Bill Text: IL HB1158 | 2025-2026 | 104th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District Act. Provides that bonds, notes, or other evidences of indebtedness for specified purposes 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 $250,000,000 (rather than $150,000,000) plus the amount of any obligations authorized by the Act to be issued during the 3 budget years next preceding the year of issuance but which were not issued.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-09 - Referred to Rules Committee [HB1158 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2025-HB1158-Introduced.html

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104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2025 and 2026 HB1158 Introduced , by Rep. Kimberly Du Buclet SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
70 ILCS 2605/9.6a from Ch. 42, par. 328.6a
Amends the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District Act. Provides that bonds, notes, or other evidences of indebtedness for specified purposes 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 $250,000,000 (rather than $150,000,000) plus the amount of any obligations authorized by the Act to be issued during the 3 budget years next preceding the year of issuance but which were not issued.
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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 Metropolitan Water Reclamation District Act
is amended by changing Section 9.6a as follows:
(70 ILCS 2605/9.6a) (from Ch. 42, par. 328.6a)
Sec. 9.6a. Bonds for sewage treatment, 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, distributed renewable
energy generation devices, 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 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

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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 $250,000,000 $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, 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

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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
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

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