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 1                    AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 685

 2        AMENDMENT NO.     .  Amend Senate Bill  685  on  page  1,
 3    immediately below line 3, by inserting the following:

 4        "Section  3.  The  Downstate Public Transportation Act is
 5    amended by changing Sections 2-2.04 and 2-6 as follows:

 6        (30 ILCS 740/2-2.04) (from Ch. 111 2/3, par. 662.04)
 7        Sec. 2-2.04.  "Eligible  operating  expenses"  means  all
 8    expenses   required   for  public  transportation,  including
 9    employee wages  and  benefits,  materials,  fuels,  supplies,
10    rental  of facilities, taxes other than income taxes, payment
11    made for debt service (including principal and  interest)  on
12    publicly   owned  equipment  or  facilities,  and  any  other
13    expenditure  which  is  an  operating  expense  according  to
14    standard accounting practices for  the  providing  of  public
15    transportation. Eligible operating expenses shall not include
16    allowances:  (a) for depreciation whether funded or unfunded;
17    (b) for amortization of any intangible costs;  (c)  for  debt
18    service  on  capital  acquired with the assistance of capital
19    grant funds provided  by  the  State  of  Illinois;  (d)  for
20    profits or return on investment; (e) for excessive payment to
21    associated   entities;   (f)   for  Comprehensive  Employment
22    Training  Act  expenses;  (g)  for  costs  reimbursed   under
 
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 1    Sections  6  and  8  of the "Urban Mass Transportation Act of
 2    1964", as amended;  (h) for entertainment expenses;  (i)  for
 3    charter  expenses;  (j)  for  fines  and  penalties;  (k) for
 4    charitable donations; (l) for interest expense on  long  term
 5    borrowing  and  debt  retirement other than on publicly owned
 6    equipment or facilities; (m) for income  taxes;  or  (n)  for
 7    such   other   expenses   as  the  Department  may  determine
 8    consistent  with   federal   Department   of   Transportation
 9    regulations or requirements.
10        With  respect  to  participants other than any Metro-East
11    Transit District  participant  and  those  receiving  federal
12    research  development  and  demonstration  funds  pursuant to
13    Section 6 of the "Urban Mass Transportation Act of 1964",  as
14    amended,  during  the  fiscal  year ending June 30, 1979, the
15    maximum eligible operating expenses for any such  participant
16    in any fiscal year after Fiscal Year 1980 shall be the amount
17    appropriated  for such participant for the fiscal year ending
18    June 30, 1980, plus in each year  a  10%  increase  over  the
19    maximum  established  for  the  preceding  fiscal  year.  For
20    Fiscal Year 1980 the maximum eligible operating expenses  for
21    any  such  participant  shall  be  the  amount  of  projected
22    operating  expenses  upon  which  the  appropriation for such
23    participant for Fiscal Year 1980 is based.
24        With respect to participants receiving  federal  research
25    development  and demonstration operating assistance funds for
26    operating assistance pursuant to Section 6 of the "Urban Mass
27    Transportation Act of 1964", as amended,  during  the  fiscal
28    year  ending  June  30,  1979, the maximum eligible operating
29    expenses for any such participant in any  fiscal  year  after
30    Fiscal Year 1980 shall not exceed such participant's eligible
31    operating  expenses for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1980,
32    plus in each year a 10% increase over the maximum established
33    for the preceding fiscal year.  For  Fiscal  Year  1980,  the
34    maximum  eligible operating expenses for any such participant
 
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 1    shall be the eligible operating expenses incurred during such
 2    fiscal year, or projected operating expenses upon  which  the
 3    appropriation  for  such participant for the Fiscal Year 1980
 4    is based; whichever is less.
 5        With  respect  to  all  participants   other   than   any
 6    Metro-East Transit District participant, the maximum eligible
 7    operating  expenses  for  any  such participant in any fiscal
 8    year after Fiscal Year 1985 shall be the amount  appropriated
 9    for  such  participant  for  the  fiscal year ending June 30,
10    1985, plus in each year  a  10%  increase  over  the  maximum
11    established  for  the  preceding year.  For Fiscal Year 1985,
12    the  maximum  eligible  operating  expenses  for   any   such
13    participant  shall  be  the  amount  of  projected  operating
14    expenses  upon  which  the appropriation for such participant
15    for Fiscal Year 1985 is based.
16        With respect to any  mass  transit  district  participant
17    that  has  increased  its  district  boundaries  by  annexing
18    counties  since  1998  and  is  maintaining  a level of local
19    financial support, including all income and  revenues,  equal
20    to  or greater than the level in the State fiscal year ending
21    June 30, 2001, the maximum eligible  operating  expenses  for
22    any  State  fiscal  year  after  2002  shall  be  the  amount
23    appropriated  for  that participant for the State fiscal year
24    ending June 30, 2002, plus, in each State fiscal year, a  10%
25    increase  over  the  preceding  State fiscal year.  For State
26    fiscal year 2002, the maximum eligible operating expenses for
27    any  such  participant  shall  be  the  amount  of  projected
28    operating expenses upon  which  the  appropriation  for  that
29    participant  for  State  fiscal year 2002 is based.  For that
30    participant, eligible operating  expenses  for  State  fiscal
31    year  2002  in  excess of the eligible operating expenses for
32    the State fiscal year ending June 30, 2001,  plus  10%,  must
33    be  attributed  to  the  provision  of  services in the newly
34    annexed counties.
 
