Bill Text: IL HB1283 | 2009-2010 | 96th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Department of Transportation Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Creates the Local Government Road Salt Purchase Reimbursement Fund. Provides that moneys in the Fund shall be used by the Department of Transportation to make grants to counties, municipalities, townships, and road districts in the northeastern Illinois region that entered into contracts for the purchase of road salt for the 2008-2009 winter season at a rate that exceeds the regional average. Amends the State Finance Act. Provides that the sum of $14,500,000 shall be transferred from the Fund for Illinois' Future to the Local Government Road Salt Purchase Reimbursement Fund. Effective immediately.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-2)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2009-04-03 - Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB1283 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2009-HB1283-Introduced.html

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96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2009 and 2010 HB1283 Introduced 2/18/2009, by Rep. Jack D. Franks SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
20 ILCS 2705/2705-585 new
30 ILCS 105/5.719 new
30 ILCS 105/6z-47
Amends the Department of Transportation Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Creates the Local Government Road Salt Purchase Reimbursement Fund. Provides that moneys in the Fund shall be used by the Department of Transportation to make grants to counties, municipalities, townships, and road districts in the northeastern Illinois region that entered into contracts for the purchase of road salt for the 2008-2009 winter season at a rate that exceeds the regional average. Amends the State Finance Act. Provides that the sum of $14,500,000 shall be transferred from the Fund for Illinois' Future to the Local Government Road Salt Purchase Reimbursement Fund. Effective immediately.
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AN ACT concerning finance.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Department of Transportation Law of the
Civil Administrative Code of Illinois is amended by adding
Section 2705-585 as follows:
(20 ILCS 2705/2705-585 new)
Sec. 2705-585. Local Government Road Salt Purchase
Reimbursement Fund.
(a) The Local Government Road Salt Purchase Reimbursement
Fund is hereby created as a special fund in the State Treasury.
Moneys in the Fund shall be used by the Department to make
grants to counties, municipalities, townships, and road
districts in the northeastern Illinois region that
participated in the original bid process with the Department of
Central Management Services and entered into contracts for the
purchase of road salt for the 2008-2009 winter season at a rate
that exceeds the northeastern Illinois regional average cost
per ton for the 2008-2009 winter season in the original bid
process, as determined by the Department of Central Management
Services.
(b) Grant applications must be submitted within 150 days
after the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 96th

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General Assembly. Grants shall be awarded in an amount equal to
the difference between (i) the amount of the contract price
negotiated by the county, municipality, township, or road
district for only the tonnage of road salt designated for that
county, municipality, township, or road district in the
original Central Management Services contract and (ii) the
amount for that tonnage of road salt based upon the
northeastern Illinois regional average cost per ton in the
original Central Management Services bid process, as
determined by the Department of Central Management Services,
but grant amounts may be prorated if moneys in the Fund are not
sufficient to cover the grants awarded. Grants may be awarded
only for the 2008-2009 winter season.
(c) The Secretary of Transportation shall certify to the
Comptroller and Treasurer when all grants have been made for
the 2008-2009 winter season. If any amount then remains in the
Fund, the Comptroller shall order transferred and the Treasurer
shall transfer that amount from the Local Government Road Salt
Purchase Reimbursement Fund to the Fund for Illinois' Future,
and the Local Government Road Salt Purchase Reimbursement Fund
is thereupon dissolved.
Section 10. The State Finance Act is amended by changing
Section 6z-47 and by adding Section 5.719 as follows:
(30 ILCS 105/5.719 new)

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Sec. 5.719. The Local Government Road Salt Purchase
Reimbursement Fund.
(30 ILCS 105/6z-47)
Sec. 6z-47. Fund for Illinois' Future.
(a) The Fund for Illinois' Future is hereby created as a
special fund in the State Treasury.
(b) Upon the effective date of this amendatory Act of the
91st General Assembly, or as soon as possible thereafter, the
Comptroller shall order transferred and the Treasurer shall
transfer $260,000,000 from the General Revenue Fund to the Fund
for Illinois' Future.
On July 15, 2000, or as soon as possible thereafter, the
Comptroller shall order transferred and the Treasurer shall
transfer $260,000,000 from the General Revenue Fund to the Fund
for Illinois' Future.
Revenues in the Fund for Illinois' Future shall include any
other funds appropriated or transferred into the Fund.
(c) Moneys in the Fund for Illinois' Future may be
appropriated for the making of grants and expenditures for
planning, engineering, acquisition, construction,
reconstruction, development, improvement, and extension of
public infrastructure in the State of Illinois, including
grants to local governments for public infrastructure, grants
to public elementary and secondary school districts for public
infrastructure, grants to universities, colleges, community

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colleges, and non-profit corporations for public
infrastructure, and expenditures for public infrastructure of
the State and other related purposes, including but not limited
to expenditures for equipment, vehicles, community programs,
and recreational facilities.
(d) As soon as possible after the effective date of this
amendatory Act of the 96th General Assembly, the Comptroller
shall order transferred and the Treasurer shall transfer
$14,500,000 from the Fund for Illinois' Future to the Local
Government Road Salt Purchase Reimbursement Fund.
(Source: P.A. 91-38, eff. 6-15-99.)
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.