HB6286 99TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

LRB099 19602 MRW 43997 b

99TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2015 and 2016
HB6286

Introduced 2/11/2016, by Rep. Elaine Nekritz

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

30 ILCS 105/6z-69

Amends the State Finance Act. Re-creates the Comprehensive Regional Planning Fund. Provides a continuing appropriation of $5,000,000 adjusted for inflation from the General Revenue Fund to the Fund. Directs the Department of Transportation to annually distribute moneys received in the Fund without appropriation according to a specified formula. Effective immediately.

FISCAL NOTE ACT MAY APPLY

A BILL FOR

AN ACT concerning finance.

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

Section 5. The State Finance Act is amended by changing Section 6z-69 as follows:

(30 ILCS 105/6z-69)

Sec. 6z-69. Comprehensive Regional Planning Fund.

(a) As soon as possible after July 1, 2016 2007, and on each July 1 thereafter until July 1, 2010, the State Treasurer shall transfer $5,000,000 from the General Revenue Fund to the Comprehensive Regional Planning Fund. Beginning in 2017, the amount of $5,000,000 shall annually be increased by the annual unadjusted percentage increase (but not less than zero) of the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers published by the United States Department of Labor (United States city average, all items, 1982-84 = 100) as reported on January 1 of that year. If for any reason the aggregate appropriations made available are insufficient to meet the total amount of transfer required by this subsection, this subsection shall constitute a continuing appropriation of all amounts necessary for these purposes. The General Assembly may appropriate lesser amounts by law.

(b) The Subject to appropriation, the Illinois Department of Transportation shall make lump sum distributions from the Comprehensive Regional Planning Fund as soon as possible after each July 1 from all federal and other moneys received to the recipients and in the amounts specified in subsection (c). The recipients must use the moneys for comprehensive regional planning purposes.

(c) Each year's distribution under subsection (b) shall be as follows: (i) 70% to the Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning (CMAP); (ii) 25% to the State's other Metropolitan Planning Organizations (exclusive of CMAP), each Organization receiving a percentage equal to the percent its area population represents to the total population of the areas of all the State's Metropolitan Planning Organizations (exclusive of CMAP); and (iii) 5% to the State's Rural Planning Agencies, each Agency receiving a percentage equal to the percent its area population represents to the total population of the areas of all the State's Rural Planning Agencies.

(d) (Blank). Notwithstanding any other provision of law, in addition to any other transfers that may be provided by law, on July 1, 2011, or as soon thereafter as practical, the State Comptroller shall direct and the State Treasurer shall transfer the remaining balance from the Comprehensive Regional Planning Fund into the General Revenue Fund. Upon completion of the transfers, the Comprehensive Regional Planning Fund is dissolved, and any future deposits due to that Fund and any outstanding obligations or liabilities of that Fund pass to the General Revenue Fund.

(e) There is created the Comprehensive Regional Planning Fund as a special fund in the State treasury.

(Source: P.A. 96-328, eff. 8-11-09; 97-72, eff. 7-1-11.)

Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon becoming law.