Sen. John M. Sullivan

Filed: 3/14/2005

 

 


 

 


 
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AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 1971

2     AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 1971 on page 1,
3 line 5, after "2-2.05,", by inserting "2.6,"; and
 
4 on page 4, between lines 28 and 29, by inserting the following:
 
5     "(30 ILCS 740/2-6)  (from Ch. 111 2/3, par. 666)
6     Sec. 2-6. Allocation of funds.
7     (a) With respect to all participants other than any
8 Metro-East Transit District participant, the Department shall
9 allocate the funds to be made available to each participant
10 under this Article for the following fiscal year and shall
11 notify the chief official of each participant not later than
12 the first day of the fiscal year of this amount. For Fiscal
13 Year 1975, notification shall be made not later than January 1,
14 1975, of the amount of such allocation. In determining the
15 allocation for each participant, the Department shall estimate
16 the funds available to the participant from the Downstate
17 Public Transportation Fund for the purposes of this Article
18 during the succeeding fiscal year, and shall allocate to each
19 participant the amount attributable to it which shall be the
20 amount paid into the Downstate Public Transportation Fund under
21 Section 2-3 from within its boundaries. Said allocations may be
22 exceeded for participants receiving assistance equal to
23 one-third of their eligible operating expenses, only if an
24 allocation is less than one-third of such participant's

 

 

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1 eligible operating expenses, provided, however, that no other
2 participant is denied its one-third of eligible operating
3 expenses. Beginning in Fiscal Year 1997, said allocation may be
4 exceeded for participants receiving assistance equal to the
5 percentage of their eligible operating expenses provided for in
6 paragraph (b) of Section 2-7, only if allocation is less than
7 the percentage of such participant's eligible operating
8 expenses provided for in paragraph (b) of Section 2-7, provided
9 however, that no other participant is denied its percentage of
10 eligible operating expenses.
11     (b) With regard to any Metro-East Transit District
12 organized under the Local Mass Transit District Act and serving
13 one or more of the Counties of Madison, Monroe and St. Clair
14 during Fiscal Year 1989, the Department shall allocate the
15 funds to be made available to each participant for the
16 following and succeeding fiscal years and shall notify the
17 chief official of each participant not later than the first day
18 of the fiscal year of this amount. The Department shall
19 allocate 55% of the amount paid into the Metro-East Public
20 Transportation Fund to the District serving primarily the
21 Counties of Monroe and St. Clair and 45% of the amount to that
22 District serving primarily the County of Madison.
23     (c) Notwithstanding the changes made by this amendatory Act
24 of the 94th General Assembly, each participant that received an
25 allocation in fiscal year 2005 shall receive an allocation of
26 at least that amount in fiscal year 2006 and thereafter.
27 (Source: P.A. 89-598, eff. 8-1-96.)".