Bill Text: IL SB2425 | 2021-2022 | 102nd General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Use Tax Act and the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act. Provides that a school bus that is equipped with safety belts for passengers is exempt from the tax under those Acts. Provides that the Acts' automatic sunset provisions do not apply to the exemption. Effective immediately.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-04-16 - Rule 3-9(a) / Re-referred to Assignments [SB2425 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2021-SB2425-Introduced.html

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102ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2021 and 2022 SB2425 Introduced 2/26/2021, by Sen. Napoleon Harris, III SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
35 ILCS 105/3-5
35 ILCS 120/2-5
Amends the Use Tax Act and the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act. Provides that a school bus that is equipped with safety belts for passengers is exempt from the tax under those Acts. Provides that the Acts' automatic sunset provisions do not apply to the exemption. Effective immediately.
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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 Use Tax Act is amended by changing Section
3-5 as follows:
(35 ILCS 105/3-5)
Sec. 3-5. Exemptions. Use of the following tangible
personal property is exempt from the tax imposed by this Act:
(1) Personal property purchased from a corporation,
society, association, foundation, institution, or
organization, other than a limited liability company, that is
organized and operated as a not-for-profit service enterprise
for the benefit of persons 65 years of age or older if the
personal property was not purchased by the enterprise for the
purpose of resale by the enterprise.
(2) Personal property purchased by a not-for-profit
Illinois county fair association for use in conducting,
operating, or promoting the county fair.
(3) Personal property purchased by a not-for-profit arts
or cultural organization that establishes, by proof required
by the Department by rule, that it has received an exemption
under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code and that
is organized and operated primarily for the presentation or

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support of arts or cultural programming, activities, or
services. These organizations include, but are not limited to,
music and dramatic arts organizations such as symphony
orchestras and theatrical groups, arts and cultural service
organizations, local arts councils, visual arts organizations,
and media arts organizations. On and after July 1, 2001 (the
effective date of Public Act 92-35), however, an entity
otherwise eligible for this exemption shall not make tax-free
purchases unless it has an active identification number issued
by the Department.
(4) Personal property purchased by a governmental body, by
a corporation, society, association, foundation, or
institution organized and operated exclusively for charitable,
religious, or educational purposes, or by a not-for-profit
corporation, society, association, foundation, institution, or
organization that has no compensated officers or employees and
that is organized and operated primarily for the recreation of
persons 55 years of age or older. A limited liability company
may qualify for the exemption under this paragraph only if the
limited liability company is organized and operated
exclusively for educational purposes. On and after July 1,
1987, however, no entity otherwise eligible for this exemption
shall make tax-free purchases unless it has an active
exemption identification number issued by the Department.
(5) Until July 1, 2003, a passenger car that is a
replacement vehicle to the extent that the purchase price of

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the car is subject to the Replacement Vehicle Tax.
(6) Until July 1, 2003 and beginning again on September 1,
2004 through August 30, 2014, graphic arts machinery and
equipment, including repair and replacement parts, both new
and used, and including that manufactured on special order,
certified by the purchaser to be used primarily for graphic
arts production, and including machinery and equipment
purchased for lease. Equipment includes chemicals or chemicals
acting as catalysts but only if the chemicals or chemicals
acting as catalysts effect a direct and immediate change upon
a graphic arts product. Beginning on July 1, 2017, graphic
arts machinery and equipment is included in the manufacturing
and assembling machinery and equipment exemption under
paragraph (18).
(7) Farm chemicals.
(8) Legal tender, currency, medallions, or gold or silver
coinage issued by the State of Illinois, the government of the
United States of America, or the government of any foreign
country, and bullion.
(9) Personal property purchased from a teacher-sponsored
student organization affiliated with an elementary or
secondary school located in Illinois.
(10) A motor vehicle that is used for automobile renting,
as defined in the Automobile Renting Occupation and Use Tax
Act.
(11) Farm machinery and equipment, both new and used,

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including that manufactured on special order, certified by the
purchaser to be used primarily for production agriculture or
State or federal agricultural programs, including individual
replacement parts for the machinery and equipment, including
machinery and equipment purchased for lease, and including
implements of husbandry defined in Section 1-130 of the
Illinois Vehicle Code, farm machinery and agricultural
chemical and fertilizer spreaders, and nurse wagons required
to be registered under Section 3-809 of the Illinois Vehicle
Code, but excluding other motor vehicles required to be
registered under the Illinois Vehicle Code. Horticultural
polyhouses or hoop houses used for propagating, growing, or
overwintering plants shall be considered farm machinery and
equipment under this item (11). Agricultural chemical tender
tanks and dry boxes shall include units sold separately from a
motor vehicle required to be licensed and units sold mounted
on a motor vehicle required to be licensed if the selling price
of the tender is separately stated.
Farm machinery and equipment shall include precision
farming equipment that is installed or purchased to be
installed on farm machinery and equipment including, but not
limited to, tractors, harvesters, sprayers, planters, seeders,
or spreaders. Precision farming equipment includes, but is not
limited to, soil testing sensors, computers, monitors,
software, global positioning and mapping systems, and other
such equipment.

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Farm machinery and equipment also includes computers,
sensors, software, and related equipment used primarily in the
computer-assisted operation of production agriculture
facilities, equipment, and activities such as, but not limited
to, the collection, monitoring, and correlation of animal and
crop data for the purpose of formulating animal diets and
agricultural chemicals. This item (11) is exempt from the
provisions of Section 3-90.
(12) Until June 30, 2013, fuel and petroleum products sold
to or used by an air common carrier, certified by the carrier
to be used for consumption, shipment, or storage in the
conduct of its business as an air common carrier, for a flight
destined for or returning from a location or locations outside
the United States without regard to previous or subsequent
domestic stopovers.
Beginning July 1, 2013, fuel and petroleum products sold
to or used by an air carrier, certified by the carrier to be
used for consumption, shipment, or storage in the conduct of
its business as an air common carrier, for a flight that (i) is
engaged in foreign trade or is engaged in trade between the
United States and any of its possessions and (ii) transports
at least one individual or package for hire from the city of
origination to the city of final destination on the same
aircraft, without regard to a change in the flight number of
that aircraft.
(13) Proceeds of mandatory service charges separately

