101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2019 and 2020
SB1581

 

Introduced 2/15/2019, by Sen. John F. Curran

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
30 ILCS 177/5
35 ILCS 171/2
55 ILCS 5/5-1006.5

    Amends the Counties Code. Provides that the special county retailers' occupation tax for public safety, public facilities, mental health, substance abuse, or transportation may additionally be imposed for senior citizen programs and social services in the county. Changes the name from the Special County Retailers' Occupation Tax For Public Safety, Public Facilities, Mental Health, Substance Abuse, or Transportation to the Special County Retailers' Occupation Tax. Amends the Transportation Development Partnership Act and the Simplified Sales and Use Tax Administration Act to make conforming changes.


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FISCAL NOTE ACT MAY APPLY
HOUSING AFFORDABILITY IMPACT NOTE ACT MAY APPLY

 

 

A BILL FOR

 

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1    AN ACT concerning local government.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The Transportation Development Partnership Act
5is amended by changing Section 5 as follows:
 
6    (30 ILCS 177/5)
7    Sec. 5. Transportation Development Partnership Trust Fund.
8The Transportation Development Partnership Trust Fund is
9created as a trust fund in the State treasury. The State
10Treasurer shall be the custodian of the Fund. If a county or an
11entity created by an intergovernmental agreement between 2 or
12more counties elects to participate under Section 5-1035.1 or
135-1006.5 of the Counties Code or designates funds by ordinance,
14the Department of Revenue shall transfer to the State Treasurer
15all or a portion of the taxes and penalties collected under the
16Special County Retailers' Occupation Tax For Public Safety,
17Public Facilities, Mental Health, Substance Abuse, or
18Transportation and under the County Option Motor Fuel Tax or
19the funds designated by the county or entity by ordinance into
20the Transportation Development Partnership Trust Fund. The
21Department of Transportation shall maintain a separate account
22for each participating county or entity within the Fund. The
23Department of Transportation shall administer the Fund.

 

 

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1    Moneys in the Fund shall be used for transportation-related
2projects. The Department of Transportation and participating
3counties or entities may, at the Secretary's discretion under
4agency procedures, enter into an intergovernmental agreement.
5The agreement shall at a minimum:
6        (1) Describe the project to be constructed from the
7    Department of Transportation's Multi-Year Highway
8    Improvement Program.
9        (2) Provide that an eligible project cost a minimum of
10    $5,000,000.
11        (3) Provide that the county or entity must raise a
12    significant percentage, no less than the amount
13    contributed by the State, of required federal matching
14    funds.
15        (4) Provide that the Secretary of Transportation must
16    certify that the county or entity has transferred the
17    required moneys to the Fund and the certification shall be
18    transmitted to each county or entity no more than 30 days
19    after the final deposit is made.
20        (5) Provide for the repayment, without interest, to the
21    county or entity of the moneys contributed by the county or
22    entity to the Fund, less 10% of the aggregate funds
23    contributed as matching funds and as federal funds.
24        (6) Provide that the repayment of the moneys
25    contributed by the county or the entity shall be made by
26    the Department of Transportation no later than 10 years

 

 

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1    after the certification by the Secretary of Transportation
2    that the money has been deposited by the county or entity
3    into the Fund.
4(Source: P.A. 100-1167, eff. 1-4-19.)
 
5    Section 10. The Simplified Sales and Use Tax Administration
6Act is amended by changing Section 2 as follows:
 
7    (35 ILCS 171/2)
8    Sec. 2. Definitions. As used in this Act:
9    (a) "Agreement" means the Streamlined Sales and Use Tax
10Agreement as amended and adopted on January 27, 2001.
11    (b) "Certified Automated System" means software certified
12jointly by the states that are signatories to the Agreement to
13calculate the tax imposed by each jurisdiction on a
14transaction, determine the amount of tax to remit to the
15appropriate state, and maintain a record of the transaction.
16    (c) "Certified Service Provider" means an agent certified
17jointly by the states that are signatories to the Agreement to
18perform all of the seller's sales tax functions.
19    (d) "Person" means an individual, trust, estate,
20fiduciary, partnership, limited liability company, limited
21liability partnership, corporation, or any other legal entity.
22    (e) "Sales Tax" means the tax levied under the Service
23Occupation Tax Act (35 ILCS 115/) and the Retailers' Occupation
24Tax Act (35 ILCS 120/). "Sales tax" also means any local sales

