Bill Amendment: IL HB0537 | 2017-2018 | 100th General Assembly
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Bill Title: ELECTION CD-REVENUE REFERENDA
Status: 2019-01-08 - Session Sine Die [HB0537 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2017-HB0537-House_Amendment_001.html
Bill Title: ELECTION CD-REVENUE REFERENDA
Status: 2019-01-08 - Session Sine Die [HB0537 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2017-HB0537-House_Amendment_001.html
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1 | AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 537
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2 | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 537 by replacing | ||||||
3 | everything after the enacting clause with the following:
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4 | "Section 5. The Election Code is amended by changing | ||||||
5 | Section 12-5 and by adding Section 28-8.2 as follows:
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6 | (10 ILCS 5/12-5) (from Ch. 46, par. 12-5)
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7 | Sec. 12-5. Notice for public questions. For all elections | ||||||
8 | held after July
1, 1999, notice of public
questions shall be | ||||||
9 | required only as set forth in this
Section and Section 28-8.2 | ||||||
10 | of this Code or as set forth in Section 17-3 or 19-3 of the | ||||||
11 | School Code. Not
more than 60
30 days nor less than 40 10 days | ||||||
12 | before the date of a
regular election at which a public | ||||||
13 | question is to be submitted to the voters of
a political or | ||||||
14 | governmental subdivision, and at least 20 days before an
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15 | emergency referendum, the election authority shall publish | ||||||
16 | notice of the
referendum. The notice shall be published once in |
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1 | a local, community newspaper
having general circulation in the | ||||||
2 | political or governmental subdivision. The
notice shall also be | ||||||
3 | given at least 10 days before the date of the election by
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4 | posting a copy of the notice at the principal office of the | ||||||
5 | election
authority. The local election official shall also post | ||||||
6 | a copy of the notice at
the principal office of the political | ||||||
7 | or governmental
subdivision, or if there is no principal office | ||||||
8 | at the building in which the
governing body of the political or | ||||||
9 | governmental subdivision held its first
meeting of the calendar | ||||||
10 | year in which the referendum is being held. The
election | ||||||
11 | authority and the political or governmental subdivision may, | ||||||
12 | but are
not required to, post the notice electronically on | ||||||
13 | their World Wide Web pages.
The notice, which shall appear over | ||||||
14 | the name or title of the election
authority, shall be | ||||||
15 | substantially in the following form:
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16 | NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that at the election to be held | ||||||
17 | on
(insert day of the week),
(insert date of election), the | ||||||
18 | following proposition will be
submitted to the voters of | ||||||
19 | (name of political or governmental subdivision):
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20 | (insert the public question as it will appear on the | ||||||
21 | ballot)
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22 | The polls at the election will be open at 6:00 o'clock | ||||||
23 | A.M. and will
continue to be open until 7:00 o'clock P.M. | ||||||
24 | of that day.
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25 | Dated (date of notice)
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26 | (Name or title of the election authority)
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1 | The notice shall also include any additional information | ||||||
2 | required by the statute authorizing the public question and | ||||||
3 | Section 28-8.2 of this Code . The notice may include an | ||||||
4 | explanation, in neutral and plain language, of the question and | ||||||
5 | its purposes supplied by the governing body of the political or | ||||||
6 | governmental subdivision to whose voters the question is to be | ||||||
7 | submitted. The notice shall set forth the
precincts and polling | ||||||
8 | places at which the referendum will be conducted only in
the | ||||||
9 | case of emergency referenda.
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10 | (Source: P.A. 92-6, eff. 6-7-01; 93-847, eff. 7-30-04.)
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11 | (10 ILCS 5/28-8.2 new) | ||||||
12 | Sec. 28-8.2. Revenue referenda disclosure. | ||||||
13 | (a) For purposes of this Section, "revenue referenda" means | ||||||
14 | referenda by a unit of local government, including a school | ||||||
15 | district, seeking to impose or increase a retailers' occupation | ||||||
16 | tax, a use tax, a service occupation tax, a service use tax, or | ||||||
17 | a property tax, or regarding the issuance of bonds. | ||||||
18 | (b) Revenue referenda shall contain the following | ||||||
19 | information: | ||||||
20 | (1) the amount of the new or increased tax or bond; | ||||||
21 | (2) the amount that this proposed imposition or | ||||||
22 | increase will impact the unit of local government's current | ||||||
23 | taxes or bonds; | ||||||
24 | (3) if a bond, the projected life of the bond and the | ||||||
25 | estimated amounts of principal, interest, and total debt |
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1 | service; and | ||||||
2 | (4) an example of the impact the new property tax or | ||||||
3 | bond is estimated to have on a family owning a residence | ||||||
4 | worth $100,000, both before and after the issuance of the | ||||||
5 | property tax or bond. | ||||||
6 | (c) In addition to other notice and publication | ||||||
7 | requirements as may be otherwise required by law, the unit of | ||||||
8 | local government proposing revenue referenda shall publish the | ||||||
9 | referenda questions, along with the required disclosures under | ||||||
10 | subsection (b) of this Section, no more than 60 days nor less | ||||||
11 | than 40 days prior to the referenda appearing on the ballot in | ||||||
12 | a newspaper of general circulation published in the unit of | ||||||
13 | local government or school district and on the unit of local | ||||||
14 | government's or school district's website and community | ||||||
15 | newsletter, if they have one.
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16 | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | ||||||
17 | becoming law.".
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