HB0537ham003 100TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

Rep. Robert W. Pritchard

Filed: 3/2/2017

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AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 537

AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 537 by replacing everything after the enacting clause with the following:

"Section 5. The Election Code is amended by changing Section 12-5 and by adding Section 28-8.2 as follows:

(10 ILCS 5/12-5) (from Ch. 46, par. 12-5)

Sec. 12-5. Notice for public questions.

(a) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (b), for all elections held after July 1, 1999, notice of public questions shall be required only as set forth in this Section and Section 28-8.2 of this Code or as set forth in Section 17-3 or 19-3 of the School Code. Not more than 60 30 days nor less than 40 10 days before the date of a regular election at which a public question is to be submitted to the voters of a political or governmental subdivision, and at least 20 days before an emergency referendum, the election authority shall publish notice of the referendum. The notice shall be published once in a local, community newspaper having general circulation in the political or governmental subdivision. The notice shall also be given at least 10 days before the date of the election by posting a copy of the notice at the principal office of the election authority. The local election official shall also post a copy of the notice at the principal office of the political or governmental subdivision, or if there is no principal office at the building in which the governing body of the political or governmental subdivision held its first meeting of the calendar year in which the referendum is being held. The election authority and the political or governmental subdivision may, but are not required to, post the notice electronically on their World Wide Web pages. The notice, which shall appear over the name or title of the election authority, shall be substantially in the following form:

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that at the election to be held on (insert day of the week), (insert date of election), the following proposition will be submitted to the voters of (name of political or governmental subdivision):

(insert the public question as it will appear on the ballot)

The polls at the election will be open at 6:00 o'clock A.M. and will continue to be open until 7:00 o'clock P.M. of that day.

Dated (date of notice)

(Name or title of the election authority)

The notice shall also include any additional information required by the statute authorizing the public question. The notice may include an explanation, in neutral and plain language, of the question and its purposes supplied by the governing body of the political or governmental subdivision to whose voters the question is to be submitted. The notice shall set forth the precincts and polling places at which the referendum will be conducted only in the case of emergency referenda.

(b) Notice of any public question published in a local, community newspaper having general circulation in the political or governmental subdivision to which such public question and Section 28-8.2 of this Code relates more than 30 days but not more than 35 days prior to the general election held on November 8, 2016 that otherwise complies with the requirements of this Section is sufficient notice to satisfy the newspaper publication requirement of this Section, such notice shall for all purposes be deemed to have been given in accordance with this Section, any bonds approved by the voters at such election are hereby authorized to be issued in accordance with applicable law without further referendum approval and taxes to be levied pursuant to any limiting rate increases approved by the voters at such election are hereby authorized to be levied and extended without further referendum approval.

(Source: P.A. 99-935, eff. 2-17-17.)

(10 ILCS 5/28-8.2 new)

Sec. 28-8.2. Revenue referenda disclosure.

(a) For purposes of this Section, "revenue referenda" means referenda by a unit of local government, including a school district, seeking to impose or increase a retailers' occupation tax, a use tax, a service occupation tax, a service use tax, or a property tax, or regarding the issuance of bonds.

(b) If not already required by the Property Tax Extension Limitation Law, all revenue referenda shall have printed thereon, but not as part of the proposition submitted, only the following supplemental information (which shall be supplied to the election authority by the taxing district) in substantially the following form:

(1) The approximate amount of taxes extendable at the most recently extended limiting rate is $...., and the approximate amount of taxes extendable if the proposition is approved is $....

(2) For the (insert the first full levy year for which the new rate or increased limiting rate will be applicable) levy year the approximate amount of the additional tax extendable against property containing a single family residence and having a fair market value at the time of the referendum of $100,000 is estimated to be $....

(3) For this Bond Referendum, (name of local unit of government or school district) proposes to issue bonds for (state purpose for the bond) in the amount of (state the principal amount of the bond) $... for the purpose of paying the costs thereof that mature in (state the life of the bond) years along with estimated interest costs of (state the estimated amount) $... assuming an annual interest rate at the time of the referendum of (state the estimated percent) ...%. The average cost of the bond sale including principal and estimated interest at the time of this referendum for property containing a single family residence and having a fair market value at the time of the referendum of $100,000 is estimated to be $...

Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon becoming law.".