Bill Text: IL SB2767 | 2019-2020 | 101st General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Cook County Forest Preserve Article of the Illinois Pension Code. In a provision concerning the property tax levy for providing revenue for the Fund, provides that the forest preserve district may use other lawfully available funds in lieu of all or part of the levy.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2021-01-13 - Session Sine Die [SB2767 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2019-SB2767-Introduced.html

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101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2019 and 2020 SB2767 Introduced 2/4/2020, by Sen. Robert F. Martwick SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
40 ILCS 5/10-107 from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 10-107
Amends the Cook County Forest Preserve Article of the Illinois Pension Code. In a provision concerning the property tax levy for providing revenue for the Fund, provides that the forest preserve district may use other lawfully available funds in lieu of all or part of the levy.
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FISCAL NOTE ACT MAY APPLY PENSION IMPACT NOTE ACT MAY APPLY
A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning public employee benefits.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Illinois Pension Code is amended by changing
Section 10-107 as follows:
(40 ILCS 5/10-107) (from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 10-107)
Sec. 10-107. Financing - Tax levy. The forest preserve
district may levy an annual tax on the value, as equalized or
assessed by the Department of Revenue, of all taxable property
in the district for the purpose of providing revenue for the
fund. The rate of such tax in any year may not exceed the rate
herein specified for that year or the rate which will produce,
when extended, the sum herein stated for that year, whichever
is higher: for any year prior to 1970, .00103% or $195,000; for
the year 1970, .00111% or $210,000; for the year 1971, .00116%
or $220,000. For the year 1972 and each year thereafter, the
Forest Preserve District shall levy a tax annually at a rate on
the dollar of the value, as equalized or assessed by the
Department of Revenue upon all taxable property in the county,
when extended, not to exceed an amount equal to the total
amount of contributions by the employees to the fund made in
the calendar year 2 years prior to the year for which the
annual applicable tax is levied, multiplied by 1.25 for the

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year 1972; and by 1.30 for the year 1973 and for each year
thereafter.
The tax shall be levied and collected in like manner with
the general taxes of the district and shall be in addition to
the maximum of all other tax rates which the district may levy
upon the aggregate valuation of all taxable property and shall
be exclusive of and in addition to the maximum amount and rate
of taxes the district may levy for general purposes or under
and by virtue of any laws which limit the amount of tax which
the district may levy for general purposes. The county clerk of
the county in which the forest preserve district is located in
reducing tax levies under the provisions of "An Act concerning
the levy and extension of taxes", approved May 9, 1901, as
amended, shall not consider any such tax as a part of the
general tax levy for forest preserve purposes, and shall not
include the same in the limitation of 1% of the assessed
valuation upon which taxes are required to be extended, and
shall not reduce the same under the provisions of that Act. The
proceeds of the tax herein authorized shall be kept as a
separate fund.
The forest preserve district may use other lawfully
available funds in lieu of all or part of the levy.
The Board may establish a manpower program reserve, or a
special forest preserve district contribution rate, with
respect to employees whose wages are funded as program
participants under the Comprehensive Employment and Training

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Act of 1973 in the manner provided in subsection (d) or (e),
respectively, of Section 9-169.
(Source: P.A. 81-1509.)