Bill Amendment: IL HB2219 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly

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Bill Title: MWRD-RESOURCE RECOVERY

Status: 2023-07-28 - Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0299 [HB2219 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2023-HB2219-House_Amendment_001.html

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Rep. Marcus C. Evans, Jr.

Filed: 3/15/2023

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AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 2219
AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 2219 on page 1, by
replacing line 5 with the following:
"is amended by changing Sections 9.6a and 56 as follows:
(70 ILCS 2605/9.6a) (from Ch. 42, par. 328.6a)
Sec. 9.6a. Bonds for sewage treatment, and water quality,
and facility improvements. The corporate authorities of a
sanitary district, in order to provide funds required for the
replacing, remodeling, completing, altering, constructing and
enlarging of sewage treatment works, administrative buildings,
water quality improvement projects, renewable energy or flood
control facilities, and additions therefor, pumping stations,
tunnels, conduits, intercepting sewers and outlet sewers,
together with the equipment, including air pollution
equipment, and appurtenances thereto, to acquire property,
real, personal or mixed, necessary for said purposes, for
costs and expenses for the acquisition of the sites and

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rights-of-way necessary thereto, and for engineering expenses
for designing and supervising the construction of such works,
may issue on or before December 31, 2034, in addition to all
other obligations heretofore or herein authorized, bonds,
notes or other evidences of indebtedness for such purposes in
an aggregate amount at any one time outstanding not to exceed
3.35% of the equalized assessed valuation of all taxable
property within the sanitary district, to be ascertained by
the last assessment for State and local taxes previous to the
issuance of any such obligations. Such obligations shall be
issued without submitting the question of such issuance to the
legal voters of such sanitary district for approval.
The corporate authorities may sell such obligations at
private or public sale and enter into any contract or
agreement necessary, appropriate or incidental to the exercise
of the powers granted by this Act, including, without
limitation, contracts or agreements for the sale and purchase
of such obligations and the payment of costs and expenses
incident thereto. The corporate authorities may pay such costs
and expenses, in whole or in part, from the corporate fund.
Such obligations shall be issued from time to time only in
amounts as may be required for such purposes but the amount of
such obligations issued during any one budget year shall not
exceed $150,000,000 plus the amount of any obligations
authorized by this Act to be issued during the 3 budget years
next preceding the year of issuance but which were not issued,

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provided, however, that this limitation shall not be
applicable (i) to the issuance of obligations to refund bonds,
notes or other evidences of indebtedness, (ii) to obligations
issued to provide for the repayment of money received from the
Water Pollution Control Revolving Fund for the construction or
repair of wastewater treatment works, and (iii) to obligations
issued as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
of 2009, issued prior to January 1, 2011, that are commonly
known as "Build America Bonds" as authorized by Section 54AA
of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended. Each
ordinance authorizing the issuance of the obligations shall
state the general purpose or purposes for which they are to be
issued, and the corporate authorities may at any time
thereafter pass supplemental appropriations ordinances
appropriating the proceeds from the sale of such obligations
for such purposes.
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in Section 9.6 or
this Section, and in addition to any other amount of bonds
authorized to be issued under this Act, the corporate
authorities are authorized to issue from time to time bonds of
the district in a principal amount not to exceed $600,000,000
for the purpose of making contributions to the pension fund
established under Article 13 of the Illinois Pension Code
without submitting the question of issuing bonds to the voters
of the District. Any bond issuances under this paragraph are
intended to decrease the unfunded liability of the pension

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fund and shall not decrease the amount of the employer
contributions required in any given year under Section 13-503
of the Illinois Pension Code.
The corporate authorities may issue bonds, notes or other
evidences of indebtedness in an amount necessary to provide
funds to refund outstanding obligations issued pursuant to
this Section, including interest accrued or to accrue thereon.
(Source: P.A. 101-302, eff. 1-1-20; 102-707, eff. 4-22-22.)".