July 1, 2013
To the Honorable
Members of the Illinois House of Representatives
98th
General Assembly
Today Ireturn House Bill 215 with a line item
veto in the amount of $2,613,500.
This
appropriation is duplicative of an appropriation in Article 35, Section 10 of
House Bill 214.
With this
action, all other appropriations in House Bill 215 become law. Within the
appropriations of House Bill 215 are items that are necessary for the
day-to-day operations of State Government, and appropriations that are for the
capital expenditures of the State. Of those capital expenditures, many
projects are funded as pay-as-you-go items while others are projects that are
intended to be funded with the issuance of bonds.
It is the intent
of the State that all or a portion of the costs of projects funded by
appropriations made in this Act from the Capital Development Fund, the School
Construction Fund, the Anti-Pollution Fund, the Transportation Bond Series A
Fund, the Transportation Bond Series B Fund, the Coal Development Fund, the
Transportation Bond Series D Fund, and the Build Illinois Bond Fund which may
be eligible for tax-exempt financing will be paid or reimbursed from the
proceeds of tax-exempt bonds subsequently issued by the State.
Therefore,
pursuant to Article IV, Section 9(d) of the Illinois Constitution of 1970, I
hereby return House Bill 215, entitled “AN ACT making appropriations” with a
line item veto in appropriations totaling $2,613,500.
Item Veto
I hereby veto
the appropriation item listed below:
Article
|
Section
|
Pages
|
Lines
|
Amount
Enacted
|
22
|
305
|
111
112
|
20 – 22
1 – 3
|
2,613,500
|
In addition
to this specific line item veto, I hereby approve all other appropriation items
in House Bill 215.
Sincerely,
PAT QUINN
Governor