HB1963 95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2007 and 2008
HB1963

Introduced 2/23/2007, by Rep. Robert F. Flider

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

605 ILCS 5/6-901

from Ch. 121, par. 6-901

Amends the Illinois Highway Code. Increases from $15,000,000 to $30,000,000 the amount the General Assembly shall appropriate annually for apportionment to counties for construction of bridges 20 feet or more in length. Provides that, with respect to $15,000,000 of the $30,000,000 to be appropriated annually, the amount apportioned to a county shall be in the proportion that the number of bridges in disrepair (rather than the mileage of townships or district roads) in the county, as certified by the Department of Transportation, bears to the number of those bridges in the State, as certified by the Department.

FISCAL NOTE ACT MAY APPLY

A BILL FOR

AN ACT concerning transportation.

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

Section 5. The Illinois Highway Code is amended by changing Section 6-901 as follows:

(605 ILCS 5/6-901) (from Ch. 121, par. 6-901)

Sec. 6-901. (a) Annually, the General Assembly shall appropriate to the Department of Transportation from the road fund, the general revenue fund, any other State funds or a combination of those funds, $30,000,000 $15,000,000 for apportionment to counties for the use of road districts for the construction of bridges 20 feet or more in length, as provided in Sections 6-902 through 6-905.

The Department of Transportation shall apportion among the several counties of this State for the use of road districts the amounts appropriated under this Section.

(b) Of the $30,000,000 to be appropriated annually under subsection (a), $15,000,000 shall be apportioned as follows: the The amount apportioned to a county shall be in the proportion which the total mileage of township or district roads in the county bears to the total mileage of all township and district roads in the State.

(c) Of the $30,000,000 to be apportioned annually under subsection (a), $15,000,000 shall be appointed as follows: the amount apportioned to a county shall be in the proportion which the total number of bridges in disrepair in the county, as certified by the Department, bears to the total number of bridges in disrepair in the State, as certified by the Department.

(d) Each county shall allocate to the several road districts in the county the funds so apportioned to the county. The allocation to road districts shall be made in the same manner and be subject to the same conditions and qualifications as are provided by Section 8 of the "Motor Fuel Tax Law", approved March 25, 1929, as amended, with respect to the allocation to road districts of the amount allotted from the Motor Fuel Tax Fund for apportionment to counties for the use of road districts, but no allocation shall be made to any road district that has not levied taxes for road and bridge purposes and for bridge construction purposes at the maximum rates permitted by Sections 6-501, 6-508 and 6-512 of this Act, without referendum. "Road district" and "township or district road" have the meanings ascribed to those terms in this Act.

Road districts in counties in which a property tax extension limitation is imposed under the Property Tax Extension Limitation Law that are made ineligible for receipt of this appropriation due to the imposition of a property tax extension limitation may become eligible if, at the time the property tax extension limitation was imposed, the road district was levying at the required rate and continues to levy the maximum allowable amount after the imposition of the property tax extension limitation. The road district also becomes eligible if it levies at or above the rate required for eligibility by Section 8 of the Motor Fuel Tax Law.

The amounts apportioned under this Section for allocation to road districts may be used only for bridge construction as provided in this Division. So much of those amounts as are not obligated under Sections 6-902 through 6-904 and for which local funds have not been committed under Section 6-905 within 24 months of the date when such apportionment is made lapses and shall not be paid to the county treasurer for distribution to road districts.

(Source: P.A. 90-110, eff. 7-14-97.)