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 1        With respect to a participant that  receives  an  initial
 2    appropriation in State fiscal year 2002, the maximum eligible
 3    operating expenses for any State fiscal year after 2003 shall
 4    be the amount appropriated for that participant for the State
 5    fiscal  year  ending June 30, 2003, plus, in each year, a 10%
 6    increase over the preceding  year.   For  State  fiscal  year
 7    2003,  the  maximum  eligible operating expenses for any such
 8    participant  shall  be  the  amount  of  projected  operating
 9    expenses upon which the appropriation  for  that  participant
10    for State fiscal year 2003 is based.
11        Notwithstanding  any  other  provisions  of this Section,
12    with respect to a participant that  has  received  an  amount
13    less than the percentage of eligible operating expenses equal
14    to  the  maximum  received  by  any  other participant in the
15    fiscal year ending June 30, 2002, the maximum  percentage  of
16    eligible  operating  expenses for the fiscal year ending June
17    30, 2003 and thereafter shall be the percentage  received  by
18    such  other participant, except as provided in Section 2-7 of
19    this Act.
20    (Source: P.A. 92-258,  eff.  8-7-01;  92-464,  eff.  8-22-01;
21    92-651, eff. 7-11-02.)

22        (30 ILCS 740/2-6) (from Ch. 111 2/3, par. 666)
23        Sec. 2-6. Allocation of funds.
24        (a)  With  respect  to  all  participants  other than any
25    Metro-East Transit District participant, the Department shall
26    allocate the funds to be made available to  each  participant
27    under  this  Article  for the following fiscal year and shall
28    notify the chief official of each participant not later  than
29    the  first  day of the fiscal year of this amount. For Fiscal
30    Year 1975, notification shall be made not later than  January
31    1, 1975, of the amount of such allocation. In determining the
32    allocation   for   each  participant,  the  Department  shall
33    estimate the funds available  to  the  participant  from  the
 
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 1    Downstate Public Transportation Fund for the purposes of this
 2    Article during the succeeding fiscal year, and shall allocate
 3    to each participant the amount attributable to it which shall
 4    be  the  amount paid into the Downstate Public Transportation
 5    Fund under Section 2-3  from  within  its  boundaries.   Said
 6    allocations   may  be  exceeded  for  participants  receiving
 7    assistance equal to one-third  of  their  eligible  operating
 8    expenses,  only  if  an  allocation is less than one-third of
 9    such participant's  eligible  operating  expenses,  provided,
10    however, that no other participant is denied its one-third of
11    eligible  operating  expenses. Beginning in Fiscal Year 1997,
12    said allocation may be exceeded  for  participants  receiving
13    assistance   equal   to  the  percentage  of  their  eligible
14    operating expenses provided for in paragraph (b)  of  Section
15    2-7,  only  if allocation is less than the percentage of such
16    participant's eligible operating  expenses  provided  for  in
17    paragraph (b) of Section 2-7, provided however, that no other
18    participant  is  denied  its percentage of eligible operating
19    expenses.
20        (b)  With  regard  to  any  Metro-East  Transit  District
21    organized under the  Local  Mass  Transit  District  Act  and
22    serving  one  or  more of the Counties of Madison, Monroe and
23    St. Clair during  Fiscal  Year  1989,  the  Department  shall
24    allocate  the  funds to be made available to each participant
25    for the following  and  succeeding  fiscal  years  and  shall
26    notify  the chief official of each participant not later than
27    the first day  of  the  fiscal  year  of  this  amount.   The
28    Department  shall  allocate  55%  of the amount paid into the
29    Metro-East Public Transportation Fund to the District serving
30    primarily the Counties of Monroe and St. Clair and 45% of the
31    amount to that  District  serving  primarily  the  County  of
32    Madison.  If  an  amount  remains  in  the  Downstate  Public
33    Transportation Fund after the allocation of funds pursuant to
34    subsection  (a),  those  funds  shall be transferred and paid
 
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 1    over to the Metro-East  Public  Transportation  Fund  to  the
 2    extent  necessary  to  allocate  to  any  Metro-East  Transit
 3    District funds equal to 55% of eligible operating expenses of
 4    the  District, except as that percentage is otherwise limited
 5    by subsection (b) of Section 2-7 of this Act.
 6    (Source: P.A. 89-598, eff. 8-1-96.)"; and

 7    on page 6,  by  replacing  lines  10  through  14,  with  the
 8    following:

 9    "thereof,  the  corporate  authorities  and  the county board
10    chairmen of each participating municipality or  county  shall
11    determine   the  percentage  of  service  that  the  District
12    provides to each municipality or county.  Each  participating
13    municipality  and county shall appoint trustees in proportion
14    to the percentage of service received from  the  District  by
15    that municipality or county with the corporate authorities or
16    the  county  board  chairman,  with the consent of the county
17    board,  of  each   participating   municipality   or   county
18    appointing  one trustee to the Board for each 30% or fraction
19    thereof  of  service that the municipality or county receives
20    from the District. If there is an  even  number  of  trustees
21    appointed  to  the  Board,  the  corporate authorities or the
22    county board chairman, with the consent of the county  board,
23    of  the  municipality  or  county  that  receives the largest
24    percentage of service from the  District  shall  appoint  one
25    additional  trustee  the  corporate authorities or the county
26    board chairman with the consent of the county board  of  each
27    participating   municipality  or  county  shall  appoint  one
28    trustee to  the  Board  for  every  100,000  inhabitants,  or
29    fraction thereof, of such municipality or county. The first".