Bill Text: IL HB0537 | 2017-2018 | 100th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Election Code. Provides for disclosure of certain items when a unit of local government proposes referenda seeking to impose or increase a retailers' occupation tax, a use tax, a service occupation tax, a service use tax, or a property tax or regarding the issuance of bonds. Provides that such referenda may only appear on ballots once every 23 months. Provides for publication requirements. Effective immediately.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2019-01-08 - Session Sine Die [HB0537 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2017-HB0537-Introduced.html

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100TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2017 and 2018 HB0537 Introduced , by Rep. Robert W. Pritchard SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
10 ILCS 5/28-8.2 new
Amends the Election Code. Provides for disclosure of certain items when a unit of local government proposes referenda seeking to impose or increase a retailers' occupation tax, a use tax, a service occupation tax, a service use tax, or a property tax, or regarding the issuance of bonds. Provides that such referenda may only appear on ballots once every 23 months. Provides for publication requirements. Effective immediately.
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning local government.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Election Code is amended by adding Section
28-8.2 as follows:
(10 ILCS 5/28-8.2 new)
Sec. 28-8.2. Revenue referenda disclosure.
(a) For purposes of this Section, "revenue referenda" means
referenda by a unit of local government seeking to impose or
increase a retailers' occupation tax, a use tax, a service
occupation tax, a service use tax, or a property tax, or
regarding the issuance of bonds.
(b) Revenue referenda shall contain the following
information:
(1) the amount of the new or increased tax or bond;
(2) the amount that this proposed imposition or
increase will impact the unit of local government's taxes
or bonds;
(3) if a bond, the life of the bond and the amounts of
principal, interest, and total debt service; and
(4) an example of the impact the new or increased tax
or bond will have on a family owning a residence worth
$100,000, both before and after the issuance of the tax or

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bond.
(c) Revenue referenda seeking the same amount shall only
appear on ballots once every 23 months.
(d) In addition to other notice and publication
requirements as may be otherwise required by law, the unit of
local government proposing revenue referenda shall publish the
referenda question, along with the required disclosures under
subsection (b) of this Section, no later than 60 days prior to
the referenda appearing on the ballot in a newspaper of general
circulation published in the unit of local government and on
the unit of local government's website and community
newsletter, if they have one.
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.