Bill Text: IL SB2251 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Grant Accountability and Transparency Act. Provides that the State grant-making agency shall report all information to the Grant Accountability and Transparency Unit that relates to the status of a grant application or execution for the purposes of providing information for a public portal. Provides the Governor's Office of Management and Budget shall create and maintain an internet-based public portal that provides information on the status of grants being executed by the State. Provides that this portal shall include the amount of monetary award the entity has received, a description of where the grant is at in the approval process, the estimated completion date of the execution of a grant agreement with the State, and the next outstanding information needed by the agency or the department from the grantee.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2023-02-10 - Referred to Assignments [SB2251 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2023-SB2251-Introduced.html

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103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2023 and 2024 SB2251 Introduced 2/10/2023, by Sen. Laura Ellman SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
30 ILCS 708/50
30 ILCS 708/55
Amends the Grant Accountability and Transparency Act. Provides that the State grant-making agency shall report all information to the Grant Accountability and Transparency Unit that relates to the status of a grant application or execution for the purposes of providing information for a public portal. Provides the Governor's Office of Management and Budget shall create and maintain an internet-based public portal that provides information on the status of grants being executed by the State. Provides that this portal shall include the amount of monetary award the entity has received, a description of where the grant is at in the approval process, the estimated completion date of the execution of a grant agreement with the State, and the next outstanding information needed by the agency or the department from the grantee.
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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 Grant Accountability and Transparency Act
is amended by changing Sections 50 and 55 as follows:
(30 ILCS 708/50)
Sec. 50. State grant-making agency responsibilities.
(a) The specific requirements and responsibilities of
State grant-making agencies and non-federal entities are set
forth in this Act. State agencies making State awards to
non-federal entities must adopt by rule the language in 2 CFR
200, Subpart C through Subpart F unless different provisions
are required by law.
(b) Each State grant-making agency shall appoint a Chief
Accountability Officer who shall serve as a liaison to the
Grant Accountability and Transparency Unit and who shall be
responsible for the State agency's implementation of and
compliance with the rules.
(c) In order to effectively measure the performance of its
recipients and subrecipients, each State grant-making agency
shall:
(1) require its recipients and subrecipients to relate
financial data to performance accomplishments of the award

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and, when applicable, must require recipients and
subrecipients to provide cost information to demonstrate
cost-effective practices. The recipient's and
subrecipient's performance should be measured in a way
that will help the State agency to improve program
outcomes, share lessons learned, and spread the adoption
of promising practices; and
(2) provide recipients and subrecipients with clear
performance goals, indicators, and milestones and must
establish performance reporting frequency and content to
not only allow the State agency to understand the
recipient's progress, but also to facilitate
identification of promising practices among recipients and
subrecipients and build the evidence upon which the State
agency's program and performance decisions are made.
(c-5) Each State grant-making agency shall, when it is in
the best interests of the State, request that the Office of the
Comptroller issue a stop payment order in accordance with
Section 105 of this Act.
(c-6) Upon notification by the Grant Transparency and
Accountability Unit that a stop payment order has been
requested by a State grant-making agency, each State
grant-making agency who has issued a grant to that recipient
or subrecipient shall determine if it remains in the best
interests of the State to continue to issue payments to the
recipient or subrecipient.

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(d) The Governor's Office of Management and Budget shall
provide such advice and technical assistance to the State
grant-making agencies as is necessary or indicated in order to
ensure compliance with this Act.
(e) In accordance with this Act and the Illinois State
Collection Act of 1986, refunds required under the Grant Funds
Recovery Act may be referred to the Comptroller's offset
system.
(f) Upon request, each State grant-making agency shall
report to the Grant Accountability and Transparency Unit
information on the status of the grant applications it is
processing and the grant agreements it has executed, and the
Grant Accountability and Transparency Unit shall make that
information publicly available on its website.
(Source: P.A. 100-997, eff. 8-20-18.)
(30 ILCS 708/55)
Sec. 55. The Governor's Office of Management and Budget
responsibilities.
(a) The Governor's Office of Management and Budget shall:
(1) provide technical assistance and interpretations
of policy requirements in order to ensure effective and
efficient implementation of this Act by State grant-making
agencies; and
(2) have authority to approve any exceptions to the
requirements of this Act and shall adopt rules governing

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the criteria to be considered when an exception is
requested; exceptions shall only be made in particular
cases where adequate justification is presented.
(b) The Governor's Office of Management and Budget shall,
on or before July 1, 2016, establish a centralized unit within
the Governor's Office of Management and Budget. The
centralized unit shall be known as the Grant Accountability
and Transparency Unit and shall be funded with a portion of the
administrative funds provided under existing and future State
and federal pass-through grants. The amounts charged will be
allocated based on the actual cost of the services provided to
State grant-making agencies and public institutions of higher
education in accordance with the applicable federal cost
principles contained in 2 CFR 200 and this Act will not cause
the reduction in the amount of any State or federal grant
awards that have been or will be directed towards State
agencies or public institutions of higher education.
(c) The Governor's Office of Management and Budget, in
conjunction with the Illinois Single Audit Commission, shall
research and provide recommendations to the General Assembly
regarding the adoption of legislation in accordance with the
federal Improper Payments Elimination and Recovery Improvement
Act of 2012. The recommendations shall be included in the
Annual Report of the Commission to be submitted to the General
Assembly on January 1, 2020. The report to the General
Assembly shall be filed with the Clerk of the House of

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Representatives and the Secretary of the Senate in electronic
form only, in the manner that the Clerk and the Secretary shall
direct. This subsection (c) is inoperative on and after
January 1, 2021.
(d) The Governor's Office of Management and Budget shall
create and maintain an Internet-based public portal that
provides information on the status of grants being executed by
the State. The information reported shall include, but shall
not be limited to, the following:
(1) the amount of the monetary award the entity has
received;
(2) a description of where the grant is at in the
approval process;
(3) the estimated completion date of the execution of
a grant agreement with the State; and
(4) the next outstanding information needed by the
agency or the department from the grantee.
(Source: P.A. 99-523, eff. 6-30-16; 100-997, eff. 8-20-18.)