Full Text of HB3781 94th General Assembly
HB3781 94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2005 and 2006 HB3781
Introduced 2/25/2005, by Rep. Charles E. Jefferson SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: |
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30 ILCS 105/8.3 |
from Ch. 127, par. 144.3 |
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Amends the State Finance Act. Provides that for fiscal years 2006 and thereafter appropriations from the Road Fund to the Department of State Police may not exceed $45,000,000, and appropriations from the Road Fund to the Secretary of State may not exceed $30,000,000. Effective immediately.
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| AN ACT concerning finance.
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| Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| represented in the General Assembly:
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| Section 5. The State Finance Act is amended by changing | 5 |
| Section 8.3 as follows:
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| (30 ILCS 105/8.3) (from Ch. 127, par. 144.3)
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| Sec. 8.3. Money in the Road Fund shall, if and when the | 8 |
| State of
Illinois incurs any bonded indebtedness for the | 9 |
| construction of
permanent highways, be set aside and used for | 10 |
| the purpose of paying and
discharging annually the principal | 11 |
| and interest on that bonded
indebtedness then due and payable, | 12 |
| and for no other purpose. The
surplus, if any, in the Road Fund | 13 |
| after the payment of principal and
interest on that bonded | 14 |
| indebtedness then annually due shall be used as
follows:
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| first -- to pay the cost of administration of Chapters | 16 |
| 2 through 10 of
the Illinois Vehicle Code, except the cost | 17 |
| of administration of Articles I and
II of Chapter 3 of that | 18 |
| Code; and
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| secondly -- for expenses of the Department of | 20 |
| Transportation for
construction, reconstruction, | 21 |
| improvement, repair, maintenance,
operation, and | 22 |
| administration of highways in accordance with the
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| provisions of laws relating thereto, or for any purpose | 24 |
| related or
incident to and connected therewith, including | 25 |
| the separation of grades
of those highways with railroads | 26 |
| and with highways and including the
payment of awards made | 27 |
| by the Illinois Workers' Compensation Commission under the | 28 |
| terms of
the Workers' Compensation Act or Workers' | 29 |
| Occupational Diseases Act for
injury or death of an | 30 |
| employee of the Division of Highways in the
Department of | 31 |
| Transportation; or for the acquisition of land and the
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| erection of buildings for highway purposes, including the |
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| acquisition of
highway right-of-way or for investigations | 2 |
| to determine the reasonably
anticipated future highway | 3 |
| needs; or for making of surveys, plans,
specifications and | 4 |
| estimates for and in the construction and maintenance
of | 5 |
| flight strips and of highways necessary to provide access | 6 |
| to military
and naval reservations, to defense industries | 7 |
| and defense-industry
sites, and to the sources of raw | 8 |
| materials and for replacing existing
highways and highway | 9 |
| connections shut off from general public use at
military | 10 |
| and naval reservations and defense-industry sites, or for | 11 |
| the
purchase of right-of-way, except that the State shall | 12 |
| be reimbursed in
full for any expense incurred in building | 13 |
| the flight strips; or for the
operating and maintaining of | 14 |
| highway garages; or for patrolling and
policing the public | 15 |
| highways and conserving the peace; or for the operating | 16 |
| expenses of the Department relating to the administration | 17 |
| of public transportation programs; or for any of
those | 18 |
| purposes or any other purpose that may be provided by law.
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| Appropriations for any of those purposes are payable from | 20 |
| the Road
Fund. Appropriations may also be made from the Road | 21 |
| Fund for the
administrative expenses of any State agency that | 22 |
| are related to motor
vehicles or arise from the use of motor | 23 |
| vehicles.
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| Beginning with fiscal year 1980 and thereafter, no Road | 25 |
| Fund monies
shall be appropriated to the following Departments | 26 |
| or agencies of State
government for administration, grants, or | 27 |
| operations; but this
limitation is not a restriction upon | 28 |
| appropriating for those purposes any
Road Fund monies that are | 29 |
| eligible for federal reimbursement;
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| 1. Department of Public Health;
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| 2. Department of Transportation, only with respect to | 32 |
| subsidies for
one-half fare Student Transportation and | 33 |
| Reduced Fare for Elderly;
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| 3. Department of Central Management
Services, except | 35 |
| for expenditures
incurred for group insurance premiums of | 36 |
| appropriate personnel;
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| 4. Judicial Systems and Agencies.
