Full Text of SB0797 95th General Assembly
SB0797sam001 95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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Sen. Deanna Demuzio
Filed: 5/17/2007
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| AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 797
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| AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 797 by replacing | 3 |
| everything after the enacting clause with the following:
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| "Section 5. The Department of Public Health Powers and | 5 |
| Duties Law of the
Civil Administrative Code of Illinois is | 6 |
| amended by adding Section 2310-361 as follows: | 7 |
| (20 ILCS 2310/2310-361 new)
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| Sec. 2310-361. The Autoimmune Disease Research Fund.
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| (a) The Autoimmune Disease Research Fund is created as a | 10 |
| special fund in the State treasury. From appropriations to the | 11 |
| Department from the Fund, the Department shall make grants to | 12 |
| public and private entities in the State for the purpose of | 13 |
| funding research for the treatment and cure of autoimmune | 14 |
| diseases. | 15 |
| (b) For the purposes of this Section: | 16 |
| "Autoimmune disease" means any disease that results from an |
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| aberrant immune response, including, without limitation, | 2 |
| rheumatoid arthritis, systemic lupus erythematosus, and | 3 |
| scleroderma. | 4 |
| "Research" includes, without limitation, expenditures to | 5 |
| develop and advance the understanding, techniques, and | 6 |
| modalities effective in the detection, prevention, screening, | 7 |
| and treatment of autoimmune disease and may include clinical | 8 |
| trials. "Research" does not include institutional overhead | 9 |
| costs, indirect costs, other organizational levies, or costs of | 10 |
| community-based-support services.
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| (c) Moneys received for the purposes of this Section, | 12 |
| including, without limitation, income tax checkoff receipts | 13 |
| and gifts, grants, and awards from any public or private | 14 |
| entity, must be deposited into the Fund. Any interest earnings | 15 |
| that are attributable to moneys in the Fund must be deposited | 16 |
| into the Fund.
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| Section 10. The State Finance Act is amended by adding | 18 |
| Section 5.675 as follows: | 19 |
| (30 ILCS 105/5.675 new) | 20 |
| Sec. 5.675. The Autoimmune Disease Research Fund. | 21 |
| Section 15. The Illinois Income Tax Act is amended by | 22 |
| adding Sections 507OO and 509.1 and by changing Sections 509 | 23 |
| and 510 as follows: |
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| (35 ILCS 5/507OO new)
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| Sec. 507OO. The autoimmune disease research checkoff. For | 3 |
| taxable years ending on or after December 31, 2007, the | 4 |
| Department shall print, on its standard individual income tax | 5 |
| form, a provision indicating that, if the taxpayer wishes to | 6 |
| contribute to the Autoimmune Disease Research Fund, as | 7 |
| authorized by this amendatory Act of the 95th General Assembly, | 8 |
| then he or she may do so by stating the amount of the | 9 |
| contribution (not less than $1) on the return and indicating | 10 |
| that the contribution will reduce the taxpayer's refund or | 11 |
| increase the amount of payment to accompany the return. The | 12 |
| taxpayer's failure to remit any amount of the increased payment | 13 |
| reduces the contribution accordingly. This Section does not | 14 |
| apply to any amended return.
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| (35 ILCS 5/509) (from Ch. 120, par. 5-509)
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| Sec. 509. Tax checkoff explanations. All individual income | 17 |
| tax return forms
shall contain appropriate explanations and | 18 |
| spaces to enable the taxpayers to
designate contributions to | 19 |
| the funds to which contributions may be made under this Article | 20 |
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following funds:
the Child Abuse Prevention Fund,
the | 21 |
| Illinois Wildlife Preservation Fund (as required by the | 22 |
| Illinois
Non-Game Wildlife Protection Act),
the Alzheimer's | 23 |
| Disease Research Fund (as required by the Alzheimer's
Disease | 24 |
| Research Act),
the Assistance to the Homeless Fund (as required |
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| by this Act),
the Penny Severns Breast and Cervical Cancer | 2 |
| Research Fund,
the National World War II Memorial Fund,
the | 3 |
| Prostate Cancer Research Fund,
the Lou Gehrig's Disease (ALS) | 4 |
| Research Fund,
the Multiple Sclerosis Assistance Fund,
the | 5 |
| Sarcoidosis Research Fund, the Leukemia Treatment and | 6 |
| Education Fund,
the World War II Illinois Veterans Memorial | 7 |
| Fund,
the Korean War Veterans National Museum and Library Fund,
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| the Illinois Military Family Relief Fund,
the Blindness | 9 |
| Prevention Fund, the Illinois Veterans' Homes Fund, the | 10 |
| Epilepsy Treatment and Education Grants-in-Aid Fund, the | 11 |
| Diabetes Research Checkoff Fund, the Vince Demuzio Memorial | 12 |
| Colon Cancer Fund, the Autism Research Fund, the Heartsaver AED | 13 |
| Fund, the Asthma and Lung Research Fund, and the Illinois Brain | 14 |
| Tumor Research Fund.
