97TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2011 and 2012
HB3254

 

Introduced 2/24/2011, by Rep. Patrick J. Verschoore

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
605 ILCS 5/6-901  from Ch. 121, par. 6-901
605 ILCS 5/6-905  from Ch. 121, par. 6-905

    Amends the Illinois Highway Code. Increases from $15,000,000 to $30,000,000 the amount the General Assembly shall appropriate annually for apportionment to counties for construction of bridges 20 feet or more in length. Provides that the amount of grant for an approved road district project shall require at least $1 of local funds committed to the project for each $9 (rather than for each $4) that may be allocated under the Code.


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FISCAL NOTE ACT MAY APPLY

 

 

A BILL FOR

 

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1    AN ACT concerning transportation.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The Illinois Highway Code is amended by changing
5Sections 6-901 and 6-905 as follows:
 
6    (605 ILCS 5/6-901)  (from Ch. 121, par. 6-901)
7    Sec. 6-901. Annually, the General Assembly shall
8appropriate to the Department of Transportation from the road
9fund, the general revenue fund, any other State funds or a
10combination of those funds, $30,000,000 $15,000,000 for
11apportionment to counties for the use of road districts for the
12construction of bridges 20 feet or more in length, as provided
13in Sections 6-902 through 6-905.
14    The Department of Transportation shall apportion among the
15several counties of this State for the use of road districts
16the amounts appropriated under this Section. The amount
17apportioned to a county shall be in the proportion which the
18total mileage of township or district roads in the county bears
19to the total mileage of all township and district roads in the
20State. Each county shall allocate to the several road districts
21in the county the funds so apportioned to the county. The
22allocation to road districts shall be made in the same manner
23and be subject to the same conditions and qualifications as are

 

 

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1provided by Section 8 of the "Motor Fuel Tax Law", approved
2March 25, 1929, as amended, with respect to the allocation to
3road districts of the amount allotted from the Motor Fuel Tax
4Fund for apportionment to counties for the use of road
5districts, but no allocation shall be made to any road district
6that has not levied taxes for road and bridge purposes and for
7bridge construction purposes at the maximum rates permitted by
8Sections 6-501, 6-508 and 6-512 of this Act, without
9referendum. "Road district" and "township or district road"
10have the meanings ascribed to those terms in this Act.
11    Road districts in counties in which a property tax
12extension limitation is imposed under the Property Tax
13Extension Limitation Law that are made ineligible for receipt
14of this appropriation due to the imposition of a property tax
15extension limitation may become eligible if, at the time the
16property tax extension limitation was imposed, the road
17district was levying at the required rate and continues to levy
18the maximum allowable amount after the imposition of the
19property tax extension limitation. The road district also
20becomes eligible if it levies at or above the rate required for
21eligibility by Section 8 of the Motor Fuel Tax Law.
22    The amounts apportioned under this Section for allocation
23to road districts may be used only for bridge construction as
24provided in this Division. So much of those amounts as are not
25obligated under Sections 6-902 through 6-904 and for which
26local funds have not been committed under Section 6-905 within

 

 

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148 months of the date when such apportionment is made lapses
2and shall not be paid to the county treasurer for distribution
3to road districts.
4(Source: P.A. 96-366, eff. 1-1-10.)
 
5    (605 ILCS 5/6-905)  (from Ch. 121, par. 6-905)
6    Sec. 6-905. The amount of grant for an approved road
7district project shall require at least $1 of local funds
8committed to the project for each $9 $4 that may be allocated
9under Section 6-901.
10(Source: P.A. 81-1509.)