25 ILCS 130/4-5
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 25 - LEGISLATURE|25 ILCS 130/ - Legislative Commission Reorganization Act of 1984.|Article 4

 (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.)