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stated on customers' bills for the purchase and consumption of
food and beverages purchased at retail from a retailer, to the
extent that the proceeds of the service charge are in fact
turned over as tips or as a substitute for tips to the
employees who participate directly in preparing, serving,
hosting or cleaning up the food or beverage function with
respect to which the service charge is imposed.
(14) Until July 1, 2003, oil field exploration, drilling,
and production equipment, including (i) rigs and parts of
rigs, rotary rigs, cable tool rigs, and workover rigs, (ii)
pipe and tubular goods, including casing and drill strings,
(iii) pumps and pump-jack units, (iv) storage tanks and flow
lines, (v) any individual replacement part for oil field
exploration, drilling, and production equipment, and (vi)
machinery and equipment purchased for lease; but excluding
motor vehicles required to be registered under the Illinois
Vehicle Code.
(15) Photoprocessing machinery and equipment, including
repair and replacement parts, both new and used, including
that manufactured on special order, certified by the purchaser
to be used primarily for photoprocessing, and including
photoprocessing machinery and equipment purchased for lease.
(16) Until July 1, 2023, coal and aggregate exploration,
mining, off-highway hauling, processing, maintenance, and
reclamation equipment, including replacement parts and
equipment, and including equipment purchased for lease, but

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excluding motor vehicles required to be registered under the
Illinois Vehicle Code. The changes made to this Section by
Public Act 97-767 apply on and after July 1, 2003, but no claim
for credit or refund is allowed on or after August 16, 2013
(the effective date of Public Act 98-456) for such taxes paid
during the period beginning July 1, 2003 and ending on August
16, 2013 (the effective date of Public Act 98-456).
(17) Until July 1, 2003, distillation machinery and
equipment, sold as a unit or kit, assembled or installed by the
retailer, certified by the user to be used only for the
production of ethyl alcohol that will be used for consumption
as motor fuel or as a component of motor fuel for the personal
use of the user, and not subject to sale or resale.
(18) Manufacturing and assembling machinery and equipment
used primarily in the process of manufacturing or assembling
tangible personal property for wholesale or retail sale or
lease, whether that sale or lease is made directly by the
manufacturer or by some other person, whether the materials
used in the process are owned by the manufacturer or some other
person, or whether that sale or lease is made apart from or as
an incident to the seller's engaging in the service occupation
of producing machines, tools, dies, jigs, patterns, gauges, or
other similar items of no commercial value on special order
for a particular purchaser. The exemption provided by this
paragraph (18) includes production related tangible personal
property, as defined in Section 3-50, purchased on or after

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July 1, 2019. The exemption provided by this paragraph (18)
does not include machinery and equipment used in (i) the
generation of electricity for wholesale or retail sale; (ii)
the generation or treatment of natural or artificial gas for
wholesale or retail sale that is delivered to customers
through pipes, pipelines, or mains; or (iii) the treatment of
water for wholesale or retail sale that is delivered to
customers through pipes, pipelines, or mains. The provisions
of Public Act 98-583 are declaratory of existing law as to the
meaning and scope of this exemption. Beginning on July 1,
2017, the exemption provided by this paragraph (18) includes,
but is not limited to, graphic arts machinery and equipment,
as defined in paragraph (6) of this Section.
(19) Personal property delivered to a purchaser or
purchaser's donee inside Illinois when the purchase order for
that personal property was received by a florist located
outside Illinois who has a florist located inside Illinois
deliver the personal property.
(20) Semen used for artificial insemination of livestock
for direct agricultural production.
(21) Horses, or interests in horses, registered with and
meeting the requirements of any of the Arabian Horse Club
Registry of America, Appaloosa Horse Club, American Quarter
Horse Association, United States Trotting Association, or
Jockey Club, as appropriate, used for purposes of breeding or
racing for prizes. This item (21) is exempt from the

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provisions of Section 3-90, and the exemption provided for
under this item (21) applies for all periods beginning May 30,
1995, but no claim for credit or refund is allowed on or after
January 1, 2008 for such taxes paid during the period
beginning May 30, 2000 and ending on January 1, 2008.
(22) Computers and communications equipment utilized for
any hospital purpose and equipment used in the diagnosis,
analysis, or treatment of hospital patients purchased by a
lessor who leases the equipment, under a lease of one year or
longer executed or in effect at the time the lessor would
otherwise be subject to the tax imposed by this Act, to a
hospital that has been issued an active tax exemption
identification number by the Department under Section 1g of
the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act. If the equipment is leased
in a manner that does not qualify for this exemption or is used
in any other non-exempt manner, the lessor shall be liable for
the tax imposed under this Act or the Service Use Tax Act, as
the case may be, based on the fair market value of the property
at the time the non-qualifying use occurs. No lessor shall
collect or attempt to collect an amount (however designated)
that purports to reimburse that lessor for the tax imposed by
this Act or the Service Use Tax Act, as the case may be, if the
tax has not been paid by the lessor. If a lessor improperly
collects any such amount from the lessee, the lessee shall
have a legal right to claim a refund of that amount from the
lessor. If, however, that amount is not refunded to the lessee

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for any reason, the lessor is liable to pay that amount to the
Department.
(23) Personal property purchased by a lessor who leases
the property, under a lease of one year or longer executed or
in effect at the time the lessor would otherwise be subject to
the tax imposed by this Act, to a governmental body that has
been issued an active sales tax exemption identification
number by the Department under Section 1g of the Retailers'
Occupation Tax Act. If the property is leased in a manner that
does not qualify for this exemption or used in any other
non-exempt manner, the lessor shall be liable for the tax
imposed under this Act or the Service Use Tax Act, as the case
may be, based on the fair market value of the property at the
time the non-qualifying use occurs. No lessor shall collect or
attempt to collect an amount (however designated) that
purports to reimburse that lessor for the tax imposed by this
Act or the Service Use Tax Act, as the case may be, if the tax
has not been paid by the lessor. If a lessor improperly
collects any such amount from the lessee, the lessee shall
have a legal right to claim a refund of that amount from the
lessor. If, however, that amount is not refunded to the lessee
for any reason, the lessor is liable to pay that amount to the
Department.
(24) Beginning with taxable years ending on or after
December 31, 1995 and ending with taxable years ending on or
before December 31, 2004, personal property that is donated

