96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2009 and 2010
HB5025

 

Introduced 1/25/2010, by Rep. Robert W. Pritchard

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
30 ILCS 350/10   from Ch. 17, par. 6910
110 ILCS 805/3A-1   from Ch. 122, par. 103A-1

    Amends the Local Government Debt Reform Act and the Public Community College Act. Authorizes Kishwaukee College District No. 523 to issue bonds for building purposes for 25 years (instead of 20 years) if approved at referendum and specified conditions are met. Effective immediately.


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A BILL FOR

 

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1     AN ACT concerning finance.
 
2     Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
 
4     Section 5. The Local Government Debt Reform Act is amended
5 by changing Section 10 as follows:
 
6     (30 ILCS 350/10)  (from Ch. 17, par. 6910)
7     Sec. 10. General provisions. Bonds authorized by
8 applicable law may be issued in one or more series, bear such
9 date or dates, become due at such time or times within 40
10 years, except as expressly limited by applicable law, provided
11 that notwithstanding any such express limitation bonds issued
12 by Lockport High School, or Elgin Community College District
13 No. 509, or Kishwaukee College District No. 523 for the purpose
14 of purchasing, constructing, or improving real property may
15 become due within 25 years, bear interest payable at such
16 intervals and at such rate or rates as authorized under
17 applicable law, which rates may be fixed or variable, be in
18 such denominations, be in such form, either coupon, registered
19 or book-entry, carry such conversion, registration, and
20 exchange privileges, be subject to defeasance upon such terms,
21 have such rank or priority, be executed in such manner, be
22 payable in such medium of payment at such place or places
23 within or without the State of Illinois, make provision for a

 

 

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1 corporate trustee within or without the State with respect to
2 such bonds, prescribe the rights, powers and duties thereof to
3 be exercised for the benefit of the governmental unit and the
4 protection of the bondholders, provide for the holding in
5 trust, investment and use of moneys, funds and accounts held
6 under an ordinance, provide for assignment of and direct
7 payment of the moneys to pay such bonds or to be deposited into
8 such funds or accounts directly to such trustee, be subject to
9 such terms of redemption with or without premium, and be sold
10 in such manner at private or public sale and at such price, all
11 as the governing body shall determine. Whenever such bonds are
12 sold at price less than par, they shall be sold at such price
13 and bear interest at such rate or rates such that either the
14 true interest cost (yield) or the net interest rate, as may be
15 selected by the governing body, received upon the sale of such
16 bonds does not exceed the maximum rate otherwise authorized by
17 applicable law. Except for an ordinance required to be
18 published by applicable law in connection with a backdoor
19 referendum, any bond ordinance adopted by a governing body
20 under applicable law shall, in all instances, become effective
21 immediately without publication or posting or any further act
22 or requirement.
23 (Source: P.A. 96-787, eff. 8-28-09.)
 
24     Section 10. The Public Community College Act is amended by
25 changing Section 3A-1 as follows:
 

 

 

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1     (110 ILCS 805/3A-1)  (from Ch. 122, par. 103A-1)
2     Sec. 3A-1. Any community college district may borrow money
3 for the purpose of building, equipping, altering or repairing
4 community college buildings or purchasing or improving
5 community college sites, or acquiring and equipping recreation
6 grounds, athletic fields, and other buildings or land used or
7 useful for community college purposes or for the purpose of
8 purchasing a site, with or without a building or buildings
9 thereon, or for the building of a house or houses on such site,
10 or for the building of a house or houses on the site of the
11 community college district, for residential purposes of the
12 administrators or faculty of the community college district,
13 and issue its negotiable coupon bonds therefor signed by the
14 chairman and secretary of the board, in denominations of not
15 less than $100 nor more than $5,000, payable at such place and
16 at such time or times, not exceeding 20 years from date of
17 issuance, as the board may prescribe, and bearing interest at a
18 rate not to exceed the maximum rate authorized by the Bond
19 Authorization Act, as amended at the time of the making of the
20 contract, payable annually, semiannually or quarterly, but no
21 such bonds shall be issued unless the proposition to issue them
22 is submitted to the voters of the community college district at
23 a regular scheduled election in such district and the board
24 shall certify the proposition to the proper election
25 authorities for submission in accordance with the general

 

 

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1 election law and a majority of all the votes cast on the
2 proposition is in favor of the proposition, nor shall any
3 residential site be acquired unless such proposition to acquire
4 a site is submitted to the voters of the district at a regular
5 scheduled election and the board shall certify the proposition
6 to the proper election authorities for submission to the
7 electors in accordance with the general election law and a
8 majority of all the votes cast on the proposition is in favor
9 of the proposition. Nothing in this Act shall be construed as
10 to require the listing of maturity dates of any bonds either in
11 the notice of bond election or ballot used in the bond
12 election.
13     Bonds issued in accordance with this Section for Elgin
14 Community College District No. 509 may be payable at such time
15 or times, not exceeding 25 years from date of issuance, as the
16 board may prescribe, if the following conditions are met:
17         (i) The voters of the district approve a proposition
18     for the bond issuance at an election held in 2009.
19         (ii) Prior to the issuance of the bonds, the board
20     determines, by resolution, that the projects built,
21     acquired, altered, renovated, repaired, purchased,
22     improved, installed, or equipped with the proceeds of the
23     bonds are required as a result of a projected increase in
24     the enrollment of students in the district, to meet demand
25     in the fields of health care or public safety, to meet
26     accreditation standards, or to maintain campus safety and

 

 

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1     security.
2         (iii) The bonds are issued, in one more more bond
3     issuances, on or before April 7, 2014.
4         (iv) The proceeds of the bonds are used to accomplish
5     only those purposes approved by the voters at an election
6     held in 2009.
7     Bonds issued in accordance with this Section for Kishwaukee
8 College District No. 523 may be payable at such time or times,
9 not exceeding 25 years from date of issuance, as the board may
10 prescribe, if the following conditions are met:
11             (i) The voters of the district approve a
12         proposition for the bond issuance at an election held
13         in 2010 or 2011.
14             (ii) Prior to the issuance of the bonds, the board
15         determines, by resolution, that the projects built,
16         acquired, altered, renovated, repaired, purchased,
17         improved, installed, or equipped with the proceeds of
18         the bonds are required as a result of a projected
19         increase in the enrollment of students in the district,
20         to meet demand in the fields of health care or public
21         safety, to meet accreditation standards, or to
22         maintain campus safety and security.
23             (iii) The bonds are issued, in one or more bond
24         issuances, on or before November 2, 2015.
25             (iv) The proceeds of the bonds are used to
26         accomplish only those purposes approved by the voters

 

 

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1         at an election held in 2010 or 2011.
2     With respect to instruments for the payment of money issued
3 under this Section either before, on, or after the effective
4 date of this amendatory Act of 1989, it is and always has been
5 the intention of the General Assembly (i) that the Omnibus Bond
6 Acts are and always have been supplementary grants of power to
7 issue instruments in accordance with the Omnibus Bond Acts,
8 regardless of any provision of this Act that may appear to be
9 or to have been more restrictive than those Acts, (ii) that the
10 provisions of this Section are not a limitation on the
11 supplementary authority granted by the Omnibus Bond Acts, and
12 (iii) that instruments issued under this Section within the
13 supplementary authority granted by the Omnibus Bond Acts are
14 not invalid because of any provision of this Act that may
15 appear to be or to have been more restrictive than those Acts.
16 (Source: P.A. 96-787, eff. 8-28-09.)
 
17     Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
18 becoming law.