Bill Text: IL SB1688 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Illinois Municipal Code. Provides that not less than 50% (rather than 75%) of the amounts collected by a municipality within DuPage County pursuant to the municipal hotel operators' occupation tax and municipal hotel use tax shall be used to promote tourism within that municipality. Changes the repeal date of the provisions from January 1, 2025 to January 1, 2027. Effective immediately.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2023-02-08 - Referred to Assignments [SB1688 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2023-SB1688-Introduced.html

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103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2023 and 2024 SB1688 Introduced 2/8/2023, by Sen. John F. Curran SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
65 ILCS 5/8-3-14b
65 ILCS 5/8-3-14c
Amends the Illinois Municipal Code. Provides that not less than 50% (rather than 75%) of the amounts collected by a municipality within DuPage County pursuant to the municipal hotel operators' occupation tax and municipal hotel use tax shall be used to promote tourism within that municipality. Changes the repeal date of the provisions from January 1, 2025 to January 1, 2027. Effective immediately.
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A BILL FOR
SB1688 LRB103 27708 AWJ 54085 b
AN ACT concerning local government.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Illinois Municipal Code is amended by
changing Sections 8-3-14b and 8-3-14c as follows:
(65 ILCS 5/8-3-14b)
(Section scheduled to be repealed on January 1, 2025)
Sec. 8-3-14b. Municipal hotel operators' tax in DuPage
County. For any municipality located within DuPage County that
belongs to a not-for-profit organization headquartered in
DuPage County that is recognized by the Department of Commerce
and Economic Opportunity as a certified local tourism and
convention bureau entitled to receive State tourism grant
funds, not less than 50% 75% of the amounts collected pursuant
to Section 8-3-14 shall be expended by the municipality to
promote tourism and conventions within that municipality or
otherwise to attract nonresident overnight visitors to the
municipality, and the remainder of the amounts collected by a
municipality within DuPage County pursuant to Section 8-3-14
may be expended by the municipality for economic development
or capital infrastructure.
This Section is repealed on January 1, 2027 2025.
(Source: P.A. 101-204, eff. 8-2-19; 102-699, eff. 4-19-22.)

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(65 ILCS 5/8-3-14c)
(Section scheduled to be repealed on January 1, 2025)
Sec. 8-3-14c. Municipal hotel use tax in DuPage County.
For any municipality located within DuPage County that belongs
to a not-for-profit organization headquartered in DuPage
County that is recognized by the Department of Commerce and
Economic Opportunity as a certified local tourism and
convention bureau entitled to receive State tourism grant
funds, not less than 50% 75% of the amounts collected pursuant
to Section 8-3-14a shall be expended by the municipality to
promote tourism and conventions within that municipality or
otherwise to attract nonresident overnight visitors to the
municipality, and the remainder of the amounts collected by a
municipality within DuPage County pursuant to Section 8-3-14a
may be expended by the municipality for economic development
or capital infrastructure.
This Section is repealed on January 1, 2027 2025.
(Source: P.A. 101-204, eff. 8-2-19; 102-699, eff. 4-19-22.)
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.