Sen. Don Harmon

Filed: 2/28/2006

 

 


 

 


 
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AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 2654

2     AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 2654, AS AMENDED,
3 by replacing everything after the enacting clause with the
4 following:
 
5     "Section 5. The Tuberculosis Sanitarium District Act is
6 amended by adding Section 5.4 as follows:
 
7     (70 ILCS 920/5.4 new)
8     Sec. 5.4. Dissolution of Suburban Cook County Tuberculosis
9 Sanitarium District; disposition of land and real estate;
10 continuation of District levy.
11     (a) Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary,
12 the Suburban Cook County Tuberculosis Sanitarium District is
13 dissolved by operation of law one year after the effective date
14 of this amendatory Act of the 94th General Assembly.
15     (b) On or before the day 2 months after the effective date
16 of this amendatory Act of the 94th General Assembly, the Board
17 of Directors shall forward to the Cook County Department of
18 Public Health all transition plans relating to the
19 consolidation of all of the existing programs, personnel, and
20 infrastructure of the District into the Cook County Bureau of
21 Health Services to be administered by the Cook County
22 Department of Public Health. Beginning on the effective date of
23 this amendatory Act of the 94th General Assembly, the District
24 shall not make any enhancements to pensions.

 

 

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1     (c) Upon dissolution of the District: (i) all assets and
2 liabilities of the Suburban Cook County Tuberculosis
3 Sanitarium District dissolved under this amendatory Act of the
4 94th General Assembly shall be transferred to the Cook County
5 Board and the monetary assets shall be deposited into a special
6 purpose fund for the prevention, care, treatment, and control
7 of tuberculosis in suburban Cook County; (ii) the Cook County
8 Department of Public Health shall assume all responsibility for
9 the prevention, care, treatment, and control of tuberculosis
10 within the area of the Suburban Cook County Tuberculosis
11 Sanitarium District dissolved under this amendatory Act of the
12 94th General Assembly, including the provision of tuberculosis
13 care and treatment for units of local government with
14 State-certified local public health departments; and (iii)
15 employees of the Suburban Cook County Tuberculosis Sanitarium
16 District become employees of Cook County.
17     (d) The Cook County Board may transfer to the Cook County
18 Forest Preserve District appropriate unimproved real estate
19 owned by the Suburban Cook County Tuberculosis Sanitarium
20 District at the time of its dissolution. After the dissolution
21 of the District, any land owned by the District at the time of
22 its dissolution remains subject to any leases and encumbrances
23 that existed upon the dissolution of the District.
24     (e) Upon the dissolution of the Suburban Cook County
25 Tuberculosis Sanitarium District: (i) any levy imposed by the
26 dissolved District is abolished, and (ii) Cook County, as a
27 home rule unit, may impose a levy for the purpose of the
28 prevention care, treatment, and control of tuberculosis and
29 emerging communicable respiratory diseases, including, but not
30 limited to, severe acute respiratory syndrome and avian flu in
31 Cook County. In accordance with subsection (b) of Section 12 of
32 the State Revenue Sharing Act, the tax base of the dissolved
33 Suburban Cook County Tuberculosis Sanitarium District shall be
34 added to the tax base of Cook County.
 

 

 

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1     Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
2 becoming law.".