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HB1379 94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY


 


 
94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2005 and 2006
HB1379

 

Introduced 2/9/2005, by Rep. Michael P. McAuliffe

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
35 ILCS 5/509   from Ch. 120, par. 5-509

    Amends the Illinois Income Tax Act. Provides that the requirement that an income tax checkoff that does not collect $100,000 or more in a year be removed from the income tax return forms does not apply to the first year in which contributions are collected under the checkoff.


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FISCAL NOTE ACT MAY APPLY

 

 

A BILL FOR

 

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1     AN ACT concerning revenue.
 
2     Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
 
4     Section 5. The Illinois Income Tax Act is amended by
5 changing Section 509 as follows:
 
6     (35 ILCS 5/509)  (from Ch. 120, par. 5-509)
7     Sec. 509. Tax checkoff explanations. All individual income
8 tax return forms shall contain appropriate explanations and
9 spaces to enable the taxpayers to designate contributions to
10 the following funds: the Child Abuse Prevention Fund, the
11 Illinois Wildlife Preservation Fund (as required by the
12 Illinois Non-Game Wildlife Protection Act), the Alzheimer's
13 Disease Research Fund (as required by the Alzheimer's Disease
14 Research Act), the Assistance to the Homeless Fund (as required
15 by this Act), the Penny Severns Breast and Cervical Cancer
16 Research Fund, the National World War II Memorial Fund, the
17 Prostate Cancer Research Fund, the Lou Gehrig's Disease (ALS)
18 Research Fund, the Multiple Sclerosis Assistance Fund, the
19 Leukemia Treatment and Education Fund, the World War II
20 Illinois Veterans Memorial Fund, the Korean War Veterans
21 National Museum and Library Fund, the Illinois Military Family
22 Relief Fund, the Illinois Veterans' Homes Fund, and the Asthma
23 and Lung Research Fund.
24     Each form shall contain a statement that the contributions
25 will reduce the taxpayer's refund or increase the amount of
26 payment to accompany the return. Failure to remit any amount of
27 increased payment shall reduce the contribution accordingly.
28     If, on October 1 of any year except the first year in which
29 contributions are collected under a checkoff, the total
30 contributions to any one of the funds made under this Section
31 do not equal $100,000 or more, the explanations and spaces for
32 designating contributions to the fund shall be removed from the

 

 

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1 individual income tax return forms for the following and all
2 subsequent years and all subsequent contributions to the fund
3 shall be refunded to the taxpayer.
4 (Source: P.A. 92-84, eff. 7-1-02; 92-198, eff. 8-1-01; 92-651,
5 eff. 7-11-02; 92-772, eff. 8-6-02; 92-886, eff. 2-7-03; 93-36,
6 eff. 6-24-03; 93-131, eff. 7-10-03; 93-292, eff. 7-22-03;
7 93-324, eff. 7-23-03; 93-776, eff. 7-21-04.)