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 1                     AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 30
 2        AMENDMENT NO.     .  Amend Senate Bill 30 on page  1,  by
 3    replacing line 5 with the following:
 4    "Section 5.449 and changing Section 8.3 as follows:"; and
 5    on page 1, line 6, by replacing "105/5.432" with "105/5.449";
 6    and
 7    on page 1, line 7, by replacing "5.432" with "5.449"; and
 8    on page 1, below line 8, by inserting the following:
 9        "(30 ILCS 105/8.3) (from Ch. 127, par. 144.3)
10        Sec.  8.3.  Money in the road fund shall, if and when the
11    State of Illinois incurs  any  bonded  indebtedness  for  the
12    construction of permanent highways, be set aside and used for
13    the  purpose of paying and discharging annually the principal
14    and  interest  on  that  bonded  indebtedness  then  due  and
15    payable, and for no other purpose. The surplus,  if  any,  in
16    the  road fund after the payment of principal and interest on
17    that bonded indebtedness then annually due shall be  used  as
18    follows:
19             first--to pay the cost of administration of Chapters
20        2  through  10  of  the Illinois Vehicle Code, except the
21        cost of administration of Articles I and II of Chapter  3
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 1        of that Code; and
 2             secondly--for   expenses   of   the   Department  of
 3        Transportation    for    construction,    reconstruction,
 4        improvement,   repair,   maintenance,   operation,    and
 5        administration   of   highways  in  accordance  with  the
 6        provisions of laws relating thereto, or for  any  purpose
 7        related or incident to and connected therewith, including
 8        the separation of grades of those highways with railroads
 9        and  with  highways  and  including the payment of awards
10        made by the Industrial Commission under the terms of  the
11        Workers'   Compensation   Act  or  Workers'  Occupational
12        Diseases Act for injury or death of an  employee  of  the
13        Division of Highways in the Department of Transportation;
14        or  for  the  acquisition  of  land  and  the erection of
15        buildings for highway purposes, including the acquisition
16        of  highway  right-of-way  or   for   investigations   to
17        determine   the  reasonably  anticipated  future  highway
18        needs; or for making of  surveys,  plans,  specifications
19        and estimates for and in the construction and maintenance
20        of  flight  strips  and  of highways necessary to provide
21        access to military and  naval  reservations,  to  defense
22        industries and defense-industry sites, and to the sources
23        of  raw materials and for replacing existing highways and
24        highway connections shut off from general public  use  at
25        military  and  naval  reservations  and  defense-industry
26        sites,  or  for the purchase of right-of-way, except that
27        the State shall be reimbursed in  full  for  any  expense
28        incurred  in  building  the  flight  strips;  or  for the
29        operating and maintaining  of  highway  garages;  or  for
30        patrolling   and   policing   the   public  highways  and
31        conserving the peace; or for any of those purposes or any
32        other purpose that may be provided by law.
33        Appropriations for any of those purposes are payable from
34    the road fund. Appropriations may also be made from the  road
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 1    fund for the administrative expenses of any State agency that
 2    are  related to motor vehicles or arise from the use of motor
 3    vehicles.
 4        Beginning with fiscal year 1980 and thereafter,  no  road
 5    fund   monies   shall   be   appropriated  to  the  following
 6    Departments   or   agencies   of   State    government    for
 7    administration, grants, or operations; but this limitation is
 8    not  a  restriction upon appropriating for those purposes any
 9    road fund monies that are eligible for federal reimbursement;
10             1.  Department of Public Health;
11             2.  Department of Transportation, only with  respect
12        to subsidies for one-half fare Student Transportation and
13        Reduced Fare for Elderly;
14             3.  Department   of   Central  Management  Services,
15        except for  expenditures  incurred  for  group  insurance
16        premiums of appropriate personnel;
17             4.  Judicial Systems and Agencies.