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for disaster relief to be used in a State or federally declared
disaster area in Illinois or bordering Illinois by a
manufacturer or retailer that is registered in this State to a
corporation, society, association, foundation, or institution
that has been issued a sales tax exemption identification
number by the Department that assists victims of the disaster
who reside within the declared disaster area.
(25) Beginning with taxable years ending on or after
December 31, 1995 and ending with taxable years ending on or
before December 31, 2004, personal property that is used in
the performance of infrastructure repairs in this State,
including but not limited to municipal roads and streets,
access roads, bridges, sidewalks, waste disposal systems,
water and sewer line extensions, water distribution and
purification facilities, storm water drainage and retention
facilities, and sewage treatment facilities, resulting from a
State or federally declared disaster in Illinois or bordering
Illinois when such repairs are initiated on facilities located
in the declared disaster area within 6 months after the
disaster.
(26) Beginning July 1, 1999, game or game birds purchased
at a "game breeding and hunting preserve area" as that term is
used in the Wildlife Code. This paragraph is exempt from the
provisions of Section 3-90.
(27) A motor vehicle, as that term is defined in Section
1-146 of the Illinois Vehicle Code, that is donated to a

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corporation, limited liability company, society, association,
foundation, or institution that is determined by the
Department to be organized and operated exclusively for
educational purposes. For purposes of this exemption, "a
corporation, limited liability company, society, association,
foundation, or institution organized and operated exclusively
for educational purposes" means all tax-supported public
schools, private schools that offer systematic instruction in
useful branches of learning by methods common to public
schools and that compare favorably in their scope and
intensity with the course of study presented in tax-supported
schools, and vocational or technical schools or institutes
organized and operated exclusively to provide a course of
study of not less than 6 weeks duration and designed to prepare
individuals to follow a trade or to pursue a manual,
technical, mechanical, industrial, business, or commercial
occupation.
(28) Beginning January 1, 2000, personal property,
including food, purchased through fundraising events for the
benefit of a public or private elementary or secondary school,
a group of those schools, or one or more school districts if
the events are sponsored by an entity recognized by the school
district that consists primarily of volunteers and includes
parents and teachers of the school children. This paragraph
does not apply to fundraising events (i) for the benefit of
private home instruction or (ii) for which the fundraising

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entity purchases the personal property sold at the events from
another individual or entity that sold the property for the
purpose of resale by the fundraising entity and that profits
from the sale to the fundraising entity. This paragraph is
exempt from the provisions of Section 3-90.
(29) Beginning January 1, 2000 and through December 31,
2001, new or used automatic vending machines that prepare and
serve hot food and beverages, including coffee, soup, and
other items, and replacement parts for these machines.
Beginning January 1, 2002 and through June 30, 2003, machines
and parts for machines used in commercial, coin-operated
amusement and vending business if a use or occupation tax is
paid on the gross receipts derived from the use of the
commercial, coin-operated amusement and vending machines. This
paragraph is exempt from the provisions of Section 3-90.
(30) Beginning January 1, 2001 and through June 30, 2016,
food for human consumption that is to be consumed off the
premises where it is sold (other than alcoholic beverages,
soft drinks, and food that has been prepared for immediate
consumption) and prescription and nonprescription medicines,
drugs, medical appliances, and insulin, urine testing
materials, syringes, and needles used by diabetics, for human
use, when purchased for use by a person receiving medical
assistance under Article V of the Illinois Public Aid Code who
resides in a licensed long-term care facility, as defined in
the Nursing Home Care Act, or in a licensed facility as defined

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in the ID/DD Community Care Act, the MC/DD Act, or the
Specialized Mental Health Rehabilitation Act of 2013.
(31) Beginning on August 2, 2001 (the effective date of
Public Act 92-227), computers and communications equipment
utilized for any hospital purpose and equipment used in the
diagnosis, analysis, or treatment of hospital patients
purchased by a lessor who leases the equipment, under a lease
of one year or longer executed or in effect at the time the
lessor would otherwise be subject to the tax imposed by this
Act, to a hospital that has been issued an active tax exemption
identification number by the Department under Section 1g of
the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act. If the equipment is leased
in a manner that does not qualify for this exemption or is used
in any other nonexempt manner, the lessor shall be liable for
the tax imposed under this Act or the Service Use Tax Act, as
the case may be, based on the fair market value of the property
at the time the nonqualifying use occurs. No lessor shall
collect or attempt to collect an amount (however designated)
that purports to reimburse that lessor for the tax imposed by
this Act or the Service Use Tax Act, as the case may be, if the
tax has not been paid by the lessor. If a lessor improperly
collects any such amount from the lessee, the lessee shall
have a legal right to claim a refund of that amount from the
lessor. If, however, that amount is not refunded to the lessee
for any reason, the lessor is liable to pay that amount to the
Department. This paragraph is exempt from the provisions of

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Section 3-90.
(32) Beginning on August 2, 2001 (the effective date of
Public Act 92-227), personal property purchased by a lessor
who leases the property, under a lease of one year or longer
executed or in effect at the time the lessor would otherwise be
subject to the tax imposed by this Act, to a governmental body
that has been issued an active sales tax exemption
identification number by the Department under Section 1g of
the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act. If the property is leased
in a manner that does not qualify for this exemption or used in
any other nonexempt manner, the lessor shall be liable for the
tax imposed under this Act or the Service Use Tax Act, as the
case may be, based on the fair market value of the property at
the time the nonqualifying use occurs. No lessor shall collect
or attempt to collect an amount (however designated) that
purports to reimburse that lessor for the tax imposed by this
Act or the Service Use Tax Act, as the case may be, if the tax
has not been paid by the lessor. If a lessor improperly
collects any such amount from the lessee, the lessee shall
have a legal right to claim a refund of that amount from the
lessor. If, however, that amount is not refunded to the lessee
for any reason, the lessor is liable to pay that amount to the
Department. This paragraph is exempt from the provisions of
Section 3-90.
(33) On and after July 1, 2003 and through June 30, 2004,
the use in this State of motor vehicles of the second division

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with a gross vehicle weight in excess of 8,000 pounds and that
are subject to the commercial distribution fee imposed under
Section 3-815.1 of the Illinois Vehicle Code. Beginning on
July 1, 2004 and through June 30, 2005, the use in this State
of motor vehicles of the second division: (i) with a gross
vehicle weight rating in excess of 8,000 pounds; (ii) that are
subject to the commercial distribution fee imposed under
Section 3-815.1 of the Illinois Vehicle Code; and (iii) that
are primarily used for commercial purposes. Through June 30,
2005, this exemption applies to repair and replacement parts
added after the initial purchase of such a motor vehicle if
that motor vehicle is used in a manner that would qualify for
the rolling stock exemption otherwise provided for in this
Act. For purposes of this paragraph, the term "used for
commercial purposes" means the transportation of persons or
property in furtherance of any commercial or industrial
enterprise, whether for-hire or not.
(34) Beginning January 1, 2008, tangible personal property
used in the construction or maintenance of a community water
supply, as defined under Section 3.145 of the Environmental
Protection Act, that is operated by a not-for-profit
corporation that holds a valid water supply permit issued
under Title IV of the Environmental Protection Act. This
paragraph is exempt from the provisions of Section 3-90.
(35) Beginning January 1, 2010 and continuing through
December 31, 2024, materials, parts, equipment, components,

