SB0049 96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2009 and 2010
SB0049

Introduced 1/30/2009, by Sen. Pamela J. Althoff

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

20 ILCS 2705/2705-585 new
30 ILCS 105/5.719 new
30 ILCS 105/6z-47

Amends the Department of Transportation Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Creates the Local Government Road Salt Purchase Reimbursement Fund. Provides that moneys in the Fund shall be used by the Department of Transportation to make grants to counties, municipalities, townships, and road districts in the northeastern Illinois region that entered into contracts for the purchase of road salt for the 2008-2009 winter season at a rate that exceeds the regional average. Amends the State Finance Act. Provides that the sum of $14,500,000 shall be transferred from the Fund for Illinois' Future to the Local Government Road Salt Purchase Reimbursement Fund. Effective immediately.

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A BILL FOR

AN ACT concerning finance.

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly:

Section 5. The Department of Transportation Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois is amended by adding Section 2705-585 as follows:

(20 ILCS 2705/2705-585 new)

Sec. 2705-585. Local Government Road Salt Purchase Reimbursement Fund.

(a) The Local Government Road Salt Purchase Reimbursement Fund is hereby created as a special fund in the State Treasury. Moneys in the Fund shall be used by the Department to make grants to counties, municipalities, townships, and road districts in the northeastern Illinois region that participated in the original bid process with the Department of Central Management Services and entered into contracts for the purchase of road salt for the 2008-2009 winter season at a rate that exceeds the northeastern Illinois regional average cost per ton for the 2008-2009 winter season in the original bid process, as determined by the Department of Central Management Services.

(b) Grant applications must be submitted within 150 days after the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 96th General Assembly. Grants shall be awarded in an amount equal to the difference between (i) the amount of the contract price negotiated by the county, municipality, township, or road district for only the tonnage of road salt designated for that county, municipality, township, or road district in the original Central Management Services contract and (ii) the amount for that tonnage of road salt based upon the northeastern Illinois regional average cost per ton in the original Central Management Services bid process, as determined by the Department of Central Management Services, but grant amounts may be prorated if moneys in the Fund are not sufficient to cover the grants awarded. Grants may be awarded only for the 2008-2009 winter season.

(c) The Secretary of Transportation shall certify to the Comptroller and Treasurer when all grants have been made for the 2008-2009 winter season. If any amount then remains in the Fund, the Comptroller shall order transferred and the Treasurer shall transfer that amount from the Local Government Road Salt Purchase Reimbursement Fund to the Fund for Illinois' Future, and the Local Government Road Salt Purchase Reimbursement Fund is thereupon dissolved.

Section 10. The State Finance Act is amended by changing Section 6z-47 and by adding Section 5.719 as follows:

(30 ILCS 105/5.719 new)

Sec. 5.719. The Local Government Road Salt Purchase Reimbursement Fund.

(30 ILCS 105/6z-47)

Sec. 6z-47. Fund for Illinois' Future.

(a) The Fund for Illinois' Future is hereby created as a special fund in the State Treasury.

(b) Upon the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 91st General Assembly, or as soon as possible thereafter, the Comptroller shall order transferred and the Treasurer shall transfer $260,000,000 from the General Revenue Fund to the Fund for Illinois' Future.

On July 15, 2000, or as soon as possible thereafter, the Comptroller shall order transferred and the Treasurer shall transfer $260,000,000 from the General Revenue Fund to the Fund for Illinois' Future.

Revenues in the Fund for Illinois' Future shall include any other funds appropriated or transferred into the Fund.

(c) Moneys in the Fund for Illinois' Future may be appropriated for the making of grants and expenditures for planning, engineering, acquisition, construction, reconstruction, development, improvement, and extension of public infrastructure in the State of Illinois, including grants to local governments for public infrastructure, grants to public elementary and secondary school districts for public infrastructure, grants to universities, colleges, community colleges, and non-profit corporations for public infrastructure, and expenditures for public infrastructure of the State and other related purposes, including but not limited to expenditures for equipment, vehicles, community programs, and recreational facilities.

(d) As soon as possible after the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 96th General Assembly, the Comptroller shall order transferred and the Treasurer shall transfer $14,500,000 from the Fund for Illinois' Future to the Local Government Road Salt Purchase Reimbursement Fund.

(Source: P.A. 91-38, eff. 6-15-99.)

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