 

 

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1tax levied under the Home Rule Municipal Retailers' Occupation
2Tax Act (65 ILCS 5/8-11-1), the Non-Home Rule Municipal
3Retailers' Occupation Tax Act (65 ILCS 5/8-11-1.3), the
4Non-Home Rule Municipal Service Occupation Tax Act (65 ILCS
55/8-11-1.4), the Home Rule Municipal Service Occupation Tax (65
6ILCS 5/8-11-5), the Home Rule County Retailers' Occupation Tax
7Law (55 ILCS 5/5-1006), the Special County Retailers'
8Occupation Tax for Public Safety, Public Facilities, Mental
9Health, Substance Abuse, or Transportation Law (55 ILCS
105/5-1006.5), the Home Rule County Service Occupation Tax Law
11(55 ILCS 5/5-1007), subsection (b) of the Rock Island County
12Use and Occupation Tax Law (55 ILCS 5/5-1008.5(b)), the Metro
13East Mass Transit District Retailers' Occupation Tax (70 ILCS
143610/5.01(b)), the Metro East Mass Transit District Service
15Occupation Tax (70 ILCS 3610/5.01(c)), the Regional
16Transportation Authority Retailers' Occupation Tax (70 ILCS
173615/4.03(e)), the Regional Transportation Authority Service
18Occupation Tax (70 ILCS 3615/4.03(f)), the County Water
19Commission Retailers' Occupation Tax (70 ILCS 3720/4(b)), or
20the County Water Commission Service Occupation Tax (70 ILCS
213720/4(c)).
22    (f) "Seller" means any person making sales of personal
23property or services.
24    (g) "State" means any state of the United States and the
25District of Columbia.
26    (h) "Use tax" means the tax levied under the Use Tax Act

 

 

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1(35 ILCS 105/) and the Service Use Tax Act (35 ILCS 110/). "Use
2tax" also means any local use tax levied under the Home Rule
3Municipal Use Tax Act (65 ILCS 5/8-11-6(b)), provided that the
4State and the municipality have entered into an agreement that
5provides for administration of the tax by the State.
6(Source: P.A. 100-1167, eff. 1-4-19.)
 
7    Section 15. The Counties Code is amended by changing
8Section 5-1006.5 as follows:
 
9    (55 ILCS 5/5-1006.5)
10    Sec. 5-1006.5. Special County Retailers' Occupation Tax
11For Public Safety, Public Facilities, Mental Health, Substance
12Abuse, or Transportation.
13    (a) The county board of any county may impose a tax upon
14all persons engaged in the business of selling tangible
15personal property, other than personal property titled or
16registered with an agency of this State's government, at retail
17in the county on the gross receipts from the sales made in the
18course of business to provide revenue to be used exclusively
19for public safety, public facility, mental health, substance
20abuse, senior citizen programs, social services, or
21transportation purposes in that county, if a proposition for
22the tax has been submitted to the electors of that county and
23approved by a majority of those voting on the question. If
24imposed, this tax shall be imposed only in one-quarter percent

 

 