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and furnishings incorporated into or upon an aircraft as part
of the modification, refurbishment, completion, replacement,
repair, or maintenance of the aircraft. This exemption
includes consumable supplies used in the modification,
refurbishment, completion, replacement, repair, and
maintenance of aircraft, but excludes any materials, parts,
equipment, components, and consumable supplies used in the
modification, replacement, repair, and maintenance of aircraft
engines or power plants, whether such engines or power plants
are installed or uninstalled upon any such aircraft.
"Consumable supplies" include, but are not limited to,
adhesive, tape, sandpaper, general purpose lubricants,
cleaning solution, latex gloves, and protective films. This
exemption applies only to the use of qualifying tangible
personal property by persons who modify, refurbish, complete,
repair, replace, or maintain aircraft and who (i) hold an Air
Agency Certificate and are empowered to operate an approved
repair station by the Federal Aviation Administration, (ii)
have a Class IV Rating, and (iii) conduct operations in
accordance with Part 145 of the Federal Aviation Regulations.
The exemption does not include aircraft operated by a
commercial air carrier providing scheduled passenger air
service pursuant to authority issued under Part 121 or Part
129 of the Federal Aviation Regulations. The changes made to
this paragraph (35) by Public Act 98-534 are declarative of
existing law. It is the intent of the General Assembly that the

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exemption under this paragraph (35) applies continuously from
January 1, 2010 through December 31, 2024; however, no claim
for credit or refund is allowed for taxes paid as a result of
the disallowance of this exemption on or after January 1, 2015
and prior to the effective date of this amendatory Act of the
101st General Assembly.
(36) Tangible personal property purchased by a
public-facilities corporation, as described in Section
11-65-10 of the Illinois Municipal Code, for purposes of
constructing or furnishing a municipal convention hall, but
only if the legal title to the municipal convention hall is
transferred to the municipality without any further
consideration by or on behalf of the municipality at the time
of the completion of the municipal convention hall or upon the
retirement or redemption of any bonds or other debt
instruments issued by the public-facilities corporation in
connection with the development of the municipal convention
hall. This exemption includes existing public-facilities
corporations as provided in Section 11-65-25 of the Illinois
Municipal Code. This paragraph is exempt from the provisions
of Section 3-90.
(37) Beginning January 1, 2017, menstrual pads, tampons,
and menstrual cups.
(38) Merchandise that is subject to the Rental Purchase
Agreement Occupation and Use Tax. The purchaser must certify
that the item is purchased to be rented subject to a rental

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purchase agreement, as defined in the Rental Purchase
Agreement Act, and provide proof of registration under the
Rental Purchase Agreement Occupation and Use Tax Act. This
paragraph is exempt from the provisions of Section 3-90.
(39) Tangible personal property purchased by a purchaser
who is exempt from the tax imposed by this Act by operation of
federal law. This paragraph is exempt from the provisions of
Section 3-90.
(40) Qualified tangible personal property used in the
construction or operation of a data center that has been
granted a certificate of exemption by the Department of
Commerce and Economic Opportunity, whether that tangible
personal property is purchased by the owner, operator, or
tenant of the data center or by a contractor or subcontractor
of the owner, operator, or tenant. Data centers that would
have qualified for a certificate of exemption prior to January
1, 2020 had Public Act 101-31 been in effect may apply for and
obtain an exemption for subsequent purchases of computer
equipment or enabling software purchased or leased to upgrade,
supplement, or replace computer equipment or enabling software
purchased or leased in the original investment that would have
qualified.
The Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity shall
grant a certificate of exemption under this item (40) to
qualified data centers as defined by Section 605-1025 of the
Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity Law of the

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Civil Administrative Code of Illinois.
For the purposes of this item (40):
"Data center" means a building or a series of
buildings rehabilitated or constructed to house working
servers in one physical location or multiple sites within
the State of Illinois.
"Qualified tangible personal property" means:
electrical systems and equipment; climate control and
chilling equipment and systems; mechanical systems and
equipment; monitoring and secure systems; emergency
generators; hardware; computers; servers; data storage
devices; network connectivity equipment; racks; cabinets;
telecommunications cabling infrastructure; raised floor
systems; peripheral components or systems; software;
mechanical, electrical, or plumbing systems; battery
systems; cooling systems and towers; temperature control
systems; other cabling; and other data center
infrastructure equipment and systems necessary to operate
qualified tangible personal property, including fixtures;
and component parts of any of the foregoing, including
installation, maintenance, repair, refurbishment, and
replacement of qualified tangible personal property to
generate, transform, transmit, distribute, or manage
electricity necessary to operate qualified tangible
personal property; and all other tangible personal
property that is essential to the operations of a computer

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data center. The term "qualified tangible personal
property" also includes building materials physically
incorporated in to the qualifying data center. To document
the exemption allowed under this Section, the retailer
must obtain from the purchaser a copy of the certificate
of eligibility issued by the Department of Commerce and
Economic Opportunity.
This item (40) is exempt from the provisions of Section
3-90.
(41) Beginning January 1, 2022, a school bus equipped with
safety belts for passengers. This paragraph is exempt from the
provisions of Section 3-90.
(Source: P.A. 100-22, eff. 7-6-17; 100-437, eff. 1-1-18;
100-594, eff. 6-29-18; 100-863, eff. 8-14-18; 100-1171, eff.
1-4-19; 101-9, eff. 6-5-19; 101-31, eff. 6-28-19; 101-81, eff.
7-12-19; 101-629, eff. 2-5-20.)
Section 10. The Retailers' Occupation Tax Act is amended
by changing Section 2-5 as follows:
(35 ILCS 120/2-5)
Sec. 2-5. Exemptions. Gross receipts from proceeds from
the sale of the following tangible personal property are
exempt from the tax imposed by this Act:
(1) Farm chemicals.
(2) Farm machinery and equipment, both new and used,

