a) Subject to appropriation to the Fund, the Department shall contract with at least one coordinating organization to administer the Program. The Department shall use the Fund to contract with the coordinating organization.
     (b) A coordinating organization contracted by the Department to administer the Program shall:

Terms Used In Illinois Compiled Statutes 410 ILCS 185/16-15

  • Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Freedom of Information Act: A federal law that mandates that all the records created and kept by federal agencies in the executive branch of government must be open for public inspection and copying. The only exceptions are those records that fall into one of nine exempted categories listed in the statute. Source: OCC
  • individual: shall include every infant member of the species homo sapiens who is born alive at any stage of development. See Illinois Compiled Statutes 5 ILCS 70/1.36

         (1) submit an annual report to the Department
    
regarding Program performance, including the number of participants enrolled, the demographics of Program participants, the number of participants who successfully complete the Program, the outcome of successful Program participants, and the level of involvement of the participants in providing abortion and other forms of reproductive health care in Illinois; and
        (2) meet any other requirements established by the
    
Department that are not inconsistent with this Act.
    (c) The Department shall release the name of any coordinating organization it coordinates with and any entity receiving funds to assist in the implementation of this Program through the coordinating organization. The Department shall not release the name of any individual person or health care professional administering services through or participating in the Program. The Department shall, by rule, establish procedures to ensure that sensitive Program information, including any personal information and information that, if released, could endanger the life or physical safety of program participants, remains confidential.
     (d) Any coordinating organization or other entity receiving funds to implement this Program is subject to the requirements of the Grant Accountability and Transparency Act.
     (e) All reports received by the Department in accordance with this Section shall be treated as confidential and exempt from the Freedom of Information Act.
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