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1increments. By resolution, the county board may order the
2proposition to be submitted at any election. If the tax is
3imposed for transportation purposes for expenditures for
4public highways or as authorized under the Illinois Highway
5Code, the county board must publish notice of the existence of
6its long-range highway transportation plan as required or
7described in Section 5-301 of the Illinois Highway Code and
8must make the plan publicly available prior to approval of the
9ordinance or resolution imposing the tax. If the tax is imposed
10for transportation purposes for expenditures for passenger
11rail transportation, the county board must publish notice of
12the existence of its long-range passenger rail transportation
13plan and must make the plan publicly available prior to
14approval of the ordinance or resolution imposing the tax.
15    If a tax is imposed for public facilities purposes, then
16the name of the project may be included in the proposition at
17the discretion of the county board as determined in the
18enabling resolution. For example, the "XXX Nursing Home" or the
19"YYY Museum".
20    The county clerk shall certify the question to the proper
21election authority, who shall submit the proposition at an
22election in accordance with the general election law.
23        (1) The proposition for public safety purposes shall be
24    in substantially the following form:
25        "To pay for public safety purposes, shall (name of
26    county) be authorized to impose an increase on its share of

 

 

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1    local sales taxes by (insert rate)?"
2        As additional information on the ballot below the
3    question shall appear the following:
4        "This would mean that a consumer would pay an
5    additional (insert amount) in sales tax for every $100 of
6    tangible personal property bought at retail."
7        The county board may also opt to establish a sunset
8    provision at which time the additional sales tax would
9    cease being collected, if not terminated earlier by a vote
10    of the county board. If the county board votes to include a
11    sunset provision, the proposition for public safety
12    purposes shall be in substantially the following form:
13        "To pay for public safety purposes, shall (name of
14    county) be authorized to impose an increase on its share of
15    local sales taxes by (insert rate) for a period not to
16    exceed (insert number of years)?"
17        As additional information on the ballot below the
18    question shall appear the following:
19        "This would mean that a consumer would pay an
20    additional (insert amount) in sales tax for every $100 of
21    tangible personal property bought at retail. If imposed,
22    the additional tax would cease being collected at the end
23    of (insert number of years), if not terminated earlier by a
24    vote of the county board."
25        For the purposes of the paragraph, "public safety
26    purposes" means crime prevention, detention, fire

 

 

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1    fighting, police, medical, ambulance, or other emergency
2    services.
3        Votes shall be recorded as "Yes" or "No".
4        Beginning on the January 1 or July 1, whichever is
5    first, that occurs not less than 30 days after May 31, 2015
6    (the effective date of Public Act 99-4), Adams County may
7    impose a public safety retailers' occupation tax and
8    service occupation tax at the rate of 0.25%, as provided in
9    the referendum approved by the voters on April 7, 2015,
10    notwithstanding the omission of the additional information
11    that is otherwise required to be printed on the ballot
12    below the question pursuant to this item (1).
13        (2) The proposition for transportation purposes shall
14    be in substantially the following form:
15        "To pay for improvements to roads and other
16    transportation purposes, shall (name of county) be
17    authorized to impose an increase on its share of local
18    sales taxes by (insert rate)?"
19        As additional information on the ballot below the
20    question shall appear the following:
21        "This would mean that a consumer would pay an
22    additional (insert amount) in sales tax for every $100 of
23    tangible personal property bought at retail."
24        The county board may also opt to establish a sunset
25    provision at which time the additional sales tax would
26    cease being collected, if not terminated earlier by a vote

 

 

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1    of the county board. If the county board votes to include a
2    sunset provision, the proposition for transportation
3    purposes shall be in substantially the following form:
4        "To pay for road improvements and other transportation
5    purposes, shall (name of county) be authorized to impose an
6    increase on its share of local sales taxes by (insert rate)
7    for a period not to exceed (insert number of years)?"
8        As additional information on the ballot below the
9    question shall appear the following:
10        "This would mean that a consumer would pay an
11    additional (insert amount) in sales tax for every $100 of
12    tangible personal property bought at retail. If imposed,
13    the additional tax would cease being collected at the end
14    of (insert number of years), if not terminated earlier by a
15    vote of the county board."
16        For the purposes of this paragraph, transportation
17    purposes means construction, maintenance, operation, and
18    improvement of public highways, any other purpose for which
19    a county may expend funds under the Illinois Highway Code,
20    and passenger rail transportation.
21        The votes shall be recorded as "Yes" or "No".
22        (3) The proposition for public facilities purposes
23    shall be in substantially the following form:
24        "To pay for public facilities purposes, shall (name of
25    county) be authorized to impose an increase on its share of
26    local sales taxes by (insert rate)?"

