Illinois 2023-2024 Regular Session

Illinois Senate Bill SB3163 Compare Versions

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1	1	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. LRB103 35353 AWJ 65417 b A BILL FOR 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 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. LRB103 35353 AWJ 65417 b LRB103 35353 AWJ 65417 b A BILL FOR
2	2	103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2023 and 2024 SB3163 Introduced 2/6/2024, by Sen. Mary Edly-Allen SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
3	3	70 ILCS 705/14 from Ch. 127 1/2, par. 34 70 ILCS 705/14 from Ch. 127 1/2, par. 34
4	4	70 ILCS 705/14 from Ch. 127 1/2, par. 34
5	5	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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11	11	1 AN ACT concerning local government.
12	12	2 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
13	13	3 represented in the General Assembly:
14	14	4 Section 5. The Fire Protection District Act is amended by
15	15	5 changing Section 14 as follows:
16	16	6 (70 ILCS 705/14) (from Ch. 127 1/2, par. 34)
17	17	7 Sec. 14. The Board of Trustees may levy and collect other
18	18	8 taxes for all corporate purposes, including, without limiting
19	19	9 the generality of the foregoing, the payment of all
20	20	10 obligations incurred in taking over the fire protection
21	21	11 facilities of any city, village or incorporated town located
22	22	12 within the boundaries of any such district, including all
23	23	13 pension or annuity plans of any such city, village or
24	24	14 incorporated town applicable to the maintenance of fire
25	25	15 protection facilities, and further for the purposes of
26	26	16 building, repairing and improving fire houses, of the renting
27	27	17 of buildings and property for corporate purposes, of procuring
28	28	18 firehouse land or sites, fire-fighting apparatus and
29	29	19 equipment, and of procuring apparatus and equipment for
30	30	20 emergencies involving hazardous substances and providing
31	31	21 appropriate training for such situations, exclusive of taxes
32	32	22 to pay bonded indebtedness upon all the taxable property
33	33	23 within the territorial limits of such fire protection
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37	37	103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2023 and 2024 SB3163 Introduced 2/6/2024, by Sen. Mary Edly-Allen SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
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40	40	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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68	68	1 districts, the aggregate amount of which shall not exceed
69	69	2 0.125% of the value, as equalized or assessed by the
70	70	3 Department of Revenue, except as provided in this Section.
71	71	4 All taxes proposed to be levied by a district shall be
72	72	5 levied by ordinance, a certified copy of which shall be filed
73	73	6 with the county clerk of the county in which the taxes are to
74	74	7 be collected not later than the last Tuesday in December in
75	75	8 each year.
76	76	9 The Board of Trustees may accumulate funds in its
77	77	10 corporate fund or other district fund for the purposes of
78	78	11 building, repairing and improving firehouses, for the purposes
79	79	12 of procuring firehouse land or sites and , fire-fighting
80	80	13 apparatus and equipment, and for the purposes of procuring
81	81	14 appropriate apparatus, equipment, and training for emergencies
82	82	15 involving hazardous substances, for the purposes of emergency
83	83	16 medical services, technical rescue, and other services
84	84	17 performed by the fire district, and for the purposes of
85	85	18 providing employees other post-employment benefits and may
86	86	19 annually levy taxes for such purposes in excess of current
87	87	20 requirements for its other purposes but subject to the tax
88	88	21 rate limitations as provided in this Section.
89	89	22 If the Board of Trustees desires to levy such taxes at a
90	90	23 rate in excess of 0.125% and in excess of 0.30% but not in
91	91	24 excess of 0.40% of the value of all taxable property within the
92	92	25 district as equalized or assessed by the Department of
93	93	26 Revenue, it shall certify the question to the proper election
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104	104	1 officials, who shall submit the question at an election in
105	105	2 accordance with the general election law. The result of such
106	106	3 referendum shall be entered upon the records of the district.
