HB1367 99TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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99TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2015 and 2016
HB1367

Introduced 2/4/2015, by Rep. Kelly M. Cassidy

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

805 ILCS 180/1-26

Amends the Limited Liability Company Act. Provides that a low-profit limited liability company may be organized for religious, scientific, and literary purposes, for the purpose of fostering amateur sports competition, and for the purpose of preventing cruelty to children or animals.

A BILL FOR

AN ACT concerning business.

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

Section 5. The Limited Liability Company Act is amended by changing Section 1-26 as follows:

(805 ILCS 180/1-26)

Sec. 1-26. Low-profit limited liability company.

(a) A low-profit limited liability company shall at all times significantly further the accomplishment of one or more charitable, religious, scientific, literary, or educational purposes, the purpose of fostering national or international amateur sports competition (but only if no part of its activities involve the provision of athletic facilities or equipment), or the purpose of prevention of cruelty to children or animals, within the meaning of Section 170(c)(2)(B) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, 26 U.S.C. 170(c)(2)(B), or its successor, and would not have been formed but for the relationship to the accomplishment of such charitable or educational purposes.

(b) A limited liability company which intends to qualify as a low-profit limited liability company pursuant to the provisions of this Section shall so indicate in its articles of organization, and further state that:

(1) no significant purpose of the company is the production of income or the appreciation of property; however, the fact that a person produces significant income or capital appreciation shall not, in the absence of other factors, be conclusive evidence of a significant purpose involving the production of income or the appreciation of property; and

(2) no purpose of the company is to accomplish one or more political or legislative purposes within the meaning of Section 170(c)(2)(D) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, 26 U.S.C. 170(c)(2)(D), or its successor.

(c) A company that no longer satisfies the requirements of this Section 1-26 continues to exist as a limited liability company and shall promptly amend its articles of organization so that its name and purpose no longer identify it as a low-profit limited liability company or L3C.

(d) Any company operating or holding itself out as a low-profit limited liability company in Illinois, any company formed as a low-profit limited liability company under this Act, and any chief operating officer, director, or manager of any such company is a "trustee" as defined in Section 3 of the Charitable Trust Act.

(e) Nothing in this Section 1-26 prevents a limited liability company that is not organized under it from electing a charitable or educational purpose set forth in subsection (a) in whole or in part for doing business under this Act.

(Source: P.A. 96-126, eff. 1-1-10; 96-1000, eff. 7-2-10.)