 

 

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1        As additional information on the ballot below the
2    question shall appear the following:
3        "This would mean that a consumer would pay an
4    additional (insert amount) in sales tax for every $100 of
5    tangible personal property bought at retail."
6        The county board may also opt to establish a sunset
7    provision at which time the additional sales tax would
8    cease being collected, if not terminated earlier by a vote
9    of the county board. If the county board votes to include a
10    sunset provision, the proposition for public facilities
11    purposes shall be in substantially the following form:
12        "To pay for public facilities purposes, shall (name of
13    county) be authorized to impose an increase on its share of
14    local sales taxes by (insert rate) for a period not to
15    exceed (insert number of years)?"
16        As additional information on the ballot below the
17    question shall appear the following:
18        "This would mean that a consumer would pay an
19    additional (insert amount) in sales tax for every $100 of
20    tangible personal property bought at retail. If imposed,
21    the additional tax would cease being collected at the end
22    of (insert number of years), if not terminated earlier by a
23    vote of the county board."
24        For purposes of this Section, "public facilities
25    purposes" means the acquisition, development,
26    construction, reconstruction, rehabilitation, improvement,

 

 

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1    financing, architectural planning, and installation of
2    capital facilities consisting of buildings, structures,
3    and durable equipment and for the acquisition and
4    improvement of real property and interest in real property
5    required, or expected to be required, in connection with
6    the public facilities, for use by the county for the
7    furnishing of governmental services to its citizens,
8    including but not limited to museums and nursing homes.
9        The votes shall be recorded as "Yes" or "No".
10        (4) The proposition for mental health purposes shall be
11    in substantially the following form:
12        "To pay for mental health purposes, shall (name of
13    county) be authorized to impose an increase on its share of
14    local sales taxes by (insert rate)?"
15        As additional information on the ballot below the
16    question shall appear the following:
17        "This would mean that a consumer would pay an
18    additional (insert amount) in sales tax for every $100 of
19    tangible personal property bought at retail."
20        The county board may also opt to establish a sunset
21    provision at which time the additional sales tax would
22    cease being collected, if not terminated earlier by a vote
23    of the county board. If the county board votes to include a
24    sunset provision, the proposition for public facilities
25    purposes shall be in substantially the following form:
26        "To pay for mental health purposes, shall (name of

 

 

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1    county) be authorized to impose an increase on its share of
2    local sales taxes by (insert rate) for a period not to
3    exceed (insert number of years)?"
4        As additional information on the ballot below the
5    question shall appear the following:
6        "This would mean that a consumer would pay an
7    additional (insert amount) in sales tax for every $100 of
8    tangible personal property bought at retail. If imposed,
9    the additional tax would cease being collected at the end
10    of (insert number of years), if not terminated earlier by a
11    vote of the county board."
12        The votes shall be recorded as "Yes" or "No".
13        (5) The proposition for substance abuse purposes shall
14    be in substantially the following form:
15        "To pay for substance abuse purposes, shall (name of
16    county) be authorized to impose an increase on its share of
17    local sales taxes by (insert rate)?"
18        As additional information on the ballot below the
19    question shall appear the following:
20        "This would mean that a consumer would pay an
21    additional (insert amount) in sales tax for every $100 of
22    tangible personal property bought at retail."
23        The county board may also opt to establish a sunset
24    provision at which time the additional sales tax would
25    cease being collected, if not terminated earlier by a vote
26    of the county board. If the county board votes to include a

 

 