107	107	4 If a majority of the voters at such election vote in favor of
108	108	5 the proposition, the Board of Trustees may levy such taxes at a
109	109	6 rate not to exceed 0.40% of the value of all taxable property
110	110	7 within the district as equalized or assessed by the Department
111	111	8 of Revenue. The proposition shall be in substantially the
112	112	9 following form:
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114	114	11 Shall the maximum allowable tax rate
115	115	12 for the.... Fire Protection District YES
116	116	13 be increased from 0.125% to 0.40% (or from
117	117	14 0.30% to 0.40%, as the case may be) ---------------
118	118	15 of the value of all taxable property within
119	119	16 the District as equalized or assessed by NO
120	120	17 the Department of Revenue?
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122	122	19 The Board of Trustees has power to levy such taxes at a
123	123	20 rate in excess of 0.125% but not in excess of 0.30% of the
124	124	21 value of all taxable property within the district, as
125	125	22 equalized or assessed by the Department of Revenue, under the
126	126	23 following terms and conditions.
127	127	24 The board of trustees shall proceed in like manner prior
128	128	25 to the adoption of an ordinance providing for the levy of taxes
129	129	26 at a rate not in excess of 0.30% as if the board of trustees
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140	140	1 had followed the procedures to adopt an ordinance not in
141	141	2 excess of 0.125% of the value of all taxable property within
142	142	3 the district as equalized or assessed by the Department of
143	143	4 Revenue.
144	144	5 The board of trustees shall provide by ordinance for the
145	145	6 levy and collection of taxes at a rate not in excess of 0.30%
146	146	7 of the value of all taxable property within the district as
147	147	8 equalized or assessed by the Department of Revenue. A
148	148	9 certified copy of such ordinance shall be filed in the office
149	149	10 of the county clerk of each county in which any portion of the
150	150	11 territory of such fire protection district is situated, which
151	151	12 certified copy constitutes authority for the clerk or clerks
152	152	13 in each case to extend taxes annually at the rate so provided
153	153	14 against all of the taxable property contained in the fire
154	154	15 protection district.
155	155	16 After such ordinance has been passed, it shall be
156	156	17 published once within 30 days after its passage in one or more
157	157	18 newspapers published in the fire protection district or, if no
158	158	19 newspaper is published therein, it shall be published in a
159	159	20 newspaper published in the county in which such district is
160	160	21 located and having general circulation within such district.
161	161	22 If no newspaper is published in the county having general
162	162	23 circulation in the district, publication may be made instead
163	163	24 by posting copies of such ordinance in 10 public places within
164	164	25 the fire protection district. The publication or posting of
165	165	26 the ordinance shall include a notice of (1) the specific
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176	176	1 number of voters required to sign a petition requesting that
177	177	2 the question of the adoption of the tax levy be submitted to
178	178	3 the voters of the district; (2) the time within which the
179	179	4 petition must be filed; and (3) the date of the prospective
180	180	5 referendum. The district secretary shall provide a petition
181	181	6 form to any individual requesting one. The ordinance shall not
182	182	7 become effective until 30 days after its publication or the
183	183	8 date of such posting of such copies.
184	184	9 Whenever a petition signed by the electors of the fire
185	185	10 protection district equal in number to 10% or more of the
186	186	11 registered voters in the fire protection district is filed
187	187	12 with the Board of Trustees thereof which has adopted an
188	188	13 ordinance providing for such increase in the rate of taxes and
189	189	14 such petition has been filed with the Board of Trustees within
190	190	15 30 days after the publication or the date of the posting of the
191	191	16 copies which petition seeks the submission of such increase in
192	192	17 the rate of taxes to an election, the Board of Trustees shall
193	193	18 certify the question to the proper election officials who
194	194	19 shall submit the question at an election in accordance with
195	195	20 the general election law.
196	196	21 The proposition shall be substantially in the following
197	197	22 form:
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199	199	24 Shall the maximum allowable tax
200	200	25 rate for .... Fire Protection YES
201	201	26 District be increased from 0.125%
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213	213	2 property within the District
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