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Rep. George Scully Jr.
Filed: 4/26/2007
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| AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 2069
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| AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 2069 by replacing |
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| everything after the enacting clause with the following:
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| "Section 5. The Gas Revenue Tax Act is amended by changing |
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| Section 2 as follows:
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| (35 ILCS 615/2) (from Ch. 120, par. 467.17)
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| Sec. 2. Tax imposed; rate; phase-out for residential |
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| customers.
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| (a) Except as provided in subsection (b), a
A tax is |
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| imposed upon persons engaged in the business of
distributing, |
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| supplying, furnishing or selling gas to persons for use or
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| consumption and not for resale at the rate of 2.4 cents per |
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| therm of all
gas which is so distributed, supplied, furnished, |
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| sold or
transported to or for each customer in
the course of |
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| such business, or 5% of the gross receipts
received from each |
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| customer from
such business, whichever is the lower rate as |
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| applied to each customer
for that customer's billing period, |
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| provided that any change in rate
imposed by this amendatory
Act |
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| of 1985 shall become effective only with bills having a meter |
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| reading
date on or after January 1, 1986. However, such
taxes |
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| are not imposed with
respect to any business in interstate |
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| commerce, or otherwise to the extent
to which such business may |
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| not, under the Constitution and statutes of the
United States, |
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| be made the subject of taxation by this State.
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| Nothing in this amendatory Act of 1985 shall impose a tax |
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| with respect
to any transaction with respect to which no tax |
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| was imposed immediately
preceding the
effective date of this |
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| amendatory Act of 1985.
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| Beginning with bills issued to customers on and after |
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| October 1, 2003, no
tax shall be
imposed under this Act on |
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| transactions with customers who incur a tax liability
under the
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| Gas Use Tax Law.
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| (b) Each July 1, beginning on July 1, 2007, the rate of the |
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| tax imposed under this Section for gas that is
distributed, |
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| supplied, furnished, sold, or transported to a
residential |
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| customer is reduced by $0.006 per therm until the rate of the |
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| tax is zero. In no case, however, shall the tax under this |
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| Section be imposed with respect to gas that is
distributed, |
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| supplied, furnished, sold, or transported to a
residential |
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| customer on or after July 1, 2011. |
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| For purposes of this subsection, "residential customer"
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| means a customer who is receiving gas or gas service for
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| household purposes that is either (i) distributed to a
dwelling |
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| of 2 or fewer units and billed under a residential
rate or (ii) |
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| distributed to a dwelling unit or units, billed
under a |
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| residential rate, and registered by a separate meter
for each |
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| dwelling unit.
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| (Source: P.A. 93-31, eff. 10-1-03.)
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| Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon |
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| becoming law.".
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