Bill Text: IL HB1001 | 2009-2010 | 96th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the School Code. Subject to appropriation, requires a tax-equivalent grant to be paid to any school district where a State-owned institution is located (now, a school district is entitled to a grant only if the State owns 45% or more of the total land area of the district). Effective immediately.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2009-03-13 - Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB1001 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2009-HB1001-Introduced.html

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96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2009 and 2010 HB1001 Introduced 2/10/2009, by Rep. Raymond Poe SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
105 ILCS 5/18-4.4 from Ch. 122, par. 18-4.4
Amends the School Code. Subject to appropriation, requires a tax-equivalent grant to be paid to any school district where a State-owned institution is located (now, a school district is entitled to a grant only if the State owns 45% or more of the total land area of the district). Effective immediately.
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AN ACT concerning education.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The School Code is amended by changing Section
18-4.4 as follows:
(105 ILCS 5/18-4.4) (from Ch. 122, par. 18-4.4)
Sec. 18-4.4. Tax Equivalent Grants. Subject to
appropriation, when When any State-owned State institution is
located in a school district in which the State owns 45% or
more of the total land area of the district, the State
Superintendent of Education shall annually direct the State
Comptroller to pay the amount of the tax-equivalent grants
provided in this Section, and the State Comptroller shall draw
his warrant upon the State Treasurer for the payment of the
grants. For fiscal year 1995 and each fiscal year thereafter,
the grant shall equal 0.5% of the equalized assessed valuation
of the land owned by the State (computing that equalized
assessed valuation by multiplying the average value per taxable
acre of the school district by the total number of acres of
land owned by the State). Annually on or before September 15,
1994 and July 1, thereafter or, for a school district to which
this Section first applies on the effective date of this
amendatory Act of the 96th General Assembly, annually on or

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before September 15, 2009 and July 1 thereafter, the district
superintendent shall certify to the State Board of Education
the following matters:
1. The name of the State institution.
2. The total land area of the district in acres.
3. The total ownership of the land of the State in
acres.
4. The total equalized assessed value of all the land
in the district.
5. The rate of school tax payable in the year.
6. The computed amount of the tax-equivalent grant
claimed.
Failure of any district superintendent to certify the claim
for the tax-equivalent grant on or before September 15, 1994 or
July 1 of a given subsequent year or, for a school district to
which this Section first applies on the effective date of this
amendatory Act of the 96th General Assembly, on or before
September 15, 2009 or July 1 of a subsequent year shall
constitute a forfeiture by the district of its right to such
grant for the school year.
(Source: P.A. 91-723, eff. 6-2-00.)
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.