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| 1 | AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 4872 | ||||||
| 2 | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 4872 by replacing | ||||||
| 3 | everything after the enacting clause with the following: | ||||||
| 4 | "Section 5. The Illinois Municipal Code is amended by | ||||||
| 5 | adding Section 8-1-19 as follows: | ||||||
| 6 | (65 ILCS 5/8-1-19 new) | ||||||
| 7 | Sec. 8-1-19. Matching payments for grants. A municipality | ||||||
| 8 | shall receive a waiver from paying a required match to a State | ||||||
| 9 | grant of State moneys if the municipality meets all the other | ||||||
| 10 | requirements needed for approval of the grant and submits | ||||||
| 11 | documentation to the Grant Accountability and Transparency | ||||||
| 12 | Unit of the Governor's Office of Management and Budget, in a | ||||||
| 13 | form and manner prescribed by the Unit, that the municipality: | ||||||
| 14 | (1) has a population under 25,000; | ||||||
| 15 | (2) has over 13% of its residents under the poverty | ||||||
| 16 | guidelines updated periodically in the Federal Register by | ||||||
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| 1 | the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services under the | ||||||
| 2 | authority of 42 U.S.C. 9902(2); and | ||||||
| 3 | (3) has one of the following characteristics: | ||||||
| 4 | (A) has had a negative municipal general operating | ||||||
| 5 | fund balance within the past 5 years; or | ||||||
| 6 | (B) has at least twice the debt compared to the | ||||||
| 7 | retail market value of the municipality's real and | ||||||
| 8 | personal property and moneys in the municipality's | ||||||
| 9 | accounts. | ||||||
| 10 | The Grant Accountability and Transparency Unit shall | ||||||
| 11 | approve or deny a request for approval under this Section. If | ||||||
| 12 | the Unit approves the request and the municipality is awarded | ||||||
| 13 | the grant, the municipality shall receive the amount of the | ||||||
| 14 | awarded grant minus the amount that the municipality would | ||||||
| 15 | have paid for the required match. | ||||||
| 16 | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect July 1, | ||||||
| 17 | 2025.". | ||||||