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Sen. Don Harmon
Filed: 2/28/2006
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| AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 2654
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| AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 2654, AS AMENDED, |
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| by replacing everything after the enacting clause with the |
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| following:
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| "Section 5. The Tuberculosis Sanitarium District Act is |
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| amended by adding Section 5.4 as follows:
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| (70 ILCS 920/5.4 new)
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| Sec. 5.4. Dissolution of Suburban Cook County Tuberculosis |
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| Sanitarium District; disposition of land and real estate; |
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| continuation of District levy. |
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| (a) Notwithstanding any
provision of law to the contrary, |
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| the Suburban Cook County Tuberculosis Sanitarium District is
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| dissolved by operation of law one year after the effective date |
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| of this amendatory Act of the 94th General Assembly. |
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| (b) On or before the day 2 months after the effective date |
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| of this amendatory Act of the 94th General Assembly, the Board |
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| of Directors shall forward to the Cook County Department of |
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| Public Health all transition plans relating to the |
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| consolidation of all of the existing programs, personnel, and |
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| infrastructure of the District into the Cook County Bureau of |
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| Health Services to be administered by the Cook County |
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| Department of Public Health. Beginning on the effective date of |
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| this amendatory Act of the 94th General Assembly, the District |
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| shall not make any enhancements to pensions. |
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| (c) Upon dissolution of the District: (i) all assets and |
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| liabilities of the Suburban Cook County Tuberculosis |
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| Sanitarium District
dissolved
under this amendatory Act of the |
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| 94th General Assembly shall be transferred to the Cook County |
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| Board and the monetary assets shall be deposited into a special |
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| purpose fund for the prevention, care, treatment, and control |
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| of tuberculosis in suburban Cook County; (ii) the Cook County |
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| Department of Public Health shall assume all responsibility for |
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| the prevention, care, treatment, and control of tuberculosis
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| within the area of the Suburban Cook County Tuberculosis |
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| Sanitarium District
dissolved
under this amendatory Act of the |
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| 94th General Assembly, including the provision of tuberculosis |
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| care and treatment for units of local government with |
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| State-certified local public health departments; and (iii) |
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| employees of the Suburban Cook County Tuberculosis Sanitarium |
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| District become employees of Cook County. |
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| (d) The Cook County Board may transfer to the Cook County |
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| Forest Preserve District appropriate unimproved real estate |
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| owned by the Suburban Cook County Tuberculosis Sanitarium |
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| District at the time of its dissolution. After the dissolution |
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| of the District, any land owned by the District at the time of |
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| its dissolution remains subject to any leases and encumbrances |
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| that existed upon the dissolution of the District. |
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| (e) Upon the dissolution of the Suburban Cook County |
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| Tuberculosis Sanitarium District: (i) any levy imposed by the |
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| dissolved District is abolished, and (ii) Cook County, as a |
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| home rule unit, may impose a levy for the purpose of the |
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| prevention care, treatment, and control of tuberculosis and |
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| emerging communicable respiratory diseases, including, but not |
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| limited to, severe acute respiratory syndrome and avian flu in |
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| Cook County. In accordance with subsection (b) of Section 12 of |
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| the State Revenue Sharing Act, the tax base of the dissolved |
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| Suburban Cook County Tuberculosis Sanitarium District shall be |
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| added to the tax base of Cook County.
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