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| Each form shall contain a statement that the contributions | 16 |
| will reduce the
taxpayer's refund or increase the amount of | 17 |
| payment to accompany the return.
Failure to remit any amount of | 18 |
| increased payment shall reduce the contribution
accordingly.
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| If, on October 1 of any year, the total contributions to | 20 |
| any one of the
funds made under this Article 5
Section do not | 21 |
| equal $100,000 or more, the explanations
and spaces for | 22 |
| designating contributions to the fund shall be removed from the
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| individual income tax return forms for the following and all | 24 |
| subsequent years
and all subsequent contributions to the fund | 25 |
| shall be refunded to the taxpayer.
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| (Source: P.A. 93-36, eff. 6-24-03; 93-131, eff. 7-10-03; |
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| 93-292, eff. 7-22-03; 93-324, eff. 7-23-03; 93-776, eff. | 2 |
| 7-21-04; 94-73, eff. 6-23-05; 94-107, eff. 7-1-05; 94-141, eff. | 3 |
| 1-1-06; 94-142, eff. 1-1-06; 94-442, eff. 8-4-05; 94-602, eff. | 4 |
| 8-16-05; 94-649, eff. 8-22-05; 94-876, eff. 6-19-06; revised | 5 |
| 8-3-06.)
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| (35 ILCS 5/509.1 new) | 7 |
| Sec. 509.1. Removal of excess tax-checkoff funds. | 8 |
| Notwithstanding any provisions of this Act to the contrary, | 9 |
| beginning on the effective date of this amendatory Act of the | 10 |
| 95th General Assembly, there may not be more than 15 | 11 |
| tax-checkoff funds contained on the individual tax return form | 12 |
| at any one time. Each year, the Department shall determine | 13 |
| whether the sum of (i) the number of new tax-checkoff funds | 14 |
| created by the General Assembly during that year plus (ii) the | 15 |
| number of tax-checkoff funds that collected at least $100,000 | 16 |
| during the previous year exceeds 15. If so, then the Department | 17 |
| shall remove a number of tax checkoff funds that were on the | 18 |
| return during the previous year that is equal to the sum of | 19 |
| items (i) and (ii) minus 15, starting with the tax | 20 |
| checkoff-fund that received the least amount of contributions | 21 |
| and working upward until a sufficient number of funds have been | 22 |
| removed.
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| (35 ILCS 5/510) (from Ch. 120, par. 5-510)
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| Sec. 510. Determination of amounts contributed. The |
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| Department shall
determine the total amount contributed to each | 2 |
| of the funds under this Article 5
following:
the Child Abuse | 3 |
| Prevention Fund,
the Illinois Wildlife Preservation Fund,
the | 4 |
| Assistance to the Homeless Fund,
the Alzheimer's Disease | 5 |
| Research Fund,
the Penny Severns Breast and Cervical Cancer | 6 |
| Research Fund,
the National World War II Memorial Fund,
the | 7 |
| Prostate Cancer Research Fund,
the Illinois Military Family | 8 |
| Relief Fund,
the Lou Gehrig's Disease (ALS) Research Fund,
the | 9 |
| Multiple Sclerosis Assistance Fund,
the Sarcoidosis Research | 10 |
| Fund, the Leukemia Treatment and Education Fund,
the World War | 11 |
| II Illinois Veterans Memorial Fund,
the Korean War Veterans | 12 |
| National Museum and Library Fund, the Illinois Veterans' Homes | 13 |
| Fund, the Epilepsy Treatment and Education Grants-in-Aid Fund,
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| the Diabetes Research Checkoff Fund, the Vince Demuzio Memorial | 15 |
| Colon Cancer Fund, the Autism Research Fund, the Blindness | 16 |
| Prevention Fund, the Heartsaver AED Fund, the Asthma and Lung | 17 |
| Research Fund, and the Illinois Brain Tumor Research Fund;
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| shall notify the State Comptroller and the State Treasurer of | 19 |
| the amounts
to be transferred from the General Revenue Fund to | 20 |
| each fund, and upon receipt
of such notification the State | 21 |
| Treasurer and Comptroller shall transfer the
amounts.
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| (Source: P.A. 93-36, eff. 6-24-03; 93-131, eff. 7-10-03; | 23 |
| 93-292, eff. 7-22-03; 93-324, eff. 7-23-03; 93-776, eff. | 24 |
| 7-21-04; 94-73, eff. 6-23-05; 94-107, eff. 7-1-05; 94-141, eff. | 25 |
| 1-1-06; 94-142, eff. 1-1-06; 94-442, eff. 8-4-05; 94-602, eff. | 26 |
| 8-16-05; 94-649, eff. 8-22-05; 94-876, eff. 6-19-06; revised |
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| Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | 3 |
| becoming law.".
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