Full Text of HB0537 100th General Assembly
HB0537ham003 100TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY | Rep. Robert W. Pritchard Filed: 3/2/2017
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| 1 | | AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 537
| 2 | | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 537 by replacing | 3 | | everything after the enacting clause with the following:
| 4 | | "Section 5. The Election Code is amended by changing | 5 | | Section 12-5 and by adding Section 28-8.2 as follows:
| 6 | | (10 ILCS 5/12-5) (from Ch. 46, par. 12-5)
| 7 | | Sec. 12-5. Notice for public questions. | 8 | | (a) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (b), for all | 9 | | elections held after July
1, 1999, notice of public
questions | 10 | | shall be required only as set forth in this
Section and Section | 11 | | 28-8.2 of this Code or as set forth in Section 17-3 or 19-3 of | 12 | | the School Code. Not
more than 60
30 days nor less than 40 10 | 13 | | days before the date of a
regular election at which a public | 14 | | question is to be submitted to the voters of
a political or | 15 | | governmental subdivision, and at least 20 days before an
| 16 | | emergency referendum, the election authority shall publish |
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| 1 | | notice of the
referendum. The notice shall be published once in | 2 | | a local, community newspaper
having general circulation in the | 3 | | political or governmental subdivision. The
notice shall also be | 4 | | given at least 10 days before the date of the election by
| 5 | | posting a copy of the notice at the principal office of the | 6 | | election
authority. The local election official shall also post | 7 | | a copy of the notice at
the principal office of the political | 8 | | or governmental
subdivision, or if there is no principal office | 9 | | at the building in which the
governing body of the political or | 10 | | governmental subdivision held its first
meeting of the calendar | 11 | | year in which the referendum is being held. The
election | 12 | | authority and the political or governmental subdivision may, | 13 | | but are
not required to, post the notice electronically on | 14 | | their World Wide Web pages.
The notice, which shall appear over | 15 | | the name or title of the election
authority, shall be | 16 | | substantially in the following form:
| 17 | | NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that at the election to be held | 18 | | on
(insert day of the week),
(insert date of election), the | 19 | | following proposition will be
submitted to the voters of | 20 | | (name of political or governmental subdivision):
| 21 | | (insert the public question as it will appear on the | 22 | | ballot)
| 23 | | The polls at the election will be open at 6:00 o'clock | 24 | | A.M. and will
continue to be open until 7:00 o'clock P.M. | 25 | | of that day.
| 26 | | Dated (date of notice)
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| 1 | | (Name or title of the election authority)
| 2 | | The notice shall also include any additional information | 3 | | required by the statute authorizing the public question. The | 4 | | notice may include an explanation, in neutral and plain | 5 | | language, of the question and its purposes supplied by the | 6 | | governing body of the political or governmental subdivision to | 7 | | whose voters the question is to be submitted. The notice shall | 8 | | set forth the
precincts and polling places at which the | 9 | | referendum will be conducted only in
the case of emergency | 10 | | referenda. | 11 | | (b) Notice of any public question published in a local, | 12 | | community newspaper having general circulation in the | 13 | | political or governmental subdivision to which such public | 14 | | question and Section 28-8.2 of this Code relates more than 30 | 15 | | days but not more than 35 days prior to the general election | 16 | | held on November 8, 2016 that otherwise complies with the | 17 | | requirements of this Section is sufficient notice to satisfy | 18 | | the newspaper publication requirement of this Section, such | 19 | | notice shall for all purposes be deemed to have been given in | 20 | | accordance with this Section, any bonds approved by the voters | 21 | | at such election are hereby authorized to be issued in | 22 | | accordance with applicable law without further referendum | 23 | | approval and taxes to be levied pursuant to any limiting rate | 24 | | increases approved by the voters at such election are hereby | 25 | | authorized to be levied and extended without further referendum | 26 | | approval.
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| 1 | | (Source: P.A. 99-935, eff. 2-17-17.)
| 2 | | (10 ILCS 5/28-8.2 new) | 3 | | Sec. 28-8.2. Revenue referenda disclosure. | 4 | | (a) For purposes of this Section, "revenue referenda" means | 5 | | referenda by a unit of local government, including a school | 6 | | district, seeking to impose or increase a retailers' occupation | 7 | | tax, a use tax, a service occupation tax, a service use tax, or | 8 | | a property tax, or regarding the issuance of bonds. | 9 | | (b) If not already required by the Property Tax Extension | 10 | | Limitation Law, all revenue referenda shall have printed | 11 | | thereon, but not as part of the proposition submitted, only the | 12 | | following supplemental information (which shall be supplied to | 13 | | the election authority by the taxing district) in substantially | 14 | | the following form: | 15 | | (1) The approximate amount of taxes extendable at the | 16 | | most recently extended limiting rate is $...., and the | 17 | | approximate amount of taxes extendable if the proposition | 18 | | is approved is $.... | 19 | | (2) For the (insert the first full levy year for which | 20 | | the new rate or increased limiting rate will be applicable) | 21 | | levy year the approximate amount of the additional tax | 22 | | extendable against property containing a single family | 23 | | residence and having a fair market value at the time of the | 24 | | referendum of $100,000 is estimated to be $.... | 25 | | (3) For this Bond Referendum, (name of local unit of |
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| 1 | | government or school district) proposes to issue bonds for | 2 | | (state purpose for the bond) in the amount of (state the | 3 | | principal amount of the bond) $... for the purpose of | 4 | | paying the costs thereof that mature in (state the life of | 5 | | the bond) years along with estimated interest costs of | 6 | | (state the estimated amount) $... assuming an annual | 7 | | interest rate at the time of the referendum of (state the | 8 | | estimated percent) ...%. The average cost of the bond sale | 9 | | including principal and estimated interest at the time of | 10 | | this referendum for property containing a single family | 11 | | residence and having a fair market value at the time of the | 12 | | referendum of $100,000 is estimated to be $... | 13 | | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | 14 | | becoming law.".
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