HB0957 98TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

LRB098 06116 JWD 36157 b

98TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2013 and 2014
HB0957

Introduced 1/25/2013, by Rep. La Shawn K. Ford

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

30 ILCS 225/1.5 new

Amends the Public Funds Deposit Act. Provides that a depository institution that intends to close, relocate, or consolidate a branch location that impacts a low-income, moderate-income, or economically depressed urban or rural community must comply with certain advance notice and hearing requirements. Provides for the State Treasurer to hold a public hearing and determine whether it is in the best interests of the State to allow the closing, relocation, or consolidation. If the institution does not abide with a determination by the State Treasurer adverse to the institution's intent, then it may not receive or retain deposits of public funds. Effective immediately.

FISCAL NOTE ACT MAY APPLY

A BILL FOR

AN ACT concerning finance.

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly:

Section 5. The Public Funds Deposit Act is amended by adding Section 1.5 as follows:

(30 ILCS 225/1.5 new)

Sec. 1.5. Branch closure, relocation, or consolidation.

(a) No depository institution shall receive or retain deposits of public funds as permitted by this Act unless it complies with this Section.

(b) Before it closes, relocates, or consolidates a branch location that impacts a low-income, moderate-income, or economically depressed urban or rural community in this State, the institution must do both of the following:

(1) provide the State Treasurer with 90 days' advance notice in writing of an intent to close, relocate, or consolidate; and

(2) publish 90 days' advance notice in a newspaper of general circulation within the affected area of an intent to close, relocate, or consolidate.

(c) If the State Treasurer determines that the closing, relocation, or consolidation could have an adverse impact in the affected area, then the State Treasurer shall hold a public hearing in the affected area at least 15 days before any closing, relocation, or consolidation. The State Treasurer shall give adequate notice of the hearing to the community and to the institution. Advocates for the community shall be allowed to present their objections at the hearing.

(d) Within 5 days after the hearing, the State Treasurer shall notify the community and the institution whether the State Treasurer determines that it is in the best interests of the State to allow the closing, relocation, or consolidation to occur. If the institution does not abide with a determination by the State Treasurer that is not in the best interests to allow the closing, relocation, or consolidation, then the institution shall thereafter not receive or retain public funds under this Act.

Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon becoming law.