Bill Text: IL HB5423 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Illinois Highway Code. Provides for the establishment and administration of the Township Rebuild Program by the Department of Transportation. Provides that the Department use the Township Rebuild Fund to award grants of no greater than $250,000 to townships with populations under 2,000 for the purpose of expanding machinery storage facilities. Amends the Motor Fuel Tax Law. Creates the Township Rebuild Fund as a special fund in the State Treasury. Provides that the Fund shall receive transfers from the Motor Fuel Tax Fund sufficient to provide awards to all eligible townships in the Illinois Township Rebuild Program. Amends the State Finance Act to make a corresponding addition. Provides that the Township Rebuild Program Fund shall be used according to the purposes described in the Transportation Funds provisions of the Revenue Article of the Illinois Constitution.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-04-05 - Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB5423 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2023-HB5423-Introduced.html

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103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2023 and 2024 HB5423 Introduced , by Rep. Brad Halbrook SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
30 ILCS 105/5.1015 new
35 ILCS 505/8c new
605 ILCS 5/6-703 new
Amends the Illinois Highway Code. Provides for the establishment and administration of the Township Rebuild Program by the Department of Transportation. Provides that the Department use the Township Rebuild Fund to award grants of no greater than $250,000 to townships with populations under 2,000 for the purpose of expanding machinery storage facilities. Amends the Motor Fuel Tax Law. Creates the Township Rebuild Fund as a special fund in the State Treasury. Provides that the Fund shall receive transfers from the Motor Fuel Tax Fund sufficient to provide awards to all eligible townships in the Illinois Township Rebuild Program. Amends the State Finance Act to make a corresponding addition. Provides that the Township Rebuild Program Fund shall be used according to the purposes described in the Transportation Funds provisions of the Revenue Article of the Illinois Constitution.
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning transportation.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The State Finance Act is amended by adding
Section 5.1015 as follows:
(30 ILCS 105/5.1015 new)
Sec. 5.1015. The Township Rebuild Program Fund.
Section 10. The Motor Fuel Tax Law is amended by adding
Section 8c as follows:
(35 ILCS 505/8c new)
Sec. 8c. Township Rebuild Program Fund; creation;
distribution of proceeds. The Township Rebuild Program Fund is
hereby created as a special fund in the State treasury. The
Fund shall receive transfers from the Motor Fuel Tax Fund
sufficient to provide awards to all eligible townships. Moneys
in the Fund shall be used by the Department of Transportation
to provide grants to townships with populations under 2,000 in
amounts not greater than $250,000 for the purposes of building
or expanding machinery storage facilities. Moneys in the
Township Rebuild Program Fund shall be used according to the
purposes described in Section 11 of Article IX of the Illinois

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Constitution of 1970.
Section 15. The Illinois Highway Code is amended by adding
Section 6-703 as follows: