HB5193 93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY

LRB093 19732 SJM 45473 b

93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2003 and 2004
HB5193

Introduced 02/05/04, by Angelo Saviano

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

New Act

Creates the Mannheim School District Number 83 Tax Levy Validation (2004) Act. Provides that, if at any election held prior to March 19, 2004, the voters of Mannheim School District Number 83 approved a proposition to increase the educational purposes tax rate of the district and that proposition incorrectly stated the district's existing maximum authorized educational purposes tax rate, then the district's maximum authorized educational purposes tax rate shall be the sum of (i) the district's maximum authorized educational purposes tax rate immediately preceding the referendum plus (ii) the difference between the existing and the proposed tax rates for educational purposes set forth in the proposition. Requires certain actions by the District upon the effective date of this amendatory Act. Effective immediately.

A BILL FOR

AN ACT concerning taxes.

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

Section 1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the Mannheim School District Number 83 Tax Levy Validation (2004) Act.

Section 5. Tax levy referendum of Mannheim School District Number 83.

(a) If at any election held prior to March 19, 2004, the voters of Mannheim School District Number 83 approved a proposition to increase the educational purposes tax rate of the district and the proposition to increase that rate set forth as the existing maximum authorized educational purposes tax rate of the district the tax rate most recently extended for educational purposes, then, for purposes of the School Code, the Property Tax Extension Limitation Law in the Property Tax Code, and all other provisions of the Property Tax Code, the maximum authorized educational purposes tax rate of the district shall be calculated as follows:

(1) for the first tax year affected by the results of the referendum, the district's tax rate shall be calculated based upon the rates set forth in the proposition; and

(2) for each tax year thereafter, the district's maximum authorized educational purposes tax rate approved at the referendum shall be equal to the sum of (A) the district's maximum authorized educational purposes tax rate immediately preceding the referendum plus (B) the difference between the rates set forth on the proposition submitted to the voters of the district at the referendum.

(b) Within 10 days after the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 93rd General Assembly, the board of education of Mannheim School District Number 83 may, notwithstanding the requirements of any other law to the contrary, amend its certificate of tax levy for any tax year for which its equalized assessed valuation has not yet been certified by the county clerk. The amended certificate of tax levy shall also be filed with the county clerk within the 10-day period after the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 93rd General Assembly.

Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon becoming law.