99TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2015 and 2016
HB3811

 

Introduced , by Rep. Al Riley

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
35 ILCS 200/18-185

    Amends the Property Tax Extension Limitation Law in the Property Tax Code. Exempts special purpose extensions made by any taxing district for payment of that district's share of the amounts required to be contributed to any pension fund created under the Illinois Pension Code from the definition of "aggregate extension". Effective immediately.


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A BILL FOR

 

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1    AN ACT concerning revenue.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The Property Tax Code is amended by changing
5Section 18-185 as follows:
 
6    (35 ILCS 200/18-185)
7    Sec. 18-185. Short title; definitions. This Division 5 may
8be cited as the Property Tax Extension Limitation Law. As used
9in this Division 5:
10    "Consumer Price Index" means the Consumer Price Index for
11All Urban Consumers for all items published by the United
12States Department of Labor.
13    "Extension limitation" means (a) the lesser of 5% or the
14percentage increase in the Consumer Price Index during the
1512-month calendar year preceding the levy year or (b) the rate
16of increase approved by voters under Section 18-205.
17    "Affected county" means a county of 3,000,000 or more
18inhabitants or a county contiguous to a county of 3,000,000 or
19more inhabitants.
20    "Taxing district" has the same meaning provided in Section
211-150, except as otherwise provided in this Section. For the
221991 through 1994 levy years only, "taxing district" includes
23only each non-home rule taxing district having the majority of

 

 

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1its 1990 equalized assessed value within any county or counties
2contiguous to a county with 3,000,000 or more inhabitants.
3Beginning with the 1995 levy year, "taxing district" includes
4only each non-home rule taxing district subject to this Law
5before the 1995 levy year and each non-home rule taxing
6district not subject to this Law before the 1995 levy year
7having the majority of its 1994 equalized assessed value in an
8affected county or counties. Beginning with the levy year in
9which this Law becomes applicable to a taxing district as
10provided in Section 18-213, "taxing district" also includes
11those taxing districts made subject to this Law as provided in
12Section 18-213.
13    "Aggregate extension" for taxing districts to which this
14Law applied before the 1995 levy year means the annual
15corporate extension for the taxing district and those special
16purpose extensions that are made annually for the taxing
17district, excluding special purpose extensions: (a) made for
18the taxing district to pay interest or principal on general
19obligation bonds that were approved by referendum; (b) made for
20any taxing district to pay interest or principal on general
21obligation bonds issued before October 1, 1991; (c) made for
22any taxing district to pay interest or principal on bonds
23issued to refund or continue to refund those bonds issued
24before October 1, 1991; (d) made for any taxing district to pay
25interest or principal on bonds issued to refund or continue to
26refund bonds issued after October 1, 1991 that were approved by

 

 

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1referendum; (e) made for any taxing district to pay interest or
2principal on revenue bonds issued before October 1, 1991 for
3payment of which a property tax levy or the full faith and
4credit of the unit of local government is pledged; however, a
5tax for the payment of interest or principal on those bonds
6shall be made only after the governing body of the unit of
7local government finds that all other sources for payment are
8insufficient to make those payments; (f) made for payments
9under a building commission lease when the lease payments are
10for the retirement of bonds issued by the commission before
11October 1, 1991, to pay for the building project; (g) made for
12payments due under installment contracts entered into before
13October 1, 1991; (h) made for payments of principal and
14interest on bonds issued under the Metropolitan Water
15Reclamation District Act to finance construction projects
16initiated before October 1, 1991; (i) made for payments of
17principal and interest on limited bonds, as defined in Section
183 of the Local Government Debt Reform Act, in an amount not to
19exceed the debt service extension base less the amount in items
20(b), (c), (e), and (h) of this definition for non-referendum
21obligations, except obligations initially issued pursuant to
22referendum; (j) made for payments of principal and interest on
23bonds issued under Section 15 of the Local Government Debt
24Reform Act; (k) made by a school district that participates in
25the Special Education District of Lake County, created by
26special education joint agreement under Section 10-22.31 of the

