concerning the membership and the functioning of any such
committee. The Unit may provide for advisory boards for
itself and
for its various committees, and may authorize private citizens to serve on
such boards.
(Source: P.A. 93-632, eff. 2-1-04.)
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(25 ILCS 130/4-4) (from Ch. 63, par. 1004-4)
Sec. 4-4. The General Assembly finds that the most efficient and productive
use of federal block grant funds can be achieved through the coordinated
efforts of the Legislature, the Executive, State and local agencies and
private citizens. Such coordination is possible through the creation of
an Advisory Committee on Block Grants empowered to review, analyze and make
recommendations through the Legislative Research Unit to the
General Assembly and the Governor
on the use of federally funded block grants.
The Legislative Research Unit shall establish an Advisory
Committee
on Block Grants.
The primary purpose of the Advisory Committee shall be the oversight of
the distribution and use of federal block grant funds.
The Advisory Committee shall consist of 4 public members appointed
by the Joint Committee on Legislative Support Services and the members
of the Legislative Research Unit. A chairperson shall be
chosen by the members of the Advisory
Committee.
(Source: P.A. 93-632, eff. 2-1-04.)
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(25 ILCS 130/4-5) (from Ch. 63, par. 1004-5)
Sec. 4-5.
The Advisory Committee on Block Grants shall have the following
powers and duties.
(1) To request for review and comment all federally required block grant
reports and annual plans to ensure quality and consistency in State reporting
and planning. Each annual block grant plan submitted for review and comment
shall contain the names and affiliations of members of each State agency
block grant advisory Committee and a statement of the written charge for
that Committee. The annual block grant plan shall contain the significant
issues that were debated at State agency block grant advisory Committee
meetings and the positions taken on the issues.
Each plan shall also include information on the time and place that State
agency hearings were held to review the plan.
Each State agency administering federal block grants shall make available
to the Advisory Committee proposed annual block grant plans by March 15 of each year.
Each proposed annual plan shall contain the date, time and place of
public hearings planned by the State agency and shall include the method of
notifying the public of such hearings.
(2) To conduct public hearings on the intended use of the block grant
funds by the various State agencies to ensure that the use is consistent
with established State policy.
(3) To determine, through public hearings, statewide priorities for the
use of individual block grant funds as well as block grant funds in total.
(4) To recommend to the General Assembly and the Governor, after
appropriate hearings and on or before May 1 each year, State funding levels
for programs within each of the federal block grants. In the event that
funding levels for the overall block grant programs have not been made
available by the federal government for the forthcoming fiscal year, the
Advisory Committee on Block Grants
shall provide percentage allocations for the various programs the committee
has included within the program priorities for the individual block grants
in lieu of recommended dollar allocations. The recommendations shall ensure
that the maximum amount of funds estimated to be available to the State is
set aside for program purposes and a minimum amount is set aside for
administrative purposes.
(5) Following the initial submission of its recommendations to the
General Assembly and Governor on May 1, to report to the House and
Senate Appropriations Committees on a quarterly basis, and more frequently
as they may request, changes in federal block grant program authorizations
and funding levels which may require the General Assembly to adjust current
year State appropriations.
(6) To monitor through public hearings the use of block grant funds to
ensure compliance with the purposes included in State plans and recommended
by the Governor in the State budget and approved by the General Assembly.
(7) To monitor future federal block grant initiatives in order to assess
their impact on the delivery of State and local services and to recommend
appropriate State action to the Governor and the General Assembly.
(8) To review and comment on all proposals for transfer of funds between
or among the block grants as may be allowed by federal law. State
agencies administering federal block grants shall give the Advisory
Committee on Block Grants reasonable notice of any proposed transfer of
funds between or among block grants and the reasons for the proposed transfers.
(Source: P.A. 83-1528.)
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(25 ILCS 130/4-6) (from Ch. 63, par. 1004-6)
Sec. 4-6.
It is the intention of the Illinois General Assembly that all
hearings conducted pursuant to subsections (2), (3) and (4) of Section 4-5 shall
meet the formal legislative hearing requirements which are mandated by federal
law for any individual block grant program. However, this provision shall
not preclude or preempt the Illinois General Assembly or any of its Committees
from conducting hearings on the intended use and distribution of these or
any other block grant funds.
(Source: P.A. 83-1257.)
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(25 ILCS 130/4-7) (from Ch. 63, par. 1004-7)
Sec. 4-7. The Legislative Research Unit
shall
report to the Governor and to the Legislature
within 15 days after the convening of each General Assembly,
and at
such other time as it deems appropriate. The members of all
committees which it establishes shall serve without compensation for such
service, but they shall be paid their necessary expenses in carrying out
their obligations under this Act. The Unit may by
contributions to the
Council of State Governments, participate with other states in maintaining
the said Council's district and central secretariats, and its other
governmental services.
The requirement for reporting to the General Assembly shall be satisfied
by filing copies of the report with the Speaker, the Minority Leader and
the Clerk of the House of Representatives and the President, the
Minority
Leader and the Secretary of the Senate, and filing such additional copies
with the State Government Report Distribution Center for the General Assembly
as is required under paragraph (t) of Section 7 of the State Library Act.
(Source: P.A. 93-632, eff. 2-1-04.)
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(25 ILCS 130/4-8) (from Ch. 63, par. 1004-8)
Sec. 4-8.
The Council of State Governments is hereby declared to be a
joint governmental agency of this State and of the other states which
cooperate through it.
(Source: P.A. 83-1257.)
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(25 ILCS 130/4-9) (from Ch. 63, par. 1004-9)
Sec. 4-9. Intergovernmental Cooperation Conference Fund.
(a) There is hereby created the Intergovernmental
Cooperation Conference Fund, hereinafter called the "Fund". The Fund shall
be outside the State treasury, but the State Treasurer shall act as
ex-officio custodian of the Fund.
(b) The Legislative Research Unit
may charge and
collect fees from participants at
conferences held in connection with the Unit's exercise of
its powers
and duties. The fees shall be charged in an amount calculated to cover the
cost of the conferences and shall be deposited in the Fund.
(c) Monies in the Fund shall be used to pay the costs of the
conferences.
As soon as may be practicable after the close of business on June 30 of
each year, the Unit shall notify the Comptroller of the
amount
remaining in the Fund which is not necessary to pay the expenses of
conferences held during the expiring fiscal year. Such amount shall be
transferred by the Comptroller and the Treasurer from the Fund to the
General Revenue Fund. If, during
any fiscal year, the monies in the Fund are insufficient to pay the costs
of conferences held during that fiscal year, the difference shall be paid
from other monies which may be available to the Commission.
(Source: P.A. 93-632, eff. 2-1-04.)
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