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1    sunset provision, the proposition for public facilities
2    purposes shall be in substantially the following form:
3        "To pay for substance abuse purposes, shall (name of
4    county) be authorized to impose an increase on its share of
5    local sales taxes by (insert rate) for a period not to
6    exceed (insert number of years)?"
7        As additional information on the ballot below the
8    question shall appear the following:
9        "This would mean that a consumer would pay an
10    additional (insert amount) in sales tax for every $100 of
11    tangible personal property bought at retail. If imposed,
12    the additional tax would cease being collected at the end
13    of (insert number of years), if not terminated earlier by a
14    vote of the county board."
15        The votes shall be recorded as "Yes" or "No".
16        (6) The proposition for senior citizen programs shall
17    be in substantially the following form:
18        "To pay for senior citizen programs, shall (name of
19    county) be authorized to impose an increase on its share of
20    local sales taxes by (insert rate)?"
21        As additional information on the ballot below the
22    question shall appear the following:
23        "This would mean that a consumer would pay an
24    additional (insert amount) in sales tax for every $100 of
25    tangible personal property bought at retail."
26        The county board may also opt to establish a sunset

 

 

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1    provision at which time the additional sales tax would
2    cease being collected, if not terminated earlier by a vote
3    of the county board. If the county board votes to include a
4    sunset provision, the proposition for public facilities
5    purposes shall be in substantially the following form:
6        "To pay for senior citizen programs, shall (name of
7    county) be authorized to impose an increase on its share of
8    local sales taxes by (insert rate) for a period not to
9    exceed (insert number of years)?"
10        As additional information on the ballot below the
11    question shall appear the following:
12        "This would mean that a consumer would pay an
13    additional (insert amount) in sales tax for every $100 of
14    tangible personal property bought at retail. If imposed,
15    the additional tax would cease being collected at the end
16    of (insert number of years), if not terminated earlier by a
17    vote of the county board."
18        The votes shall be recorded as "Yes" or "No".
19        (7) The proposition for social services shall be in
20    substantially the following form:
21        "To pay for social services, shall (name of county) be
22    authorized to impose an increase on its share of local
23    sales taxes by (insert rate)?"
24        As additional information on the ballot below the
25    question shall appear the following:
26        "This would mean that a consumer would pay an

 

 

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1    additional (insert amount) in sales tax for every $100 of
2    tangible personal property bought at retail."
3        The county board may also opt to establish a sunset
4    provision at which time the additional sales tax would
5    cease being collected, if not terminated earlier by a vote
6    of the county board. If the county board votes to include a
7    sunset provision, the proposition for public facilities
8    purposes shall be in substantially the following form:
9        "To pay for social services, shall (name of county) be
10    authorized to impose an increase on its share of local
11    sales taxes by (insert rate) for a period not to exceed
12    (insert number of years)?"
13        As additional information on the ballot below the
14    question shall appear the following:
15        "This would mean that a consumer would pay an
16    additional (insert amount) in sales tax for every $100 of
17    tangible personal property bought at retail. If imposed,
18    the additional tax would cease being collected at the end
19    of (insert number of years), if not terminated earlier by a
20    vote of the county board."
21        The votes shall be recorded as "Yes" or "No".
22    If a majority of the electors voting on the proposition
23vote in favor of it, the county may impose the tax. A county
24may not submit more than one proposition authorized by this
25Section to the electors at any one time.
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1property taxed at the 1% rate under the Retailers' Occupation
2Tax Act. The tax imposed by a county under this Section and all
3civil penalties that may be assessed as an incident of the tax
4shall be collected and enforced by the Illinois Department of
5Revenue and deposited into a special fund created for that
6purpose. The certificate of registration that is issued by the
7Department to a retailer under the Retailers' Occupation Tax
8Act shall permit the retailer to engage in a business that is
9taxable without registering separately with the Department
10under an ordinance or resolution under this Section. The
11Department has full power to administer and enforce this
12Section, to collect all taxes and penalties due under this
13Section, to dispose of taxes and penalties so collected in the
14manner provided in this Section, and to determine all rights to
15credit memoranda arising on account of the erroneous payment of
16a tax or penalty under this Section. In the administration of
17and compliance with this Section, the Department and persons
18who are subject to this Section shall (i) have the same rights,
19remedies, privileges, immunities, powers, and duties, (ii) be
20subject to the same conditions, restrictions, limitations,
21penalties, and definitions of terms, and (iii) employ the same
22modes of procedure as are prescribed in Sections 1, 1a, 1a-1,
231d, 1e, 1f, 1i, 1j, 1k, 1m, 1n, 2 through 2-70 (in respect to
24all provisions contained in those Sections other than the State
25rate of tax), 2a, 2b, 2c, 3 (except provisions relating to
26transaction returns and quarter monthly payments), 4, 5, 5a,

