Bill Text: IL HB5841 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Commission on Equity and Inclusion Act. Requires the Commission to prepare and submit a report to the General Assembly evaluating whether the Illinois Sports Facilities Authority has met the equity goals of the Commission and Authority. Amends the Illinois Sports Facilities Authority Act. Modifies legislative findings. Provides that "facility" includes stadiums, arenas, or other structures for the holding of athletic contests and other events and gatherings, including professional women's sports (among other illustrative examples). Requires the Authority to work with the Executive Director of the Commission on Equity and Inclusion to evaluate and propose policies that promote equity in decision-making regarding the development and funding of sports facilities. Provides that a person may not be prohibited from participation in, or any of the benefits of, programs or activities at facilities funded under the Act, including facilities established or supported by bonds issued under the Act, on the basis of sex. Provides that, if bonds are issued under the Act to fund facilities for professional men's sports, some bonds must also be issued to fund facilities for professional women's sports; and provides that, if the Authority does not have a professional women's sports facility project to work on at the time of issuance of the bonds, then either: (i) the proceeds from the bonds issued for professional women's sports shall be placed into a dedicated fund until the Authority has a professional women's sports facility project on which to work, or (ii) a portion of the revenue source supporting the bonds must be left unused and dedicated to support a future bond issuance solely focused on professional women's sports facility projects. Provides that the portion required under item (ii) shall be as required by statute or, if no statute sets the portion, shall be in an amount set by the Commission on Equity and Inclusion. Provides that a person may not be prohibited from participation in, or any of the benefits of, programs or activities at facilities funded under this Act, including facilities established or supported by bonds issued under the Act, on the basis of sex. Removes and modifies outdated language, including provisions relating to a dissolved advisory board. Effective immediately.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 29-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-05-22 - Added Co-Sponsor Rep. La Shawn K. Ford [HB5841 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2023-HB5841-Introduced.html

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103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2023 and 2024 HB5841 Introduced , by Rep. Eva-Dina Delgado SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
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Amends the Commission on Equity and Inclusion Act. Requires the Commission to prepare and submit a report to the General Assembly evaluating whether the Illinois Sports Facilities Authority has met the equity goals of the Commission and Authority. Amends the Illinois Sports Facilities Authority Act. Modifies legislative findings. Provides that "facility" includes stadiums, arenas, or other structures for the holding of athletic contests and other events and gatherings, including professional women's sports (among other illustrative examples). Requires the Authority to work with the Executive Director of the Commission on Equity and Inclusion to evaluate and propose policies that promote equity in decision-making regarding the development and funding of sports facilities. Provides that a person may not be prohibited from participation in, or any of the benefits of, programs or activities at facilities funded under the Act, including facilities established or supported by bonds issued under the Act, on the basis of sex. Provides that, if bonds are issued under the Act to fund facilities for professional men's sports, some bonds must also be issued to fund facilities for professional women's sports; and provides that, if the Authority does not have a professional women's sports facility project to work on at the time of issuance of the bonds, then either: (i) the proceeds from the bonds issued for professional women's sports shall be placed into a dedicated fund until the Authority has a professional women's sports facility project on which to work, or (ii) a portion of the revenue source supporting the bonds must be left unused and dedicated to support a future bond issuance solely focused on professional women's sports facility projects. Provides that the portion required under item (ii) shall be as required by statute or, if no statute sets the portion, shall be in an amount set by the Commission on Equity and Inclusion. Provides that a person may not be prohibited from participation in, or any of the benefits of, programs or activities at facilities funded under this Act, including facilities established or supported by bonds issued under the Act, on the basis of sex. Removes and modifies outdated language, including provisions relating to a dissolved advisory board. Effective immediately.
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning government.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Commission on Equity and Inclusion Act is
amended by adding Section 13 as follows:
(30 ILCS 574/13 new)
Sec. 13. Report on Illinois Sports Facilities Authority
funds. The Commission shall prepare and submit a report to the
General Assembly no later than January 1, 2026 and every 5
years thereafter evaluating whether the Illinois Sports
Facilities Authority has met the equity goals of the
Commission and Authority as established under paragraph (7) of
Section 9 of the Illinois Sports Facilities Authority Act
regarding the Authority's use and management of its funds. The
Authority shall provide all information and documentation
required by the Commission to prepare the report. The report
shall be published on the Commission's website.
Section 10. The Illinois Sports Facilities Authority Act
is amended by changing Sections 2, 3, 9, and 13 and by adding
Section 9.5 as follows:
(70 ILCS 3205/2) (from Ch. 85, par. 6002)

