SB3063 95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2007 and 2008
SB3063

Introduced 9/22/2008___________, by

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

20 ILCS 405/405-420 new
30 ILCS 105/5.712 new
30 ILCS 105/6z-47

Amends the Department of Central Management Services Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Creates the Local Government Road Salt Purchase Reimbursement Fund. Provides that moneys in the Fund shall be used by the Department of Central Management Services to make grants to counties, municipalities, townships, and road districts that entered into contracts for the purchase of road salt for the 2008-2009 winter season at a rate of more than $65 per ton. Amends the State Finance Act. Provides that the sum of $14,500,000 shall be transferred from the Fund for Illinois' Future to the Local Government Road Salt Purchase Reimbursement Fund. Effective immediately.

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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 Department of Central Management Services Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois is amended by adding Section 405-420 as follows:

(20 ILCS 405/405-420 new)

Sec. 405-420. Local Government Road Salt Purchase Reimbursement Fund.

(a) The Local Government Road Salt Purchase Reimbursement Fund is hereby created as a special fund in the State Treasury. Moneys in the Fund shall be used by the Department to make grants to counties, municipalities, townships, and road districts that entered into contracts for the purchase of road salt for the 2008-2009 winter season at a rate of more than $65 per ton. Grants shall be awarded regardless of whether the county, municipality, township or road district participated in a Joint Purchase Agreement with the Department.

(b) Grant applications must be submitted within 150 days after the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 95th General Assembly. Grants shall be awarded in an amount equal to the difference between the contract price negotiated by the county, municipality, township, or road district and $65 per ton, and may be prorated if amounts in the Fund are not sufficient to cover the grants awarded. Grants may be awarded only for the 2008-2009 winter season.

(c) The Director of Central Management Services shall certify to the Comptroller and Treasurer when all grants have been made for the 2008-2009 winter season. If any amount then remains in the Fund, the Comptroller shall order transferred and the Treasurer shall transfer that amount from the Local Government Road Salt Purchase Reimbursement Fund to the Fund for Illinois' Future, and the Local Government Road Salt Purchase Reimbursement Fund is thereupon dissolved.

Section 10. The State Finance Act is amended by changing Section 6z-47 and by adding Section 5.712 as follows:

(30 ILCS 105/5.712 new)

Sec. 5.712. The Local Government Road Salt Purchase Reimbursement Fund.

(30 ILCS 105/6z-47)

Sec. 6z-47. Fund for Illinois' Future.

(a) The Fund for Illinois' Future is hereby created as a special fund in the State Treasury.

(b) Upon the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 91st General Assembly, or as soon as possible thereafter, the Comptroller shall order transferred and the Treasurer shall transfer $260,000,000 from the General Revenue Fund to the Fund for Illinois' Future.

On July 15, 2000, or as soon as possible thereafter, the Comptroller shall order transferred and the Treasurer shall transfer $260,000,000 from the General Revenue Fund to the Fund for Illinois' Future.

Revenues in the Fund for Illinois' Future shall include any other funds appropriated or transferred into the Fund.

(c) Moneys in the Fund for Illinois' Future may be appropriated for the making of grants and expenditures for planning, engineering, acquisition, construction, reconstruction, development, improvement, and extension of public infrastructure in the State of Illinois, including grants to local governments for public infrastructure, grants to public elementary and secondary school districts for public infrastructure, grants to universities, colleges, community colleges, and non-profit corporations for public infrastructure, and expenditures for public infrastructure of the State and other related purposes, including but not limited to expenditures for equipment, vehicles, community programs, and recreational facilities.

(d) As soon as possible after the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 95th General Assembly, the Comptroller shall order transferred and the Treasurer shall transfer $14,500,000 from the Fund for Illinois' Future to the Local Government Road Salt Purchase Reimbursement Fund.

(Source: P.A. 91-38, eff. 6-15-99.)

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