Full Text of SB1605 99th General Assembly
SB1605 99TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY |
| | 99TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2015 and 2016 SB1605 Introduced 2/20/2015, by Sen. Christine Radogno SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: |
| 105 ILCS 5/10-22.14 | from Ch. 122, par. 10-22.14 |
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Amends the School Code. Allows any high school district whose territory is in 2 counties and that is eligible for Section 8002 Federal Impact Aid to make a one-time declaration as to interest income not previously declared from 1998 through 2011 in the debt service fund, declaring said moneys as interest earnings on or before June 30, 2016. Requires any such earnings income to thereafter be considered interest earnings. Effective immediately.
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| 1 | | AN ACT concerning education.
| 2 | | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
| 3 | | represented in the General Assembly:
| 4 | | Section 5. The School Code is amended by changing Section | 5 | | 10-22.14 as follows:
| 6 | | (105 ILCS 5/10-22.14) (from Ch. 122, par. 10-22.14)
| 7 | | Sec. 10-22.14. Borrowing money and issuing bonds. To borrow | 8 | | money, and issue
bonds for the purposes and in the manner | 9 | | provided by this Act.
| 10 | | When bond proceeds from the sale of bonds include a | 11 | | premium, or when
the proceeds of bonds issued for fire | 12 | | prevention, safety, energy conservation,
and school security | 13 | | purposes as specified in Section 17-2.11 are invested as
| 14 | | authorized by law, the board shall determine by resolution | 15 | | whether the interest
earned on the investment of bond proceeds | 16 | | authorized under Section 17-2.11 or
the premium realized in the | 17 | | sale of bonds, as the case may be, is to be used
for the | 18 | | purposes for which the bonds were issued or, instead, for | 19 | | payment of
the principal indebtedness and interest on those | 20 | | bonds.
| 21 | | When bonds, other than bonds issued for fire prevention, | 22 | | safety, energy
conservation, and school security purposes as | 23 | | specified in Section 17-2.11
are issued by any school district, |
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| 1 | | and the purposes for which the bonds have
been issued are | 2 | | accomplished and paid for in full, and there remain funds on
| 3 | | hand from the proceeds of the bonds so issued, the board by | 4 | | resolution may
transfer those excess funds to the operations | 5 | | and maintenance fund.
| 6 | | When bonds are issued by any school district for fire | 7 | | prevention,
safety, energy conservation, and school security | 8 | | purposes as specified in
Section 17-2.11, and the purposes for | 9 | | which the bonds have been
issued are accomplished and paid in | 10 | | full, and there remain funds on hand
from the proceeds of the | 11 | | bonds issued, the board by resolution shall use
those excess | 12 | | funds (1) for other authorized fire prevention, safety, energy
| 13 | | conservation, and school security purposes as specified in | 14 | | Section 17-2.11
or (2) for transfer to the Bond and Interest | 15 | | Fund for payment of principal
and interest on those bonds. If | 16 | | any transfer is made to the Bond and
Interest Fund, the | 17 | | secretary of the school board shall within 30 days
notify the | 18 | | county clerk of the amount of that transfer and direct the | 19 | | clerk
to abate the taxes to be extended for the purposes of | 20 | | principal and
interest payments on the respective bonds issued | 21 | | under Section 17-2.11
by an amount equal to such transfer.
| 22 | | Any high school district whose territory is in 2 counties | 23 | | and that is eligible for Section 8002 Federal Impact Aid may | 24 | | make a one-time declaration as to interest income (earnings on | 25 | | investments) not previously declared as such from 1998 through | 26 | | 2011 in the debt service fund, declaring said moneys as |
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| 1 | | interest earnings on or before June 30, 2016. Any such earnings | 2 | | income so declared shall thereafter, for purposes of this Code, | 3 | | be considered interest earnings and shall be subject to all | 4 | | provisions of this Code related thereto. | 5 | | (Source: P.A. 86-970; 87-984.)
| 6 | | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | 7 | | becoming law.
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