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Public Act 095-0940


 

Public Act 0940 95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY



 


 
Public Act 095-0940
 
HB1449 Enrolled LRB095 08917 JAM 29104 b

    AN ACT concerning State government.
 
    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
 
    Section 5. The Department of Public Health Powers and
Duties Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois is
amended by adding Section 2310-635 as follows:
 
    (20 ILCS 2310/2310-635 new)
    Sec. 2310-635. Healthy Smiles Fund; grants. Subject to
appropriation, the Department of Public Health has the power to
make grants or use moneys in the Healthy Smiles Fund, a special
fund created in the State treasury, to secure federal matching
grants to provide for quality assurance program evaluation
activities for school-based, school-linked oral health
programs operating under the auspices of either the Department
of Public Health or the Department of Healthcare and Family
Services. The Department shall accept and deposit with the
State Treasurer all gifts, grants, transfers, appropriations,
and other amounts from any legal source, public or private,
that are designated for deposit into the Fund.
 
    Section 10. The State Finance Act is amended by adding
Section 5.675 as follows:
 
    (30 ILCS 105/5.675 new)
    Sec. 5.675. Healthy Smiles Fund.
 
    Section 15. The Illinois Income Tax Act is amended by
changing Sections 509 and 510 and by adding Section 507PP as
follows:
 
    (35 ILCS 5/507PP new)
    Sec. 507PP. The Healthy Smiles Fund checkoff. For taxable
years ending on or after December 31, 2008, the Department must
print on its standard individual income tax form a provision
indicating that if the taxpayer wishes to contribute to the
Healthy Smiles Fund, as authorized by this amendatory Act of
the 95th General Assembly, he or she may do so by stating the
amount of the contribution (not less than $1) on the return and
that the contribution will reduce the taxpayer's refund or
increase the amount of payment to accompany the return. Failure
to remit any amount of increased payment shall reduce the
contribution accordingly. This Section does not apply to any
amended return.
 
    (35 ILCS 5/509)  (from Ch. 120, par. 5-509)
    Sec. 509. Tax checkoff explanations. All individual income
tax return forms shall contain appropriate explanations and
spaces to enable the taxpayers to designate contributions to
the following funds: the Child Abuse Prevention Fund, the
Illinois Wildlife Preservation Fund (as required by the
Illinois Non-Game Wildlife Protection Act), the Alzheimer's
Disease Research Fund (as required by the Alzheimer's Disease
Research Act), the Assistance to the Homeless Fund (as required
by this Act), the Penny Severns Breast and Cervical Cancer
Research Fund, the National World War II Memorial Fund, the
Prostate Cancer Research Fund, the Lou Gehrig's Disease (ALS)
Research Fund, the Multiple Sclerosis Assistance Fund, the
Sarcoidosis Research Fund, the Leukemia Treatment and
Education Fund, the World War II Illinois Veterans Memorial
Fund, the Korean War Veterans National Museum and Library Fund,
the Illinois Military Family Relief Fund, the Blindness
Prevention Fund, the Illinois Veterans' Homes Fund, the
Epilepsy Treatment and Education Grants-in-Aid Fund, the
Diabetes Research Checkoff Fund, the Vince Demuzio Memorial
Colon Cancer Fund, the Autism Research Fund, the Heartsaver AED
Fund, the Asthma and Lung Research Fund, the Healthy Smiles
Fund, and the Illinois Brain Tumor Research Fund.
    Each form shall contain a statement that the contributions
will reduce the taxpayer's refund or increase the amount of
payment to accompany the return. Failure to remit any amount of
increased payment shall reduce the contribution accordingly.
    If, on October 1 of any year, the total contributions to
any one of the funds made under this Section do not equal
$100,000 or more, the explanations and spaces for designating
contributions to the fund shall be removed from the individual
income tax return forms for the following and all subsequent
years and all subsequent contributions to the fund shall be
refunded to the taxpayer.
(Source: P.A. 93-36, eff. 6-24-03; 93-131, eff. 7-10-03;
93-292, eff. 7-22-03; 93-324, eff. 7-23-03; 93-776, eff.
7-21-04; 94-73, eff. 6-23-05; 94-107, eff. 7-1-05; 94-141, eff.
1-1-06; 94-142, eff. 1-1-06; 94-442, eff. 8-4-05; 94-602, eff.
8-16-05; 94-649, eff. 8-22-05; 94-876, eff. 6-19-06; revised
8-3-06.)
 
    (35 ILCS 5/510)  (from Ch. 120, par. 5-510)
    Sec. 510. Determination of amounts contributed. The
Department shall determine the total amount contributed to each
of the following: the Child Abuse Prevention Fund, the Illinois
Wildlife Preservation Fund, the Assistance to the Homeless
Fund, the Alzheimer's Disease Research Fund, the Penny Severns
Breast and Cervical Cancer Research Fund, the National World
War II Memorial Fund, the Prostate Cancer Research Fund, the
Illinois Military Family Relief Fund, the Lou Gehrig's Disease
(ALS) Research Fund, the Multiple Sclerosis Assistance Fund,
the Sarcoidosis Research Fund, the Leukemia Treatment and
Education Fund, the World War II Illinois Veterans Memorial
Fund, the Korean War Veterans National Museum and Library Fund,
the Illinois Veterans' Homes Fund, the Epilepsy Treatment and
Education Grants-in-Aid Fund, the Diabetes Research Checkoff
Fund, the Vince Demuzio Memorial Colon Cancer Fund, the Autism
Research Fund, the Blindness Prevention Fund, the Heartsaver
AED Fund, the Healthy Smiles Fund, the Asthma and Lung Research
Fund, and the Illinois Brain Tumor Research Fund; and shall
notify the State Comptroller and the State Treasurer of the
amounts to be transferred from the General Revenue Fund to each
fund, and upon receipt of such notification the State Treasurer
and Comptroller shall transfer the amounts.
(Source: P.A. 93-36, eff. 6-24-03; 93-131, eff. 7-10-03;
93-292, eff. 7-22-03; 93-324, eff. 7-23-03; 93-776, eff.
7-21-04; 94-73, eff. 6-23-05; 94-107, eff. 7-1-05; 94-141, eff.
1-1-06; 94-142, eff. 1-1-06; 94-442, eff. 8-4-05; 94-602, eff.
8-16-05; 94-649, eff. 8-22-05; 94-876, eff. 6-19-06; revised
8-3-06.)
 
    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.

Effective Date: 8/29/2008