95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2007 and 2008
HB1963

 

Introduced 2/23/2007, by Rep. Robert F. Flider

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
605 ILCS 5/6-901   from Ch. 121, par. 6-901

    Amends the Illinois Highway Code. Increases from $15,000,000 to $30,000,000 the amount the General Assembly shall appropriate annually for apportionment to counties for construction of bridges 20 feet or more in length. Provides that, with respect to $15,000,000 of the $30,000,000 to be appropriated annually, the amount apportioned to a county shall be in the proportion that the number of bridges in disrepair (rather than the mileage of townships or district roads) in the county, as certified by the Department of Transportation, bears to the number of those bridges in the State, as certified by the Department.


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FISCAL NOTE ACT MAY APPLY

 

 

A BILL FOR

 

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1     AN ACT concerning transportation.
 
2     Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
 
4     Section 5. The Illinois Highway Code is amended by changing
5 Section 6-901 as follows:
 
6     (605 ILCS 5/6-901)  (from Ch. 121, par. 6-901)
7     Sec. 6-901. (a) Annually, the General Assembly shall
8 appropriate to the Department of Transportation from the road
9 fund, the general revenue fund, any other State funds or a
10 combination of those funds, $30,000,000 $15,000,000 for
11 apportionment to counties for the use of road districts for the
12 construction of bridges 20 feet or more in length, as provided
13 in Sections 6-902 through 6-905.
14     The Department of Transportation shall apportion among the
15 several counties of this State for the use of road districts
16 the amounts appropriated under this Section.
17     (b) Of the $30,000,000 to be appropriated annually under
18 subsection (a), $15,000,000 shall be apportioned as follows:
19 the The amount apportioned to a county shall be in the
20 proportion which the total mileage of township or district
21 roads in the county bears to the total mileage of all township
22 and district roads in the State.
23     (c) Of the $30,000,000 to be apportioned annually under

 

 

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1 subsection (a), $15,000,000 shall be appointed as follows: the
2 amount apportioned to a county shall be in the proportion which
3 the total number of bridges in disrepair in the county, as
4 certified by the Department, bears to the total number of
5 bridges in disrepair in the State, as certified by the
6 Department.
7     (d) Each county shall allocate to the several road
8 districts in the county the funds so apportioned to the county.
9 The allocation to road districts shall be made in the same
10 manner and be subject to the same conditions and qualifications
11 as are provided by Section 8 of the "Motor Fuel Tax Law",
12 approved March 25, 1929, as amended, with respect to the
13 allocation to road districts of the amount allotted from the
14 Motor Fuel Tax Fund for apportionment to counties for the use
15 of road districts, but no allocation shall be made to any road
16 district that has not levied taxes for road and bridge purposes
17 and for bridge construction purposes at the maximum rates
18 permitted by Sections 6-501, 6-508 and 6-512 of this Act,
19 without referendum. "Road district" and "township or district
20 road" have the meanings ascribed to those terms in this Act.
21     Road districts in counties in which a property tax
22 extension limitation is imposed under the Property Tax
23 Extension Limitation Law that are made ineligible for receipt
24 of this appropriation due to the imposition of a property tax
25 extension limitation may become eligible if, at the time the
26 property tax extension limitation was imposed, the road

 

 

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1 district was levying at the required rate and continues to levy
2 the maximum allowable amount after the imposition of the
3 property tax extension limitation. The road district also
4 becomes eligible if it levies at or above the rate required for
5 eligibility by Section 8 of the Motor Fuel Tax Law.
6     The amounts apportioned under this Section for allocation
7 to road districts may be used only for bridge construction as
8 provided in this Division. So much of those amounts as are not
9 obligated under Sections 6-902 through 6-904 and for which
10 local funds have not been committed under Section 6-905 within
11 24 months of the date when such apportionment is made lapses
12 and shall not be paid to the county treasurer for distribution
13 to road districts.
14 (Source: P.A. 90-110, eff. 7-14-97.)