HB4230ham003 98TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

Rep. David Reis

Filed: 5/13/2014

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AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 4230

AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 4230, AS AMENDED, with reference to page and line numbers of House Amendment No. 1, as follows:

on page 1, line 9, by replacing "35" with "35, 45,"; and

on page 25, immediately below line 1, by inserting the following:

"(50 ILCS 751/45)

(Section scheduled to be repealed on July 1, 2014)

Sec. 45. Continuation of current practices. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, a unit of local government or emergency telephone system board providing wireless 9-1-1 service and imposing and collecting a wireless carrier surcharge prior to July 1, 1998 may continue its practices of imposing and collecting its wireless carrier surcharge, but in no event shall that monthly surcharge exceed $2.50 per commercial mobile radio service (CMRS) connection or in-service telephone number billed on a monthly basis. For mobile telecommunications services provided on and after August 1, 2002, any surcharge imposed shall be imposed based upon the municipality or county that encompasses the customer's place of primary use as defined in the Mobile Telecommunications Sourcing Conformity Act.

In addition to any other lawful purpose, a municipality with a population over 500,000 may use the moneys collected under this Section for any anti-terrorism or emergency preparedness measures, including, but not limited to, preparedness planning, providing local matching funds for federal or State grants, personnel training, and specialized equipment, including surveillance cameras as needed to deal with natural and terrorist-inspired emergency situations or events.

For surcharges collected and remitted pursuant to this Section from July 1, 2014 through June 30, 2016, $0.015 per surcharge collected shall be deposited into the Poison Response Fund for distribution monthly to a human poison control center as defined in Section 10 of the Poison Control System Act.

For surcharges collected and remitted pursuant to this Section from July 1, 2016 through June 30, 2018, $0.0175 per surcharge collected shall be deposited into the Poison Response Fund for distribution monthly to a human poison control center as defined in Section 10 of the Poison Control System Act.

For surcharges collected and remitted pursuant to this Section on and after July 1, 2018 $0.02 per surcharge collected shall be deposited into the Poison Response Fund for distribution monthly to a human poison control center as defined in Section 10 of the Poison Control System Act.

(Source: P.A. 95-698, eff. 1-1-08.)".