Bill Text: IL SB3163 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Fire Protection District Act. Provides that specified accumulation of funds by a board of trustees of a fire protection district may occur in the district's corporate fund or other district fund. Provides that the board of trustees of a fire protection district may accumulate funds for the purposes of emergency medical services, technical rescue, and other services performed by the fire district and for the purposes of providing employees other post-employment benefits.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-06-26 - Senate Floor Amendment No. 1 Pursuant to Senate Rule 3-9(b) / Referred to Assignments [SB3163 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2023-SB3163-Introduced.html

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103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2023 and 2024 SB3163 Introduced 2/6/2024, by Sen. Mary Edly-Allen SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
70 ILCS 705/14 from Ch. 127 1/2, par. 34
Amends the Fire Protection District Act. Provides that specified accumulation of funds by a board of trustees of a fire protection district may occur in the district's corporate fund or other district fund. Provides that the board of trustees of a fire protection district may accumulate funds for the purposes of emergency medical services, technical rescue, and other services performed by the fire district and for the purposes of providing employees other post-employment benefits.
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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 Fire Protection District Act is amended by
changing Section 14 as follows:
(70 ILCS 705/14) (from Ch. 127 1/2, par. 34)
Sec. 14. The Board of Trustees may levy and collect other
taxes for all corporate purposes, including, without limiting
the generality of the foregoing, the payment of all
obligations incurred in taking over the fire protection
facilities of any city, village or incorporated town located
within the boundaries of any such district, including all
pension or annuity plans of any such city, village or
incorporated town applicable to the maintenance of fire
protection facilities, and further for the purposes of
building, repairing and improving fire houses, of the renting
of buildings and property for corporate purposes, of procuring
firehouse land or sites, fire-fighting apparatus and
equipment, and of procuring apparatus and equipment for
emergencies involving hazardous substances and providing
appropriate training for such situations, exclusive of taxes
to pay bonded indebtedness upon all the taxable property
within the territorial limits of such fire protection

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districts, the aggregate amount of which shall not exceed
0.125% of the value, as equalized or assessed by the
Department of Revenue, except as provided in this Section.
All taxes proposed to be levied by a district shall be
levied by ordinance, a certified copy of which shall be filed
with the county clerk of the county in which the taxes are to
be collected not later than the last Tuesday in December in
each year.
The Board of Trustees may accumulate funds in its
corporate fund or other district fund for the purposes of
building, repairing and improving firehouses, for the purposes
of procuring firehouse land or sites and , fire-fighting
apparatus and equipment, and for the purposes of procuring
appropriate apparatus, equipment, and training for emergencies
involving hazardous substances, for the purposes of emergency
medical services, technical rescue, and other services
performed by the fire district, and for the purposes of
providing employees other post-employment benefits and may
annually levy taxes for such purposes in excess of current
requirements for its other purposes but subject to the tax
rate limitations as provided in this Section.
If the Board of Trustees desires to levy such taxes at a
rate in excess of 0.125% and in excess of 0.30% but not in
excess of 0.40% of the value of all taxable property within the
district as equalized or assessed by the Department of
Revenue, it shall certify the question to the proper election

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officials, who shall submit the question at an election in
accordance with the general election law. The result of such
referendum shall be entered upon the records of the district.
If a majority of the voters at such election vote in favor of
the proposition, the Board of Trustees may levy such taxes at a
rate not to exceed 0.40% of the value of all taxable property
within the district as equalized or assessed by the Department
of Revenue. The proposition shall be in substantially the
following form:
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Shall the maximum allowable tax rate
for the.... Fire Protection District YES
be increased from 0.125% to 0.40% (or from
0.30% to 0.40%, as the case may be) ---------------
of the value of all taxable property within
the District as equalized or assessed by NO
the Department of Revenue?
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The Board of Trustees has power to levy such taxes at a
rate in excess of 0.125% but not in excess of 0.30% of the
value of all taxable property within the district, as
equalized or assessed by the Department of Revenue, under the
following terms and conditions.
The board of trustees shall proceed in like manner prior
to the adoption of an ordinance providing for the levy of taxes
at a rate not in excess of 0.30% as if the board of trustees

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had followed the procedures to adopt an ordinance not in
excess of 0.125% of the value of all taxable property within
the district as equalized or assessed by the Department of
Revenue.
The board of trustees shall provide by ordinance for the
levy and collection of taxes at a rate not in excess of 0.30%
of the value of all taxable property within the district as
equalized or assessed by the Department of Revenue. A
certified copy of such ordinance shall be filed in the office
of the county clerk of each county in which any portion of the
territory of such fire protection district is situated, which
certified copy constitutes authority for the clerk or clerks
in each case to extend taxes annually at the rate so provided
against all of the taxable property contained in the fire
protection district.
After such ordinance has been passed, it shall be
published once within 30 days after its passage in one or more
newspapers published in the fire protection district or, if no
newspaper is published therein, it shall be published in a
newspaper published in the county in which such district is
located and having general circulation within such district.
If no newspaper is published in the county having general
circulation in the district, publication may be made instead
by posting copies of such ordinance in 10 public places within
the fire protection district. The publication or posting of
the ordinance shall include a notice of (1) the specific

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number of voters required to sign a petition requesting that
the question of the adoption of the tax levy be submitted to
the voters of the district; (2) the time within which the
petition must be filed; and (3) the date of the prospective
referendum. The district secretary shall provide a petition
form to any individual requesting one. The ordinance shall not
become effective until 30 days after its publication or the
date of such posting of such copies.
Whenever a petition signed by the electors of the fire
protection district equal in number to 10% or more of the
registered voters in the fire protection district is filed
with the Board of Trustees thereof which has adopted an
ordinance providing for such increase in the rate of taxes and
such petition has been filed with the Board of Trustees within
30 days after the publication or the date of the posting of the
copies which petition seeks the submission of such increase in
the rate of taxes to an election, the Board of Trustees shall
certify the question to the proper election officials who
shall submit the question at an election in accordance with
the general election law.
The proposition shall be substantially in the following
form:
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Shall the maximum allowable tax
rate for .... Fire Protection YES
District be increased from 0.125%

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to 0.30% of the value of all taxable -----------------------
property within the District
as equalized or assessed by the NO
Department of Revenue?