HB5195 97TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

LRB097 19626 PJG 64880 b

97TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2011 and 2012
HB5195

Introduced 2/8/2012, by Rep. Daniel Biss

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

20 ILCS 3501/820-10
20 ILCS 3501/820-35

Amends the Illinois Finance Authority Act. Includes in the definition of "energy conservation project" an Energy Efficiency Project in connection with any school district or community college district project. Provides that the Illinois Finance Authority may (rather than shall) assist the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity to establish and implement a program to assist units of local government to identify and arrange financing for energy conservation projects. Effective immediately.

A BILL FOR

AN ACT concerning State government.

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

Section 5. The Illinois Finance Authority Act is amended by changing Sections 820-10 and 820-35 as follows:

(20 ILCS 3501/820-10)

Sec. 820-10. Definitions. The following words or terms, whenever used or referred to in this Article, shall have the following meanings ascribed to them, except where the context clearly requires otherwise:

(a) "Department" means the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity.

(b) "Unit of local government" means any unit of local government, as defined in Article VII, Section 1 of the 1970 State Constitution and any local public entity as that term is defined by the Local Governmental and Governmental Employees Tort Immunity Act and also includes the State and any instrumentality, office, officer, department, division, bureau, commission, college or university thereof.

(c) "Energy conservation project" means any improvement, repair, alteration or betterment of any building or facility or any equipment, including but not limited to an Energy Efficiency Project, as defined in item (iii) of subsection (b) of Section 825-65, in connection with any school district or community college district project, and any fixture or furnishing including its energy using mechanical devices to be added to or used in any building or facility that the Director of the Department has certified to the Authority will be a cost-effective energy-related project that will lower energy or utility costs in connection with the operation or maintenance of such building or facility, and will achieve energy cost savings sufficient to cover bond debt service and other project costs within 10 years from the date of project installation.

(Source: P.A. 93-205, eff. 1-1-04.)

(20 ILCS 3501/820-35)

Sec. 820-35. The Authority may shall assist the Department to establish and implement a program to assist units of local government to identify and arrange financing for energy conservation projects in buildings and facilities owned or leased by units of local government. Such bonds shall not constitute an indebtedness or obligation of the State of Illinois and it shall be plainly stated on the face of each bond that it does not constitute such an indebtedness or obligation but is payable solely from the revenues, income or other assets of the Authority pledged therefor.

(Source: P.A. 93-205, eff. 1-1-04.)

Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon becoming law.