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Sec. 2. Definitions; general provisions. In this Act the
following words have the meanings indicated:
(A) "Authority" means the Illinois Sports Facilities
Authority.
(B) "Facility" means:
(1) Stadiums, arenas or other structures for the
holding of athletic contests and other events and
gatherings, including, without limitation, baseball,
football, professional women's sports, and automobile
racing; musical, dramatic and other artistic, cultural or
social events; public meetings; and other public events;
and
(2) Practice fields, or other areas where professional
sports teams and other sports teams may practice or
perform.
(3) "Facility" also means the following types of
property if that property is related to or located near an
item listed in paragraphs (1) and (2) of subsection (B) of
this Section:
(i) Offices, parking lots and garages, access
roads, streets, intersections, highway interchanges,
pedestrian walkways, tunnels, and bridges,
transportation facilities, monuments, restaurants,
stores, and other facilities providing goods and
services to persons attending meetings, contests,
gatherings or events at the facility;

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(ii) Other recreation areas and recreational
facilities;
(iii) Other property or structures including all
fixtures, furnishings, and appurtenances normally
associated with such facilities; and
(iv) Landscaping, parks, and open spaces.
(C) "Governmental Owner" means a body politic, public
corporation, political subdivision, unit of local government,
or municipality formed under the laws of the State of
Illinois, including, without limitation, the Chicago Park
District, that owns or is to own a facility located within the
corporate limits of the Authority described in Section 11 of
this Act and to which the Authority provides financial
assistance. Where the title to all or any part of a facility is
held by a public building commission because the public
building commission has financed, under the authority of the
Public Building Commission Act, the acquisition of real estate
or the construction, acquisition, or enlargement of
improvements to real estate, or both, for any body politic,
public corporation, political subdivision, unit of local
government, or municipality formed under the laws of the State
of Illinois, the term "governmental owner" when used with
respect to that facility means the body politic, public
corporation, political subdivision, unit of local government,
or municipality rather than the public building commission.
(D) "Management Agreement" means a legally binding

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contract between the Authority and a tenant of a facility
owned by the Authority, which contains at least the following
provisions:
(1) a provision requiring the tenant to conduct its
complete regular home season schedule and any home playoff
events in the facility;
(2) a provision requiring the tenant to provide
routine maintenance of and to operate the facility with
its personnel or contractors;
(3) a provision requiring the tenant to advertise and
promote events it conducts at the facility;
(4) a provision requiring the tenant to operate or
contract for concessions for the patrons of the facility,
including a stadium club and restaurant where food and
beverages will be served; and
(5) a provision permitting the Authority or its
designee to hold other events in any such facility owned
by the Authority at such times as shall not unreasonably
interfere with the use of that facility by the tenant.
(E) "Assistance Agreement" means one or more legally
binding contracts, with respect to a facility for which the
Authority is to provide financial assistance as provided in
this Act, to which the Authority and a governmental owner of a
facility or its tenant, or both, and any other appropriate
persons are parties, which may be in the form of an
intergovernmental agreement.

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(F) "Financial Assistance" means the use by the Authority,
pursuant to an assistance agreement, of its powers under this
Act, including, without limitation, the power to borrow money,
to issue bonds and notes, to impose an occupation tax as
provided in Section 19 of this Act and to receive and expend
the proceeds of that tax, to assist a governmental owner or its
tenant, or both, with one or more of the following: designing,
developing, establishing, constructing, erecting, acquiring,
repairing, reconstructing, renovating, remodeling, adding to,
extending, improving, equipping, operating, and maintaining a
facility owned or to be owned by the governmental owner.
(G) "Tenant" means any person with which a governmental
owner or the Authority has entered into an agreement for the
use by a professional sports team or other sports team of any
facility. Such an agreement may be a management agreement or
an assistance agreement or may be a lease of or a license,
permit, or similar agreement with respect to the use of a
facility by such team for such period as shall be agreed upon
by the person and the governmental owner or the Authority, as
the case may be.
(Source: P.A. 91-935, eff. 6-1-01.)
(70 ILCS 3205/3) (from Ch. 85, par. 6003)
Sec. 3. Legislative Finding and Declaration. It is hereby
found that as a result of deteriorating infrastructure and
sports facilities in the metropolitan area of Chicago, there

