Full Text of HB4922 95th General Assembly
HB4922 95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2007 and 2008 HB4922
Introduced , by Rep. Wyvetter H. Younge SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: |
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30 ILCS 105/5.708 new |
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Creates the Community Investment Corporation Development Act. Creates the Community Investment Corporation Development Commission within the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity. Sets forth procedures for appointments to the Commission and sets forth procedures for its operation. Provides that a community investment corporation must be located in St. Clair County. Requires the Commission to make annual reports to the Governor and the General Assembly concerning the establishment and operation of community investment corporations, including a community referenda option. Requires the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity to develop and maintain a program to make grants to communities seeking to establish community investment corporations. Requires the Commission to seek out funding sources to enhance the development of community investment corporations. Permits pilot projects that delegate eminent domain powers to citizens. Amends the State Finance Act to create the Community Investment Corporation Fund.
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| AN ACT concerning community investment.
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| Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, | 3 |
| represented in the General Assembly:
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| Section 1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the | 5 |
| Community Investment Corporation Development Act. | 6 |
| Section 5. Definitions. As used in this Act: | 7 |
| "Community investment corporation" means a for-profit, | 8 |
| citizen-owned, professionally managed real estate planning and | 9 |
| development corporation or land cooperative that is located in | 10 |
| St. Clair County and that may: | 11 |
| (i) receive title to land, natural resources, physical | 12 |
| infrastructure or facility donated by a not-for-profit | 13 |
| organization or government entity; | 14 |
| (ii) borrow money on behalf of its shareholders to | 15 |
| purchase land, plan its use, and develop the land and | 16 |
| natural resources for productive and ecologically suitable | 17 |
| purposes; and | 18 |
| (iii) enable each citizen whose principal residence is | 19 |
| situated in a local or regional area in which its future | 20 |
| development will be controlled by a community investment | 21 |
| corporation to acquire free as a right of citizenship an | 22 |
| equal, lifetime, non-transferable, private property | 23 |
| ownership stake in local land use and infrastructural |
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| development, share profits from land rentals, natural | 2 |
| resource use or extraction revenues, and infrastructure | 3 |
| user fees, and have a voice as an owner in the governance | 4 |
| of future land development in the community. | 5 |
| "Commission" means the Community Investment Corporation | 6 |
| Development Commission established in Section 10. | 7 |
| "Department" means the Department of Commerce and Economic | 8 |
| Opportunity.
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| Section 10. Community Investment Corporation Development | 10 |
| Commission. | 11 |
| (a) The Community Investment Corporation Development | 12 |
| Commission is created within the Department. | 13 |
| (b) The Commission shall consist of 11 members appointed by | 14 |
| the Governor, with the advice and consent of the Senate, one of | 15 |
| whom shall be designated as chair of the Commission at the time | 16 |
| of appointment. | 17 |
| (c) Of the members initially appointed, 3 members shall | 18 |
| serve a term of one year, 3 members shall serve a term of 2 | 19 |
| years, 3 members shall serve a term of 3 years, and 2 members, | 20 |
| one of whom must be the chair, shall serve a term of 4 years. | 21 |
| Thereafter, all terms shall be for 4 years.
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| Section 15. Operation of Commission.
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| (a) The Commission may begin to conduct business upon the | 24 |
| appointment of a majority of the voting members, including the |
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| chair. | 2 |
| (b) The Commission may adopt bylaws, and it may establish | 3 |
| committees and officers as it deems necessary. | 4 |
| (c) For purposes of Commission meetings, a quorum is 6 | 5 |
| members. Meetings of the Commission are subject to the Open | 6 |
| Meetings Act. The Commission must afford an opportunity for | 7 |
| public comment at each meeting. | 8 |
| (d) Commission members shall serve without compensation, | 9 |
| but may be reimbursed for their reasonable travel expenses from | 10 |
| funds available for that purpose. The Department shall provide | 11 |
| staff and administrative support services to the Commission.
