Bill Text: IL HB3795 | 2011-2012 | 97th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Provides that the Department shall establish a searchable online database containing information about businesses located in Illinois. Contains provisions concerning registration of businesses. Provides that the Department shall charge an initial registration fee of $100 for small businesses and $200 for businesses that are not small businesses. Provides that the Department shall charge an annual fee of $25 for each registered small business and $50 for each registered business that is not a small business. Provides that the fees shall be deposited into the Illinois Chamber of Commerce Support Fund. Amends the State Finance Act to create the Fund.

Sponsorship: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Failed) 2013-01-08 - Session Sine Die [HB3795 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2011-HB3795-Introduced.html

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97TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2011 and 2012 HB3795 Introduced , by Rep. La Shawn K. Ford SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
20 ILCS 605/605-1010 new
30 ILCS 105/5.786 new
Amends the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Provides that the Department shall establish a searchable online database containing information about businesses located in Illinois. Contains provisions concerning registration of businesses. Provides that the Department shall charge an initial registration fee of $100 for small businesses and $200 for businesses that are not small businesses. Provides that the Department shall charge an annual fee of $25 for each registered small business and $50 for each registered business that is not a small business. Provides that the fees shall be deposited into the Illinois Chamber of Commerce Support Fund. Amends the State Finance Act to create the Fund.
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AN ACT concerning State government.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Department of Commerce and Economic
Opportunity Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois is
amended by adding Section 605-1010 as follows:
(20 ILCS 605/605-1010 new)
Sec. 605-1010. Illinois business database. The Department
shall establish a searchable online database containing
information about businesses located in Illinois. Each
business that is located in Illinois and registers with the
Department for inclusion in the database shall be included in
the database. The Department shall charge an initial
registration fee of $100 for small businesses and $200 for
businesses that are not small businesses. Thereafter, the
Department shall charge an annual fee of $25 for each
registered small business and $50 for each registered business
that is not a small business. Moneys collected from the fees
charged under this Section shall be deposited into the Illinois
Chamber of Commerce Support Fund, a special fund created in the
State treasury. Moneys in the Illinois Chamber of Commerce
Support Fund shall be used by the Department to make grants to
the Illinois Chamber of Commerce for the purpose of offering

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support to its members.
As used in this Section, "small business" means a
corporation or a concern, including its affiliates, that is
independently owned and operated, not dominant in its field,
and employs fewer than 50 full-time employees or has gross
annual sales of less than $4,000,000.
Section 10. The State Finance Act is amended by adding
Section 5.786 as follows:
(30 ILCS 105/5.786 new)
Sec. 5.786. The Illinois Chamber of Commerce Support Fund.