Bill Text: IL HB0200 | 2019-2020 | 101st General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Provides that the Secretary of State may issue special registration plates designated as Peace Officers Memorial Foundation of Cook County license plates to active or retired Cook County peace officers and their family members, surviving family members of deceased law enforcement officers, and members of or donors to the Peace Officers Memorial Foundation of Cook County. Provides that the issuance and renewal fee shall be $25. Creates the Peace Officers Memorial Foundation of Cook County Fund. Makes corresponding changes in the Illinois Lottery Law, the State Finance Act, and the Illinois Income Tax Act.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-02-21 - Tabled [HB0200 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2019-HB0200-Introduced.html

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101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2019 and 2020 HB0200 Introduced , by Rep. Michael J. Zalewski SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
20 ILCS 1605/21.10
30 ILCS 105/5.891 new
35 ILCS 5/507HHH
625 ILCS 5/3-699.17 new
Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Provides that the Secretary of State may issue special registration plates designated as Peace Officers Memorial Foundation of Cook County license plates to active or retired Cook County peace officers and their family members, surviving family members of deceased law enforcement officers, and members of or donors to the Peace Officers Memorial Foundation of Cook County. Provides that the issuance and renewal fee shall be $25. Creates the Peace Officers Memorial Foundation of Cook County Fund. Makes corresponding changes in the Illinois Lottery Law, the State Finance Act, and the Illinois Income Tax Act.
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AN ACT concerning transportation.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Illinois Lottery Law is amended by changing
Section 21.10 as follows:
(20 ILCS 1605/21.10)
Sec. 21.10. Scratch-off for State police memorials.
(a) The Department shall offer a special instant
scratch-off game for the benefit of State police memorials. The
game shall commence on January 1, 2019 or as soon thereafter,
at the discretion of the Director, as is reasonably practical.
The operation of the game shall be governed by this Act and any
rules adopted by the Department. If any provision of this
Section is inconsistent with any other provision of this Act,
then this Section governs.
(b) The net revenue from the State police memorials
scratch-off game shall be deposited into the Criminal Justice
Information Projects Fund and distributed equally, as soon as
practical but at least on a monthly basis, to the Chicago
Police Memorial Foundation Fund, the Police Memorial Committee
Fund, and the Illinois State Police Memorial Park Fund, and the
Peace Officers Memorial Foundation of Cook County Fund. Moneys
transferred to the funds under this Section shall be used,

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subject to appropriation, to fund grants for building and
maintaining memorials and parks; holding annual memorial
commemorations; giving scholarships to children of officers
killed or catastrophically injured in the line of duty, or
those interested in pursuing a career in law enforcement;
providing financial assistance to police officers and their
families when a police officer is killed or injured in the line
of duty; and providing financial assistance to officers for the
purchase or replacement of bulletproof bullet proof vests to be
used in the line of duty.
For purposes of this subsection, "net revenue" means the
total amount for which tickets have been sold less the sum of
the amount paid out in the prizes and the actual administrative
expenses of the Department solely related to the scratch-off
game under this Section.
(c) During the time that tickets are sold for the State
police memorials scratch-off game, the Department shall not
unreasonably diminish the efforts devoted to marketing any
other instant scratch-off lottery game.
(d) The Department may adopt any rules necessary to
implement and administer the provisions of this Section.
(Source: P.A. 100-647, eff. 7-30-18; revised 9-17-18.)
Section 10. The State Finance Act is amended by adding
Section 5.891 as follows:

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(30 ILCS 105/5.891 new)
Sec. 5.891. The Peace Officers Memorial Foundation of Cook
County Fund.
Section 15. The Illinois Income Tax Act is amended by
changing Section 507HHH as follows:
(35 ILCS 5/507HHH)
Sec. 507HHH. Illinois Police Memorial checkoff.
(a) For taxable years ending on or after December 31, 2017,
the Department must print on its standard individual income tax
form a provision (i) indicating that if the taxpayer wishes to
contribute to the Criminal Justice Information Projects Fund,
as authorized by this amendatory Act of the 100th General
Assembly, he or she may do so by stating the amount of the
contribution (not less than $1) on the return and (ii) stating
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.
(b) Moneys deposited into the Criminal Justice Information
Projects Fund under this Section shall be distributed equally,
as soon as practical but at least on a monthly basis, to the
Chicago Police Memorial Foundation Fund, the Police Memorial
Committee Fund, and the Illinois State Police Memorial Park

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Fund, and the Peace Officers Memorial Foundation of Cook County
Fund. Moneys transferred to the funds shall be used, subject to
appropriation, to fund grants for building and maintaining
memorials and parks; holding annual memorial commemorations;
giving scholarships to children of officers killed or
catastrophically injured in the line of duty, or those
interested in pursuing a career in law enforcement; and
providing financial assistance to police officers and their
families when a police officer is killed or injured in the line
of duty.
(Source: P.A. 100-329, eff. 8-24-17.)
Section 20. The Illinois Vehicle Code is amended by adding
Section 3-699.17 as follows:
(625 ILCS 5/3-699.17 new)
Sec. 3-699.17. Peace Officers Memorial Foundation of Cook
County license plates.
(a) The Secretary, upon receipt of all applicable fees and
applications made in the form prescribed by the Secretary, may
issue special registration plates designated as Peace Officers
Memorial Foundation of Cook County license plates to active or
retired Cook County peace officers and their family members,
surviving family members of deceased law enforcement officers,
and members of or donors to the Peace Officers Memorial
Foundation of Cook County.

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The special plates issued under this Section shall be
affixed only to vehicles of the first division or motor
vehicles of the second division weighing not more than 8,000
pounds.
Plates issued under this Section shall expire according to
the multi-year procedure established by Section 3-414.1 of this
Code.
(b) The design and color of the plates is wholly within the
discretion of the Secretary. The Secretary may allow the plates
to be issued as vanity plates or personalized under Section
3-405.1 of this Code. Appropriate documentation, as determined
by the Secretary, shall accompany each application. The
Secretary shall prescribe stickers or decals as provided under
Section 3-412 of this Code. The Secretary must make a version
of the special registration plates authorized under this
Section in a form appropriate for motorcycles.
(c) An applicant for the special plate shall be charged a
$25 fee for original issuance in addition to the appropriate
registration fee. Of this fee, $10 shall be deposited into the
Peace Officers Memorial Foundation of Cook County Fund and $15
shall be deposited into the Secretary of State Special License
Plate Fund, to be used by the Secretary to help defray the
administrative processing costs.
For each registration renewal period, a $25 fee, in
addition to the appropriate registration fee, shall be charged.
Of this fee, $23 shall be deposited into the Peace Officers

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Memorial Foundation of Cook County Fund and $2 shall be
deposited into the Secretary of State Special License Plate
Fund.
(d) The Peace Officers Memorial Foundation of Cook County
Fund is created as a special fund in the State treasury. All
moneys in the Peace Officers Memorial Foundation of Cook County
Fund shall be paid, subject to appropriation by the General
Assembly and distribution by the Secretary, as grants to the
Peace Officers Memorial Foundation of Cook County for
construction or maintenance of a memorial and park, holding an
annual memorial commemoration, giving scholarships to children
of Cook County peace officers killed or catastrophically
injured in the line of duty, providing financial assistance to
Cook County peace officers and their families when a Cook
County peace officer is killed or injured in the line of duty,
and paying the insurance premiums for Cook County peace
officers who are terminally ill.