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_003.html

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Rep. Robert W. Pritchard

Filed: 3/2/2017

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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.
(a) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (b), 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

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notice of the referendum. The notice shall be published once in
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)

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(Name or title of the election authority)
The notice shall also include any additional information
required by the statute authorizing the public question. 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.
(b) Notice of any public question published in a local,
community newspaper having general circulation in the
political or governmental subdivision to which such public
question and Section 28-8.2 of this Code relates more than 30
days but not more than 35 days prior to the general election
held on November 8, 2016 that otherwise complies with the
requirements of this Section is sufficient notice to satisfy
the newspaper publication requirement of this Section, such
notice shall for all purposes be deemed to have been given in
accordance with this Section, any bonds approved by the voters
at such election are hereby authorized to be issued in
accordance with applicable law without further referendum
approval and taxes to be levied pursuant to any limiting rate
increases approved by the voters at such election are hereby
authorized to be levied and extended without further referendum
approval.

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(Source: P.A. 99-935, eff. 2-17-17.)
(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) If not already required by the Property Tax Extension
Limitation Law, all revenue referenda shall have printed
thereon, but not as part of the proposition submitted, only the
following supplemental information (which shall be supplied to
the election authority by the taxing district) in substantially
the following form:
(1) The approximate amount of taxes extendable at the
most recently extended limiting rate is $...., and the
approximate amount of taxes extendable if the proposition
is approved is $....
(2) For the (insert the first full levy year for which
the new rate or increased limiting rate will be applicable)
levy year the approximate amount of the additional tax
extendable against property containing a single family
residence and having a fair market value at the time of the
referendum of $100,000 is estimated to be $....
(3) For this Bond Referendum, (name of local unit of

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government or school district) proposes to issue bonds for
(state purpose for the bond) in the amount of (state the
principal amount of the bond) $... for the purpose of
paying the costs thereof that mature in (state the life of
the bond) years along with estimated interest costs of
(state the estimated amount) $... assuming an annual
interest rate at the time of the referendum of (state the
estimated percent) ...%. The average cost of the bond sale
including principal and estimated interest at the time of
this referendum for property containing a single family
residence and having a fair market value at the time of the
referendum of $100,000 is estimated to be $...
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.".