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90_HB1450enr 20 ILCS 3505/7.56a from Ch. 48, par. 850.07z12a 20 ILCS 3505/8 from Ch. 48, par. 850.08 20 ILCS 3505/13 from Ch. 48, par. 850.13 20 ILCS 3515/9 from Ch. 127, par. 729 Amends the Illinois Development Finance Authority Act to increase bond authorization by $2,000,000,000. Provides that the provisions prohibiting bonds or other evidences of indebtedness issued by the Authority from becoming an indebtedness or obligation of the State apply to bonds issued under this Act or any other law. Amends the Illinois Environmental Facilities Financing Act to increase bond authorization by $900,000,000. Effective immediately. LRB9003624KDks HB1450 Enrolled LRB9003624KDks 1 AN ACT in relation to bonds, amending named Acts. 2 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, 3 represented in the General Assembly: 4 Section 5. The Illinois Development Finance Authority 5 Act is amended by changing Sections 7.56a, 8, and 13 as 6 follows: 7 (20 ILCS 3505/7.56a) (from Ch. 48, par. 850.07z12a) 8 Sec. 7.56a. Infrastructure Bond Authorization Limits. 9 In addition to the bonds authorized to be issued under 10 Sections 7.8 and 8, the Authority may have outstanding at any 11 time, bonds for the purposes enumerated in Sections 7.50 12 through 7.61 in an aggregate principal amount that shall not 13 exceed $1,000,000,000$500,000,000. 14 Such bonds shall not constitute an indebtedness or 15 obligation of the State of Illinois and it shall be plainly 16 stated on the face of each bond that it does not constitute 17 such an indebtedness or obligation but is payable solely from 18 the revenues, income or other assets of the Authority pledged 19 therefor. 20 (Source: P.A. 88-164.) 21 (20 ILCS 3505/8) (from Ch. 48, par. 850.08) 22 Sec. 8. Exclusive of the bonds authorized to be issued 23 under Section 7.8 or under the Illinois Environmental 24 Facilities Financing Act, and exclusive of the authorization 25 under Section 7.56a of this Act, the Authority may not have 26 outstanding at any one time bonds for any of its corporate 27 purposes in an aggregate principal amount exceeding 28 $4,400,000,000$2,900,000,000, excluding bonds issued to 29 refund outstanding bonds. Up to $100,000,000 of such 30 outstanding bonds shall be issued with respect to industrial HB1450 Enrolled -2- LRB9003624KDks 1 projects located within areas designated as Enterprise Zones 2 by the Department of Commerce and Community Affairs. 3 (Source: P.A. 89-460, eff. 5-24-96.) 4 (20 ILCS 3505/13) (from Ch. 48, par. 850.13) 5 Sec. 13. Under no circumstances shall any bonds or other 6 evidences of indebtedness issued by the Authority under this 7 Act or any other law be or become an indebtedness or 8 obligation of the State of Illinois, within the purview of 9 any constitutional limitation or provision, and it shall be 10 plainly stated on the face of each bond or other evidence of 11 indebtedness that it does not constitute such an indebtedness 12 or obligation but is payable solely from the revenues or 13 income of the Authority. 14 (Source: P.A. 81-454.) 15 Section 10. The Illinois Environmental Facilities 16 Financing Act is amended by changing Section 9 as follows: 17 (20 ILCS 3515/9) (from Ch. 127, par. 729) 18 Sec. 9. Bonds. The bonds may be issued as serial bonds 19 or as term bonds or a combination of both types. All bonds 20 issued by the State authority shall be payable solely out of 21 the revenues and receipts derived from the leasing, financing 22 or sale by the authority of the environmental facilities 23 financed with the proceeds thereof as may be designated in 24 the proceedings of the directing body under which the bonds 25 shall be authorized to be issued. Such bonds may be executed 26 and delivered by the authority at any time and from time to 27 time, may be in such amounts, may be in such form and 28 denominations and of such terms and maturities, may be in 29 fully registered form or in bearer form registrable either as 30 to principal or interest or both, may bear such conversion 31 privileges and be payable in such installments and at such HB1450 Enrolled -3- LRB9003624KDks 1 time or times not exceeding 40 years from the date thereof, 2 may be payable at such place or places whether within or 3 without the State of Illinois, may bear interest at such rate 4 or rates per annum without regard to any interest rate 5 limitation appearing in any other law, may be payable at such 6 time or times and at such place or places and evidenced in 7 such manner, may be executed by the manual or facsimile 8 signatures of such officers of the authority, and may contain 9 such provisions not inconsistent with this Act, all as shall 10 be provided in the proceedings of the directing body of the 11 authority. If deemed advisable by the directing body there 12 may be retained in the proceedings under which any bonds of 13 the authority are authorized to be issued an option to redeem 14 all or any part thereof as may be specified in such 15 proceedings, at such price or prices and after such notice or 16 notices and on such terms and conditions as may be set forth 17 in such proceedings, but nothing herein contained shall be 18 construed to confer on the authority the right or option to 19 redeem any bonds except as may be provided in the proceedings 20 under which they shall be issued. Any bonds of the authority 21 may be sold at public or private sale for such price and in 22 such manner and from time to time as may be determined by the 23 directing body of the authority, and the authority may pay 24 all expenses, premiums and commissions which its directing 25 body may deem necessary or advantageous in connection with 26 the issuance thereof. Issuance by the State authority of one 27 or more series of bonds for one or more purposes shall not 28 preclude it from issuing other bonds in connection with the 29 same environmental facility or any other environmental 30 facility or for any other purpose under this Act, but the 31 proceedings whereunder any subsequent bonds may be issued 32 shall recognize and protect any prior pledge made for any 33 prior issue of bonds. Any bonds of the State authority at 34 any time outstanding may at any time and from time to time be HB1450 Enrolled -4- LRB9003624KDks 1 refunded by the authority by the issuance of its refunding 2 bonds in such amount as the directing body may deem necessary 3 but not exceeding an amount sufficient to refund the 4 principal of the bonds so to be refunded, together with any 5 unpaid interest thereon and any premiums, commissions, 6 service fees and other expenses necessary to be paid in 7 connection therewith. Any such refunding may be effected 8 whether the bonds to be refunded shall have then matured or 9 shall thereafter mature, either by sale of the refunding 10 bonds and the application of the proceeds thereof for the 11 payment of the bonds to be refunded thereby, or by the 12 exchange of the refunding bonds for the bonds to be refunded 13 thereby with the consent of the holders of the bonds so to be 14 refunded, and regardless of whether or not the bonds to be 15 refunded were issued in connection with the same 16 environmental facility or separate environmental facilities 17 or for any other purpose under this Act, and regardless of 18 whether or not the bonds proposed to be refunded shall be 19 payable on the same date or different dates or shall be due 20 serially or otherwise. All such bonds and the interest 21 coupons applicable thereto, if any, are hereby made and shall 22 be construed to be negotiable instruments. 23 The aggregate principal amount of bonds which may be 24 issued and outstanding under this Act by the State authority 25 is $2,500,000,000$1,600,000,000. In order to carry out the 26 purposes expressed in paragraph (c) of Section 2 hereof, 27 $75,000,000 of such amount shall be allocated by the State 28 authority for the issuance of bonds to finance environmental 29 facilities for small businesses. The State authority shall 30 keep a record of all bonds issued by it under this Act. 31 (Source: P.A. 89-460, eff. 5-24-96.) 32 Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon 33 becoming law.