95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2007 and 2008
SB1644


 
Introduced 2/9/2007, by Sen. Don Harmon
 
SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 		














35 ILCS 5/509
  from Ch. 120, par. 5-509







    Amends the Illinois Income Tax Act.  Makes a technical change in a Section concerning tax checkoff explanations.
















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    AN ACT concerning revenue.

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


 
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    Section 5. The Illinois Income Tax Act is amended by 
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changing Section 509 as follows:
 



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    (35 ILCS 5/509)  (from Ch. 120, par. 5-509)



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    Sec. 509. Tax checkoff explanations. All individual income 
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tax return forms
shall contain appropriate explanations and
and

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spaces to enable the taxpayers to
designate contributions to 
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the following funds:
the Child Abuse Prevention Fund,
the 
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Illinois Wildlife Preservation Fund (as required by the 
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Illinois
Non-Game Wildlife Protection Act),
the Alzheimer's 
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Disease Research Fund (as required by the Alzheimer's
Disease 
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Research Act),
the Assistance to the Homeless Fund (as required 
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by this Act),
the Penny Severns Breast and Cervical Cancer 
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Research Fund,
the National World War II Memorial Fund,
the 
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Prostate Cancer Research Fund,
the Lou Gehrig's Disease (ALS) 
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Research Fund,
the Multiple Sclerosis Assistance Fund,
the 
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Sarcoidosis Research Fund, the Leukemia Treatment and 
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Education Fund,
the World War II Illinois Veterans Memorial 
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Fund,
the Korean War Veterans National Museum and Library Fund,
 
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the Illinois Military Family Relief Fund,
the Blindness 
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Prevention Fund, the Illinois Veterans' Homes Fund, the 
 


 






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Epilepsy Treatment and Education Grants-in-Aid Fund, the 
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Diabetes Research Checkoff Fund, the Vince Demuzio Memorial 
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Colon Cancer Fund, the Autism Research Fund,  the Heartsaver AED 
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Fund, the Asthma and Lung Research Fund, and the Illinois Brain 
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Tumor Research Fund.
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    Each form shall contain a statement that the contributions 
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will reduce the
taxpayer's refund or increase the amount of 
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payment to accompany the return.
Failure to remit any amount of 
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increased payment shall reduce the contribution
accordingly.

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    If, on October 1 of any year, the total contributions to 
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any one of the
funds made under this Section do not equal 
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$100,000 or more, the explanations
and spaces for designating 
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contributions to the fund shall be removed from the
individual 
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income tax return forms for the following and all subsequent 
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years
and all subsequent contributions to the fund shall be 
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refunded to the taxpayer.

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(Source: P.A. 93-36, eff. 6-24-03; 93-131, eff. 7-10-03; 
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93-292, eff. 7-22-03; 93-324, eff. 7-23-03; 93-776, eff. 
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7-21-04; 94-73, eff. 6-23-05; 94-107, eff. 7-1-05; 94-141, eff. 
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1-1-06; 94-142, eff. 1-1-06; 94-442, eff. 8-4-05; 94-602, eff. 
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8-16-05; 94-649, eff. 8-22-05; 94-876, eff. 6-19-06; revised 
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8-3-06.)