Bill Text: IL HB3853 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Local Food, Farms, and Jobs Act. Requires that at least 20% (currently, 10%) of food and food products purchased by State-funded entities be local farm or food products. Provides that of the 20% of local farm or food products required to be purchased by State agencies and State-funded entities under the Act, at least 10% of the local farm or food products shall be purchased from minority-owned food producers. Makes other changes. Effective immediately.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-05-19 - Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB3853 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2023-HB3853-Introduced.html

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103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2023 and 2024 HB3853 Introduced , by Rep. Cyril Nichols SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
30 ILCS 595/10
Amends the Local Food, Farms, and Jobs Act. Requires that at least 20% (currently, 10%) of food and food products purchased by State-funded entities be local farm or food products. Provides that of the 20% of local farm or food products required to be purchased by State agencies and State-funded entities under the Act, at least 10% of the local farm or food products shall be purchased from minority-owned food producers. Makes other changes. 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 Local Food, Farms, and Jobs Act is amended
by changing Section 10 as follows:
(30 ILCS 595/10)
Sec. 10. Procurement goals for local farm or food
products.
(a) In order to create, strengthen, and expand local farm
and food economies throughout Illinois, it shall be the goal
of this State that 20% of all food and food products purchased
by State agencies and State-owned facilities, including,
without limitation, facilities for persons with mental health
and developmental disabilities, correctional facilities, and
public universities, shall, by 2020 onward, be local farm or
food products.
(a-5) Of the 20% of local farm or food products required to
be purchased by State agencies under subsection (a), at least
10% of the local farm or food products shall be purchased from
minority-owned food producers.
(b) The State shall require that at least 20% support and
encourage that 10% of food and food products purchased by
entities funded in part or in whole by State dollars, which

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spend funds more than $25,000 per year on food or food products
for its students, residents, or clients, including, without
limitation, public schools, child care facilities,
after-school programs, and hospitals, shall, by 2023 onward
2020, be local farm or food products.
(b-5) Of the 20% of local farm or food products required to
be purchased by State-funded entities under subsection (b), at
least 10% of the local farm or food products shall be purchased
from minority-owned food producers.
(c) To meet the goals set forth in this Section, when a
State contract for purchase of food or food products is to be
awarded to the lowest responsible bidder, an otherwise
qualified bidder who will fulfill the contract through the use
of local farm or food products may be given preference over
other bidders, provided that the cost included in the bid of
local farm or food products is not more than 10% greater than
the cost included in a bid that is not for local farm or food
products.
(d) All State agencies and State-owned facilities that
purchase food and food products shall develop a system for (i)
identifying the percentage of local farm or food products
purchased for fiscal year 2021 as the baseline; and (ii)
tracking and reporting local farm or food products purchases
on an annual basis.
(e) On January 1, 2024 and each January 1 thereafter,
those State agencies and State-owned facilities that purchase

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food or food products shall publish in their respective
procurement bulletins, in the form and format prescribed by
the chief procurement officer, notice of their purchases of
local farm or food products in the immediately preceding
fiscal year.
(Source: P.A. 102-1119, eff. 1-23-23.)
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.