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is a shortage of facilities suitable for use by professional
and other sports teams and musical, theatrical, cultural, and
other social organizations.
It is further found that as a result of the costs to
maintain, repair or replace such infrastructure and
facilities, and as a result of current high financing costs,
the private sector, without the assistance contemplated in
this Act, is unable to construct feasibly adequate sports
facilities.
It is further found that the creation of modern sports
facilities and the other results contemplated by this Act
would stimulate economic activity in the State of Illinois,
including the creation and maintenance of jobs, the creation
of new and lasting infrastructure and other improvements, and
the attraction and retention of sports and entertainment
events which generate economic activity.
It is further found that participation in sports promotes
physical and mental health and provides opportunities for
personal growth and character development and that these
benefits are best advanced and enjoyed when available to all
people on an equitable basis, including when provision is made
for equitable development of sports facilities for men and
women alike.
It is further found that professional sports facilities
can be magnets for substantial interstate tourism resulting in
increased retail sales, hotel and restaurant sales, and

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entertainment industry sales, all of which increase jobs and
economic growth.
It is further found that only three major league
professional baseball franchises play in stadium facilities
the construction of which has not been government-assisted and
of those three the most recently constructed facility was
completed in 1914.
It is further found that government assistance was or is
an essential component in the financing of the construction of
most recently built or planned National Football League
stadiums.
It is further found that the exercise by the Authority and
governmental owners of the additional powers conferred by this
amendatory Act of the 91st General Assembly (i) will
materially assist the development and redevelopment of
government owned sports facilities and thereby alleviate in
part the deleterious conditions and confer the public benefits
described in this Section and (ii) is in the public interest
and is declared to be for public purposes.
(Source: P.A. 91-935, eff. 6-1-01.)
(70 ILCS 3205/9) (from Ch. 85, par. 6009)
Sec. 9. Duties. In addition to the powers set forth
elsewhere in this Act, subject to the terms of any agreements
with the holders of the Authority's bonds or notes, the
Authority shall:

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(1) Comply with all zoning, building, and land use
controls of the municipality within which is located any
stadium facility owned by the Authority or for which the
Authority provides financial assistance.
(2) With respect to a facility owned or to be owned by
the Authority, enter or have entered into a management
agreement with a tenant of the Authority to operate the
facility that requires the tenant to operate the facility
for a period at least as long as the term of any bonds
issued to finance the development, establishment,
construction, erection, acquisition, repair,
reconstruction, remodeling, adding to, extension,
improvement, equipping, operation, and maintenance of the
facility. Such agreement shall contain appropriate and
reasonable provisions with respect to termination, default
and legal remedies.
(3) With respect to a facility owned or to be owned by
a governmental owner other than the Authority, enter into
an assistance agreement with either a governmental owner
of a facility or its tenant, or both, that requires the
tenant, or if the tenant is not a party to the assistance
agreement requires the governmental owner to enter into an
agreement with the tenant that requires the tenant to use
the facility for a period at least as long as the term of
any bonds issued to finance the reconstruction,
renovation, remodeling, extension or improvement of all or

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substantially all of the facility.
(4) Create and maintain a separate financial reserve
for repair and replacement of capital assets of any
facility owned by the Authority or for which the Authority
provides financial assistance and deposit into this
reserve not less than $1,000,000 per year for each such
facility beginning at such time as the Authority and the
tenant, or the Authority and a governmental owner of a
facility, as applicable, shall agree.
(5) In connection with prequalification of general
contractors for the construction of a new stadium facility
or the reconstruction, renovation, remodeling, extension,
or improvement of all or substantially all of an existing
facility, the Authority shall require submission of a
commitment detailing how the general contractor will
expend 25% or more of the dollar value of the general
contract with one or more minority-owned businesses and 5%
or more of the dollar value with one or more women-owned
businesses. This commitment may be met by contractor's
status as a minority-owned businesses or women-owned
businesses, by a joint venture or by subcontracting a
portion of the work with or by purchasing materials for
the work from one or more such businesses, or by any
combination thereof. Any contract with the general
contractor for construction of the new stadium facility
and any contract for the reconstruction, renovation,