 

 

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15b, 5c, 5d, 5e, 5f, 5g, 5h, 5i, 5j, 5k, 5l, 6, 6a, 6b, 6c, 6d,
27, 8, 9, 10, 11, 11a, 12, and 13 of the Retailers' Occupation
3Tax Act and Section 3-7 of the Uniform Penalty and Interest Act
4as if those provisions were set forth in this Section.
5    Persons subject to any tax imposed under the authority
6granted in this Section may reimburse themselves for their
7sellers' tax liability by separately stating the tax as an
8additional charge, which charge may be stated in combination,
9in a single amount, with State tax which sellers are required
10to collect under the Use Tax Act, pursuant to such bracketed
11schedules as the Department may prescribe.
12    Whenever the Department determines that a refund should be
13made under this Section to a claimant instead of issuing a
14credit memorandum, the Department shall notify the State
15Comptroller, who shall cause the order to be drawn for the
16amount specified and to the person named in the notification
17from the Department. The refund shall be paid by the State
18Treasurer out of the Special County Public Safety, Public
19Facilities, Mental Health, Substance Abuse, or Transportation
20Retailers' Occupation Tax Fund.
21    (b) If a tax has been imposed under subsection (a), a
22service occupation tax shall also be imposed at the same rate
23upon all persons engaged, in the county, in the business of
24making sales of service, who, as an incident to making those
25sales of service, transfer tangible personal property within
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1not be imposed on tangible personal property taxed at the 1%
2rate under the Service Occupation Tax Act. The tax imposed
3under this subsection and all civil penalties that may be
4assessed as an incident thereof shall be collected and enforced
5by the Department of Revenue. The Department has full power to
6administer and enforce this subsection; to collect all taxes
7and penalties due hereunder; to dispose of taxes and penalties
8so collected in the manner hereinafter provided; and to
9determine all rights to credit memoranda arising on account of
10the erroneous payment of tax or penalty hereunder. In the
11administration of, and compliance with this subsection, the
12Department and persons who are subject to this paragraph shall
13(i) have the same rights, remedies, privileges, immunities,
14powers, and duties, (ii) be subject to the same conditions,
15restrictions, limitations, penalties, exclusions, exemptions,
16and definitions of terms, and (iii) employ the same modes of
17procedure as are prescribed in Sections 2 (except that the
18reference to State in the definition of supplier maintaining a
19place of business in this State shall mean the county), 2a, 2b,
202c, 3 through 3-50 (in respect to all provisions therein other
21than the State rate of tax), 4 (except that the reference to
22the State shall be to the county), 5, 7, 8 (except that the
23jurisdiction to which the tax shall be a debt to the extent
24indicated in that Section 8 shall be the county), 9 (except as
25to the disposition of taxes and penalties collected), 10, 11,
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1Retailers' Occupation Tax Act), 13 (except that any reference
2to the State shall mean the county), Section 15, 16, 17, 18, 19
3and 20 of the Service Occupation Tax Act and Section 3-7 of the
4Uniform Penalty and Interest Act, as fully as if those
5provisions were set forth herein.
6    Persons subject to any tax imposed under the authority
7granted in this subsection may reimburse themselves for their
8serviceman's tax liability by separately stating the tax as an
9additional charge, which charge may be stated in combination,
10in a single amount, with State tax that servicemen are
11authorized to collect under the Service Use Tax Act, in
12accordance with such bracket schedules as the Department may
13prescribe.
14    Whenever the Department determines that a refund should be
15made under this subsection to a claimant instead of issuing a
16credit memorandum, the Department shall notify the State
17Comptroller, who shall cause the warrant to be drawn for the
18amount specified, and to the person named, in the notification
19from the Department. The refund shall be paid by the State
20Treasurer out of the Special County Public Safety, Public
21Facilities, Mental Health, Substance Abuse, or Transportation
22Retailers' Occupation Tax Fund.
23    Nothing in this subsection shall be construed to authorize
