HB4225 100TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

LRB100 15572 AWJ 30653 b

100TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2017 and 2018
HB4225

Introduced , by Rep. Robert Martwick

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

65 ILCS 5/8-13-5
65 ILCS 5/8-13-10

Amends the Illinois Municipal Code. Provides that home rule municipalities with a population over 1,000,000 may only authorize the conveyance of all or any portion of sales tax revenues to (i) corporations, trusts, or other entities that have been established for the limited purpose of issuing obligations for the benefit of a home rule municipality, or (ii) a bank or trust company in its capacity as trustee for obligations issued by the bank or trust company for the benefit of a home rule municipality. Effective immediately.

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A BILL FOR

AN ACT concerning local government.

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly:

Section 5. The Illinois Municipal Code is amended by changing Sections 8-13-5 and 8-13-10 as follows:

(65 ILCS 5/8-13-5)

Sec. 8-13-5. Definitions. As used in this Article:

"Assignment agreement" means an agreement between a transferring unit and an issuing entity for the conveyance of all or part of any revenues or taxes received by the transferring unit from a State entity.

"Conveyance" means an assignment, sale, transfer, or other conveyance.

"Deposit account" means a designated escrow account established by an issuing entity at a trust company or bank having trust powers for the deposit of transferred receipts under an assignment agreement.

"Issuing entity" means (i) a corporation, trust or other entity that has been established for the limited purpose of issuing obligations for the benefit of a transferring unit, or (ii) a bank or trust company in its capacity as trustee for obligations issued by such bank or trust company for the benefit of a transferring unit.

"Sales tax" has the meaning given to that term in subsection (e) of Section 2 of the Simplified Sales and Use Tax Administration Act.

"State entity" means the State Comptroller, the State Treasurer, or the Illinois Department of Revenue.

"Transferred receipts" means all or part of any revenues or taxes received from a State entity that have been conveyed by a transferring unit under an assignment agreement.

"Transferring unit" means a home rule municipality located in the State.

(Source: P.A. 100-23, eff. 7-6-17.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-13-10)

Sec. 8-13-10. Assignment of receipts.

(a) Any transferring unit which receives revenues or taxes from a State entity may (to the extent not prohibited by any applicable statute, regulation, rule, or agreement governing the use of such revenues or taxes) authorize, by ordinance, the conveyance of all or any portion of such revenues or taxes to an issuing entity, except that transferring units with a population over 1,000,000 may only authorize the conveyance of all or any portion of sales tax revenues to an issuing entity. Any conveyance of transferred receipts shall: (i) be made pursuant to an assignment agreement in exchange for the net proceeds of obligations issued by the issuing entity for the benefit of the transferring unit and shall, for all purposes, constitute an absolute conveyance of all right, title, and interest therein; (ii) not be deemed a pledge or other security interest for any borrowing by the transferring unit; (iii) be valid, binding, and enforceable in accordance with the terms thereof and of any related instrument, agreement, or other arrangement, including any pledge, grant of security interest, or other encumbrance made by the issuing entity to secure any obligations issued by the issuing entity for the benefit of the transferring unit; and (iv) not be subject to disavowal, disaffirmance, cancellation, or avoidance by reason of insolvency of any party, lack of consideration, or any other fact, occurrence, or State law or rule. On and after the effective date of the conveyance of the transferred receipts, the transferring unit shall have no right, title or interest in or to the transferred receipts conveyed and the transferred receipts so conveyed shall be the property of the issuing entity to the extent necessary to pay the obligations issued by the issuing entity for the benefit of the transferring unit, and shall be received, held, and disbursed by the issuing entity in a trust fund outside the treasury of the transferring unit. An assignment agreement may provide for the periodic reconveyance to the transferring unit of amounts of transferred receipts remaining after the payment of the obligations issued by the issuing entity for the benefit of the transferring unit.

(b) In connection with any conveyance of transferred receipts, the transferring unit is authorized to direct the applicable State entity to deposit or cause to be deposited any amount of such transferred receipts into a deposit account in order to secure the obligations issued by the issuing entity for the benefit of the transferring unit. Where the transferring unit states that such direction is irrevocable, the direction shall be treated by the applicable State entity as irrevocable with respect to the transferred receipts described in such direction. Each State entity shall comply with the terms of any such direction received from a transferring unit and shall execute and deliver such acknowledgments and agreements, including escrow and similar agreements, as the transferring unit may require to effectuate the deposit of transferred receipts in accordance with the direction of the transferring unit.

(c) Not later than the date of issuance by an issuing entity of any obligations secured by collections of transferred receipts, a certified copy of the ordinance authorizing the conveyance of the right to receive the transferred receipts, together with executed copies of the applicable assignment agreement and the agreement providing for the establishment of the deposit account, shall be filed with the State entity having custody of the transferred receipts.

(Source: P.A. 100-23, eff. 7-6-17.)

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