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| | 104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2025 and 2026
HB4218 Introduced 1/14/2026, by Rep. Martha Deuter SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
| | 65 ILCS 5/8-3-14b | | 65 ILCS 5/8-3-14c | |
| Amends the Illinois Municipal Code. Provides that if a municipality (rather than any municipality located within DuPage County) belongs to a not-for-profit organization headquartered in the county in which the municipality is located and if that not-for-profit organization is recognized by the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity as a certified local tourism and convention bureau entitled to receive State tourism grant funds, then not less than 50% (rather than 75%) of the amounts collected pursuant to the municipal hotel operators' occupation tax and municipal hotel use tax shall be expended by the municipality to promote tourism and conventions within that municipality or otherwise to attract nonresident overnight visitors to the municipality, and the remainder of the amounts collected by the municipality pursuant to the municipal hotel operators' occupation tax and municipal hotel use tax may be expended by the municipality for economic development or capital infrastructure. Removes provisions repealing the municipal hotel operators' occupation tax and the municipal hotel use tax on January 1, 2027. Effective immediately. |
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| | HB4218 | | LRB104 16476 RTM 29871 b |
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| 1 | | AN ACT concerning local government.
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| 2 | | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, |
| 3 | | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | | Section 5. The Illinois Municipal Code is amended by |
| 5 | | changing Sections 8-3-14b and 8-3-14c as follows:
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| 6 | | (65 ILCS 5/8-3-14b) |
| 7 | | (Section scheduled to be repealed on January 1, 2027) |
| 8 | | Sec. 8-3-14b. Municipal hotel operators' tax in a |
| 9 | | municipality that belongs to a not-for-profit organization |
| 10 | | that is recognized by the Department of Commerce and Economic |
| 11 | | Opportunity as a certified local tourism and convention bureau |
| 12 | | DuPage County. If a For any municipality located within DuPage |
| 13 | | County that belongs to a not-for-profit organization |
| 14 | | headquartered in the county in which the municipality is |
| 15 | | located and if DuPage County that not-for-profit organization |
| 16 | | is recognized by the Department of Commerce and Economic |
| 17 | | Opportunity as a certified local tourism and convention bureau |
| 18 | | entitled to receive State tourism grant funds, then not less |
| 19 | | than 50% 75% of the amounts collected pursuant to Section |
| 20 | | 8-3-14 shall be expended by the municipality to promote |
| 21 | | tourism and conventions within that municipality or otherwise |
| 22 | | to attract nonresident overnight visitors to the municipality, |
| 23 | | and the remainder of the amounts collected by the a |