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| Section 20. Recommendations concerning community | 13 |
| investment corporations.
The Commission shall gather | 14 |
| information and make annual reports of recommendations to the | 15 |
| Governor and to the General Assembly regarding the | 16 |
| establishment and operation of community investment | 17 |
| corporations. The reports must include recommendations | 18 |
| concerning, without limitation: | 19 |
| (1) establishing policies regarding community | 20 |
| investment corporations; | 21 |
| (2) approving community investment corporations in the | 22 |
| State or regionally; | 23 |
| (3) establishing guidelines for citizens of localities | 24 |
| to petition for local referenda to create community | 25 |
| investment corporations and to determine the participation |
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| plan for allocation, shareholder governance and ownership | 2 |
| rights, the issuance and cancellation of shares of | 3 |
| community investment corporations, and the disposition of | 4 |
| assets in the event of their dissolution; | 5 |
| (4) establishing tax reforms that encourage the use and | 6 |
| effectiveness of community investment corporations through | 7 |
| their exemption from all State and local taxes on their | 8 |
| holdings of land, natural resources, improvements, other | 9 |
| tangible and intangible assets, undistributed capital | 10 |
| gains and undistributed profits, provided that at least 90 | 11 |
| percent of their annual profits are distributed as taxable | 12 |
| dividends, other forms of taxable distributions to its | 13 |
| shareholders and workers, and debt service payments on its | 14 |
| loans; | 15 |
| (5) encouraging local or regional pilot projects | 16 |
| involving the delegation of eminent domain powers over | 17 |
| land, natural resources, and infrastructural and other | 18 |
| improvements in the community to the citizens residing in | 19 |
| pilot project areas through community investment | 20 |
| corporations; | 21 |
| (6) rendering assistance to localities on problems, | 22 |
| concerns, and issues related to the development of | 23 |
| community investment corporations; | 24 |
| (7) undertaking studies and gathering information and | 25 |
| data to accomplish its purposes as set forth in this | 26 |
| Section and to formulate and present its recommendations to |
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| the Governor and the General Assembly; | 2 |
| (8) applying for, accepting, and expending gifts, | 3 |
| grants, loans, or donations from public, quasi-public, or | 4 |
| private sources, including any matching funds as may be | 5 |
| designated in an appropriation to the Department, to enable | 6 |
| the Commission to carry out its purpose; and | 7 |
| (9) accounting annually on its fiscal activities, | 8 |
| including any matching funds received or expended by the | 9 |
| Commission. | 10 |
| Section 25. Funding sources.
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| (a) Subject to appropriation, the Department shall develop | 12 |
| and maintain a program to make grants to communities seeking to | 13 |
| establish community investment corporations and encourage them | 14 |
| to become self-sustaining from land rentals and other fees | 15 |
| within the first 5 years of their formation. The procedures for | 16 |
| grant application shall be established by the Department by | 17 |
| rule.
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| (b) The Commission, as a vital part of its function, shall | 19 |
| seek funding from local, State, federal and private sources to | 20 |
| make grants and loans and otherwise enhance the development of | 21 |
| community investment corporations. The Department shall advise | 22 |
| the Commission of all available sources of funding for economic | 23 |
| development that it is aware of and shall assist the Commission | 24 |
| and community investment corporations in securing such | 25 |
| funding. |
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| (c) Funds received under this Section shall be deposited | 2 |
| into the Community Investment Corporation Fund, a special fund | 3 |
| in the State treasury. Subject to appropriation, moneys in the | 4 |
| Fund shall be expended for the purposes of this Act.
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| Section 30. Rules. The Commission and the Department may | 6 |
| adopt rules necessary to implement and administer this Act.
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| Section 90. The State Finance Act is amended by adding | 8 |
| Section 5.708 as follows: | 9 |
| (30 ILCS 105/5.708 new)
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| Sec. 5.708. The Community Investment Corporation Fund. |
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