104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2025 and 2026 SB1468 Introduced 1/31/2025, by Sen. Laura Fine SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: 60 ILCS 1/30-160 Amends the Township Code. Authorizes funds generated through a levy on property located in a special police district in an unincorporated area of a township in a county with a population of 1,000,000 or more inhabitants to be used to provide for public safety in unincorporated areas of the township. Prohibits the levied funds from being used to pay for (i) any portion of a school resource officer's wages or to facilitate any agreement with any law enforcement agency to hire a school resource officer or (ii) any portion of a red light camera, speed camera, or automated license plate reader. Defines "public safety" and "resource officer". Effective immediately. LRB104 06950 RTM 16987 b A BILL FOR 104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2025 and 2026 SB1468 Introduced 1/31/2025, by Sen. Laura Fine SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: 60 ILCS 1/30-160 60 ILCS 1/30-160 Amends the Township Code. Authorizes funds generated through a levy on property located in a special police district in an unincorporated area of a township in a county with a population of 1,000,000 or more inhabitants to be used to provide for public safety in unincorporated areas of the township. Prohibits the levied funds from being used to pay for (i) any portion of a school resource officer's wages or to facilitate any agreement with any law enforcement agency to hire a school resource officer or (ii) any portion of a red light camera, speed camera, or automated license plate reader. Defines "public safety" and "resource officer". Effective immediately. LRB104 06950 RTM 16987 b LRB104 06950 RTM 16987 b A BILL FOR
104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2025 and 2026 SB1468 Introduced 1/31/2025, by Sen. Laura Fine SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
60 ILCS 1/30-160 60 ILCS 1/30-160
60 ILCS 1/30-160
Amends the Township Code. Authorizes funds generated through a levy on property located in a special police district in an unincorporated area of a township in a county with a population of 1,000,000 or more inhabitants to be used to provide for public safety in unincorporated areas of the township. Prohibits the levied funds from being used to pay for (i) any portion of a school resource officer's wages or to facilitate any agreement with any law enforcement agency to hire a school resource officer or (ii) any portion of a red light camera, speed camera, or automated license plate reader. Defines "public safety" and "resource officer". Effective immediately.
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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 Township Code is amended by changing
5 Section 30-160 as follows:
6 (60 ILCS 1/30-160)
7 Sec. 30-160. Police protection by municipality or county;
8 county of 1,000,000 or more; special taxing district.
9 (a) In counties having a population of 1,000,000 or more,
10 the electors may authorize the township board to contract with
11 one or more municipalities in the township or with the county
12 within which the township is located to furnish, using the
13 funds levied under subsection (b), police protection in the
14 unincorporated area of the township.
15 (b) In order to provide and maintain police protection in
16 the unincorporated area of the township, the The township
17 board may declare the unincorporated area of the township a
18 special police district for tax purposes. Proof of the
19 declaration authorizes the county clerk to extend a tax upon
20 the special police district in the amount specified in the
21 annual township tax levy, but not to exceed a rate of .10% of
22 the value of taxable property as equalized or assessed by the
23 Department of Revenue.
104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2025 and 2026 SB1468 Introduced 1/31/2025, by Sen. Laura Fine SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
60 ILCS 1/30-160 60 ILCS 1/30-160
60 ILCS 1/30-160
Amends the Township Code. Authorizes funds generated through a levy on property located in a special police district in an unincorporated area of a township in a county with a population of 1,000,000 or more inhabitants to be used to provide for public safety in unincorporated areas of the township. Prohibits the levied funds from being used to pay for (i) any portion of a school resource officer's wages or to facilitate any agreement with any law enforcement agency to hire a school resource officer or (ii) any portion of a red light camera, speed camera, or automated license plate reader. Defines "public safety" and "resource officer". Effective immediately.
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1 (c) A township board may also use the special police
2 district funds levied under subsection (b) to provide for
3 public safety in unincorporated areas of the township in the
4 manner prescribed by Section 85-13. The funds levied under
5 subsection (b) may not be used to pay for (i) any portion of a
6 school resource officer's wages or to facilitate any agreement
7 with any law enforcement agency to hire a school resource
8 officer or (ii) any portion of a red light camera, speed
9 camera, or automated license plate reader.
10 As used in this subsection:
11 "Public safety" includes, but is not limited to, crime
12 prevention measures and community safety measures, such as:
13 (i) public information campaigns or programs; (ii) traffic
14 safety measures, traffic control measures, and signage or
15 notices related to those measures; (iii) anti-gang and
16 anti-violence community support and intervention programs; and
17 (iv) graffiti abatement.
18 "School resource officer" has the meaning given in Section
19 10-20.68 of the School Code.
20 (Source: P.A. 82-783; 88-62.)
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