Bill Text: IL SB0516 | 2015-2016 | 99th General Assembly | Engrossed
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Bill Title: Amends the Service Use Tax Act. Makes a technical change concerning stating the tax as a distinct item.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-1)
Status: (Passed) 2016-12-16 - Public Act . . . . . . . . . 99-0908 [SB0516 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2015-SB0516-Engrossed.html
Bill Title: Amends the Service Use Tax Act. Makes a technical change concerning stating the tax as a distinct item.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-1)
Status: (Passed) 2016-12-16 - Public Act . . . . . . . . . 99-0908 [SB0516 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2015-SB0516-Engrossed.html
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1 | AN ACT concerning revenue.
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2 | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, | ||||||
3 | represented in the General Assembly:
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4 | Section 5. The School Code is amended by changing Section | ||||||
5 | 17-2 as follows:
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6 | (105 ILCS 5/17-2) (from Ch. 122, par. 17-2)
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7 | Sec. 17-2. Tax levies; purposes; rates. Except as otherwise | ||||||
8 | provided in
Articles 12 and 13 of this Act, the following | ||||||
9 | maximum rates shall apply to all
taxes levied after August 10, | ||||||
10 | 1965, in districts having a population of less
than 500,000 | ||||||
11 | inhabitants, including those districts organized under Article | ||||||
12 | 11
of the School Code. The school board of any district having | ||||||
13 | a population of
less than 500,000 inhabitants may levy a tax | ||||||
14 | annually, at not to exceed the
maximum rates and for the | ||||||
15 | specified purposes, upon all the taxable property of
the | ||||||
16 | district at the value, as equalized or assessed by the | ||||||
17 | Department of
Revenue as follows:
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18 | (1) districts maintaining only grades 1 through 8, .92% | ||||||
19 | for educational
purposes and .25% for operations and | ||||||
20 | maintenance purposes;
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21 | (2) districts maintaining only grades 9 through 12, | ||||||
22 | .92% for
educational purposes and .25% for operations and | ||||||
23 | maintenance purposes;
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1 | (3) districts maintaining grades 1 through 12, 1.63% | ||||||
2 | for the 1985-86
school year, 1.68% for the 1986-87 school | ||||||
3 | year, 1.75% for the 1987-88
school year and 1.84% for the | ||||||
4 | 1988-89 school year and thereafter for
educational | ||||||
5 | purposes and .405% for the 1989-90 school year, .435% for | ||||||
6 | the
1990-91 school year, .465% for the 1991-92 school year, | ||||||
7 | and .50% for the
1992-93 school year and thereafter for | ||||||
8 | operations and maintenance purposes;
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9 | (4) all districts, 0.75% for capital improvement | ||||||
10 | purposes (which is in
addition to the levy for operations | ||||||
11 | and maintenance purposes), which tax is to
be
levied, | ||||||
12 | accumulated for not more than 6 years, and spent for | ||||||
13 | capital
improvement purposes (including but not limited to | ||||||
14 | the construction of a new
school building or buildings or | ||||||
15 | the purchase of school grounds on which any new
school | ||||||
16 | building is to be constructed or located, or both) only in | ||||||
17 | accordance
with Section 17-2.3 of this Act;
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18 | (5) districts maintaining only grades 1 through 8, .12% | ||||||
19 | for
transportation purposes, provided that districts | ||||||
20 | maintaining only grades
kindergarten through 8 which have | ||||||
21 | an enrollment of at least 2600 students
may levy, subject | ||||||
22 | to Section 17-2.2, at not to exceed a maximum rate of
.20% | ||||||
23 | for transportation purposes for any school year in which | ||||||
24 | the number of
students requiring transportation in the | ||||||
25 | district exceeds by at least 2%
the number of students | ||||||
26 | requiring transportation in the district during the
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1 | preceding school year, as verified in the district's claim | ||||||
2 | for pupil
transportation and reimbursement and as | ||||||
3 | certified by the State Board of
Education to the county | ||||||
4 | clerk of the county in which such district is
located not | ||||||
5 | later than November 15 following the submission of such | ||||||
6 | claim;
districts maintaining only grades 9 through 12, .12% | ||||||
7 | for transportation
purposes; and districts maintaining | ||||||
8 | grades 1 through 12, .14% for the
1985-86 school year, .16% | ||||||
9 | for the 1986-87 school year, .18% for the 1987-88
school | ||||||
10 | year and .20% for the 1988-89 school year and thereafter, | ||||||
11 | for
transportation purposes;
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12 | (6) districts providing summer classes, .15% for | ||||||
13 | educational
purposes, subject to Section 17-2.1 of this | ||||||
14 | Act.
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15 | Whenever any special charter school district operating | ||||||
16 | grades 1
through 12, has organized or shall organize under the | ||||||
17 | general school
law, the district so organized may continue to | ||||||
18 | levy taxes at not to
exceed the rate at which taxes were last | ||||||
19 | actually extended by the
special charter district, except that | ||||||
20 | if such rate at which taxes were
last actually extended by such | ||||||
21 | special charter district was less than
the maximum rate for | ||||||
22 | districts maintaining grades 1 through 12
authorized under this | ||||||
23 | Section, such special charter district
nevertheless may levy | ||||||
24 | taxes at a rate not to exceed the maximum rate for
districts | ||||||
25 | maintaining grades 1 through 12 authorized under this Section,
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26 | and except that if any such district maintains only grades 1 |
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1 | through 8,
the board may levy, for educational purposes, at a | ||||||
2 | rate not to exceed
the maximum rate for elementary districts | ||||||
3 | authorized under this Section.
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4 | Notwithstanding any other provision of law, beginning in | ||||||
5 | levy year 2016, a school district that contains a federal | ||||||
6 | military installation and is eligible to receive impact aid | ||||||
7 | under Section 8003(b) of the federal Elementary and Secondary | ||||||
8 | Education
Act or any successor program may levy taxes for any | ||||||
9 | of the following purposes at a rate that exceeds the maximum | ||||||
10 | rate set forth in this Section, Section 17-2.2a, or Section | ||||||
11 | 17-2.2c, as applicable, provided that the district's maximum | ||||||
12 | aggregate tax rate for all of those purposes may not exceed the | ||||||
13 | minimum tax rate required to qualify for basic support payments | ||||||
14 | under the Section 8003(b) impact aid program: | ||||||
15 | (1) for educational purposes; | ||||||
16 | (2) for operations and maintenance purposes; | ||||||
17 | (3) for special education programs; | ||||||
18 | (4) for leasing educational facilities or computer | ||||||
19 | technology or both; or | ||||||
20 | (5) for transportation purposes. | ||||||
21 | Maximum rates before or after established in excess of | ||||||
22 | those
prescribed shall not be affected by the amendatory Act of | ||||||
23 | 1965.
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24 | (Source: P.A. 87-984; 87-1023; 88-45.)
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