Bill Text: IL SB2475 | 2017-2018 | 100th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the River Edge Redevelopment Zone Act. Provides that, on and after the effective date, the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity may certify as a River Edge Redevelopment Zone any area that meets the qualifications set forth in the Act.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)

Status: (Failed) 2019-01-09 - Session Sine Die [SB2475 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2017-SB2475-Introduced.html

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100TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2017 and 2018 SB2475 Introduced 1/30/2018, by Sen. Karen McConnaughay SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
65 ILCS 115/10-5.3
Amends the River Edge Redevelopment Zone Act. Provides that, on and after the effective date, the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity may certify as a River Edge Redevelopment Zone any area that meets the qualifications set forth in the Act.
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning local government.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The River Edge Redevelopment Zone Act is amended
by changing Section 10-5.3 as follows:
(65 ILCS 115/10-5.3)
Sec. 10-5.3. Certification of River Edge Redevelopment
Zones.
(a) Approval of designated River Edge Redevelopment Zones
shall be made by the Department by certification of the
designating ordinance. The Department shall promptly issue a
certificate for each zone upon its approval. The certificate
shall be signed by the Director of the Department, shall make
specific reference to the designating ordinance, which shall be
attached thereto, and shall be filed in the office of the
Secretary of State. A certified copy of the River Edge
Redevelopment Zone Certificate, or a duplicate original
thereof, shall be recorded in the office of the recorder of
deeds of the county in which the River Edge Redevelopment Zone
lies.
(b) A River Edge Redevelopment Zone shall be effective upon
its certification. The Department shall transmit a copy of the
certification to the Department of Revenue, and to the

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designating municipality. Upon certification of a River Edge
Redevelopment Zone, the terms and provisions of the designating
ordinance shall be in effect, and may not be amended or
repealed except in accordance with Section 10-5.4.
(c) A River Edge Redevelopment Zone shall be in effect for
the period stated in the certificate, which shall in no event
exceed 30 calendar years. Zones shall terminate at midnight of
December 31 of the final calendar year of the certified term,
except as provided in Section 10-5.4.
(d) In calendar years 2006 and 2007, the Department may
certify one pilot River Edge Redevelopment Zone in the City of
East St. Louis, one pilot River Edge Redevelopment Zone in the
City of Rockford, and one pilot River Edge Redevelopment Zone
in the City of Aurora.
In calendar year 2009, the Department may certify one pilot
River Edge Redevelopment Zone in the City of Elgin.
On or after July 28, 2011 (the effective date of Public Act
97-203) this amendatory Act of the 97th General Assembly, the
Department may certify one additional pilot River Edge
Redevelopment Zone in the City of Peoria.
On or after the effective date of this amendatory Act of
the 100th General Assembly, the Department may certify as a
River Edge Redevelopment Zone any area that meets the
qualifications set forth in this Act.
Thereafter the Department may not certify any additional
River Edge Redevelopment Zones, but may amend and rescind

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certifications of existing River Edge Redevelopment Zones in
accordance with Section 10-5.4, except that no River Edge
Redevelopment Zone may be extended on or after the effective
date of this amendatory Act of the 97th General Assembly.
(d-5) Each River Edge Redevelopment Zone in existence on
August 7, 2012 (the effective date of Public Act 97-905) this
amendatory Act of the 97th General Assembly shall continue
until its scheduled termination under this Act, unless the Zone
is decertified sooner. At the time of its term expiration each
River Edge Redevelopment Zone in existence on August 7, 2012
(the effective date of Public Act 97-905) will become an open
enterprise zone, available for the previously designated area
or a different area to compete for designation as an enterprise
zone. No preference for designation as a Zone will be given to
the previously designated area.
(e) A municipality in which a River Edge Redevelopment Zone
has been certified must submit to the Department, within 60
days after the certification, a plan for encouraging the
participation by minority persons, women, persons with
disabilities, and veterans in the zone. The Department may
assist the municipality in developing and implementing the
plan. The terms "minority person", "woman", and "person with a
disability" have the meanings set forth under Section 2 of the
Business Enterprise for Minorities, Women, and Persons with
Disabilities Act. "Veteran" means an Illinois resident who is a
veteran as defined in subsection (h) of Section 1491 of Title

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10 of the United States Code.
(Source: P.A. 100-391, eff. 8-25-17.)