HB0172ham001 97TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

Rep. André M. Thapedi

Filed: 3/8/2011

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AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 172

AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 172 by replacing everything after the enacting clause with the following:

"Section 1. Short Title. This amendatory Act may be known as the Emergency Seniors and Youth Budget Relief Act of 2011.

Section 5. The Illinois Aeronautics Act is amended by adding Section 34c as follows:

(620 ILCS 5/34c new)

Sec. 34c. Baggage Fee Sharing Program.

(a) In all air navigation facilities located in this State that are not owned or controlled by the federal government, the Department shall collect a fee from any person operating aircraft for hire or reward in this State who charges and collects a fee in this State, from any person, for that traveling person to simultaneously transport tangible personal property on any civil aircraft operating in the State's airways, subject to the following conditions:

(1) The shared fee to be collected by the Department pursuant to this Section shall be equal to the rate of 12.5% of all fees charged and collected in this State.

(2) All shared fees collected by the Department pursuant to this Section shall be disbursed within 60 days after receipt as follows: 2% to the county that the shared fee was collected for deposit into the General Corporate Fund; 2% to the Department of Transportation of this State for administrative expenses related to the implementation of this Section; 96% to the General Revenue Fund.

(3) The shared fee to be collected by the Department pursuant to this Section is limited to those fees actually collected in air navigation facilities in this State by operators of aircraft for hire or reward from any person physically present in this State.

(b) Fees charged and collected in this State by air schools, flying clubs, and sport parachutists are exempt from the provisions of this Section.

(c) The Department may promulgate rules that it finds appropriate to implement the Baggage Fee Sharing Program created by this Section.

(d) This Section is repealed on January 1, 2015.

Section 10. The Illinois Vehicle Code is amended by changing Section 13C-50 as follows:

(625 ILCS 5/13C-50)

Sec. 13C-50. Costs.

(a) Except as otherwise provided in paragraph (a)(5) or (b)(7) of Section 13C-15 or in subsection (c) of this Section, no fee shall be charged to motor vehicle owners for obtaining inspections required under this Chapter. The Vehicle Inspection Fund, which is a fund created in the State treasury for the purpose of receiving moneys from the Motor Fuel Tax Fund and other sources, shall be used, subject to appropriation, for the payment of the costs of the program, including reimbursement of those agencies of the State that incur expenses in the administration or enforcement of the program. The Vehicle Inspection Fund shall continue in existence notwithstanding the repeal of Chapter 13B. Any money in the Vehicle Inspection Fund on February 1, 2007, shall be used for the purposes set forth in this Chapter.

(b) The Agency may acquire, own, maintain, operate, sell, lease and otherwise transfer real and personal property and interests in real and personal property for the purpose of creating or operating inspection stations and for any other purpose relating to the administration of this Chapter, and may use money from the Vehicle Inspection Fund for these purposes.

(c) Beginning on the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 97th General Assembly and through December 31, 2014, a $10 fee shall be charged to motor vehicle owners for obtaining inspections required under this Chapter and shall be deposited into the General Revenue Fund.

(Source: P.A. 94-526, eff. 1-1-06; 94-848, eff. 6-9-06.)

Section 97. Severability. The provisions of this Act are severable under Section 1.31 of the Statute on Statutes".