104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2025 and 2026 HB1158 Introduced , by Rep. Kimberly Du Buclet SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: 70 ILCS 2605/9.6a from Ch. 42, par. 328.6a Amends the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District Act. Provides that bonds, notes, or other evidences of indebtedness for specified purposes shall be issued from time to time only in amounts as may be required for such purposes but the amount of such obligations issued during any one budget year shall not exceed $250,000,000 (rather than $150,000,000) plus the amount of any obligations authorized by the Act to be issued during the 3 budget years next preceding the year of issuance but which were not issued. LRB104 06162 RTM 16196 b A BILL FOR 104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2025 and 2026 HB1158 Introduced , by Rep. Kimberly Du Buclet SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: 70 ILCS 2605/9.6a from Ch. 42, par. 328.6a 70 ILCS 2605/9.6a from Ch. 42, par. 328.6a Amends the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District Act. Provides that bonds, notes, or other evidences of indebtedness for specified purposes shall be issued from time to time only in amounts as may be required for such purposes but the amount of such obligations issued during any one budget year shall not exceed $250,000,000 (rather than $150,000,000) plus the amount of any obligations authorized by the Act to be issued during the 3 budget years next preceding the year of issuance but which were not issued. LRB104 06162 RTM 16196 b LRB104 06162 RTM 16196 b A BILL FOR 104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2025 and 2026 HB1158 Introduced , by Rep. Kimberly Du Buclet SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: 70 ILCS 2605/9.6a from Ch. 42, par. 328.6a 70 ILCS 2605/9.6a from Ch. 42, par. 328.6a 70 ILCS 2605/9.6a from Ch. 42, par. 328.6a Amends the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District Act. Provides that bonds, notes, or other evidences of indebtedness for specified purposes shall be issued from time to time only in amounts as may be required for such purposes but the amount of such obligations issued during any one budget year shall not exceed $250,000,000 (rather than $150,000,000) plus the amount of any obligations authorized by the Act to be issued during the 3 budget years next preceding the year of issuance but which were not issued. LRB104 06162 RTM 16196 b LRB104 06162 RTM 16196 b LRB104 06162 RTM 16196 b A BILL FOR HB1158LRB104 06162 RTM 16196 b HB1158 LRB104 06162 RTM 16196 b HB1158 LRB104 06162 RTM 16196 b 1 AN ACT concerning local government. 2 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, 3 represented in the General Assembly: 4 Section 5. The Metropolitan Water Reclamation District Act 5 is amended by changing Section 9.6a as follows: 6 (70 ILCS 2605/9.6a) (from Ch. 42, par. 328.6a) 7 Sec. 9.6a. Bonds for sewage treatment, water quality, and 8 facility improvements. The corporate authorities of a sanitary 9 district, in order to provide funds required for the 10 replacing, remodeling, completing, altering, constructing and 11 enlarging of sewage treatment works, administrative buildings, 12 water quality improvement projects, distributed renewable 13 energy generation devices, or flood control facilities, and 14 additions therefor, pumping stations, tunnels, conduits, 15 intercepting sewers and outlet sewers, together with the 16 equipment, including air pollution equipment, and 17 appurtenances thereto, to acquire property, real, personal or 18 mixed, necessary for said purposes, for costs and expenses for 19 the acquisition of the sites and rights-of-way necessary 20 thereto, and for engineering expenses for designing and 21 supervising the construction of such works, may issue on or 22 before December 31, 2034, in addition to all other obligations 23 heretofore or herein authorized, bonds, notes, or other 104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2025 and 2026 HB1158 Introduced , by Rep. Kimberly Du Buclet SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: 70 ILCS 2605/9.6a from Ch. 42, par. 328.6a 70 ILCS 2605/9.6a from Ch. 42, par. 328.6a 70 ILCS 2605/9.6a from Ch. 42, par. 328.6a Amends