Illinois Administrative Code › Title 14 - COMMERCE › Part 700 - LOCAL CORONAVIRUS URGENT REMEDIATION EMERGENCY (OR LOCAL CURE) SUPPORT PROGRAM › Section 700.20 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 28, July 12, 2024
The following definitions are applicable to the Local
				Coronavirus Urgent Remediation Emergency (or Local CURE) Support
				Program:
"Administrative expenses" means costs associated with the
				administrative work necessary due to the COVID-19 public health emergency,
				including, but not limited to, costs related to managing the Local CURE Program
				and developing and managing an Economic Support Payments Grant.
"Administrative compliance expenses" means administrative
				expenses that are related to eligible uses of funds under the Local CURE
				Program (see Sections
				700.50(a)
				and
				700.60)
				and are necessary for a local government to comply with the requirements of the
				CARES Act or Local CURE Program. These expenses would include, for example, a
				reasonably proportionate share of the expenses incurred to comply with the
				Single Audit Act (31 USC 7501 through
				7507) and for
				reporting and recordkeeping requirements imposed by the CARES Act or Local CURE
				Program.
"Business" means a for-profit enterprise or non-profit
				organization lawfully conducting business in Illinois. This term does not
				include any business that is prohibited from receiving funds under section
				5001(b) of the CARES Act.
"Business Interruption Grant Program" or "BIG Program" means
				the financial assistance program funding opportunities administered by the
				Department and implemented in 14 Ill. Adm. Code 690. (See
				20
				ILCS 605/605-1050.)
"Business participant" means the business that receives
				financial assistance under the economic support payments grant program.
"CARES Act" means the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic
				Security Act (42 USC
				801).
"Certified Public Health Department" means a unit of local
				government that is a local public health department certified by the Illinois
				Department of Public Health.
"Cost of business interruption" means the following costs
				incurred during the allowed time period set forth in the Local CURE Program and
				posted on the Department's website:
decreases in revenue caused by closing or limiting access to
				the business establishment to comply with COVID-19 prevention directives or to
				otherwise prevent the spread of COVID-19 within the business
				establishment;
decreases in revenue caused by decreased customer demand as a
				result of the COVID-19 emergency; or
other revenue reductions approved for reimbursement from the
				CRF by the U.S. Department of the Treasury.
"COVID-19" means the novel coronavirus disease deemed
				COVID-19 by the World Health Organization on February 11, 2020
[20 ILCS
				605/605-1047(d)(1)]
.
"CRF" means the Coronavirus Relief Fund established by the
				CARES Act.
"Department" means the Department of Commerce and Economic
				Opportunity.
"Disproportionately impacted area" means those ZIP Codes most
				severely affected by the COVID-19 Crisis, to be determined based on positive
				COVID-19 case per capita rates, and high rates in at least one of the following
				poverty-related categories relative to other ZIP Codes within their
				region:
share of population consisting of children age 6 to 17 in
				households with income less than 125% of the federal poverty level
				(FPL);
share of population consisting of adults over age 64 in
				households with income less than 200% FPL;
share of population in household with income less than 150%
				FPL; and
share of population consisting of children ages 5 and under in
				households with income less than 185% FPL.
"Economic Support Payments Grants" means grants applied for and
				issued to units of local government under Sections
				700.80(e)
				and
				700.120
				to provide financial support to businesses that have experienced interruption
				of business attributable to the COVID-19 public health emergency.
"GATA" means the Grant Accountability and Transparency Act [30
				ILCS 708].
"GATA Rule" means 44 Ill. Adm. Code 7000.
"Incurred":
in relation to expenses for funding allotments received by
				local governments under Section
				700.80(a),
				(b) or (c), means services were performed for
				or goods were received by units of local government to respond directly to the
				COVID-19 public health emergency.
in relation to the Economic Support Payments Grants Program,
				means:
expenditures by the local government associated with economic
				support in connection with the COVID-19 public health emergency; or
in reference to businesses, the cost of business interruption
				due to the COVID-19 public health emergency during the allowed time period for
				incurring costs set forth in the Local CURE Program and posted on the
				Department's website.
