SB1293 100TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

LRB100 09539 AWJ 19705 b

100TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2017 and 2018
SB1293

Introduced 2/9/2017, by Sen. Toi W. Hutchinson

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

65 ILCS 5/Art. 11 Div. 88.1 heading new
65 ILCS 5/11-88.1-5 new
65 ILCS 5/11-88.1-10 new

Amends the Illinois Municipal Code. Provides that the City of Chicago shall make grants from moneys transferred to the City under the Chicago Casino Development Authority Act (currently introduced in Senate Bill 7) to municipalities that meet specified eligibility requirements. Provides that a municipality that is part of a group of municipalities that jointly act for the purpose of obtaining or treating water is not eligible for a grant. Limits the amount of grants to $3,000,000 annually. Effective immediately.

FISCAL NOTE ACT MAY APPLY

HOME RULE NOTE ACT MAY APPLY

A BILL FOR

AN ACT concerning local government.

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

Section 5. The Illinois Municipal Code is amended by adding Division 88.1 of Article 11 as follows:

(65 ILCS 5/Art. 11 Div. 88.1 heading new)

DIVISION 88.1. WATER INFRASTRUCTURE GRANTS

(65 ILCS 5/11-88.1-5 new)

Sec. 11-88.1-5. Definitions. For the purpose of this Division:

"Authority" means the Chicago Casino Development Authority created by the Chicago Casino Development Authority Act.

"City" means the City of Chicago.

"Infrastructure" means roads, access roads, streets, bridges, sidewalks, water and sewer line extensions, water distribution and purification facilities, stormwater drainage and retention facilities, gas and electric utility line extensions, public buildings or structures, or other improvements that are essential to the development of a publicly administered project.

"Water infrastructure" means infrastructure whose primary purpose is to pump, divert, transport, store, treat, or deliver water, including any costs associated with planning, construction, obtaining easements, and debt service payments.

"Municipality" does not include a municipality that is part of a group of municipalities that jointly act, either by intergovernmental agreement or any other form of joint action, for the purpose of obtaining or treating water.

(65 ILCS 5/11-88.1-10 new)

Sec. 11-88.1-10. Water infrastructure grants.

(a) Notwithstanding Public Act 99-506, from the moneys transferred to the City under Section 1-50 of the Chicago Casino Development Authority Act, the City shall make grants to eligible municipalities in Illinois that submit an application which complies with subsection (d) of this Section for the purpose of funding water infrastructure projects in an amount not to exceed $3,000,000 annually.

(b) Beginning on the effective date of Senate Bill 7 of the 100th General Assembly, a municipality is eligible to receive grants under subsection (a) of this Section if it pays more than $7,000,000 annually to purchase water at wholesale from an out-of-state supplier on the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 100th General Assembly and has not directly or indirectly purchased or otherwise received water from the City during the 2 years prior to the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 100th General Assembly and, at the time it submits a grant application, it (i) purchases or otherwise receives at least 75% of its water from the City, and (ii) does not contain a riverboat or casino within its borders.

(c) Notwithstanding subsection (b) of this Section, beginning 2 years following the effective date of Senate Bill 7 of the 100th General Assembly, a municipality is eligible to receive grants under subsection (a) of this Section if it pays more than $7,000,000 annually to purchase water at wholesale from an out-of-state supplier on the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 100th General Assembly and had not directly or indirectly purchased or otherwise received water from the City during the 2 years prior to the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 100th General Assembly and, at the time it submits a grant application, it does not contain a riverboat or casino within its borders.

(d) An application to the City by an eligible municipality shall include the following provisions:

(1) the name, address, mayor or village president, and general description of the applicant municipality, including information sufficient to establish that the applicant is eligible to receive grants pursuant to subsection (b) or subsection (c) of this Section;

(2) a general description of the water infrastructure program, project, or use for which grant funding is requested;

(3) such plans, equipment lists, and other documents as may be required to show the type, structure, and general character of the water infrastructure program, project, or use for which grant funding is requested;

(4) cost estimates of developing, constructing, operating, or completing the water infrastructure program, project, or use for which grant funding is requested; and

(5) a program of proposed expenditures for the grant funds.

(e) Subject to the provisions of this Section, the mayor of the City or his designee may establish any rules or procedures necessary to administer the water infrastructure grants issued pursuant to this Section.

(f) The City of Chicago shall not make grants from moneys received under the Chicago Casino Development Authority Act in a manner inconsistent with this Division. This Section is a limitation under subsection (i) of Section 6 of Article VII of the Illinois Constitution on the concurrent exercise by home rule units of powers and functions exercised by the State.

Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon becoming law, except that this Act does not take effect at all unless Senate Bill 7 of the 100th General Assembly becomes law.