the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District Act. Provides that bonds, notes, or other evidences of indebtedness for specified purposes shall be issued from time to time only in amounts as may be required for such purposes but the amount of such obligations issued during any one budget year shall not exceed $250,000,000 (rather than $150,000,000) plus the amount of any obligations authorized by the Act to be issued during the 3 budget years next preceding the year of issuance but which were not issued. LRB104 06162 RTM 16196 b LRB104 06162 RTM 16196 b LRB104 06162 RTM 16196 b A BILL FOR 70 ILCS 2605/9.6a from Ch. 42, par. 328.6a LRB104 06162 RTM 16196 b HB1158 LRB104 06162 RTM 16196 b HB1158- 2 -LRB104 06162 RTM 16196 b HB1158 - 2 - LRB104 06162 RTM 16196 b HB1158 - 2 - LRB104 06162 RTM 16196 b 1 evidences of indebtedness for such purposes in an aggregate 2 amount at any one time outstanding not to exceed 3.35% of the 3 equalized assessed valuation of all taxable property within 4 the sanitary district, to be ascertained by the last 5 assessment for State and local taxes previous to the issuance 6 of any such obligations. Such obligations shall be issued 7 without submitting the question of such issuance to the legal 8 voters of such sanitary district for approval. 9 The corporate authorities may sell such obligations at 10 private or public sale and enter into any contract or 11 agreement necessary, appropriate or incidental to the exercise 12 of the powers granted by this Act, including, without 13 limitation, contracts or agreements for the sale and purchase 14 of such obligations and the payment of costs and expenses 15 incident thereto. The corporate authorities may pay such costs 16 and expenses, in whole or in part, from the corporate fund. 17 Such obligations shall be issued from time to time only in 18 amounts as may be required for such purposes but the amount of 19 such obligations issued during any one budget year shall not 20 exceed $250,000,000 $150,000,000 plus the amount of any 21 obligations authorized by this Act to be issued during the 3 22 budget years next preceding the year of issuance but which 23 were not issued, provided, however, that this limitation shall 24 not be applicable (i) to the issuance of obligations to refund 25 bonds, notes or other evidences of indebtedness, (ii) to 26 obligations issued to provide for the repayment of money HB1158 - 2 - LRB104 06162 RTM 16196 b HB1158- 3 -LRB104 06162 RTM 16196 b HB1158 - 3 - LRB104 06162 RTM 16196 b HB1158 - 3 - LRB104 06162 RTM 16196 b 1 received from the Water Pollution Control Revolving Fund for 2 the construction or repair of wastewater treatment works, and 3 (iii) to obligations issued as part of the American Recovery 4 and Reinvestment Act of 2009, issued prior to January 1, 2011, 5 that are commonly known as "Build America Bonds" as authorized 6 by Section 54AA of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as 7 amended. Each ordinance authorizing the issuance of the 8 obligations shall state the general purpose or purposes for 9 which they are to be issued, and the corporate authorities may 10 at any time thereafter pass supplemental appropriations 11 ordinances appropriating the proceeds from the sale of such 12 obligations for such purposes. 13 Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in Section 9.6 or 14 this Section, and in addition to any other amount of bonds 15 authorized to be issued under this Act, the corporate 16 authorities are authorized to issue from time to time bonds of 17 the district in a principal amount not to exceed $600,000,000 18 for the purpose of making contributions to the pension fund 19 established under Article 13 of the Illinois Pension Code 20 without submitting the question of issuing bonds to the voters 21 of the District. Any bond issuances under this paragraph are 22 intended to decrease the unfunded liability of the pension 23 fund and shall not decrease the amount of the employer 24 contributions required in any given year under Section 13-503 25 of the Illinois Pension Code. 26 The corporate authorities may issue bonds, notes or other HB1158 - 3 - LRB104 06162 RTM 16196 b HB1158- 4 -LRB104 06162 RTM 16196 b HB1158 - 4 - LRB104 06162 RTM 16196 b HB1158 - 4 - LRB104 06162 RTM 16196 b HB1158 - 4 - LRB104 06162 RTM 16196 b