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including that manufactured on special order, certified by
the purchaser to be used primarily for production
agriculture or State or federal agricultural programs,
including individual replacement parts for the machinery
and equipment, including machinery and equipment purchased
for lease, and including implements of husbandry defined
in Section 1-130 of the Illinois Vehicle Code, farm
machinery and agricultural chemical and fertilizer
spreaders, and nurse wagons required to be registered
under Section 3-809 of the Illinois Vehicle Code, but
excluding other motor vehicles required to be registered
under the Illinois Vehicle Code. Horticultural polyhouses
or hoop houses used for propagating, growing, or
overwintering plants shall be considered farm machinery
and equipment under this item (2). Agricultural chemical
tender tanks and dry boxes shall include units sold
separately from a motor vehicle required to be licensed
and units sold mounted on a motor vehicle required to be
licensed, if the selling price of the tender is separately
stated.
Farm machinery and equipment shall include precision
farming equipment that is installed or purchased to be
installed on farm machinery and equipment including, but
not limited to, tractors, harvesters, sprayers, planters,
seeders, or spreaders. Precision farming equipment
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computers, monitors, software, global positioning and
mapping systems, and other such equipment.
Farm machinery and equipment also includes computers,
sensors, software, and related equipment used primarily in
the computer-assisted operation of production agriculture
facilities, equipment, and activities such as, but not
limited to, the collection, monitoring, and correlation of
animal and crop data for the purpose of formulating animal
diets and agricultural chemicals. This item (2) is exempt
from the provisions of Section 2-70.
(3) Until July 1, 2003, distillation machinery and
equipment, sold as a unit or kit, assembled or installed
by the retailer, certified by the user to be used only for
the production of ethyl alcohol that will be used for
consumption as motor fuel or as a component of motor fuel
for the personal use of the user, and not subject to sale
or resale.
(4) Until July 1, 2003 and beginning again September
1, 2004 through August 30, 2014, graphic arts machinery
and equipment, including repair and replacement parts,
both new and used, and including that manufactured on
special order or purchased for lease, certified by the
purchaser to be used primarily for graphic arts
production. Equipment includes chemicals or chemicals
acting as catalysts but only if the chemicals or chemicals
acting as catalysts effect a direct and immediate change

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upon a graphic arts product. Beginning on July 1, 2017,
graphic arts machinery and equipment is included in the
manufacturing and assembling machinery and equipment
exemption under paragraph (14).
(5) A motor vehicle that is used for automobile
renting, as defined in the Automobile Renting Occupation
and Use Tax Act. This paragraph is exempt from the
provisions of Section 2-70.
(6) Personal property sold by a teacher-sponsored
student organization affiliated with an elementary or
secondary school located in Illinois.
(7) Until July 1, 2003, proceeds of that portion of
the selling price of a passenger car the sale of which is
subject to the Replacement Vehicle Tax.
(8) Personal property sold to an Illinois county fair
association for use in conducting, operating, or promoting
the county fair.
(9) Personal property sold to a not-for-profit arts or
cultural organization that establishes, by proof required
by the Department by rule, that it has received an
exemption under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue
Code and that is organized and operated primarily for the
presentation or support of arts or cultural programming,
activities, or services. These organizations include, but
are not limited to, music and dramatic arts organizations
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and cultural service organizations, local arts councils,
visual arts organizations, and media arts organizations.
On and after July 1, 2001 (the effective date of Public Act
92-35), however, an entity otherwise eligible for this
exemption shall not make tax-free purchases unless it has
an active identification number issued by the Department.
(10) Personal property sold by a corporation, society,
association, foundation, institution, or organization,
other than a limited liability company, that is organized
and operated as a not-for-profit service enterprise for
the benefit of persons 65 years of age or older if the
personal property was not purchased by the enterprise for
the purpose of resale by the enterprise.
(11) Personal property sold to a governmental body, to
a corporation, society, association, foundation, or
institution organized and operated exclusively for
charitable, religious, or educational purposes, or to a
not-for-profit corporation, society, association,
foundation, institution, or organization that has no
compensated officers or employees and that is organized
and operated primarily for the recreation of persons 55
years of age or older. A limited liability company may
qualify for the exemption under this paragraph only if the
limited liability company is organized and operated
exclusively for educational purposes. On and after July 1,
1987, however, no entity otherwise eligible for this

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exemption shall make tax-free purchases unless it has an
active identification number issued by the Department.
(12) (Blank).
(12-5) On and after July 1, 2003 and through June 30,
2004, motor vehicles of the second division with a gross
vehicle weight in excess of 8,000 pounds that are subject
to the commercial distribution fee imposed under Section
3-815.1 of the Illinois Vehicle Code. Beginning on July 1,
2004 and through June 30, 2005, the use in this State of
motor vehicles of the second division: (i) with a gross
vehicle weight rating in excess of 8,000 pounds; (ii) that
are subject to the commercial distribution fee imposed
under Section 3-815.1 of the Illinois Vehicle Code; and
(iii) that are primarily used for commercial purposes.
Through June 30, 2005, this exemption applies to repair
and replacement parts added after the initial purchase of
such a motor vehicle if that motor vehicle is used in a
manner that would qualify for the rolling stock exemption
otherwise provided for in this Act. For purposes of this
paragraph, "used for commercial purposes" means the
transportation of persons or property in furtherance of
any commercial or industrial enterprise whether for-hire
or not.
(13) Proceeds from sales to owners, lessors, or
shippers of tangible personal property that is utilized by
interstate carriers for hire for use as rolling stock

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moving in interstate commerce and equipment operated by a
telecommunications provider, licensed as a common carrier
by the Federal Communications Commission, which is
permanently installed in or affixed to aircraft moving in
interstate commerce.
(14) Machinery and equipment that will be used by the
purchaser, or a lessee of the purchaser, primarily in the
process of manufacturing or assembling tangible personal
property for wholesale or retail sale or lease, whether
the sale or lease is made directly by the manufacturer or
by some other person, whether the materials used in the
process are owned by the manufacturer or some other
person, or whether the sale or lease is made apart from or
as an incident to the seller's engaging in the service
occupation of producing machines, tools, dies, jigs,
patterns, gauges, or other similar items of no commercial
value on special order for a particular purchaser. The
exemption provided by this paragraph (14) does not include
machinery and equipment used in (i) the generation of
electricity for wholesale or retail sale; (ii) the
generation or treatment of natural or artificial gas for
wholesale or retail sale that is delivered to customers
through pipes, pipelines, or mains; or (iii) the treatment
of water for wholesale or retail sale that is delivered to
customers through pipes, pipelines, or mains. The
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existing law as to the meaning and scope of this
exemption. Beginning on July 1, 2017, the exemption
provided by this paragraph (14) includes, but is not
limited to, graphic arts machinery and equipment, as
defined in paragraph (4) of this Section.
(15) Proceeds of mandatory service charges separately
stated on customers' bills for purchase and consumption of
food and beverages, to the extent that the proceeds of the
service charge are in fact turned over as tips or as a
substitute for tips to the employees who participate
directly in preparing, serving, hosting or cleaning up the
food or beverage function with respect to which the
service charge is imposed.
(16) Tangible personal property sold to a purchaser if
the purchaser is exempt from use tax by operation of
federal law. This paragraph is exempt from the provisions
of Section 2-70.
(17) Tangible personal property sold to a common
carrier by rail or motor that receives the physical
possession of the property in Illinois and that transports
the property, or shares with another common carrier in the
transportation of the property, out of Illinois on a
standard uniform bill of lading showing the seller of the
property as the shipper or consignor of the property to a
destination outside Illinois, for use outside Illinois.
(18) Legal tender, currency, medallions, or gold or