 

 

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1School Code, for payment of the school district's share of the
2amounts required to be contributed by the Special Education
3District of Lake County to the Illinois Municipal Retirement
4Fund under Article 7 of the Illinois Pension Code; the amount
5of any extension under this item (k) shall be certified by the
6school district to the county clerk; (l) made to fund expenses
7of providing joint recreational programs for the handicapped
8under Section 5-8 of the Park District Code or Section 11-95-14
9of the Illinois Municipal Code; (m) made for temporary
10relocation loan repayment purposes pursuant to Sections 2-3.77
11and 17-2.2d of the School Code; (n) made for payment of
12principal and interest on any bonds issued under the authority
13of Section 17-2.2d of the School Code; (o) made for
14contributions to a firefighter's pension fund created under
15Article 4 of the Illinois Pension Code, to the extent of the
16amount certified under item (5) of Section 4-134 of the
17Illinois Pension Code; and (p) made for road purposes in the
18first year after a township assumes the rights, powers, duties,
19assets, property, liabilities, obligations, and
20responsibilities of a road district abolished under the
21provisions of Section 6-133 of the Illinois Highway Code; and
22(q) made by any taxing district for payment of that district's
23share of the amounts required to be contributed to any pension
24fund created under the Illinois Pension Code.
25    "Aggregate extension" for the taxing districts to which
26this Law did not apply before the 1995 levy year (except taxing

 

 

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1districts subject to this Law in accordance with Section
218-213) means the annual corporate extension for the taxing
3district and those special purpose extensions that are made
4annually for the taxing district, excluding special purpose
5extensions: (a) made for the taxing district to pay interest or
6principal on general obligation bonds that were approved by
7referendum; (b) made for any taxing district to pay interest or
8principal on general obligation bonds issued before March 1,
91995; (c) made for any taxing district to pay interest or
10principal on bonds issued to refund or continue to refund those
11bonds issued before March 1, 1995; (d) made for any taxing
12district to pay interest or principal on bonds issued to refund
13or continue to refund bonds issued after March 1, 1995 that
14were approved by referendum; (e) made for any taxing district
15to pay interest or principal on revenue bonds issued before
16March 1, 1995 for payment of which a property tax levy or the
17full faith and credit of the unit of local government is
18pledged; however, a tax for the payment of interest or
19principal on those bonds shall be made only after the governing
20body of the unit of local government finds that all other
21sources for payment are insufficient to make those payments;
22(f) made for payments under a building commission lease when
23the lease payments are for the retirement of bonds issued by
24the commission before March 1, 1995 to pay for the building
25project; (g) made for payments due under installment contracts
26entered into before March 1, 1995; (h) made for payments of

 

 

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1principal and interest on bonds issued under the Metropolitan
2Water Reclamation District Act to finance construction
3projects initiated before October 1, 1991; (h-4) made for
4stormwater management purposes by the Metropolitan Water
5Reclamation District of Greater Chicago under Section 12 of the
6Metropolitan Water Reclamation District Act; (i) made for
7payments of principal and interest on limited bonds, as defined
8in Section 3 of the Local Government Debt Reform Act, in an
9amount not to exceed the debt service extension base less the
10amount in items (b), (c), and (e) of this definition for
11non-referendum obligations, except obligations initially
12issued pursuant to referendum and bonds described in subsection
13(h) of this definition; (j) made for payments of principal and
14interest on bonds issued under Section 15 of the Local
15Government Debt Reform Act; (k) made for payments of principal
16and interest on bonds authorized by Public Act 88-503 and
17issued under Section 20a of the Chicago Park District Act for
18aquarium or museum projects; (l) made for payments of principal
19and interest on bonds authorized by Public Act 87-1191 or
2093-601 and (i) issued pursuant to Section 21.2 of the Cook
21County Forest Preserve District Act, (ii) issued under Section
2242 of the Cook County Forest Preserve District Act for
23zoological park projects, or (iii) issued under Section 44.1 of
24the Cook County Forest Preserve District Act for botanical
25gardens projects; (m) made pursuant to Section 34-53.5 of the
26School Code, whether levied annually or not; (n) made to fund