"LGDF formula" means the Local Government Distributive Fund
				formula established by the Illinois Department of Revenue.
"Local CURE Program" means the Local Coronavirus Urgent
				Remediation Emergency (or Local CURE) Support Program (see
				20 ILCS
				605/605-1047).
"Local government" or "unit of local government" means
				any unit of local government as defined in Article VII, Section 1 of the
				Illinois Constitution
[20
				ILCS 605/605-1047(d)(2)].
"Local Health Protection Grant Program formula" means the
				methodology established by the Illinois Department of Public Health (see 77
				Ill. Adm. Code
				615.210).
"Necessary expenditure" means an expenditure of funds that is
				eligible for reimbursement from CRF and necessary to:
respond to the COVID-19 public health emergency, including, but
				not limited to, expenditures incurred to allow local governments to respond
				directly to the emergency, such as by addressing medical or public health needs
				of the local governments or local businesses; or
reimburse the cost of business interruption.
"Non-profit organization" means an organization that is
				registered as a non-profit corporation with the Illinois Secretary of
				State.
"Participating" means that a municipality, county, certified
				local public health department or other local government, as applicable, is
				receiving Local CURE Program allotments under Section
				700.80(a),
				(b) or (c).
"Public health employees" means:
local government employees involved in providing:
medical and other health services to patients, including
				supervisory personnel, and including medical staff assigned to schools,
				prisons, and other such institutions; or
other support services essential for patient care (e.g.,
				laboratory technicians); and
employees of public health departments who:
are directly engaged in matters related to public health;
				or
serve as related supervisory personnel.
"Public safety employees" means local government employees,
				including police officers, sheriffs and deputy sheriffs, firefighters,
				emergency medical responders, correctional and detention officers, and those
				who directly support public safety employees, such as dispatchers and
				supervisory personnel.
"Qualifying business" means a business or organization that
				experienced or is experiencing business interruption due to the COVID-19 public
				health emergency and for which provision of financial assistance under the
				Economic Support Payments Grants Program is eligible for reimbursement as
				prescribed by section 601(a) of the Social Security Act (42 USC) as added by
				section 5001 of the CARES Act, or other federal legislation addressing the
				COVID-19 emergency. A qualifying business includes self-employed individuals
				and independent contractors.
"Restore Illinois Plan" means the framework announced by the
				Governor of the State of Illinois to safely reopen Illinois in 5 phases, with
				any modifications to that plan.
"Substantially dedicated use" means the payroll and benefits
				expenses for local government employees whose services were focused on
				mitigating or responding to the COVID-19 public health emergency. These classes
				of employees include public safety, public health, health care, human services,
				and similar employees whose services are substantially dedicated to mitigating
				or responding to COVID-19. The full amount of payroll and benefits expenses of
				substantially dedicated local government employees are eligible for
				reimbursement under the Local CURE Program. Payroll and benefit costs
				associated with public employees who could have been furloughed or otherwise
				laid off but who were instead repurposed to perform previously unbudgeted
				functions substantially dedicated to mitigating or responding to COVID-19 are
				also included. In accordance with guidance from the U.S. Department of the
				Treasury, a local government may presume that public health employees and
				public safety employees meet the substantially dedicated use test unless the
				chief executive (or equivalent) of the local government determines that
				specific circumstances indicate otherwise. Thus, if this presumption applies,
				all work performed by public health and public safety employees is considered
				to be a substantially different use than accounted for in the most recently
				approved budget as of March 27, 2020.
"Substantially different use" means costs that include, but are
				not necessarily limited to, costs of personnel and services that were budgeted
				for in the most recently approved budget, but that, due entirely to the
				COVID-19 public health emergency, have been diverted to substantially different
				functions. A public function does not become a "substantially different use"
				merely because it is provided from a different location or through a different
				manner. Included within the category of substantially different uses are
				payroll and benefits expenses for public safety, public health, health care,
				human services, and similar employees whose services are substantially
				dedicated to mitigating or responding to the COVID-19 public health
				emergency.
"Third party administrator" means a service provider
				selected by the Department to provide operational assistance with the
				administration of the
Local CURE Program [20 ILCS
				605/605-1047(d)(3)].