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silver coinage issued by the State of Illinois, the
government of the United States of America, or the
government of any foreign country, and bullion.
(19) Until July 1, 2003, oil field exploration,
drilling, and production equipment, including (i) rigs and
parts of rigs, rotary rigs, cable tool rigs, and workover
rigs, (ii) pipe and tubular goods, including casing and
drill strings, (iii) pumps and pump-jack units, (iv)
storage tanks and flow lines, (v) any individual
replacement part for oil field exploration, drilling, and
production equipment, and (vi) machinery and equipment
purchased for lease; but excluding motor vehicles required
to be registered under the Illinois Vehicle Code.
(20) Photoprocessing machinery and equipment,
including repair and replacement parts, both new and used,
including that manufactured on special order, certified by
the purchaser to be used primarily for photoprocessing,
and including photoprocessing machinery and equipment
purchased for lease.
(21) Until July 1, 2023, coal and aggregate
exploration, mining, off-highway hauling, processing,
maintenance, and reclamation equipment, including
replacement parts and equipment, and including equipment
purchased for lease, but excluding motor vehicles required
to be registered under the Illinois Vehicle Code. The
changes made to this Section by Public Act 97-767 apply on

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and after July 1, 2003, but no claim for credit or refund
is allowed on or after August 16, 2013 (the effective date
of Public Act 98-456) for such taxes paid during the
period beginning July 1, 2003 and ending on August 16,
2013 (the effective date of Public Act 98-456).
(22) Until June 30, 2013, fuel and petroleum products
sold to or used by an air carrier, certified by the carrier
to be used for consumption, shipment, or storage in the
conduct of its business as an air common carrier, for a
flight destined for or returning from a location or
locations outside the United States without regard to
previous or subsequent domestic stopovers.
Beginning July 1, 2013, fuel and petroleum products
sold to or used by an air carrier, certified by the carrier
to be used for consumption, shipment, or storage in the
conduct of its business as an air common carrier, for a
flight that (i) is engaged in foreign trade or is engaged
in trade between the United States and any of its
possessions and (ii) transports at least one individual or
package for hire from the city of origination to the city
of final destination on the same aircraft, without regard
to a change in the flight number of that aircraft.
(23) A transaction in which the purchase order is
received by a florist who is located outside Illinois, but
who has a florist located in Illinois deliver the property
to the purchaser or the purchaser's donee in Illinois.

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(24) Fuel consumed or used in the operation of ships,
barges, or vessels that are used primarily in or for the
transportation of property or the conveyance of persons
for hire on rivers bordering on this State if the fuel is
delivered by the seller to the purchaser's barge, ship, or
vessel while it is afloat upon that bordering river.
(25) Except as provided in item (25-5) of this
Section, a motor vehicle sold in this State to a
nonresident even though the motor vehicle is delivered to
the nonresident in this State, if the motor vehicle is not
to be titled in this State, and if a drive-away permit is
issued to the motor vehicle as provided in Section 3-603
of the Illinois Vehicle Code or if the nonresident
purchaser has vehicle registration plates to transfer to
the motor vehicle upon returning to his or her home state.
The issuance of the drive-away permit or having the
out-of-state registration plates to be transferred is
prima facie evidence that the motor vehicle will not be
titled in this State.
(25-5) The exemption under item (25) does not apply if
the state in which the motor vehicle will be titled does
not allow a reciprocal exemption for a motor vehicle sold
and delivered in that state to an Illinois resident but
titled in Illinois. The tax collected under this Act on
the sale of a motor vehicle in this State to a resident of
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shall be imposed at a rate equal to the state's rate of tax
on taxable property in the state in which the purchaser is
a resident, except that the tax shall not exceed the tax
that would otherwise be imposed under this Act. At the
time of the sale, the purchaser shall execute a statement,
signed under penalty of perjury, of his or her intent to
title the vehicle in the state in which the purchaser is a
resident within 30 days after the sale and of the fact of
the payment to the State of Illinois of tax in an amount
equivalent to the state's rate of tax on taxable property
in his or her state of residence and shall submit the
statement to the appropriate tax collection agency in his
or her state of residence. In addition, the retailer must
retain a signed copy of the statement in his or her
records. Nothing in this item shall be construed to
require the removal of the vehicle from this state
following the filing of an intent to title the vehicle in
the purchaser's state of residence if the purchaser titles
the vehicle in his or her state of residence within 30 days
after the date of sale. The tax collected under this Act in
accordance with this item (25-5) shall be proportionately
distributed as if the tax were collected at the 6.25%
general rate imposed under this Act.
(25-7) Beginning on July 1, 2007, no tax is imposed
under this Act on the sale of an aircraft, as defined in
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following conditions are met:
(1) the aircraft leaves this State within 15 days
after the later of either the issuance of the final
billing for the sale of the aircraft, or the
authorized approval for return to service, completion
of the maintenance record entry, and completion of the
test flight and ground test for inspection, as
required by 14 C.F.R. 91.407;
(2) the aircraft is not based or registered in
this State after the sale of the aircraft; and
(3) the seller retains in his or her books and
records and provides to the Department a signed and
dated certification from the purchaser, on a form
prescribed by the Department, certifying that the
requirements of this item (25-7) are met. The
certificate must also include the name and address of
the purchaser, the address of the location where the
aircraft is to be titled or registered, the address of
the primary physical location of the aircraft, and
other information that the Department may reasonably
require.
For purposes of this item (25-7):
"Based in this State" means hangared, stored, or
otherwise used, excluding post-sale customizations as
defined in this Section, for 10 or more days in each
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of the aircraft.
"Registered in this State" means an aircraft
registered with the Department of Transportation,
Aeronautics Division, or titled or registered with the
Federal Aviation Administration to an address located in
this State.
This paragraph (25-7) is exempt from the provisions of
Section 2-70.
(26) Semen used for artificial insemination of
livestock for direct agricultural production.
(27) Horses, or interests in horses, registered with
and meeting the requirements of any of the Arabian Horse
Club Registry of America, Appaloosa Horse Club, American
Quarter Horse Association, United States Trotting
Association, or Jockey Club, as appropriate, used for
purposes of breeding or racing for prizes. This item (27)
is exempt from the provisions of Section 2-70, and the
exemption provided for under this item (27) applies for
all periods beginning May 30, 1995, but no claim for
credit or refund is allowed on or after January 1, 2008
(the effective date of Public Act 95-88) for such taxes
paid during the period beginning May 30, 2000 and ending
on January 1, 2008 (the effective date of Public Act
95-88).
(28) Computers and communications equipment utilized
for any hospital purpose and equipment used in the