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| Beginning with fiscal year 1981 and thereafter, no Road | 3 |
| Fund monies
shall be appropriated to the following Departments | 4 |
| or agencies of State
government for administration, grants, or | 5 |
| operations; but this
limitation is not a restriction upon | 6 |
| appropriating for those purposes any
Road Fund monies that are | 7 |
| eligible for federal reimbursement:
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| 1. Department of State Police, except for expenditures | 9 |
| with
respect to the Division of Operations;
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| 2. Department of Transportation, only with respect to | 11 |
| Intercity Rail
Subsidies and Rail Freight Services.
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| Beginning with fiscal year 1982 and thereafter, no Road | 13 |
| Fund monies
shall be appropriated to the following Departments | 14 |
| or agencies of State
government for administration, grants, or | 15 |
| operations; but this
limitation is not a restriction upon | 16 |
| appropriating for those purposes any
Road Fund monies that are | 17 |
| eligible for federal reimbursement: Department
of Central | 18 |
| Management Services, except for awards made by
the Illinois | 19 |
| Workers' Compensation Commission under the terms of the | 20 |
| Workers' Compensation Act
or Workers' Occupational Diseases | 21 |
| Act for injury or death of an employee of
the Division of | 22 |
| Highways in the Department of Transportation.
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| Beginning with fiscal year 1984 and thereafter, no Road | 24 |
| Fund monies
shall be appropriated to the following Departments | 25 |
| or agencies of State
government for administration, grants, or | 26 |
| operations; but this
limitation is not a restriction upon | 27 |
| appropriating for those purposes any
Road Fund monies that are | 28 |
| eligible for federal reimbursement:
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| 1. Department of State Police, except not more than 40% | 30 |
| of the
funds appropriated for the Division of Operations;
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| 2. State Officers.
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| Beginning with fiscal year 1984 and thereafter, no Road | 33 |
| Fund monies
shall be appropriated to any Department or agency | 34 |
| of State government
for administration, grants, or operations | 35 |
| except as provided hereafter;
but this limitation is not a | 36 |
| restriction upon appropriating for those
purposes any Road Fund |
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| monies that are eligible for federal
reimbursement. It shall | 2 |
| not be lawful to circumvent the above
appropriation limitations | 3 |
| by governmental reorganization or other
methods. | 4 |
| Appropriations shall be made from the Road Fund only in
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| accordance with the provisions of this Section.
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| Money in the Road Fund shall, if and when the State of | 7 |
| Illinois
incurs any bonded indebtedness for the construction of | 8 |
| permanent
highways, be set aside and used for the purpose of | 9 |
| paying and
discharging during each fiscal year the principal | 10 |
| and interest on that
bonded indebtedness as it becomes due and | 11 |
| payable as provided in the
Transportation Bond Act, and for no | 12 |
| other
purpose. The surplus, if any, in the Road Fund after the | 13 |
| payment of
principal and interest on that bonded indebtedness | 14 |
| then annually due
shall be used as follows:
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| first -- to pay the cost of administration of Chapters | 16 |
| 2 through 10
of the Illinois Vehicle Code; and
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| secondly -- no Road Fund monies derived from fees, | 18 |
| excises, or
license taxes relating to registration, | 19 |
| operation and use of vehicles on
public highways or to | 20 |
| fuels used for the propulsion of those vehicles,
shall be | 21 |
| appropriated or expended other than for costs of | 22 |
| administering
the laws imposing those fees, excises, and | 23 |
| license taxes, statutory
refunds and adjustments allowed | 24 |
| thereunder, administrative costs of the
Department of | 25 |
| Transportation, including, but not limited to, the | 26 |
| operating expenses of the Department relating to the | 27 |
| administration of public transportation programs, payment | 28 |
| of debts and liabilities incurred
in construction and | 29 |
| reconstruction of public highways and bridges,
acquisition | 30 |
| of rights-of-way for and the cost of construction,
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| reconstruction, maintenance, repair, and operation of | 32 |
| public highways and
bridges under the direction and | 33 |
| supervision of the State, political
subdivision, or | 34 |
| municipality collecting those monies, and the costs for
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| patrolling and policing the public highways (by State, | 36 |
| political
subdivision, or municipality collecting that |
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| money) for enforcement of
traffic laws. The separation of | 2 |
| grades of such highways with railroads
and costs associated | 3 |
| with protection of at-grade highway and railroad
crossing | 4 |
| shall also be permissible.