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remodeling, adding to, extension or improvement of all or
substantially all of an existing facility shall require
the general contractor to meet the foregoing obligations
and shall require monthly reporting to the Authority with
respect to the status of the implementation of the
contractor's affirmative action plan and compliance with
that plan. This report shall be filed with the General
Assembly. The Authority shall establish and maintain an
affirmative action program designed to promote equal
employment opportunity which specifies the goals and
methods for increasing participation by minorities and
women in a representative mix of job classifications
required to perform the respective contracts. The
Authority shall file a report before March 1 of each year
with the General Assembly detailing its implementation of
this paragraph. The terms "minority-owned businesses",
"women-owned businesses", and "business owned by a person
with a disability" have the meanings given to those terms
in the Business Enterprise for Minorities, Women, and
Persons with Disabilities Act.
(6) Provide for the construction of any new facility
pursuant to one or more contracts which require delivery
of a completed facility at a fixed maximum price to be
insured or guaranteed by a third party determined by the
Authority to be financially capable of causing completion
of such construction of the new facility.

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(7) Work with the Executive Director of the Commission
on Equity and Inclusion to evaluate and propose policies
that promote equity in decision-making regarding the
development and funding of sports facilities, including
establishing equity goals.
In connection with any assistance agreement with a
governmental owner that provides financial assistance for a
facility to be used by a National Football League team, the
assistance agreement shall provide that the Authority or its
agent shall enter into the contract or contracts for the
design and construction services or design/build services for
such facility and thereafter transfer its rights and
obligations under the contract or contracts to the
governmental owner of the facility. In seeking parties to
provide design and construction services or design/build
services with respect to such facility, the Authority may use
such procurement procedures as it may determine, including,
without limitation, the selection of design professionals and
construction managers or design/builders as may be required by
a team that is at risk, in whole or in part, for the cost of
design and construction of the facility.
An assistance agreement may not provide, directly or
indirectly, for the payment to the Chicago Park District of
more than a total of $10,000,000 on account of the District's
loss of property or revenue in connection with the renovation
of a facility pursuant to the assistance agreement.

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(Source: P.A. 100-391, eff. 8-25-17.)
(70 ILCS 3205/9.5 new)
Sec. 9.5. Unlawful discrimination. A person may not be
prohibited from participation in, or any of the benefits of,
programs or activities at facilities funded under this Act,
including facilities established or supported by bonds issued
under this Act, on the basis of sex.
(70 ILCS 3205/13) (from Ch. 85, par. 6013)
Sec. 13. Bonds and notes.
(A) (1) The Authority may at any time and from time to time
issue bonds and notes for any corporate purpose, including the
establishment of reserves and the payment of interest and
costs of issuance. If bonds are issued under this Act to fund
facilities for professional men's sports, some bonds must also
be issued to fund facilities for professional women's sports;
and, if the Authority does not have a professional women's
sports facility project to work on at the time of issuance of
the bonds, then either: (i) the proceeds from the bonds issued
for professional women's sports shall be placed into a
dedicated fund until the Authority has a professional women's
sports facility project on which to work, or (ii) a portion of
the revenue source supporting the bonds must be left unused
and dedicated to support a future bond issuance solely focused
on professional women's sports facility projects. The portion

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required under item (ii) shall be as required by statute or, if
no statute sets the portion, shall be in an amount set by the
Commission on Equity and Inclusion. In this Act the term
"bonds" includes notes of any kind, interim certificates,
refunding bonds, or any other evidence of obligation for
borrowed money issued under this Section 13. Bonds may be
issued in one or more series and may be payable and secured
either on a parity with or separately from other bonds.
(2) The bonds of any issue shall be payable solely from all
or any part of the property or revenues of the Authority,
including, without limitation:
(i) Rents, rates, fees, charges or other revenues
payable to or any receipts of the Authority, including
amounts which are deposited pursuant to the Act with a
trustee for bondholders;
(ii) Payments by financial institutions, insurance
companies, or others pursuant to letters or lines of
credit, policies of insurance, or purchase agreements;
(iii) Investment earnings from funds or accounts
maintained pursuant to a bond resolution or trust
agreement; and
(iv) Proceeds of refunding bonds.
(3) Bonds may be authorized by a resolution of the
Authority and may be secured by a trust agreement by and
between the Authority and a corporate trustee or trustees,
which may be any trust company or bank having the powers of a