 

 

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1expenses of providing joint recreational programs for the
2handicapped under Section 5-8 of the Park District Code or
3Section 11-95-14 of the Illinois Municipal Code; (o) made by
4the Chicago Park District for recreational programs for the
5handicapped under subsection (c) of Section 7.06 of the Chicago
6Park District Act; (p) made for contributions to a
7firefighter's pension fund created under Article 4 of the
8Illinois Pension Code, to the extent of the amount certified
9under item (5) of Section 4-134 of the Illinois Pension Code;
10and (q) made by Ford Heights School District 169 under Section
1117-9.02 of the School Code; and (r) made by any taxing district
12for payment of that district's share of the amounts required to
13be contributed to any pension fund created under the Illinois
14Pension Code.
15    "Aggregate extension" for all taxing districts to which
16this Law applies in accordance with Section 18-213, except for
17those taxing districts subject to paragraph (2) of subsection
18(e) of Section 18-213, means the annual corporate extension for
19the taxing district and those special purpose extensions that
20are made annually for the taxing district, excluding special
21purpose extensions: (a) made for the taxing district to pay
22interest or principal on general obligation bonds that were
23approved by referendum; (b) made for any taxing district to pay
24interest or principal on general obligation bonds issued before
25the date on which the referendum making this Law applicable to
26the taxing district is held; (c) made for any taxing district

 

 

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1to pay interest or principal on bonds issued to refund or
2continue to refund those bonds issued before the date on which
3the referendum making this Law applicable to the taxing
4district is held; (d) made for any taxing district to pay
5interest or principal on bonds issued to refund or continue to
6refund bonds issued after the date on which the referendum
7making this Law applicable to the taxing district is held if
8the bonds were approved by referendum after the date on which
9the referendum making this Law applicable to the taxing
10district is held; (e) made for any taxing district to pay
11interest or principal on revenue bonds issued before the date
12on which the referendum making this Law applicable to the
13taxing district is held for payment of which a property tax
14levy or the full faith and credit of the unit of local
15government is pledged; however, a tax for the payment of
16interest or principal on those bonds shall be made only after
17the governing body of the unit of local government finds that
18all other sources for payment are insufficient to make those
19payments; (f) made for payments under a building commission
20lease when the lease payments are for the retirement of bonds
21issued by the commission before the date on which the
22referendum making this Law applicable to the taxing district is
23held to pay for the building project; (g) made for payments due
24under installment contracts entered into before the date on
25which the referendum making this Law applicable to the taxing
26district is held; (h) made for payments of principal and

 

 

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1interest on limited bonds, as defined in Section 3 of the Local
2Government Debt Reform Act, in an amount not to exceed the debt
3service extension base less the amount in items (b), (c), and
4(e) of this definition for non-referendum obligations, except
5obligations initially issued pursuant to referendum; (i) made
6for payments of principal and interest on bonds issued under
7Section 15 of the Local Government Debt Reform Act; (j) made
8for a qualified airport authority to pay interest or principal
9on general obligation bonds issued for the purpose of paying
10obligations due under, or financing airport facilities
11required to be acquired, constructed, installed or equipped
12pursuant to, contracts entered into before March 1, 1996 (but
13not including any amendments to such a contract taking effect
14on or after that date); (k) made to fund expenses of providing
15joint recreational programs for the handicapped under Section
165-8 of the Park District Code or Section 11-95-14 of the
17Illinois Municipal Code; (l) made for contributions to a
18firefighter's pension fund created under Article 4 of the
19Illinois Pension Code, to the extent of the amount certified
20under item (5) of Section 4-134 of the Illinois Pension Code;
21and (m) made for the taxing district to pay interest or
22principal on general obligation bonds issued pursuant to
23Section 19-3.10 of the School Code; and (n) made by any taxing
24district for payment of that district's share of the amounts
25required to be contributed to any pension fund created under
26the Illinois Pension Code.

