SB1688 103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2023 and 2024
SB1688

Introduced 2/8/2023, by Sen. John F. Curran

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

65 ILCS 5/8-3-14b
65 ILCS 5/8-3-14c

Amends the Illinois Municipal Code. Provides that not less than 50% (rather than 75%) of the amounts collected by a municipality within DuPage County pursuant to the municipal hotel operators' occupation tax and municipal hotel use tax shall be used to promote tourism within that municipality. Changes the repeal date of the provisions from January 1, 2025 to January 1, 2027. Effective immediately.

A BILL FOR

AN ACT concerning local government.

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

Section 5. The Illinois Municipal Code is amended by changing Sections 8-3-14b and 8-3-14c as follows:

(65 ILCS 5/8-3-14b)

(Section scheduled to be repealed on January 1, 2025)

Sec. 8-3-14b. Municipal hotel operators' tax in DuPage County. For any municipality located within DuPage County that belongs to a not-for-profit organization headquartered in DuPage County that is recognized by the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity as a certified local tourism and convention bureau entitled to receive State tourism grant funds, not less than 50% 75% of the amounts collected pursuant to Section 8-3-14 shall be expended by the municipality to promote tourism and conventions within that municipality or otherwise to attract nonresident overnight visitors to the municipality, and the remainder of the amounts collected by a municipality within DuPage County pursuant to Section 8-3-14 may be expended by the municipality for economic development or capital infrastructure.

This Section is repealed on January 1, 2027 2025.

(Source: P.A. 101-204, eff. 8-2-19; 102-699, eff. 4-19-22.)

(65 ILCS 5/8-3-14c)

(Section scheduled to be repealed on January 1, 2025)

Sec. 8-3-14c. Municipal hotel use tax in DuPage County. For any municipality located within DuPage County that belongs to a not-for-profit organization headquartered in DuPage County that is recognized by the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity as a certified local tourism and convention bureau entitled to receive State tourism grant funds, not less than 50% 75% of the amounts collected pursuant to Section 8-3-14a shall be expended by the municipality to promote tourism and conventions within that municipality or otherwise to attract nonresident overnight visitors to the municipality, and the remainder of the amounts collected by a municipality within DuPage County pursuant to Section 8-3-14a may be expended by the municipality for economic development or capital infrastructure.

This Section is repealed on January 1, 2027 2025.

(Source: P.A. 101-204, eff. 8-2-19; 102-699, eff. 4-19-22.)

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