Full Text of HB0537 100th General Assembly
HB0537ham001 100TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY | Rep. Robert W. Pritchard Filed: 2/23/2017
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| 1 | | AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 537
| 2 | | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 537 by replacing | 3 | | everything after the enacting clause with the following:
| 4 | | "Section 5. The Election Code is amended by changing | 5 | | Section 12-5 and by adding Section 28-8.2 as follows:
| 6 | | (10 ILCS 5/12-5) (from Ch. 46, par. 12-5)
| 7 | | Sec. 12-5. Notice for public questions. For all elections | 8 | | held after July
1, 1999, notice of public
questions shall be | 9 | | required only as set forth in this
Section and Section 28-8.2 | 10 | | of this Code or as set forth in Section 17-3 or 19-3 of the | 11 | | School Code. Not
more than 60
30 days nor less than 40 10 days | 12 | | before the date of a
regular election at which a public | 13 | | question is to be submitted to the voters of
a political or | 14 | | governmental subdivision, and at least 20 days before an
| 15 | | emergency referendum, the election authority shall publish | 16 | | notice of the
referendum. The notice shall be published once in |
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| 1 | | a local, community newspaper
having general circulation in the | 2 | | political or governmental subdivision. The
notice shall also be | 3 | | given at least 10 days before the date of the election by
| 4 | | posting a copy of the notice at the principal office of the | 5 | | election
authority. The local election official shall also post | 6 | | a copy of the notice at
the principal office of the political | 7 | | or governmental
subdivision, or if there is no principal office | 8 | | at the building in which the
governing body of the political or | 9 | | governmental subdivision held its first
meeting of the calendar | 10 | | year in which the referendum is being held. The
election | 11 | | authority and the political or governmental subdivision may, | 12 | | but are
not required to, post the notice electronically on | 13 | | their World Wide Web pages.
The notice, which shall appear over | 14 | | the name or title of the election
authority, shall be | 15 | | substantially in the following form:
| 16 | | NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that at the election to be held | 17 | | on
(insert day of the week),
(insert date of election), the | 18 | | following proposition will be
submitted to the voters of | 19 | | (name of political or governmental subdivision):
| 20 | | (insert the public question as it will appear on the | 21 | | ballot)
| 22 | | The polls at the election will be open at 6:00 o'clock | 23 | | A.M. and will
continue to be open until 7:00 o'clock P.M. | 24 | | of that day.
| 25 | | Dated (date of notice)
| 26 | | (Name or title of the election authority)
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| 1 | | The notice shall also include any additional information | 2 | | required by the statute authorizing the public question and | 3 | | Section 28-8.2 of this Code . The notice may include an | 4 | | explanation, in neutral and plain language, of the question and | 5 | | its purposes supplied by the governing body of the political or | 6 | | governmental subdivision to whose voters the question is to be | 7 | | submitted. The notice shall set forth the
precincts and polling | 8 | | places at which the referendum will be conducted only in
the | 9 | | case of emergency referenda.
| 10 | | (Source: P.A. 92-6, eff. 6-7-01; 93-847, eff. 7-30-04.)
| 11 | | (10 ILCS 5/28-8.2 new) | 12 | | Sec. 28-8.2. Revenue referenda disclosure. | 13 | | (a) For purposes of this Section, "revenue referenda" means | 14 | | referenda by a unit of local government, including a school | 15 | | district, seeking to impose or increase a retailers' occupation | 16 | | tax, a use tax, a service occupation tax, a service use tax, or | 17 | | a property tax, or regarding the issuance of bonds. | 18 | | (b) Revenue referenda shall contain the following | 19 | | information: | 20 | | (1) the amount of the new or increased tax or bond; | 21 | | (2) the amount that this proposed imposition or | 22 | | increase will impact the unit of local government's current | 23 | | taxes or bonds; | 24 | | (3) if a bond, the projected life of the bond and the | 25 | | estimated amounts of principal, interest, and total debt |
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| 1 | | service; and | 2 | | (4) an example of the impact the new property tax or | 3 | | bond is estimated to have on a family owning a residence | 4 | | worth $100,000, both before and after the issuance of the | 5 | | property tax or bond. | 6 | | (c) In addition to other notice and publication | 7 | | requirements as may be otherwise required by law, the unit of | 8 | | local government proposing revenue referenda shall publish the | 9 | | referenda questions, along with the required disclosures under | 10 | | subsection (b) of this Section, no more than 60 days nor less | 11 | | than 40 days prior to the referenda appearing on the ballot in | 12 | | a newspaper of general circulation published in the unit of | 13 | | local government or school district and on the unit of local | 14 | | government's or school district's website and community | 15 | | newsletter, if they have one. | 16 | | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | 17 | | becoming law.".
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