Bill Text: IL HB3639 | 2017-2018 | 100th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Counties Code. Gives non-home rule counties all of the powers provided to home rule units under Section 6 of Article VII of the Illinois Constitution, except for the powers to tax, impose fees, and to incur debt. Effective immediately.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)

Status: (Failed) 2019-01-08 - Session Sine Die [HB3639 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2017-HB3639-Introduced.html

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100TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2017 and 2018 HB3639 Introduced , by Rep. Peter Breen SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
55 ILCS 5/5-1014 from Ch. 34, par. 5-1014
Amends the Counties Code. Gives non-home rule counties all of the powers provided to home rule units under Section 6 of Article VII of the Illinois Constitution, except for the powers to tax, impose fees, and to incur debt. Effective immediately.
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning local government.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Counties Code is amended by changing Section
5-1014 as follows:
(55 ILCS 5/5-1014) (from Ch. 34, par. 5-1014)
Sec. 5-1014. Powers generally. The county board of each
county has the powers enumerated in the Sections following this
Section and preceding Section 5-1105, subject to conditions
therein stated. Powers conferred on counties are in addition to
and not in limitation of their existing powers.
It is the policy of this State that all powers granted,
either expressly or by necessary implication, by this Code,
other Illinois statute, or the Illinois Constitution to
non-home rule counties may be exercised by those counties
notwithstanding effects on competition. It is the intention of
the General Assembly that the "State action exemption" to the
application of federal antitrust statutes be fully available to
counties to the extent their activities are authorized by law
as stated herein.
Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary,
except for the powers to tax, impose fees, and incur debt,
non-home rule counties shall exercise all of the powers

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provided to home rule units under Section 6 of Article VII of
the Illinois Constitution, subject to the limitations set forth
in that Section.
(Source: P.A. 86-962.)
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.