SB1971sam002 94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

Sen. John M. Sullivan

Filed: 3/14/2005

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AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 1971

AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 1971 on page 1, line 5, after "2-2.05,", by inserting "2.6,"; and

on page 4, between lines 28 and 29, by inserting the following:

"(30 ILCS 740/2-6) (from Ch. 111 2/3, par. 666)

Sec. 2-6. Allocation of funds.

(a) With respect to all participants other than any Metro-East Transit District participant, the Department shall allocate the funds to be made available to each participant under this Article for the following fiscal year and shall notify the chief official of each participant not later than the first day of the fiscal year of this amount. For Fiscal Year 1975, notification shall be made not later than January 1, 1975, of the amount of such allocation. In determining the allocation for each participant, the Department shall estimate the funds available to the participant from the Downstate Public Transportation Fund for the purposes of this Article during the succeeding fiscal year, and shall allocate to each participant the amount attributable to it which shall be the amount paid into the Downstate Public Transportation Fund under Section 2-3 from within its boundaries. Said allocations may be exceeded for participants receiving assistance equal to one-third of their eligible operating expenses, only if an allocation is less than one-third of such participant's eligible operating expenses, provided, however, that no other participant is denied its one-third of eligible operating expenses. Beginning in Fiscal Year 1997, said allocation may be exceeded for participants receiving assistance equal to the percentage of their eligible operating expenses provided for in paragraph (b) of Section 2-7, only if allocation is less than the percentage of such participant's eligible operating expenses provided for in paragraph (b) of Section 2-7, provided however, that no other participant is denied its percentage of eligible operating expenses.

(b) With regard to any Metro-East Transit District organized under the Local Mass Transit District Act and serving one or more of the Counties of Madison, Monroe and St. Clair during Fiscal Year 1989, the Department shall allocate the funds to be made available to each participant for the following and succeeding fiscal years and shall notify the chief official of each participant not later than the first day of the fiscal year of this amount. The Department shall allocate 55% of the amount paid into the Metro-East Public Transportation Fund to the District serving primarily the Counties of Monroe and St. Clair and 45% of the amount to that District serving primarily the County of Madison.

(c) Notwithstanding the changes made by this amendatory Act of the 94th General Assembly, each participant that received an allocation in fiscal year 2005 shall receive an allocation of at least that amount in fiscal year 2006 and thereafter.

(Source: P.A. 89-598, eff. 8-1-96.)".