 

 

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1    "Aggregate extension" for all taxing districts to which
2this Law applies in accordance with paragraph (2) of subsection
3(e) of Section 18-213 means the annual corporate extension for
4the taxing district and those special purpose extensions that
5are made annually for the taxing district, excluding special
6purpose extensions: (a) made for the taxing district to pay
7interest or principal on general obligation bonds that were
8approved by referendum; (b) made for any taxing district to pay
9interest or principal on general obligation bonds issued before
10the effective date of this amendatory Act of 1997; (c) made for
11any taxing district to pay interest or principal on bonds
12issued to refund or continue to refund those bonds issued
13before the effective date of this amendatory Act of 1997; (d)
14made for any taxing district to pay interest or principal on
15bonds issued to refund or continue to refund bonds issued after
16the effective date of this amendatory Act of 1997 if the bonds
17were approved by referendum after the effective date of this
18amendatory Act of 1997; (e) made for any taxing district to pay
19interest or principal on revenue bonds issued before the
20effective date of this amendatory Act of 1997 for payment of
21which a property tax levy or the full faith and credit of the
22unit of local government is pledged; however, a tax for the
23payment of interest or principal on those bonds shall be made
24only after the governing body of the unit of local government
25finds that all other sources for payment are insufficient to
26make those payments; (f) made for payments under a building

 

 

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1commission lease when the lease payments are for the retirement
2of bonds issued by the commission before the effective date of
3this amendatory Act of 1997 to pay for the building project;
4(g) made for payments due under installment contracts entered
5into before the effective date of this amendatory Act of 1997;
6(h) made for payments of principal and interest on limited
7bonds, as defined in Section 3 of the Local Government Debt
8Reform Act, in an amount not to exceed the debt service
9extension base less the amount in items (b), (c), and (e) of
10this definition for non-referendum obligations, except
11obligations initially issued pursuant to referendum; (i) made
12for payments of principal and interest on bonds issued under
13Section 15 of the Local Government Debt Reform Act; (j) made
14for a qualified airport authority to pay interest or principal
15on general obligation bonds issued for the purpose of paying
16obligations due under, or financing airport facilities
17required to be acquired, constructed, installed or equipped
18pursuant to, contracts entered into before March 1, 1996 (but
19not including any amendments to such a contract taking effect
20on or after that date); (k) made to fund expenses of providing
21joint recreational programs for the handicapped under Section
225-8 of the Park District Code or Section 11-95-14 of the
23Illinois Municipal Code; and (l) made for contributions to a
24firefighter's pension fund created under Article 4 of the
25Illinois Pension Code, to the extent of the amount certified
26under item (5) of Section 4-134 of the Illinois Pension Code;

 

 

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1and (m) made by any taxing district for payment of that
2district's share of the amounts required to be contributed to
3any pension fund created under the Illinois Pension Code.
4    "Debt service extension base" means an amount equal to that
5portion of the extension for a taxing district for the 1994
6levy year, or for those taxing districts subject to this Law in
7accordance with Section 18-213, except for those subject to
8paragraph (2) of subsection (e) of Section 18-213, for the levy
9year in which the referendum making this Law applicable to the
10taxing district is held, or for those taxing districts subject
11to this Law in accordance with paragraph (2) of subsection (e)
12of Section 18-213 for the 1996 levy year, constituting an
13extension for payment of principal and interest on bonds issued
14by the taxing district without referendum, but not including
15excluded non-referendum bonds. For park districts (i) that were
16first subject to this Law in 1991 or 1995 and (ii) whose
17extension for the 1994 levy year for the payment of principal
18and interest on bonds issued by the park district without
19referendum (but not including excluded non-referendum bonds)
20was less than 51% of the amount for the 1991 levy year
21constituting an extension for payment of principal and interest
22on bonds issued by the park district without referendum (but
23not including excluded non-referendum bonds), "debt service
24extension base" means an amount equal to that portion of the
25extension for the 1991 levy year constituting an extension for
26payment of principal and interest on bonds issued by the park