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diagnosis, analysis, or treatment of hospital patients
sold to a lessor who leases the equipment, under a lease of
one year or longer executed or in effect at the time of the
purchase, to a hospital that has been issued an active tax
exemption identification number by the Department under
Section 1g of this Act.
(29) Personal property sold to a lessor who leases the
property, under a lease of one year or longer executed or
in effect at the time of the purchase, to a governmental
body that has been issued an active tax exemption
identification number by the Department under Section 1g
of this Act.
(30) Beginning with taxable years ending on or after
December 31, 1995 and ending with taxable years ending on
or before December 31, 2004, personal property that is
donated for disaster relief to be used in a State or
federally declared disaster area in Illinois or bordering
Illinois by a manufacturer or retailer that is registered
in this State to a corporation, society, association,
foundation, or institution that has been issued a sales
tax exemption identification number by the Department that
assists victims of the disaster who reside within the
declared disaster area.
(31) Beginning with taxable years ending on or after
December 31, 1995 and ending with taxable years ending on
or before December 31, 2004, personal property that is

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used in the performance of infrastructure repairs in this
State, including but not limited to municipal roads and
streets, access roads, bridges, sidewalks, waste disposal
systems, water and sewer line extensions, water
distribution and purification facilities, storm water
drainage and retention facilities, and sewage treatment
facilities, resulting from a State or federally declared
disaster in Illinois or bordering Illinois when such
repairs are initiated on facilities located in the
declared disaster area within 6 months after the disaster.
(32) Beginning July 1, 1999, game or game birds sold
at a "game breeding and hunting preserve area" as that
term is used in the Wildlife Code. This paragraph is
exempt from the provisions of Section 2-70.
(33) A motor vehicle, as that term is defined in
Section 1-146 of the Illinois Vehicle Code, that is
donated to a corporation, limited liability company,
society, association, foundation, or institution that is
determined by the Department to be organized and operated
exclusively for educational purposes. For purposes of this
exemption, "a corporation, limited liability company,
society, association, foundation, or institution organized
and operated exclusively for educational purposes" means
all tax-supported public schools, private schools that
offer systematic instruction in useful branches of
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compare favorably in their scope and intensity with the
course of study presented in tax-supported schools, and
vocational or technical schools or institutes organized
and operated exclusively to provide a course of study of
not less than 6 weeks duration and designed to prepare
individuals to follow a trade or to pursue a manual,
technical, mechanical, industrial, business, or commercial
occupation.
(34) Beginning January 1, 2000, personal property,
including food, purchased through fundraising events for
the benefit of a public or private elementary or secondary
school, a group of those schools, or one or more school
districts if the events are sponsored by an entity
recognized by the school district that consists primarily
of volunteers and includes parents and teachers of the
school children. This paragraph does not apply to
fundraising events (i) for the benefit of private home
instruction or (ii) for which the fundraising entity
purchases the personal property sold at the events from
another individual or entity that sold the property for
the purpose of resale by the fundraising entity and that
profits from the sale to the fundraising entity. This
paragraph is exempt from the provisions of Section 2-70.
(35) Beginning January 1, 2000 and through December
31, 2001, new or used automatic vending machines that
prepare and serve hot food and beverages, including

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coffee, soup, and other items, and replacement parts for
these machines. Beginning January 1, 2002 and through June
30, 2003, machines and parts for machines used in
commercial, coin-operated amusement and vending business
if a use or occupation tax is paid on the gross receipts
derived from the use of the commercial, coin-operated
amusement and vending machines. This paragraph is exempt
from the provisions of Section 2-70.
(35-5) Beginning August 23, 2001 and through June 30,
2016, food for human consumption that is to be consumed
off the premises where it is sold (other than alcoholic
beverages, soft drinks, and food that has been prepared
for immediate consumption) and prescription and
nonprescription medicines, drugs, medical appliances, and
insulin, urine testing materials, syringes, and needles
used by diabetics, for human use, when purchased for use
by a person receiving medical assistance under Article V
of the Illinois Public Aid Code who resides in a licensed
long-term care facility, as defined in the Nursing Home
Care Act, or a licensed facility as defined in the ID/DD
Community Care Act, the MC/DD Act, or the Specialized
Mental Health Rehabilitation Act of 2013.
(36) Beginning August 2, 2001, computers and
communications equipment utilized for any hospital purpose
and equipment used in the diagnosis, analysis, or
treatment of hospital patients sold to a lessor who leases

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the equipment, under a lease of one year or longer
executed or in effect at the time of the purchase, to a
hospital that has been issued an active tax exemption
identification number by the Department under Section 1g
of this Act. This paragraph is exempt from the provisions
of Section 2-70.
(37) Beginning August 2, 2001, personal property sold
to a lessor who leases the property, under a lease of one
year or longer executed or in effect at the time of the
purchase, to a governmental body that has been issued an
active tax exemption identification number by the
Department under Section 1g of this Act. This paragraph is
exempt from the provisions of Section 2-70.
(38) Beginning on January 1, 2002 and through June 30,
2016, tangible personal property purchased from an
Illinois retailer by a taxpayer engaged in centralized
purchasing activities in Illinois who will, upon receipt
of the property in Illinois, temporarily store the
property in Illinois (i) for the purpose of subsequently
transporting it outside this State for use or consumption
thereafter solely outside this State or (ii) for the
purpose of being processed, fabricated, or manufactured
into, attached to, or incorporated into other tangible
personal property to be transported outside this State and
thereafter used or consumed solely outside this State. The
Director of Revenue shall, pursuant to rules adopted in