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trust company within or without the State. Bonds may:
(i) Mature at a time or times, whether as serial bonds
or as term bonds or both, not exceeding 40 years from their
respective dates of issue;
(ii) Notwithstanding the Bond Authorization Act
provision of "An Act to authorize public corporations to
issue bonds, other evidences of indebtedness and tax
anticipation warrants subject to interest rate limitations
set forth therein", approved May 26, 1970, as now or
hereafter amended, or any other provision of law, bear
interest at any fixed or variable rate or rates determined
by the method provided in the resolution or trust
agreement;
(iii) Be payable at a time or times, in the
denominations and form, either coupon or registered or
both, and carry the registration and privileges as to
exchange, transfer or conversion and for the replacement
of mutilated, lost, or destroyed bonds as the resolution
or trust agreement may provide;
(iv) Be payable in lawful money of the United States
at a designated place;
(v) Be subject to the terms of purchase, payment,
redemption, refunding or refinancing that the resolution
or trust agreement provides;
(vi) Be executed by the manual or facsimile signatures
of the officers of the Authority designated by the

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Authority which signatures shall be valid at delivery even
for one who has ceased to hold office; and
(vii) Be sold in the manner and upon the terms
determined by the Authority.
(B) Any resolution or trust agreement may contain
provisions which shall be a part of the contract with the
holders of the bonds as to:
(1) Pledging, assigning or directing the use,
investment, or disposition of all or any part of the
revenues of the Authority or proceeds or benefits of any
contract including, without limit, any management
agreement or assistance agreement and conveying or
otherwise securing any property or property rights;
(2) The setting aside of loan funding deposits, debt
service reserves, capitalized interest accounts,
replacement or operating reserves, cost of issuance
accounts and sinking funds, and the regulation,
investment, and disposition thereof;
(3) Limitations on the purposes to which or the
investments in which the proceeds of sale of any issue of
bonds or the Authority's revenues and receipts may be
applied or made;
(4) Limitations on the issue of additional bonds, the
terms upon which additional bonds may be issued and
secured, the terms upon which additional bonds may rank on
a parity with, or be subordinate or superior to, other

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bonds;
(5) The refunding, advance refunding or refinancing of
outstanding bonds;
(6) The procedure, if any, by which the terms of any
contract with bondholders may be altered or amended and
the amount of bonds and holders of which must consent
thereto, and the manner in which consent shall be given;
(7) Defining the acts or omissions which shall
constitute a default in the duties of the Authority to
holders of bonds and providing the rights or remedies of
such holders in the event of a default which may include
provisions restricting individual right of action by
bondholders;
(8) Providing for guarantees, pledges of property,
letters of credit, or other security, or insurance for the
benefit of bondholders; and
(9) Any other matter relating to the bonds which the
Authority determines appropriate.
(C) No member of the Authority nor any person executing
the bonds shall be liable personally on the bonds or subject to
any personal liability by reason of the issuance of the bonds.
(D) The Authority may enter into agreements with agents,
banks, insurers, or others for the purpose of enhancing the
marketability of or security for its bonds.
(E) (1) A pledge by the Authority of revenues and receipts
as security for an issue of bonds or for the performance of its

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obligations under any management agreement or assistance
agreement shall be valid and binding from the time when the
pledge is made.
(2) The revenues and receipts pledged shall immediately be
subject to the lien of the pledge without any physical
delivery or further act, and the lien of any pledge shall be
valid and binding against any person having any claim of any
kind in tort, contract or otherwise against the Authority,
irrespective of whether the person has notice.
(3) No resolution, trust agreement, management agreement
or assistance agreement or any financing statement,
continuation statement, or other instrument adopted or entered
into by the Authority need be filed or recorded in any public
record other than the records of the Authority in order to
perfect the lien against third persons, regardless of any
contrary provision of law.
(F) The Authority may issue bonds to refund, advance
refund or refinance any of its bonds then outstanding,
including the payment of any redemption premium and any
interest accrued or to accrue to the earliest or any
subsequent date of redemption, purchase or maturity of the
bonds. Refunding or advance refunding bonds may be issued for
the public purposes of realizing savings in the effective
costs of debt service, directly or through a debt
restructuring, for alleviating impending or actual default, or
for paying principal of, redemption premium, if any, and

