Public Act 094-1050
 
SB2654 Enrolled LRB094 18487 HLH 53812 b

    AN ACT concerning special districts.
 
    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
 
    Section 5. The Tuberculosis Sanitarium District Act is
amended by adding Section 5.4 as follows:
 
    (70 ILCS 920/5.4 new)
    Sec. 5.4. Dissolution of Suburban Cook County Tuberculosis
Sanitarium District; disposition of land and real estate;
continuation of District levy.
    (a) Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary,
the Suburban Cook County Tuberculosis Sanitarium District is
dissolved by operation of law one year after the effective date
of this amendatory Act of the 94th General Assembly.
    (b) On or before the day 2 months after the effective date
of this amendatory Act of the 94th General Assembly, the Board
of Directors shall forward to the Cook County Department of
Public Health all transition plans relating to the
consolidation of all of the existing programs, personnel, and
infrastructure of the District into the Cook County Bureau of
Health Services to be administered by the Cook County
Department of Public Health. Beginning on the effective date of
this amendatory Act of the 94th General Assembly, the District
shall not make any enhancements to pensions.
    (c) Upon dissolution of the District: (i) all assets and
liabilities of the Suburban Cook County Tuberculosis
Sanitarium District dissolved under this amendatory Act of the
94th General Assembly shall be transferred to the Cook County
Board and the monetary assets shall be deposited into a special
purpose fund for the prevention, care, treatment, and control
of tuberculosis in suburban Cook County; (ii) the Cook County
Department of Public Health shall assume all responsibility for
the prevention, care, treatment, and control of tuberculosis
within the area of the Suburban Cook County Tuberculosis
Sanitarium District dissolved under this amendatory Act of the
94th General Assembly, including the provision of tuberculosis
care and treatment for units of local government with
State-certified local public health departments; and (iii)
employees of the Suburban Cook County Tuberculosis Sanitarium
District become employees of Cook County.
    (d) The Cook County Board may transfer to the Cook County
Forest Preserve District appropriate unimproved real estate
owned by the Suburban Cook County Tuberculosis Sanitarium
District at the time of its dissolution. After the dissolution
of the District, any land owned by the District at the time of
its dissolution remains subject to any leases and encumbrances
that existed upon the dissolution of the District and, if the
land is subject to a lease, the land may not be taken by any
unit of government during the term of the lease.
    (e) Upon the dissolution of the Suburban Cook County
Tuberculosis Sanitarium District, any levy imposed by the
dissolved District is abolished. In accordance with subsection
(b) of Section 12 of the State Revenue Sharing Act, the tax
base of the dissolved Suburban Cook County Tuberculosis
Sanitarium District shall be added to the tax base of Cook
County.
 
    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.

Effective Date: 7/24/2006