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90_HB3233eng New Act Creates the Public Deposits Insurance Act. Creates the Board for Depositories to insure the safekeeping and prompt payment of all public funds deposited in any depository to the extent they are not covered by insurance of any federal deposit insurance agency, by maintaining and operating in its own name the Public Deposits Insurance Fund, which is created outside of the State treasury. Provides the powers, duties, and membership of the Board. Provides for deposits into the Fund by each depository in which public funds are held. Provides for payments out of the Fund when a depository closes. LRB9010785KDdv HB3233 Engrossed LRB9010785KDdv 1 AN ACT to create the Public Deposits Insurance Act. 2 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, 3 represented in the General Assembly: 4 Section 1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the 5 Public Deposits Insurance Act. 6 Section 5. Creation of Board. 7 (a) There is created an independent body, politic and 8 corporate, constituting an instrumentality of the State for 9 the public purposes set out in this Act, to be known as the 10 Board for Depositories (the Board). The Board is separate 11 from the State in its corporate and sovereign capacity. The 12 purpose of the Board is to insure the safekeeping and prompt 13 payment of public funds deposited into any depository, to the 14 extent they are not covered by insurance of any federal 15 deposit insurance agency, by maintaining and operating in its 16 own name the Public Deposits Insurance Fund (the Fund), which 17 is created outside of the State treasury. 18 (b) Every depository that accepts public funds that are 19 secured by the Fund shall pay into the Fund the assessments 20 provided in this Act and comply with all lawful requirements 21 of the Board for Depositories. 22 The Fund shall be maintained by the assessments payable 23 by the depositories and by the receipt of all interest and 24 other earnings of the Fund from any source. 25 (c) All property in the Fund, the interest or income 26 derived from it or through its use, and all property 27 otherwise held by the Board under this Act is exempt from all 28 taxes imposed by the State or any political subdivision.