COUNTIES CD-LEVY-HEALTH INSUR House SponsorsRep. Dan Reitz 1/11/2005HouseSession Sine Die 35 ILCS 200/18-18555 ILCS 5/5-1069.6 new Amends the Counties Code. Provides that a county may annually levy and collect taxes upon all taxable property within its territory at a rate that will produce a sum that will be sufficient to pay the cost of providing, for the benefit of employees of the county, group life, health, accident, hospital, and medical insurance, or any one or any combination of those types of insurance, or the cost to the county board to self-insure for any one or any combination of those types of insurance. Amends the Property Tax Extension Limitation Law of the Property Tax Code to exempt the special purpose extension by the county for this purpose from the extension limitation provisions of the Law.Fiscal Note (Illinois Department of Revenue) House Bill 537 provides that a country may levy a rate that will cover the cost to provide its employees, or the cost of the county board to self-insure, various types of insurance. The insurance levy is exclusive of, and in addition to, any levy the county makes for general purposes under any law that limits the amount of tax a county may levy for general purposes. The insurance levy is exempt from any statutory county general corporate purposes rate limitations. The PTELL is amended to also exclude the insurance levy from the aggregate extension. There is no fiscal impact to the state. Property owners will be forced to pay the additional amount.House Amendment No. 1 Further amends the Property Tax Extension Limitation Law in the Property Tax Code. Exempts from the extension limitation those extensions made for any increase above the amount extended for the 2002 taxable year for contributions to the Illinois Municipal Retirement Fund, that part of any extension made for any increase above the amount extended for the 2002 taxable year for Medicare and FICA coverage, and that part of any extension made for any increase above the amount extended for the 2002 taxable year for the expenses of civil liability and liability insurance. 1/30/2003HouseFiled with the Clerk by Rep. Dan Reitz 1/30/2003HouseFirst Reading 1/30/2003HouseReferred to Rules Committee 2/4/2003HouseAssigned to Revenue Committee 2/20/2003HouseFiscal Note Filed 3/13/2003HouseHouse Amendment No. 1 Filed with Clerk by Revenue Committee 3/13/2003HouseHouse Amendment No. 1 Adopted by Voice Vote; Revenue Sub-committee 3/13/2003HouseRemains in Revenue Committee 3/13/2003HouseRule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee 1/11/2005HouseSession Sine Die