Bill Text: IL SB1517 | 2013-2014 | 98th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Illinois Grant Funds Recovery Act. Adds to the list of requirements on a grant application. Provides that a grant agreement must contain proof of either the existence of a line of credit or the financial solvency of the grantee. Prohibits the award of a grant if a family relationship exists between the grantee or its leadership and the funding agency. Provides that all administrators and service providers must be appropriately credentialed in their respective fields. Sets requirements concerning quarterly updates and reports to the grantor agency. Provides that if the funds received from the grant are used to provide State services, then the clients for recipients of those services may not be charged an additional fee for those services.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Failed) 2015-01-13 - Session Sine Die [SB1517 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2013-SB1517-Introduced.html

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98TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2013 and 2014 SB1517 Introduced 2/7/2013, by Sen. Michael Connelly SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
30 ILCS 705/4 from Ch. 127, par. 2304
30 ILCS 705/11 from Ch. 127, par. 2311
30 ILCS 705/15 new
Amends the Illinois Grant Funds Recovery Act. Adds to the list of requirements on a grant application. Provides that a grant agreement must contain proof of either the existence of a line of credit or the financial solvency of the grantee. Prohibits the award of a grant if a family relationship exists between the grantee or its leadership and the funding agency. Provides that all administrators and service providers must be appropriately credentialed in their respective fields. Sets requirements concerning quarterly updates and reports to the grantor agency. Provides that if the funds received from the grant are used to provide State services, then the clients for recipients of those services may not be charged an additional fee for those services.
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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 Illinois Grant Funds Recovery Act is amended
by changing Sections 4 and 11 and by adding Section 15 as
follows:
(30 ILCS 705/4) (from Ch. 127, par. 2304)
Sec. 4. Grant Application and Agreement Requirements.
(a) Any person or organization, public or private, desiring
to receive grant funds must submit a grant application to the
appropriate grantor agency. Applications for grant funds shall
be made on prescribed forms developed by the grantor agency,
and shall include, without being limited to, the following
provisions:
(1) the name, address, chief officers, and general
description, and organizational history of the applicant,
together with the names of the chief officers of the
applicant and the members of its board of directors or
other governing body;
(2) a general description of the program, project, or
use for which grant funding is requested;
(3) such plans, equipment lists, and other documents as
may be required to show the type, structure, and general

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character of the program, project, or use for which grant
funding is requested;
(4) cost estimates of developing, constructing,
operating, or completing the program, project, or use for
which grant funding is requested; and
(5) a program of proposed expenditures for the grant
funds; and .
(6) a list of affiliations, including current or prior
relationships, with any State agencies.
(b) Grant funds may not be used except pursuant to a
written grant agreement, and any disbursement of grant funds
without a grant agreement is void. At a minimum, a grant
agreement must:
(1) describe the purpose of the grant and be signed by
the grantor agency making the grant and all grantees of the
grant;
(2) specify how payments shall be made, what
constitutes permissible expenditure of the grant funds,
and the financial controls applicable to the grant,
including, for those grants in excess of $25,000, the
filing of quarterly reports describing the progress of the
program, project, or use and the expenditure of the grant
funds related thereto;
(3) specify the period of time for which the grant is
valid and, subject to the limitation of Section 5, the
period of time during which grant funds may be expended by

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the grantee;
(4) contain a provision that any grantees receiving
grant funds are required to permit the grantor agency, the
Auditor General, or the Attorney General to inspect and
audit any books, records, or papers related to the program,
project, or use for which grant funds were provided;
(5) contain a provision that all funds remaining at the
end of the grant agreement or at the expiration of the
period of time grant funds are available for expenditure or
obligation by the grantee shall be returned to the State
within 45 days; and
(6) contain a provision in which the grantee certifies
under oath that all information in the grant agreement is
true and correct to the best of the grantee's knowledge,
information, and belief; that the funds shall be used only
for the purposes described in the grant agreement; and that
the award of grant funds is conditioned upon such
certification; and .
(7) contain proof of either the existence of a line of
credit or the financial solvency of the grantee.
(c) No family relationship, which may be defined as one or
more persons each related to the other by blood, marriage, or
adoption and maintaining a common household, may exist between
the grantee or its leadership and the funding agency.
(d) All contracts entered into pursuant to this Act are
subject to the requirements of the Illinois Procurement Code.

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(e) All administrators and service providers must be
appropriately credentialed in their respective fields, as
required under State or federal law.
(f) A grantee must provide a certificate of good standing
from the Secretary of State's Department of Business Services
and the Office of the Attorney General's Charitable Trusts
Bureau prior to receiving funding, and again for each year of a
multi-year award.
(Source: P.A. 96-795, eff. 7-1-10 (see Section 5 of P.A. 96-793
for the effective date of changes made by P.A. 96-795).)
(30 ILCS 705/11) (from Ch. 127, par. 2311)
Sec. 11. Accounting Requirements. Each grantee is under an
affirmative duty to keep proper, complete and accurate
accounting records of all grant funds the grantee administers.
A grantee must provide to the grantor agency quarterly updates
that include program goals, expected outcomes, progress to date
on goals and outcomes, and current financial reports. Each
grantee must also provide to the grantor agency quarterly
reports listing each expenditure of grant funds made during
that quarter, including, but not limited to, the identification
by name and address of the specific recipient of each
expenditure.
(Source: P.A. 83-640.)
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Sec. 15. State services. If the funds received from the
State grant are used to provide State services, then the
clients for recipients of those services may not be charged an
additional fee for those services.