SB2074 101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2019 and 2020
SB2074

Introduced 2/15/2019, by Sen. Chapin Rose

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

15 ILCS 505/35 new

Amends the State Treasurer Act. Authorizes the State Treasurer to accept restitution on behalf of the taxpayers of Illinois for the cost of helicopter-based time-domain electromagnetics technology that may be so ordered by the Circuit Court in Champaign County as restitution for the natural gas leak from the People's Gas Light and Coke Company underground storage facility in northern Champaign County. Effective immediately.

A BILL FOR

AN ACT concerning State government.

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

Section 5. The State Treasurer Act is amended by adding Section 35 as follows:

(15 ILCS 505/35 new)

Sec. 35. Natural gas leak restitution. The State Treasurer is authorized to accept restitution on behalf of the taxpayers of Illinois for the cost of helicopter-based time-domain electromagnetics technology that may be so ordered by the Circuit Court in Champaign County in a case filed on or after January 1, 2018 as restitution for the natural gas leak from the People's Gas Light and Coke Company underground storage facility in northern Champaign County.

Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon becoming law.