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accordance with the Illinois Administrative Procedure Act,
issue a permit to any taxpayer in good standing with the
Department who is eligible for the exemption under this
paragraph (38). The permit issued under this paragraph
(38) shall authorize the holder, to the extent and in the
manner specified in the rules adopted under this Act, to
purchase tangible personal property from a retailer exempt
from the taxes imposed by this Act. Taxpayers shall
maintain all necessary books and records to substantiate
the use and consumption of all such tangible personal
property outside of the State of Illinois.
(39) Beginning January 1, 2008, tangible personal
property used in the construction or maintenance of a
community water supply, as defined under Section 3.145 of
the Environmental Protection Act, that is operated by a
not-for-profit corporation that holds a valid water supply
permit issued under Title IV of the Environmental
Protection Act. This paragraph is exempt from the
provisions of Section 2-70.
(40) Beginning January 1, 2010 and continuing through
December 31, 2024, materials, parts, equipment,
components, and furnishings incorporated into or upon an
aircraft as part of the modification, refurbishment,
completion, replacement, repair, or maintenance of the
aircraft. This exemption includes consumable supplies used
in the modification, refurbishment, completion,

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replacement, repair, and maintenance of aircraft, but
excludes any materials, parts, equipment, components, and
consumable supplies used in the modification, replacement,
repair, and maintenance of aircraft engines or power
plants, whether such engines or power plants are installed
or uninstalled upon any such aircraft. "Consumable
supplies" include, but are not limited to, adhesive, tape,
sandpaper, general purpose lubricants, cleaning solution,
latex gloves, and protective films. This exemption applies
only to the sale of qualifying tangible personal property
to persons who modify, refurbish, complete, replace, or
maintain an aircraft and who (i) hold an Air Agency
Certificate and are empowered to operate an approved
repair station by the Federal Aviation Administration,
(ii) have a Class IV Rating, and (iii) conduct operations
in accordance with Part 145 of the Federal Aviation
Regulations. The exemption does not include aircraft
operated by a commercial air carrier providing scheduled
passenger air service pursuant to authority issued under
Part 121 or Part 129 of the Federal Aviation Regulations.
The changes made to this paragraph (40) by Public Act
98-534 are declarative of existing law. It is the intent
of the General Assembly that the exemption under this
paragraph (40) applies continuously from January 1, 2010
through December 31, 2024; however, no claim for credit or
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disallowance of this exemption on or after January 1, 2015
and prior to the effective date of this amendatory Act of
the 101st General Assembly.
(41) Tangible personal property sold to a
public-facilities corporation, as described in Section
11-65-10 of the Illinois Municipal Code, for purposes of
constructing or furnishing a municipal convention hall,
but only if the legal title to the municipal convention
hall is transferred to the municipality without any
further consideration by or on behalf of the municipality
at the time of the completion of the municipal convention
hall or upon the retirement or redemption of any bonds or
other debt instruments issued by the public-facilities
corporation in connection with the development of the
municipal convention hall. This exemption includes
existing public-facilities corporations as provided in
Section 11-65-25 of the Illinois Municipal Code. This
paragraph is exempt from the provisions of Section 2-70.
(42) Beginning January 1, 2017, menstrual pads,
tampons, and menstrual cups.
(43) Merchandise that is subject to the Rental
Purchase Agreement Occupation and Use Tax. The purchaser
must certify that the item is purchased to be rented
subject to a rental purchase agreement, as defined in the
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Occupation and Use Tax Act. This paragraph is exempt from
the provisions of Section 2-70.
(44) Qualified tangible personal property used in the
construction or operation of a data center that has been
granted a certificate of exemption by the Department of
Commerce and Economic Opportunity, whether that tangible
personal property is purchased by the owner, operator, or
tenant of the data center or by a contractor or
subcontractor of the owner, operator, or tenant. Data
centers that would have qualified for a certificate of
exemption prior to January 1, 2020 had this amendatory Act
of the 101st General Assembly been in effect, may apply
for and obtain an exemption for subsequent purchases of
computer equipment or enabling software purchased or
leased to upgrade, supplement, or replace computer
equipment or enabling software purchased or leased in the
original investment that would have qualified.
The Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity
shall grant a certificate of exemption under this item
(44) to qualified data centers as defined by Section
605-1025 of the Department of Commerce and Economic
Opportunity Law of the Civil Administrative Code of
Illinois.
For the purposes of this item (44):
"Data center" means a building or a series of
buildings rehabilitated or constructed to house

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working servers in one physical location or multiple
sites within the State of Illinois.
"Qualified tangible personal property" means:
electrical systems and equipment; climate control and
chilling equipment and systems; mechanical systems and
equipment; monitoring and secure systems; emergency
generators; hardware; computers; servers; data storage
devices; network connectivity equipment; racks;
cabinets; telecommunications cabling infrastructure;
raised floor systems; peripheral components or
systems; software; mechanical, electrical, or plumbing
systems; battery systems; cooling systems and towers;
temperature control systems; other cabling; and other
data center infrastructure equipment and systems
necessary to operate qualified tangible personal
property, including fixtures; and component parts of
any of the foregoing, including installation,
maintenance, repair, refurbishment, and replacement of
qualified tangible personal property to generate,
transform, transmit, distribute, or manage electricity
necessary to operate qualified tangible personal
property; and all other tangible personal property
that is essential to the operations of a computer data
center. The term "qualified tangible personal
property" also includes building materials physically
incorporated in to the qualifying data center. To

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document the exemption allowed under this Section, the
retailer must obtain from the purchaser a copy of the
certificate of eligibility issued by the Department of
Commerce and Economic Opportunity.
This item (44) is exempt from the provisions of
Section 2-70.
(45) Beginning January 1, 2022, a school bus equipped
with safety belts for passengers. This paragraph is exempt
from the provisions of Section 2-70.
(Source: P.A. 100-22, eff. 7-6-17; 100-321, eff. 8-24-17;
100-437, eff. 1-1-18; 100-594, eff. 6-29-18; 100-863, eff.
8-14-18; 100-1171, eff. 1-4-19; 101-31, eff. 6-28-19; 101-81,
eff. 7-12-19; 101-629, eff. 2-5-20.)
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.