Bill Text: IL SB2161 | 2025-2026 | 104th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Department of Central Management Services Law. Requires the Department of Central Management Services to develop a fire engine bid specification, in consultation with the Office of the State Fire Marshal and the Fire Advisory Commission, to provide necessary bidding information. Amends the Illinois Finance Authority Act. In provisions concerning the fire truck revolving loan program, provides that a loan for the purchase of fire trucks or brush trucks may not exceed $500,000 (instead of $350,000) to any fire department or fire protection district.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-02-07 - Referred to Assignments [SB2161 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2025-SB2161-Introduced.html

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104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2025 and 2026 SB2161 Introduced 2/7/2025, by Sen. Patrick J. Joyce SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
20 ILCS 405/405-550 new
20 ILCS 3501/825-80
Amends the Department of Central Management Services Law. Requires the Department of Central Management Services to develop a fire engine bid specification, in consultation with the Office of the State Fire Marshal and the Fire Advisory Commission, to provide necessary bidding information. Amends the Illinois Finance Authority Act. In provisions concerning the fire truck revolving loan program, provides that a loan for the purchase of fire trucks or brush trucks may not exceed $500,000 (instead of $350,000) to any fire department or fire protection district.
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning State government.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Department of Central Management Services
Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois is amended by
adding Section 405-550 as follows:
(20 ILCS 405/405-550 new)
Sec. 405-550. Fire engine bid specification. The
Department shall develop a fire engine bid specification, in
consultation with the Office of the Illinois State Fire
Marshal and the Fire Advisory Commission, to provide necessary
bidding information.
Section 10. The Illinois Finance Authority Act is amended
by changing Section 825-80 as follows:
(20 ILCS 3501/825-80)
Sec. 825-80. Fire truck revolving loan program.
(a) This Section is a continuation and re-enactment of the
fire truck revolving loan program enacted as Section 3-27 of
the Rural Bond Bank Act by Public Act 93-35, effective June 24,
2003, and repealed by Public Act 93-205, effective January 1,
2004. Under the Rural Bond Bank Act, the program was

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administered by the Rural Bond Bank and the State Fire
Marshal.
(a-5) For purposes of this Section, "brush truck" means a
pickup chassis with or equipped with a flatbed or a pickup box.
The truck must be rated by the manufacturer as between
three-fourths of a ton and one ton and outfitted with a fire or
rescue apparatus.
(b) The Authority and the State Fire Marshal may jointly
administer a fire truck revolving loan program. The program
shall, in instances where sufficient loan funds exist to
permit applications to be accepted, provide zero-interest and
low-interest loans for the purchase of fire trucks by a fire
department, a fire protection district, or a township fire
department. For the purchase of brush trucks by a fire
department, a fire protection district, or a township fire
department, the program shall provide loans at a 2% rate of
simple interest per year for a brush truck if both the chassis
and the apparatus are built outside of Illinois, a 1% rate of
simple interest per year for a brush truck if either the
chassis or the apparatus is built in Illinois, or a 0% rate of
interest for a brush truck if both the chassis and the
apparatus are built in Illinois. The Authority shall make
loans based on need, as determined by the State Fire Marshal.
(c) The loan funds, subject to appropriation, shall be
paid out of the Fire Truck Revolving Loan Fund, a special fund
in the State Treasury. The Fund shall consist of any moneys

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transferred or appropriated into the Fund, as well as all
repayments of loans made under the program and any balance
existing in the Fund on the effective date of this Section. The
Fund shall be used for loans to fire departments and fire
protection districts to purchase fire trucks and brush trucks
and for no other purpose. All interest earned on moneys in the
Fund shall be deposited into the Fund. As soon as practical
after January 1, 2013 (the effective date of Public Act
97-901), all moneys in the Fire Truck Revolving Loan Fund
shall be paid by the State Fire Marshal to the Authority, and,
on and after that date, all future moneys deposited into the
Fire Truck Revolving Loan Fund under this Section shall be
paid by the State Fire Marshal to the Authority under the
continuing appropriation provision of subsection (c-1) of this
Section; provided that the Authority and the State Fire
Marshal enter into an intergovernmental agreement to use the
moneys transferred to the Authority from the Fund solely for
the purposes for which the moneys would otherwise be used
under this Section and to set forth procedures to otherwise
administer the use of the moneys.
(c-1) There is hereby appropriated, on a continuing annual
basis in each fiscal year, from the Fire Truck Revolving Loan
Fund, the amount, if any, of funds received into the Fire Truck
Revolving Loan Fund to the State Fire Marshal for payment to
the Authority for the purposes for which the moneys would
otherwise be used under this Section.

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(d) A loan for the purchase of fire trucks or brush trucks
may not exceed $500,000 $350,000 to any fire department or
fire protection district. A loan for the purchase of brush
trucks may not exceed $100,000 per truck. The repayment period
for the loan may not exceed 20 years. The fire department or
fire protection district shall repay each year at least 5% of
the principal amount borrowed or the remaining balance of the
loan, whichever is less. All repayments of loans shall be
deposited into the Fire Truck Revolving Loan Fund.
(e) The Authority and the State Fire Marshal may adopt
rules in accordance with the Illinois Administrative Procedure
Act to administer the program.
(f) Notwithstanding the repeal of Section 3-27 of the
Rural Bond Bank Act, all otherwise lawful actions taken on or
after January 1, 2004 and before the effective date of this
Section by any person under the authority originally granted
by that Section 3-27, including without limitation the
granting, acceptance, and repayment of loans for the purchase
of fire trucks, are hereby validated, and the rights and
obligations of all parties to any such loan are hereby
acknowledged and confirmed.
(Source: P.A. 97-900, eff. 8-6-12; 97-901, eff. 1-1-13;
98-463, eff. 8-16-13; 98-662, eff. 6-23-14.)