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92_SB2079

 
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 1        AN ACT in relation to tobacco product manufacturers.

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

 4        Section  5.  The State Finance Act is amended by changing
 5    Section 6z-43 as follows:

 6        (30 ILCS 105/6z-43)
 7        Sec. 6z-43. Tobacco Settlement Recovery Fund.
 8        (a)  There is created in the  State  Treasury  a  special
 9    fund  to  be  known  as the Tobacco Settlement Recovery Fund,
10    into which shall be deposited all monies paid  to  the  State
11    pursuant  to  (1)  the Master Settlement Agreement entered in
12    the case of People of the State of Illinois v. Philip Morris,
13    et al. (Circuit Court of Cook County, No. 96-L13146) and  (2)
14    any  settlement  with or judgment against any tobacco product
15    manufacturer other  than  one  participating  in  the  Master
16    Settlement Agreement in satisfaction of any released claim as
17    defined  in  the  Master Settlement Agreement, as well as any
18    other monies as  provided  by  law.   All  earnings  on  Fund
19    investments  shall  be  deposited  into  the  Fund.  Upon the
20    creation of the Fund, the State Comptroller shall  order  the
21    State  Treasurer to transfer into the Fund any monies paid to
22    the State as described in item (1) or  (2)  of  this  Section
23    before  the  creation of the Fund plus any interest earned on
24    the investment of those monies.  The Treasurer may invest the
25    moneys in the Fund in the same manner, in the same  types  of
26    investments,  and subject to the same limitations provided in
27    the Illinois Pension Code for the investment of pension funds
28    other than those established under Article  3  or  4  of  the
29    Code.
30        (b)  As  soon  as  may  be practical after June 30, 2001,
31    upon notification from and at the direction of the  Governor,
 
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 1    the  State  Comptroller  shall direct and the State Treasurer
 2    shall  transfer  the  unencumbered  balance  in  the  Tobacco
 3    Settlement Recovery Fund as of June 30, 2001,  as  determined
 4    by  the  Governor,  into  the Budget Stabilization Fund.  The
 5    Treasurer may invest the moneys in the  Budget  Stabilization
 6    Fund  in  the  same manner, in the same types of investments,
 7    and subject to the same limitations provided in the  Illinois
 8    Pension  Code  for the investment of pension funds other than
 9    those established under Article 3 or 4 of the Code.
10        (c)  In any civil litigation under any  legal  theory  in
11    which  a  judgment  is  entered  against  a  signatory  or  a
12    successor  to a signatory of the Master Settlement Agreement,
13    as  defined  in   Section   10   of   the   Tobacco   Product
14    Manufacturers' Escrow Act, the appeal bond that the signatory
15    or successor may be required to post to stay execution on the
16    judgment  during  the  time  that  an appeal or discretionary
17    review of the judgment is pending shall be set in  accordance
18    with  the  law  and the rules of the court, except that in no
19    case may the amount of the appeal  bond  exceed  $25,000,000,
20    regardless of the total amount of the judgment.
21        (d)  If  it  is proved by a preponderance of the evidence
22    that an appellant for whom an appeal bond  has  been  limited
23    under   subsection   (c)   is  intentionally  dissipating  or
24    diverting assets outside the ordinary course of its  business
25    for  the  purpose  of  avoiding  payment of the judgment, the
26    court shall enter any orders that are  necessary  to  prevent
27    the dissipation or diversion of assets.
28        (e)  The  changes made by this amendatory Act of the 92nd
29    General Assembly apply to any action pending on or after  the
30    effective  date  of  this  amendatory Act of the 92nd General
31    Assembly.
32    (Source: P.A. 91-646, eff.  11-19-99;  91-704,  eff.  7-1-00;
33    91-797,   eff.  6-9-00;  92-11,  eff.  6-11-01;  92-16,  eff.
34    6-28-01.)
 
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 1        Section 99.  Effective date.  This Act takes effect  upon
 2    becoming law.

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