Bill Text: IL SB0487 | 2017-2018 | 100th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Electricity Excise Tax Law. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning severability.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2019-01-09 - Session Sine Die [SB0487 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2017-SB0487-Introduced.html

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100TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2017 and 2018 SB0487 Introduced 1/24/2017, by Sen. John J. Cullerton SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
35 ILCS 640/15
Amends the Electricity Excise Tax Law. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning severability.
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning revenue.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Electricity Excise Tax Law is amended by
changing Section 15 as follows:
(35 ILCS 640/15)
Sec. 15. If any provision added by this amendatory Act of
1997 is held invalid, this entire amendatory Act of 1997 shall
be deemed invalid, and and the provisions of Section 1.31,
"Severability", of the Statute on Statutes are hereby expressly
declared not applicable to this amendatory Act of 1997;
provided, however (i) that any contracts entered into and
performed, transactions completed, orders issued, services
provided, billings rendered, or payments made in accordance
with the provisions of this amendatory Act of 1997, other than
as provided in clause (ii) below, prior to the date of the
determination of such invalidity, shall not thereby be rendered
invalid; (ii) that no presumption as to the validity or
invalidity of any contracts, transactions, orders, billings,
or payments pursuant to Article XVIII of the Public Utilities
Act shall result from a determination of invalidity of this
amendatory Act of 1997; and (iii) that the provisions of
proviso (i) shall not be deemed to preserve the validity of any

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executory contracts or transactions, of any actions to be taken
pursuant to orders issued, or of any services to be performed,
billings to be rendered, or payments to be made, pursuant to
provisions of this amendatory Act of 1997 subsequent to the
date of determination of such invalidity.
(Source: P.A. 90-561, eff. 12-16-97.)