HB2737 Summary

• Amends Public Act 101-0637 to make supplemental appropriations for fiscal year 2021, with various increases and decreases to state agency budgets across multiple articles

• Key agency adjustments include: Judicial Inquiry Board ($1,013,900), Department on Aging ($3,500,000 reduction), Department of Employment Security ($276,468,400), Department of Human Services (multiple program reductions totaling hundreds of millions), and Department of Healthcare and Family Services medical assistance funding reductions of approximately $400 million

• Appropriates federal COVID-19 relief funds totaling $1.5 billion to Illinois Emergency Management Agency for pandemic response, testing, contact tracing, public health services, and facility safety measures across multiple state departments

• Provides education funding including $2.25 billion for Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund and $132.4 million for Governor's Emergency Education Relief Fund from federal coronavirus relief appropriations

• Takes effect immediately upon becoming law