(25 ILCS 130/4-5) (from Ch. 63, par. 1004-5)
Sec. 4-5. The Advisory Committee on Block Grants shall have the following powers and duties.
(1) To request for review and comment all federally required block grant reports and annual plans to ensure quality and consistency in State reporting and planning. Each annual block grant plan submitted for review and comment shall contain the names and affiliations of members of each State agency block grant advisory Committee and a statement of the written charge for that Committee. The annual block grant plan shall contain the significant issues that were debated at State agency block grant advisory Committee meetings and the positions taken on the issues.
Each plan shall also include information on the time and place that State agency hearings were held to review the plan.
Each State agency administering federal block grants shall make available to the Advisory Committee proposed annual block grant plans by March 15 of each year.
Each proposed annual plan shall contain the date, time and place of public hearings planned by the State agency and shall include the method of notifying the public of such hearings.
(2) To conduct public hearings on the intended use of the block grant funds by the various State agencies to ensure that the use is consistent with established State policy.
(3) To determine, through public hearings, statewide priorities for the use of individual block grant funds as well as block grant funds in total.
(4) To recommend to the General Assembly and the Governor, after appropriate hearings and on or before May 1 each year, State funding levels for programs within each of the federal block grants. In the event that funding levels for the overall block grant programs have not been made available by the federal government for the forthcoming fiscal year, the Advisory Committee on Block Grants shall provide percentage allocations for the various programs the committee has included within the program priorities for the individual block grants in lieu of recommended dollar allocations. The recommendations shall ensure that the maximum amount of funds estimated to be available to the State is set aside for program purposes and a minimum amount is set aside for administrative purposes.
(5) Following the initial submission of its recommendations to the General Assembly and Governor on May 1, to report to the House and Senate Appropriations Committees on a quarterly basis, and more frequently as they may request, changes in federal block grant program authorizations and funding levels which may require the General Assembly to adjust current year State appropriations.
(6) To monitor through public hearings the use of block grant funds to ensure compliance with the purposes included in State plans and recommended by the Governor in the State budget and approved by the General Assembly.
(7) To monitor future federal block grant initiatives in order to assess their impact on the delivery of State and local services and to recommend appropriate State action to the Governor and the General Assembly.
(8) To review and comment on all proposals for transfer of funds between or among the block grants as may be allowed by federal law. State agencies administering federal block grants shall give the Advisory Committee on Block Grants reasonable notice of any proposed transfer of funds between or among block grants and the reasons for the proposed transfers.
(Source: P.A. 83-1528.)
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