Bill
HB 3893
Appropriates $4,825,826,624 to Illinois DCEO for FY2025 to fund operations, grants, loans across tourism, workforce, cannabis, and related economic-development programs.
Title: Relating to health care (actually an appropriations bill for the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity)
Status & timeline
- Introduced: Feb 25, 2025 (Rep. Robyn Gabel). First reading and multiple referrals in Feb–Mar 2025.
- Filed: Mar 6, 2025; read first time Mar 27, 2025. Referred to State Affairs.
- Current status: In committee upon adjournment (June 28, 2025).
- Applies to the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2025.
Purpose
- Provides appropriations to the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity (DCEO) for operations, grants, awards, loans, and program administration across tourism, workforce, cannabis-related economic programs, and other DCEO functions.
Total appropriation (as listed)
- General Revenue Funds: $182,191,670
- Other State Funds: $2,149,841,888
- Federal Funds: $2,493,793,066
- Total: $4,825,826,624
Key provisions and notable line items
- General operational allocations
- $17,725,000 (General Revenue Fund) for departmental operational expenses (including prior-year costs).
- Administrative and overhead funds payable from various funds (Tourism Promotion Fund $10,000,000; Intra‑Agency Services Fund $18,689,200; Build Illinois Bond Fund $5,000,000).
- $650,000 (GRF) for a feasibility study for projects under the Public‑Private Partnership for Civic and Transit Infrastructure Project Act (in consultation with the Governor's Office of Management and Budget).
- $500,000 (GRF) for general administration.
- $5,500,000 (GRF) to the Office of Grants Management.
- Cannabis-related economic programs
- $76,000,000 to the Cannabis Business Development Fund for administrative costs, awards, loans and grants (pursuant to the Cannabis Regulation and Tax Act).
- $2,060,100 from the Cannabis Regulation Fund for administrative assistance.
- Tourism and related grants (major allocations)
- Tourism Promotion Fund — operations and advertising: $51,410,200 (including $44,000,000 for advertising and promotion).
- International Tourism Fund: $4,000,000.
- Specific grant lines: Tourism Attraction Development ($1,800,000); Tourism Matching Grants for counties (split by population: $1,250,000 and $750,000); local tourism grants including Choose Chicago ($3,967,244) and Convention & Tourism Bureaus outside Chicago ($18,073,000).
- Reappropriations: the bill reauthorizes unexpended balances from prior tourism appropriations (specified sums carried forward) and allows the Department, with the Governor’s written consent, to reallocate up to 10% of the total Tourism Promotion Fund appropriation among listed purposes.
- Workforce and training
- $3,000,000 (GRF) for DCEO job training and workforce programs.
- $325,000,000 (Federal Workforce Training Fund) for WIOA and other workforce training programs.
- Additional GRF support for local workforce areas (text truncated in provided version).
Who is affected
- DCEO (administration and program offices).
- Tourism industry stakeholders (Choose Chicago, local convention & tourism bureaus, attraction grant recipients).
- Cannabis entrepreneurs and related businesses (recipients of development fund awards/loans/grants).
- Workforce development agencies, local workforce boards, training providers, and WIOA participants.
- Local governments and grant recipients across economic development programs.
Notes and caveats
- The bill text supplied is partially truncated in places (particularly later workforce grant details). Where text is incomplete, specifics of program eligibility and reporting requirements may be in the full bill language.
- This is an appropriations bill; program rules and statutory authority remain governed by the underlying statutes cited (e.g., Cannabis Regulation and Tax Act; Illinois Promotion Act; WIOA).
Compiled from official sources — confirm details with the bill’s official record.
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