 

 

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1district without referendum (but not including excluded
2non-referendum bonds). A debt service extension base
3established or increased at any time pursuant to any provision
4of this Law, except Section 18-212, shall be increased each
5year commencing with the later of (i) the 2009 levy year or
6(ii) the first levy year in which this Law becomes applicable
7to the taxing district, by the lesser of 5% or the percentage
8increase in the Consumer Price Index during the 12-month
9calendar year preceding the levy year. The debt service
10extension base may be established or increased as provided
11under Section 18-212. "Excluded non-referendum bonds" means
12(i) bonds authorized by Public Act 88-503 and issued under
13Section 20a of the Chicago Park District Act for aquarium and
14museum projects; (ii) bonds issued under Section 15 of the
15Local Government Debt Reform Act; or (iii) refunding
16obligations issued to refund or to continue to refund
17obligations initially issued pursuant to referendum.
18    "Special purpose extensions" include, but are not limited
19to, extensions for levies made on an annual basis for
20unemployment and workers' compensation, self-insurance,
21contributions to pension plans, and extensions made pursuant to
22Section 6-601 of the Illinois Highway Code for a road
23district's permanent road fund whether levied annually or not.
24The extension for a special service area is not included in the
25aggregate extension.
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1last preceding aggregate extension as adjusted under Sections
218-135, 18-215, and 18-230. An adjustment under Section 18-135
3shall be made for the 2007 levy year and all subsequent levy
4years whenever one or more counties within which a taxing
5district is located (i) used estimated valuations or rates when
6extending taxes in the taxing district for the last preceding
7levy year that resulted in the over or under extension of
8taxes, or (ii) increased or decreased the tax extension for the
9last preceding levy year as required by Section 18-135(c).
10Whenever an adjustment is required under Section 18-135, the
11aggregate extension base of the taxing district shall be equal
12to the amount that the aggregate extension of the taxing
13district would have been for the last preceding levy year if
14either or both (i) actual, rather than estimated, valuations or
15rates had been used to calculate the extension of taxes for the
16last levy year, or (ii) the tax extension for the last
17preceding levy year had not been adjusted as required by
18subsection (c) of Section 18-135.
19    Notwithstanding any other provision of law, for levy year
202012, the aggregate extension base for West Northfield School
21District No. 31 in Cook County shall be $12,654,592.
22    "Levy year" has the same meaning as "year" under Section
231-155.
24    "New property" means (i) the assessed value, after final
25board of review or board of appeals action, of new improvements
26or additions to existing improvements on any parcel of real

 

 

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1property that increase the assessed value of that real property
2during the levy year multiplied by the equalization factor
3issued by the Department under Section 17-30, (ii) the assessed
4value, after final board of review or board of appeals action,
5of real property not exempt from real estate taxation, which
6real property was exempt from real estate taxation for any
7portion of the immediately preceding levy year, multiplied by
8the equalization factor issued by the Department under Section
917-30, including the assessed value, upon final stabilization
10of occupancy after new construction is complete, of any real
11property located within the boundaries of an otherwise or
12previously exempt military reservation that is intended for
13residential use and owned by or leased to a private corporation
14or other entity, (iii) in counties that classify in accordance
15with Section 4 of Article IX of the Illinois Constitution, an
16incentive property's additional assessed value resulting from
17a scheduled increase in the level of assessment as applied to
18the first year final board of review market value, and (iv) any
19increase in assessed value due to oil or gas production from an
20oil or gas well required to be permitted under the Hydraulic
21Fracturing Regulatory Act that was not produced in or accounted
22for during the previous levy year. In addition, the county
23clerk in a county containing a population of 3,000,000 or more
24shall include in the 1997 recovered tax increment value for any
25school district, any recovered tax increment value that was
26applicable to the 1995 tax year calculations.