24the county to impose a tax upon the privilege of engaging in
25any business which under the Constitution of the United States
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1    (c) The Department shall immediately pay over to the State
2Treasurer, ex officio, as trustee, all taxes and penalties
3collected under this Section to be deposited into the Special
4County Public Safety, Public Facilities, Mental Health,
5Substance Abuse, or Transportation Retailers' Occupation Tax
6Fund, which shall be an unappropriated trust fund held outside
7of the State treasury.
8    As soon as possible after the first day of each month,
9beginning January 1, 2011, upon certification of the Department
10of Revenue, the Comptroller shall order transferred, and the
11Treasurer shall transfer, to the STAR Bonds Revenue Fund the
12local sales tax increment, as defined in the Innovation
13Development and Economy Act, collected under this Section
14during the second preceding calendar month for sales within a
15STAR bond district.
16    After the monthly transfer to the STAR Bonds Revenue Fund,
17on or before the 25th day of each calendar month, the
18Department shall prepare and certify to the Comptroller the
19disbursement of stated sums of money to the counties from which
20retailers have paid taxes or penalties to the Department during
21the second preceding calendar month. The amount to be paid to
22each county, and deposited by the county into its special fund
23created for the purposes of this Section, shall be the amount
24(not including credit memoranda) collected under this Section
25during the second preceding calendar month by the Department
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1any amounts that were erroneously paid to a different taxing
2body, and not including (i) an amount equal to the amount of
3refunds made during the second preceding calendar month by the
4Department on behalf of the county, (ii) any amount that the
5Department determines is necessary to offset any amounts that
6were payable to a different taxing body but were erroneously
7paid to the county, (iii) any amounts that are transferred to
8the STAR Bonds Revenue Fund, and (iv) 1.5% of the remainder,
9which shall be transferred into the Tax Compliance and
10Administration Fund. The Department, at the time of each
11monthly disbursement to the counties, shall prepare and certify
12to the State Comptroller the amount to be transferred into the
13Tax Compliance and Administration Fund under this subsection.
14Within 10 days after receipt by the Comptroller of the
15disbursement certification to the counties and the Tax
16Compliance and Administration Fund provided for in this Section
17to be given to the Comptroller by the Department, the
18Comptroller shall cause the orders to be drawn for the
19respective amounts in accordance with directions contained in
20the certification.
21    In addition to the disbursement required by the preceding
22paragraph, an allocation shall be made in March of each year to
23each county that received more than $500,000 in disbursements
24under the preceding paragraph in the preceding calendar year.
25The allocation shall be in an amount equal to the average
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1preceding paragraph during the preceding calendar year
2(excluding the 2 months of highest receipts). The distribution
3made in March of each year subsequent to the year in which an
4allocation was made pursuant to this paragraph and the
5preceding paragraph shall be reduced by the amount allocated
6and disbursed under this paragraph in the preceding calendar
7year. The Department shall prepare and certify to the
8Comptroller for disbursement the allocations made in
9accordance with this paragraph.
10    A county may direct, by ordinance, that all or a portion of
11the taxes and penalties collected under the Special County
12Retailers' Occupation Tax For Public Safety, Public
13Facilities, Mental Health, Substance Abuse, or Transportation
14be deposited into the Transportation Development Partnership
15Trust Fund.
16    (d) For the purpose of determining the local governmental
17unit whose tax is applicable, a retail sale by a producer of
18coal or another mineral mined in Illinois is a sale at retail
19at the place where the coal or other mineral mined in Illinois
20is extracted from the earth. This paragraph does not apply to
21coal or another mineral when it is delivered or shipped by the
22seller to the purchaser at a point outside Illinois so that the
