96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2009 and 2010
HB1037

 

Introduced 02/11/09, by Rep. Robert F. Flider

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
605 ILCS 5/6-901   from Ch. 121, par. 6-901
605 ILCS 5/6-905   from Ch. 121, par. 6-905

    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 the amount of grant for an approved road district project shall require at least $1 of local funds committed to the project for each $9 (rather than for each $4) that may be allocated under the Code.


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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 Sections 6-901 and 6-905 as follows:
 
6     (605 ILCS 5/6-901)  (from Ch. 121, par. 6-901)
7     Sec. 6-901. 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. The amount
17 apportioned to a county shall be in the proportion which the
18 total mileage of township or district roads in the county bears
19 to the total mileage of all township and district roads in the
20 State. Each county shall allocate to the several road districts
21 in the county the funds so apportioned to the county. The
22 allocation to road districts shall be made in the same manner
23 and be subject to the same conditions and qualifications as are

 

 

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1 provided by Section 8 of the "Motor Fuel Tax Law", approved
2 March 25, 1929, as amended, with respect to the allocation to
3 road districts of the amount allotted from the Motor Fuel Tax
4 Fund for apportionment to counties for the use of road
5 districts, but no allocation shall be made to any road district
6 that has not levied taxes for road and bridge purposes and for
7 bridge construction purposes at the maximum rates permitted by
8 Sections 6-501, 6-508 and 6-512 of this Act, without
9 referendum. "Road district" and "township or district road"
10 have the meanings ascribed to those terms in this Act.
11     Road districts in counties in which a property tax
12 extension limitation is imposed under the Property Tax
13 Extension Limitation Law that are made ineligible for receipt
14 of this appropriation due to the imposition of a property tax
15 extension limitation may become eligible if, at the time the
16 property tax extension limitation was imposed, the road
17 district was levying at the required rate and continues to levy
18 the maximum allowable amount after the imposition of the
19 property tax extension limitation. The road district also
20 becomes eligible if it levies at or above the rate required for
21 eligibility by Section 8 of the Motor Fuel Tax Law.
22     The amounts apportioned under this Section for allocation
23 to road districts may be used only for bridge construction as
24 provided in this Division. So much of those amounts as are not
25 obligated under Sections 6-902 through 6-904 and for which
26 local funds have not been committed under Section 6-905 within

 

 

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1 24 months of the date when such apportionment is made lapses
2 and shall not be paid to the county treasurer for distribution
3 to road districts.
4 (Source: P.A. 90-110, eff. 7-14-97.)
 
5     (605 ILCS 5/6-905)  (from Ch. 121, par. 6-905)
6     Sec. 6-905. The amount of grant for an approved road
7 district project shall require at least $1 of local funds
8 committed to the project for each $9 $4 that may be allocated
9 under Section 6-901.
10 (Source: P.A. 81-1509.)