 

 

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1    "Qualified airport authority" means an airport authority
2organized under the Airport Authorities Act and located in a
3county bordering on the State of Wisconsin and having a
4population in excess of 200,000 and not greater than 500,000.
5    "Recovered tax increment value" means, except as otherwise
6provided in this paragraph, the amount of the current year's
7equalized assessed value, in the first year after a
8municipality terminates the designation of an area as a
9redevelopment project area previously established under the
10Tax Increment Allocation Development Act in the Illinois
11Municipal Code, previously established under the Industrial
12Jobs Recovery Law in the Illinois Municipal Code, previously
13established under the Economic Development Project Area Tax
14Increment Act of 1995, or previously established under the
15Economic Development Area Tax Increment Allocation Act, of each
16taxable lot, block, tract, or parcel of real property in the
17redevelopment project area over and above the initial equalized
18assessed value of each property in the redevelopment project
19area. For the taxes which are extended for the 1997 levy year,
20the recovered tax increment value for a non-home rule taxing
21district that first became subject to this Law for the 1995
22levy year because a majority of its 1994 equalized assessed
23value was in an affected county or counties shall be increased
24if a municipality terminated the designation of an area in 1993
25as a redevelopment project area previously established under
26the Tax Increment Allocation Development Act in the Illinois

 

 

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1Municipal Code, previously established under the Industrial
2Jobs Recovery Law in the Illinois Municipal Code, or previously
3established under the Economic Development Area Tax Increment
4Allocation Act, by an amount equal to the 1994 equalized
5assessed value of each taxable lot, block, tract, or parcel of
6real property in the redevelopment project area over and above
7the initial equalized assessed value of each property in the
8redevelopment project area. In the first year after a
9municipality removes a taxable lot, block, tract, or parcel of
10real property from a redevelopment project area established
11under the Tax Increment Allocation Development Act in the
12Illinois Municipal Code, the Industrial Jobs Recovery Law in
13the Illinois Municipal Code, or the Economic Development Area
14Tax Increment Allocation Act, "recovered tax increment value"
15means the amount of the current year's equalized assessed value
16of each taxable lot, block, tract, or parcel of real property
17removed from the redevelopment project area over and above the
18initial equalized assessed value of that real property before
19removal from the redevelopment project area.
20    Except as otherwise provided in this Section, "limiting
21rate" means a fraction the numerator of which is the last
22preceding aggregate extension base times an amount equal to one
23plus the extension limitation defined in this Section and the
24denominator of which is the current year's equalized assessed
25value of all real property in the territory under the
26jurisdiction of the taxing district during the prior levy year.

 

 

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1For those taxing districts that reduced their aggregate
2extension for the last preceding levy year, the highest
3aggregate extension in any of the last 3 preceding levy years
4shall be used for the purpose of computing the limiting rate.
5The denominator shall not include new property or the recovered
6tax increment value. If a new rate, a rate decrease, or a
7limiting rate increase has been approved at an election held
8after March 21, 2006, then (i) the otherwise applicable
9limiting rate shall be increased by the amount of the new rate
10or shall be reduced by the amount of the rate decrease, as the
11case may be, or (ii) in the case of a limiting rate increase,
12the limiting rate shall be equal to the rate set forth in the
13proposition approved by the voters for each of the years
14specified in the proposition, after which the limiting rate of
15the taxing district shall be calculated as otherwise provided.
16In the case of a taxing district that obtained referendum
17approval for an increased limiting rate on March 20, 2012, the
18limiting rate for tax year 2012 shall be the rate that
19generates the approximate total amount of taxes extendable for
20that tax year, as set forth in the proposition approved by the
21voters; this rate shall be the final rate applied by the county
22clerk for the aggregate of all capped funds of the district for
23tax year 2012.
24(Source: P.A. 97-611, eff. 1-1-12; 97-1154, eff. 1-25-13; 98-6,
25eff. 3-29-13; 98-23, eff. 6-17-13.)
 
26    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon

 

 

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1becoming law.