95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2007 and 2008
HB0540


 
Introduced 2/1/2007, by Rep. Kurt M. Granberg
 
SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 		














30 ILCS 750/8-2
  from Ch. 127, par. 2708-2







    Amends the Build Illinois Act. With respect to the Public Infrastructure Loan and Grant Programs, includes brownfields site remediation in the definition of "public infrastructure".
















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    AN ACT concerning finance.

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


 
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    Section 5. The Build Illinois Act is amended  by changing 
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Section 8-2 as follows:
 



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    (30 ILCS 750/8-2)  (from Ch. 127, par. 2708-2)



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    Sec. 8-2. Definitions. As used in this Article:

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    (a) "Department" means the Illinois Department of Commerce 
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and
Economic Opportunity.

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    (b) "Local government" means any unit of local government 
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as defined in
Article VII, Section 1 of the 1970 Illinois 
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Constitution.

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    (c) "Business retention, development or expansion project"

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means the expansion of an existing, for-profit commercial,

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industrial, manufacturing, scientific, agricultural or
service 
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business within Illinois, or the establishment of a
new such 
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business on a site within Illinois, so long as the
business to 
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be established is not relocating from another
site within the 
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State, unless the relocation of such a business
will result in 
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a substantial increase in employment or retention of an

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existing such business.

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    (d) "Public infrastructure" means local roads and streets, 
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access roads,
bridges, and sidewalks; waste disposal systems; 
 


 






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water and sewer line extensions
and water distribution and 
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purification facilities, and sewage treatment
facilities; rail 
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or air or water port improvements; gas and electric utility

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facilities; transit capital facilities; brownfields site 
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remediation; and development
and improvement of publicly owned 
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industrial and commercial
sites, or other public capital 
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improvements which are an
essential precondition to a business 
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retention, development or expansion
project  for the purposes of 
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the Business Development Public Infrastructure
Loan and Grant 
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Program.  "Public Infrastructure" also means capital

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acquisitions, construction, and improvements to other local 
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facilities and
sites, and associated permanent furnishings and 
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equipment that are a necessary
precondition to local health, 
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safety and economic development for purposes of
the Affordable 
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Financing of Public Infrastructure Loan and Grant Program.

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    (e) "Local public entity" means any entity as defined by 
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Section 1-206 of
the Local Governmental and Governmental 
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Employees Tort Immunity Act.

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    (f) "Medical facility" and "public health clinic" mean any 
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entity as defined
by subsections (a) and (c), respectively, of 
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Section 6-101 of the Local
Governmental and Governmental 
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Employees Tort Immunity Act.

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(Source: P.A. 94-793, eff. 5-19-06.)