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| Appropriations for any of such purposes are payable from | 6 |
| the Road
Fund or the Grade Crossing Protection Fund as provided | 7 |
| in Section 8 of
the Motor Fuel Tax Law.
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| Except as provided in this paragraph, beginning with fiscal | 9 |
| year 1991 and
through fiscal year 2002
thereafter , no Road Fund | 10 |
| monies
shall be appropriated to the Department of State Police | 11 |
| for the purposes of
this Section in excess of its total fiscal | 12 |
| year 1990 Road Fund
appropriations for those purposes unless | 13 |
| otherwise provided in Section 5g of
this Act.
For fiscal years | 14 |
| 2003,
2004, and 2005 only, no Road Fund monies shall
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| appropriated to the
Department of State Police for the purposes | 16 |
| of this Section in excess of
$97,310,000.
For fiscal years 2006 | 17 |
| and thereafter, no Road Fund monies shall be appropriated to | 18 |
| the Department of State Police for the purposes of this Section | 19 |
| in excess of $45,000,000. It shall not be lawful to circumvent | 20 |
| this limitation on
appropriations by governmental | 21 |
| reorganization or other methods unless
otherwise provided in | 22 |
| Section 5g of this Act.
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| In fiscal year 1994, no Road Fund monies shall be | 24 |
| appropriated
to the
Secretary of State for the purposes of this | 25 |
| Section in excess of the total
fiscal year 1991 Road Fund | 26 |
| appropriations to the Secretary of State for
those purposes, | 27 |
| plus $9,800,000. It
shall not be
lawful to circumvent
this | 28 |
| limitation on appropriations by governmental reorganization or | 29 |
| other
method.
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| Beginning with fiscal year 1995 and thereafter, no Road | 31 |
| Fund
monies
shall be appropriated to the Secretary of State for | 32 |
| the purposes of this
Section in excess of the total fiscal year | 33 |
| 1994 Road Fund
appropriations to
the Secretary of State for | 34 |
| those purposes. It shall not be lawful to
circumvent this | 35 |
| limitation on appropriations by governmental reorganization
or | 36 |
| other methods.
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| Beginning with fiscal year 2000, total Road Fund | 2 |
| appropriations to the
Secretary of State for the purposes of | 3 |
| this Section shall not exceed the
amounts specified for the | 4 |
| following fiscal years:
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| Fiscal Year 2000 $80,500,000; | 6 |
| Fiscal Year 2001 $80,500,000; | 7 |
| Fiscal Year 2002 $80,500,000; | 8 |
| Fiscal Year 2003 $130,500,000; | 9 |
| Fiscal Year 2004 $130,500,000; | 10 |
| Fiscal Year 2005 $130,500,000; | 11 |
| Fiscal Year 2006 and | 12 |
| each year thereafter $30,000,000
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| $30,500,000 .
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| It shall not be lawful to circumvent this limitation on | 15 |
| appropriations by
governmental reorganization or other | 16 |
| methods.
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| No new program may be initiated in fiscal year 1991 and
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| thereafter that is not consistent with the limitations imposed | 19 |
| by this
Section for fiscal year 1984 and thereafter, insofar as | 20 |
| appropriation of
Road Fund monies is concerned.
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| Nothing in this Section prohibits transfers from the Road | 22 |
| Fund to the
State Construction Account Fund under Section 5e of | 23 |
| this Act; nor to the
General Revenue Fund, as authorized by | 24 |
| this amendatory Act of
the 93rd
General Assembly.
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| The additional amounts authorized for expenditure in this | 26 |
| Section by Public Acts 92-0600 and 93-0025 shall be repaid to | 27 |
| the Road Fund
from the General Revenue Fund in the next | 28 |
| succeeding fiscal year that the
General Revenue Fund has a | 29 |
| positive budgetary balance, as determined by
generally | 30 |
| accepted accounting principles applicable to government.
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| The additional amounts authorized for expenditure by the | 32 |
| Secretary of State
and
the Department of State Police in this | 33 |
| Section by this amendatory Act of the
93rd General
Assembly | 34 |
| shall be repaid to the Road Fund from the General Revenue Fund | 35 |
| in the
next
succeeding fiscal year that the General Revenue | 36 |
| Fund has a positive budgetary
balance,
as determined by |
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| generally accepted accounting principles applicable to
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| government.
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| (Source: P.A. 92-600, eff. 6-28-02; 93-25, eff. 6-20-03; | 4 |
| 93-721, eff. 1-1-05; 93-839, eff. 7-30-04; revised 10-25-04.)
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