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

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Rep. Robert W. Pritchard

Filed: 2/23/2017

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AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 537
AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 537 by replacing
everything after the enacting clause with the following:
"Section 5. The Election Code is amended by changing
Section 12-5 and by adding Section 28-8.2 as follows:
(10 ILCS 5/12-5) (from Ch. 46, par. 12-5)
Sec. 12-5. Notice for public questions. For all elections
held after July 1, 1999, notice of public questions shall be
required only as set forth in this Section and Section 28-8.2
of this Code or as set forth in Section 17-3 or 19-3 of the
School Code. Not more than 60 30 days nor less than 40 10 days
before the date of a regular election at which a public
question is to be submitted to the voters of a political or
governmental subdivision, and at least 20 days before an
emergency referendum, the election authority shall publish
notice of the referendum. The notice shall be published once in

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a local, community newspaper having general circulation in the
political or governmental subdivision. The notice shall also be
given at least 10 days before the date of the election by
posting a copy of the notice at the principal office of the
election authority. The local election official shall also post
a copy of the notice at the principal office of the political
or governmental subdivision, or if there is no principal office
at the building in which the governing body of the political or
governmental subdivision held its first meeting of the calendar
year in which the referendum is being held. The election
authority and the political or governmental subdivision may,
but are not required to, post the notice electronically on
their World Wide Web pages. The notice, which shall appear over
the name or title of the election authority, shall be
substantially in the following form:
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that at the election to be held
on (insert day of the week), (insert date of election), the
following proposition will be submitted to the voters of
(name of political or governmental subdivision):
(insert the public question as it will appear on the
ballot)
The polls at the election will be open at 6:00 o'clock
A.M. and will continue to be open until 7:00 o'clock P.M.
of that day.
Dated (date of notice)
(Name or title of the election authority)

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The notice shall also include any additional information
required by the statute authorizing the public question and
Section 28-8.2 of this Code. The notice may include an
explanation, in neutral and plain language, of the question and
its purposes supplied by the governing body of the political or
governmental subdivision to whose voters the question is to be
submitted. The notice shall set forth the precincts and polling
places at which the referendum will be conducted only in the
case of emergency referenda.
(Source: P.A. 92-6, eff. 6-7-01; 93-847, eff. 7-30-04.)
(10 ILCS 5/28-8.2 new)
Sec. 28-8.2. Revenue referenda disclosure.
(a) For purposes of this Section, "revenue referenda" means
referenda by a unit of local government, including a school
district, seeking to impose or increase a retailers' occupation
tax, a use tax, a service occupation tax, a service use tax, or
a property tax, or regarding the issuance of bonds.
(b) Revenue referenda shall contain the following
information:
(1) the amount of the new or increased tax or bond;
(2) the amount that this proposed imposition or
increase will impact the unit of local government's current
taxes or bonds;
(3) if a bond, the projected life of the bond and the
estimated amounts of principal, interest, and total debt

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service; and
(4) an example of the impact the new property tax or
bond is estimated to have on a family owning a residence
worth $100,000, both before and after the issuance of the
property tax or bond.
(c) In addition to other notice and publication
requirements as may be otherwise required by law, the unit of
local government proposing revenue referenda shall publish the
referenda questions, along with the required disclosures under
subsection (b) of this Section, no more than 60 days nor less
than 40 days prior to the referenda appearing on the ballot in
a newspaper of general circulation published in the unit of
local government or school district and on the unit of local
government's or school district's website and community
newsletter, if they have one.
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.".