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interest on bonds as they mature or are subject to redemption,
and may be issued in one or more series in an amount in excess
of that of the bonds to be refunded.
(G) At no time shall the total outstanding bonds and notes
of the Authority issued under this Section 13 exceed (i)
$150,000,000 in connection with facilities owned by the
Authority or in connection with other authorized corporate
purposes of the Authority and (ii) $399,000,000 in connection
with facilities owned by a governmental owner other than the
Authority; however, the limit on the total outstanding bond
and notes set forth in this sentence shall not apply to any
refunding or restructuring bonds issued by the Authority on
and after June 17, 2021 (the effective date of Public Act
102-16) this amendatory Act of the 102nd General Assembly but
prior to December 31, 2024. Bonds which are being paid or
retired by issuance, sale or delivery of bonds or notes, and
bonds or notes for which sufficient funds have been deposited
with the paying agent or trustee to provide for payment of
principal and interest thereon, and any redemption premium, as
provided in the authorizing resolution, shall not be
considered outstanding for the purposes of this paragraph.
(H) The bonds and notes of the Authority shall not be
indebtedness of the City of Chicago, of the State, or of any
political subdivision of the State other than the Authority.
The bonds and notes of the Authority are not general
obligations of the State of Illinois or the City of Chicago, or

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of any other political subdivision of the State other than the
Authority, and are not secured by a pledge of the full faith
and credit of the State of Illinois or the City of Chicago, or
of any other political subdivision of the State other than the
Authority, and the holders of bonds and notes of the Authority
may not require the levy or imposition by the State or the City
of Chicago, or any other political subdivision of the State
other than the Authority, of any taxes or, except as provided
in this Act, the application of revenues or funds of the State
of Illinois or the City of Chicago or any other political
subdivision of the State other than the Authority to the
payment of bonds and notes of the Authority.
(I) In order to provide for the payment of debt service
requirements (including amounts for reserve funds and to pay
the costs of credit enhancements) on bonds issued pursuant to
this Act, the Authority may provide in any trust agreement
securing such bonds for a pledge and assignment of its right to
all amounts to be received from the Illinois Sports Facilities
Fund and for a pledge and assignment (subject to the terms of
any management agreement or assistance agreement) of all taxes
and other amounts to be received under Section 19 of this Act
and may further provide by written notice to the State
Treasurer and State Comptroller (which notice shall constitute
a direction to those officers) for a direct payment of these
amounts to the trustee for its bondholders.
(J) The State of Illinois pledges to and agrees with the

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holders of the bonds and notes of the Authority issued
pursuant to this Act that the State will not limit or alter the
rights and powers vested in the Authority by this Act so as to
impair the terms of any contract made by the Authority with
such holders or in any way impair the rights and remedies of
such holders until such bonds and notes, together with
interest thereon, with interest on any unpaid installments of
interest, and all costs and expenses in connection with any
action or proceedings by or on behalf of such holders, are
fully met and discharged. In addition, the State pledges to
and agrees with the holders of the bonds and notes of the
Authority issued pursuant to this Act that the State will not
limit or alter the basis on which State funds are to be
allocated, deposited and paid to the Authority as provided in
this Act, or the use of such funds, so as to impair the terms
of any such contract. The Authority is authorized to include
these pledges and agreements of the State in any contract with
the holders of bonds or notes issued pursuant to this Section.
Nothing in Public Act 102-16 this amendatory Act of the 102nd
General Assembly is intended to limit or alter the rights and
powers of the Authority so as to impair the terms of any
contract made by the Authority with the holders of the bonds
and notes of the Authority issued pursuant to this Act.
(Source: P.A. 102-16, eff. 6-17-21.)
(70 ILCS 3205/7.8 rep.)

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Section 15. The Illinois Sports Facilities Authority Act
is amended by repealing Section 7.8.
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.
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