Bill Amendment: IL HB4757 | 2017-2018 | 100th General Assembly

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Bill Title: FINANCE-TOURISM PROMOTION

Status: 2018-08-03 - Public Act . . . . . . . . . 100-0678 [HB4757 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2017-HB4757-House_Amendment_001.html

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Rep. Ann M. Williams

Filed: 4/3/2018

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AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 4757
AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 4757 by replacing
everything after the enacting clause with the following:
"Section 5. The Department of Commerce and Economic
Opportunity Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois is
amended by changing Section 605-705 as follows:
(20 ILCS 605/605-705) (was 20 ILCS 605/46.6a)
Sec. 605-705. Grants to local tourism and convention
bureaus.
(a) To establish a grant program for local tourism and
convention bureaus. The Department will develop and implement a
program for the use of funds, as authorized under this Act, by
local tourism and convention bureaus. For the purposes of this
Act, bureaus eligible to receive funds are those local tourism
and convention bureaus that are (i) either units of local
government or incorporated as not-for-profit organizations;

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(ii) in legal existence for a minimum of 2 years before July 1,
2001; (iii) operating with a paid, full-time staff whose sole
purpose is to promote tourism in the designated service area;
and (iv) affiliated with one or more municipalities or counties
that support the bureau with local hotel-motel taxes. After
July 1, 2001, bureaus requesting certification in order to
receive funds for the first time must be local tourism and
convention bureaus that are (i) either units of local
government or incorporated as not-for-profit organizations;
(ii) in legal existence for a minimum of 2 years before the
request for certification; (iii) operating with a paid,
full-time staff whose sole purpose is to promote tourism in the
designated service area; and (iv) affiliated with multiple
municipalities or counties that support the bureau with local
hotel-motel taxes. Each bureau receiving funds under this Act
will be certified by the Department as the designated recipient
to serve an area of the State. Notwithstanding the criteria set
forth in this subsection (a), or any rule adopted under this
subsection (a), the Director of the Department may provide for
the award of grant funds to one or more entities if in the
Department's judgment that action is necessary in order to
prevent a loss of funding critical to promoting tourism in a
designated geographic area of the State.
(b) To distribute grants to local tourism and convention
bureaus from appropriations made from the Local Tourism Fund
for that purpose. Of the amounts appropriated annually to the

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Department for expenditure under this Section prior to July 1,
2011, one-third of those monies shall be used for grants to
convention and tourism bureaus in cities with a population
greater than 500,000. The remaining two-thirds of the annual
appropriation prior to July 1, 2011 shall be used for grants to
convention and tourism bureaus in the remainder of the State,
in accordance with a formula based upon the population served.
Of the amounts appropriated annually to the Department for
expenditure under this Section beginning July 1, 2011, 18% of
such moneys shall be used for grants to convention and tourism
bureaus in cities with a population greater than 500,000. Of
the amounts appropriated annually to the Department for
expenditure under this Section beginning July 1, 2011, 82% of
such moneys shall be used for grants to convention bureaus in
the remainder of the State, in accordance with a formula based
upon the population served. The Department may reserve up to
10% of total local tourism funds available for costs of
administering the program to conduct audits of grants, to
provide incentive funds to those bureaus that will conduct
promotional activities designed to further the Department's
statewide advertising campaign, to fund special statewide
promotional activities, and to fund promotional activities
that support an increased use of the State's parks or historic
sites. The Department shall require that any convention and
tourism bureau receiving a grant under this Section that
requires matching funds shall provide matching funds equal to

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no less than 50% of the grant amount. During fiscal year 2013,
the Department shall reserve $2,000,000 of the available local
tourism funds for appropriation to the Historic Preservation
Agency for the operation of the Abraham Lincoln Presidential
Library and Museum and State historic sites.
(Source: P.A. 97-617, eff. 10-26-11; 97-732, eff. 6-30-12;
98-252, eff. 8-9-13.)
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.".