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90_HB0940

      110 ILCS 947/145
          Amends  the  Higher  Education  Student  Assistance  Act.
      Increases  to  $2,100,000,000   (from   $1,150,000,000)   the
      aggregate  principal  amount  of  bonds (other than refunding
      bonds) issued by the Illinois Student  Assistance  Commission
      under  the  Education  Loan  Purchase Program Law that may be
      outstanding at any one time.  Effective immediately.
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 1        AN ACT to amend the Higher Education  Student  Assistance
 2    Act by changing Section 145.
 3        Be  it  enacted  by  the People of the State of Illinois,
 4    represented in the General Assembly:
 5        Section 5.  The Higher Education Student  Assistance  Act
 6    is amended by changing Section 145 as follows:
 7        (110 ILCS 947/145)
 8        Sec. 145. Issuance of Bonds.
 9        (a)  The  Commission  has  power,  and is authorized from
10    time to time, to issue bonds (1) to make or acquire  eligible
11    loans,  (2) to refund the bonds of the Commission, or (3) for
12    a combination of such purposes. The Commission shall not have
13    outstanding at any one time bonds in an  aggregate  principal
14    amount  exceeding  $2,100,000,000  $1,150,000,000,  excluding
15    bonds issued to refund the bonds of the Commission.
16        The Commission is authorized to use the proceeds from the
17    sale  of  bonds  issued  pursuant  to  this  Act  to fund the
18    reserves created therefor, including a reserve  for  interest
19    coming  due  on the bonds for one year following the issuance
20    of the bonds, as provided in the  resolution  or  resolutions
21    authorizing  the  bonds  and to pay the necessary expenses of
22    issuing the bonds,  including  but  not  limited  to,  legal,
23    printing, and consulting fees.
24        (b)  The  Commission  has  power,  and is authorized from
25    time to time, to issue refunding bonds (1) to  refund  unpaid
26    matured   bonds;   (2)   to  refund  unpaid  matured  coupons
27    evidencing interest upon its unpaid matured bonds; and (3) to
28    refund interest at the coupon rate upon  its  unpaid  matured
29    bonds that has accrued since the maturity of those bonds. The
30    refunding bonds may be exchanged for the bonds to be refunded
31    on  a  par  for par basis of the bonds, interest coupons, and
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 1    interest not represented by coupons, if any, or may  be  sold
 2    at  not less than par or may be exchanged in part and sold in
 3    part; and the proceeds received at any  such  sale  shall  be
 4    used  to  pay  the  bonds, interest coupons, and interest not
 5    represented by coupons, if any. Bonds  and  interest  coupons
 6    which  have  been  received  in  exchange  or  paid  shall be
 7    cancelled and the obligation for interest, not represented by
 8    coupons which have been discharged, shall be evidenced  by  a
 9    written acknowledgement of the exchange or payment thereof.
10        (c)  The  Commission  has  power,  and is authorized from
11    time to time,  to  also  issue  refunding  bonds  under  this
12    Section,  to  refund  bonds  at or prior to their maturity or
13    which  by  their  terms  are  subject  to  redemption  before
14    maturity, or both, in an amount necessary to refund  (1)  the
15    principal  amount  of  the  bonds  to  be  refunded,  (2) the
16    interest to accrue up to and including the maturity  date  or
17    dates thereof, and (3) the applicable redemption premiums, if
18    any. Those refunding bonds may be exchanged for not less than
19    an  equal  principal amount of bonds to be refunded or may be
20    sold and the proceeds received at the sale thereof (excepting
21    the  accrued  interest  received)   used  to  complete   such
22    refunding,  including  the  payment  of the costs of issuance
23    thereof.
24        (d)  The bonds shall be authorized by resolution  of  the
25    Commission  and may be issued in one or more series, may bear
26    such  date  or  dates,  may  be  in  such   denomination   or
27    denominations, may mature at such time or times not exceeding
28    40  years  from  the  respective dates thereof, may mature in
29    such amount or amounts, may bear interest  at  such  rate  or
30    rates,  may be in such form either coupon or registered as to
31    principal only or as to  both  principal  and  interest,  may
32    carry  such registration privileges (including the conversion
33    of a fully registered bond to a coupon bond or bonds and  the
34    conversion  of a coupon bond to a fully registered bond), may
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 1    be executed in such manner,  may  be  made  payable  in  such
 2    medium  of payment, at such place or places within or without
 3    the State, and may be subject to  such  terms  of  redemption
 4    prior  to  their expressed maturity, with or without premium,
 5    as the resolution or other resolutions may provide.  Proceeds
 6    from the sale of the bonds may be invested as the  resolution
 7    or  resolutions  and  as the Commission from time to time may
 8    provide.  All bonds issued under this Act shall  be  sold  in
 9    the manner and at such price as the Commission may deem to be
10    in  the  best  interest  of  the  public.  The resolution may
11    provide that the bonds be executed with one manual  signature
12    and  that  other  signatures  may be printed, lithographed or
13    engraved thereon.
14        The Commission shall not be authorized to create and  the
15    bonds  shall  not  in  any event constitute State debt of the
16    State of Illinois within the meaning of the  Constitution  or
17    statutes  of  the State of Illinois, and the same shall be so
18    stated upon the face of each bond.  The source of payment for
19    the bonds shall be stated on the face of each bond.
20        The issuance of bonds under this Act is in  all  respects
21    for  the  benefit of the People of the State of Illinois, and
22    in consideration thereof the bonds issued  pursuant  to  this
23    Act  and the income therefrom shall be free from all taxation
24    by the  State  or  its  political  subdivisions,  except  for
25    estate,  transfer,  and  inheritance  taxes.  For purposes of
26    Section 250 of the Illinois Income Tax Act, the exemption  of
27    the  income  from bonds issued under this Act shall terminate
28    after all of the bonds have been paid.  The  amount  of  such
29    income  that  shall  be  added  and  then  subtracted  on the
30    Illinois income tax return of a taxpayer, pursuant to Section
31    203 of the Illinois Income Tax  Act,  from  federal  adjusted
32    gross  income or federal taxable income in computing Illinois
33    base income shall be the interest net  of  any  bond  premium
34    amortization.
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 1    (Source: P.A. 88-282; 89-460, eff. 5-24-96.)
 2        Section  99.  Effective date.  This Act takes effect upon
 3    becoming law.

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