23sale is exempt under the United States Constitution as a sale
24in interstate or foreign commerce.
25    (e) Nothing in this Section shall be construed to authorize
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1business that under the Constitution of the United States may
2not be made the subject of taxation by this State.
3    (e-5) If a county imposes a tax under this Section, the
4county board may, by ordinance, discontinue or lower the rate
5of the tax. If the county board lowers the tax rate or
6discontinues the tax, a referendum must be held in accordance
7with subsection (a) of this Section in order to increase the
8rate of the tax or to reimpose the discontinued tax.
9    (f) Beginning April 1, 1998 and through December 31, 2013,
10the results of any election authorizing a proposition to impose
11a tax under this Section or effecting a change in the rate of
12tax, or any ordinance lowering the rate or discontinuing the
13tax, shall be certified by the county clerk and filed with the
14Illinois Department of Revenue either (i) on or before the
15first day of April, whereupon the Department shall proceed to
16administer and enforce the tax as of the first day of July next
17following the filing; or (ii) on or before the first day of
18October, whereupon the Department shall proceed to administer
19and enforce the tax as of the first day of January next
20following the filing.
21    Beginning January 1, 2014, the results of any election
22authorizing a proposition to impose a tax under this Section or
23effecting an increase in the rate of tax, along with the
24ordinance adopted to impose the tax or increase the rate of the
25tax, or any ordinance adopted to lower the rate or discontinue
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1the Illinois Department of Revenue either (i) on or before the
2first day of May, whereupon the Department shall proceed to
3administer and enforce the tax as of the first day of July next
4following the adoption and filing; or (ii) on or before the
5first day of October, whereupon the Department shall proceed to
6administer and enforce the tax as of the first day of January
7next following the adoption and filing.
8    (g) When certifying the amount of a monthly disbursement to
9a county under this Section, the Department shall increase or
10decrease the amounts by an amount necessary to offset any
11miscalculation of previous disbursements. The offset amount
12shall be the amount erroneously disbursed within the previous 6
13months from the time a miscalculation is discovered.
14    (h) This Section may be cited as the "Special County
15Retailers' Occupation Tax For Public Safety, Public
16Facilities, Mental Health, Substance Abuse, or Transportation
17Law".
18    (i) For purposes of this Section, "public safety" includes,
19but is not limited to, crime prevention, detention, fire
20fighting, police, medical, ambulance, or other emergency
21services. The county may share tax proceeds received under this
22Section for public safety purposes, including proceeds
23received before August 4, 2009 (the effective date of Public
24Act 96-124), with any fire protection district located in the
25county. For the purposes of this Section, "transportation"
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1operation, and improvement of public highways, any other
2purpose for which a county may expend funds under the Illinois
3Highway Code, and passenger rail transportation. For the
4purposes of this Section, "public facilities purposes"
5includes, but is not limited to, the acquisition, development,
6construction, reconstruction, rehabilitation, improvement,
7financing, architectural planning, and installation of capital
8facilities consisting of buildings, structures, and durable
9equipment and for the acquisition and improvement of real
10property and interest in real property required, or expected to
11be required, in connection with the public facilities, for use
12by the county for the furnishing of governmental services to
13its citizens, including but not limited to museums and nursing
14homes.
15    (j) The Department may promulgate rules to implement Public
16Act 95-1002 only to the extent necessary to apply the existing
17rules for the Special County Retailers' Occupation Tax for
18Public Safety to this new purpose for public facilities.
19(Source: P.A. 99-4, eff. 5-31-15; 99-217, eff. 7-31-15; 99-642,
20eff. 7-28-16; 100-23, eff. 7-6-17; 100-587, eff. 6-4-18;
21100-1167, eff. 1-4-19; 100-1171, eff. 1-4-19; revised 1-9-19.)