18        Beginning  with  fiscal year 1981 and thereafter, no road
19    fund  monies  shall  be   appropriated   to   the   following
20    Departments    or    agencies   of   State   government   for
21    administration, grants, or operations; but this limitation is
22    not a restriction upon appropriating for those  purposes  any
23    road fund monies that are eligible for federal reimbursement:
24             1.  Department   of   State   Police,   except   for
25        expenditures  with  respect  to  the  Division  of  State
26        Troopers;
27             2.  Department  of Transportation, only with respect
28        to Intercity Rail Subsidies and Rail Freight Services.
29        Beginning with fiscal year 1982 and thereafter,  no  road
30    fund   monies   shall   be   appropriated  to  the  following
31    Departments   or   agencies   of   State    government    for
32    administration, grants, or operations; but this limitation is
33    not  a  restriction upon appropriating for those purposes any
34    road fund monies that are eligible for federal reimbursement:
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 1    Department of Central Management Services, except for  awards
 2    made  by  the  Industrial  Commission  under the terms of the
 3    Workers' Compensation Act or Workers'  Occupational  Diseases
 4    Act  for  injury  or  death of an employee of the Division of
 5    Highways in the Department of Transportation.
 6        Beginning with fiscal year 1984 and thereafter,  no  road
 7    fund   monies   shall   be   appropriated  to  the  following
 8    Departments   or   agencies   of   State    government    for
 9    administration, grants, or operations; but this limitation is
10    not  a  restriction upon appropriating for those purposes any
11    road fund monies that are eligible for federal reimbursement:
12             1.  Department of State Police, except not more than
13        40% of the funds appropriated for the Division  of  State
14        Troopers;
15             2.  State Officers.
16        Beginning  with  fiscal year 1984 and thereafter, no road
17    fund monies shall be appropriated to any Department or agency
18    of State government for administration, grants, or operations
19    except as provided hereafter; but this limitation  is  not  a
20    restriction  upon  appropriating  for those purposes any road
21    fund monies that are eligible for federal reimbursement.   It
22    shall  not  be  lawful  to circumvent the above appropriation
23    limitations by governmental reorganization or other  methods.
24    Appropriations  shall  be  made  from  the  road fund only in
25    accordance with the provisions of this Section.
26        Money in the road fund shall, if and when  the  State  of
27    Illinois  incurs any bonded indebtedness for the construction
28    of permanent highways, be set aside and used for the  purpose
29    of  paying   and  discharging  during  each  fiscal  year the
30    principal and interest on  that  bonded  indebtedness  as  it
31    becomes  due  and  payable  as provided in the Transportation
32    Bond Act, and for no other purpose.  The surplus, if any,  in
33    the  road fund after the payment of principal and interest on
34    that bonded indebtedness then annually due shall be  used  as
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 1    follows:
 2             first--to pay the cost of administration of Chapters
 3        2 through 10 of the Illinois Vehicle Code; and
 4             secondly--no  road  fund  monies  derived from fees,
 5        excises,  or  license  taxes  relating  to  registration,
 6        operation and use of vehicles on public  highways  or  to
 7        fuels used for the propulsion of those vehicles, shall be
 8        appropriated   or   expended  other  than  for  costs  of
 9        administering the laws imposing those fees, excises,  and
10        license  taxes, statutory refunds and adjustments allowed
11        thereunder, administrative costs  of  the  Department  of
12        Transportation, payment of debts and liabilities incurred
13        in construction and reconstruction of public highways and
14        bridges, acquisition of rights-of-way for and the cost of
15        construction,  reconstruction,  maintenance,  repair, and
16        operation  of  public  highways  and  bridges  under  the
17        direction  and  supervision  of  the   State,   political
18        subdivision, or municipality collecting those monies, and
19        the costs for patrolling and policing the public highways
20        (by   State,   political   subdivision,  or  municipality
21        collecting that money) for enforcement of  traffic  laws.
22        The  separation of grades of such highways with railroads
23        and costs associated with protection of at-grade  highway
24        and railroad crossing shall also be permissible.
25        Appropriations  for any of such purposes are payable from
26    the road fund  or  the  Grade  Crossing  Protection  Fund  as
27    provided in Section 8 of the Motor Fuel Tax Law.
28        Beginning  with  fiscal year 1991 and thereafter, no Road
29    Fund monies shall be appropriated to the Department of  State
30    Police  for  the  purposes  of  this Section in excess of its
31    total fiscal year 1990 Road  Fund  appropriations  for  those
32    purposes unless otherwise provided in Section 5g of this Act.
33    It  shall  not  be  lawful  to  circumvent this limitation on
34    appropriations  by  governmental  reorganization   or   other
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 1    methods unless otherwise provided in Section 5g of this Act.
 2        In  fiscal  year  1994,  no  Road  Fund  monies  shall be
 3    appropriated to the Secretary of State for  the  purposes  of
 4    this  Section  in  excess  of the total fiscal year 1991 Road
 5    Fund appropriations to  the  Secretary  of  State  for  those
 6    purposes,  plus  $9,800,000.   It  shall  not  be  lawful  to
 7    circumvent  this limitation on appropriations by governmental
 8    reorganization or other method.
 9        Beginning with fiscal year 1995  and  thereafter,  except
10    for  road  fund moneys appropriated to the Secretary of State
11    for required replating issuance of motor vehicle registration
12    plates, no Road Fund monies  shall  be  appropriated  to  the
13    Secretary of State for the purposes of this Section in excess
14    of the total fiscal year 1994 Road Fund appropriations to the
15    Secretary of State for those purposes. It shall not be lawful
16    to   circumvent   this   limitation   on   appropriations  by
17    governmental reorganization or other methods.
18        No new program may be initiated in fiscal year  1991  and
19    thereafter  that  is  not  consistent  with  the  limitations
20    imposed  by this Section for fiscal year 1984 and thereafter,
21    insofar as appropriation of road fund monies is concerned.
22        Nothing in this Section prohibits transfers from the Road
23    Fund to the State Construction Account Fund under Section  5e
24    of this Act.
25    (Source: P.A. 87-774; 87-1228; 88-78.)"; and
26    on  page  1,  line  10, by replacing "Section" with "Sections
27    3-412 and"; and
28    on page 1, below line 10, by inserting the following:
29        "(625 ILCS 5/3-412) (from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 3-412)
30        Sec.   3-412.  Registration   plates   and   registration
31    stickers to be furnished by the Secretary of State.
32        (a)  The Secretary of State upon  registering  a  vehicle
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 1    subject  to  annual  registration  for  the first time  shall
 2    issue  or  shall  cause  to  be  issued  to  the  owner   one
 3    registration  plate  for  a motorcycle, trailer, semitrailer,
 4    motorized pedalcycle or truck-tractor, 2 registration  plates
 5    for  other  motor  vehicles  and,  where  applicable, current
 6    registration  stickers  for  motor  vehicles  of  the   first
 7    division.   The  provisions  of  this  Section  may  be  made
 8    applicable  to  such  vehicles of the second division, as the
 9    Secretary of State may, from time to time, in his  discretion
10    designate. On subsequent annual registrations during the term
11    of the registration plate as provided in Section 3-414.1, the
12    Secretary  shall  issue  or  cause  to be issued registration
13    stickers as evidence of current  registration.  However,  the
14    issuance   of   annual   registration  stickers  to  vehicles
15    registered under the provisions of Section  3-402.1  of  this
16    Code  may not be required if the Secretary deems the issuance
17    unnecessary.
18        (b)  Every registration plate shall have  displayed  upon
19    it  the registration number assigned to the vehicle for which
20    it  is  issued,  the  name  of  this  State,  which  may   be
21    abbreviated,  the  year number for which it was issued, which
22    may be abbreviated, the phrase "Land of Lincoln",  except  as
23    provided  in  Sections  3-626,  Section  3-629, 3-633, 3-634,
24    3-637, and 3-638 and Section 3-631, and such other letters or
25    numbers  as  the  Secretary  may  prescribe.    However,  for
26    apportionment plates  issued  to  vehicles  registered  under
27    Section  3-402.1, the phrase "Land of Lincoln" may be omitted
28    to allow for the word "apportioned"  to  be  displayed.   The
29    Secretary  may  in  his  discretion prescribe that letters be
30    used as  prefixes  only  on  registration  plates  issued  to
31    vehicles  of  the  first  division which are registered under
32    this Code and only as suffixes on registration plates  issued
33    to  other  vehicles.   Every  registration  sticker issued as
34    evidence of current registration  shall  designate  the  year
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 1    number  for  which  it  is  issued  and such other letters or
 2    numbers as the Secretary may prescribe  and  shall  be  of  a
 3    contrasting   color   with   the   registration   plates  and
 4    registration stickers of the previous year.
 5        (c)  Each registration plate and the required letters and
 6    numerals thereon, except the year number  for  which  issued,
 7    shall  be  of  sufficient  size to be plainly readable from a
 8    distance of 100 feet during daylight,  and  shall  be  coated
 9    with  reflectorizing  material.   The dimensions of the plate
10    issued to vehicles of the first division shall  be  6  by  12
11    inches.
12        (d)  The   Secretary  of  State  shall  issue  for  every
13    passenger motor vehicle rented without a driver the same type
14    of registration plates as the type of  plates  issued  for  a
15    private passenger vehicle.
16        (e)  The   Secretary  of  State  shall  issue  for  every
17    passenger car  used  as  a  taxicab  or  livery,  distinctive
18    registration plates.
19        (f)  The   Secretary  of  State  shall  issue  for  every
20    motorcycle  distinctive  registration  plates  distinguishing
21    between motorcycles having  150  or  more  cubic  centimeters
22    piston displacement, or having less than 150 cubic centimeter
23    piston displacement.
24        (g)  Registration  plates issued to vehicles for-hire may
25    display a designation as determined  by  the  Secretary  that
26    such vehicles are for-hire.
27        (h)  The Secretary of State shall issue for each electric
28    vehicle   distinctive   registration   plates   which   shall
29    distinguish   between  electric  vehicles  having  a  maximum
30    operating speed of 45 miles per hour or more and those having
31    a maximum operating speed of less than 45 miles per hour.
32        (i)  The Secretary of State shall issue for every  public
33    and  private  ambulance  registration  plates identifying the
34    vehicle as an ambulance.  The Secretary shall forward to  the
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 1    Department  of  Public  Aid  registration information for the
 2    purpose of verification of claims filed with  the  Department
 3    by  ambulance  owners  for  payment  for  services  to public
 4    assistance recipients.
 5        (j)  The Secretary of State shall issue for every  public
 6    and   private   medical  carrier  or  rescue  vehicle  livery
 7    registration  plates  displaying  numbers  within  ranges  of
 8    numbers reserved respectively for medical carriers and rescue
 9    vehicles.  The Secretary shall forward to the  Department  of
10    Public  Aid  registration  information  for  the  purpose  of
11    verification of claims filed with the Department by owners of
12    medical  carriers or rescue vehicles for payment for services
13    to public assistance recipients.
14        (k)  Beginning in 1999,  the  Secretary  of  State  shall
15    replace  multi-year  registration plates issued under Section
16    3-414.1 every 5 years and shall issue new registration plates
17    for all registered motor vehicles at that time.
18    (Source: P.A. 88-45; 88-485;  89-424,  eff.  6-1-96;  89-564,
19    eff.  7-1-97;  89-612,  eff.  8-9-96;  89-621,  eff.  1-1-97;
20    89-639, eff. 1-1-97; revised 9-9-96.)"; and
21    on page 2, line 17, by replacing "50" with "75"; and
22    on page 2, below line 26, by inserting the following:
23        "Section 99.  Effective date.  This Act takes effect upon
24    becoming law.".

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