Full Text of HB4042 100th General Assembly
HB4042 100TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY |
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State of Illinois
2017 and 2018 HB4042 Introduced , by Rep. Mark Batinick SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: |
| 105 ILCS 5/17-2 | from Ch. 122, par. 17-2 | 105 ILCS 5/34-53.6 new | |
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Amends the School Code. Provides that, excluding any capital improvement tax, the aggregate tax rate levied annually by a school district shall not exceed 4%. Provides that school districts remain subject to (i) particular maximum tax rates set forth under the Code and (ii) the district's limiting rate under the Property Tax Extension Limitation Law, if applicable. Requires the State to appropriate and the State Board of Education to distribute to each school district funds sufficient to cover the revenue that the district would have received but for the reduction in its tax rate.
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| 1 | | AN ACT concerning education.
| 2 | | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
| 3 | | represented in the General Assembly:
| 4 | | Section 5. The School Code is amended by changing Section | 5 | | 17-2 and by adding Section 34-53.6 as follows:
| 6 | | (105 ILCS 5/17-2) (from Ch. 122, par. 17-2)
| 7 | | Sec. 17-2. Tax levies; purposes; rates. Except as otherwise | 8 | | provided in
Articles 12 and 13 of this Act, and except as | 9 | | provided in Section 17-2.2e of this Act, the following maximum | 10 | | rates shall apply to all
taxes levied after August 10, 1965, in | 11 | | districts having a population of less
than 500,000 inhabitants, | 12 | | including those districts organized under Article 11
of the | 13 | | School Code. The school board of any district having a | 14 | | population of
less than 500,000 inhabitants may levy a tax | 15 | | annually, at not to exceed the
maximum rates and for the | 16 | | specified purposes, upon all the taxable property of
the | 17 | | district at the value, as equalized or assessed by the | 18 | | Department of
Revenue as follows:
| 19 | | (1) districts maintaining only grades 1 through 8, .92% | 20 | | for educational
purposes and .25% for operations and | 21 | | maintenance purposes;
| 22 | | (2) districts maintaining only grades 9 through 12, | 23 | | .92% for
educational purposes and .25% for operations and |
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| 1 | | maintenance purposes;
| 2 | | (3) districts maintaining grades 1 through 12, 1.63% | 3 | | for the 1985-86
school year, 1.68% for the 1986-87 school | 4 | | year, 1.75% for the 1987-88
school year and 1.84% for the | 5 | | 1988-89 school year and thereafter for
educational | 6 | | purposes and .405% for the 1989-90 school year, .435% for | 7 | | the
1990-91 school year, .465% for the 1991-92 school year, | 8 | | and .50% for the
1992-93 school year and thereafter for | 9 | | operations and maintenance purposes;
| 10 | | (4) all districts, 0.75% for capital improvement | 11 | | purposes (which is in
addition to the levy for operations | 12 | | and maintenance purposes), which tax is to
be
levied, | 13 | | accumulated for not more than 6 years, and spent for | 14 | | capital
improvement purposes (including but not limited to | 15 | | the construction of a new
school building or buildings or | 16 | | the purchase of school grounds on which any new
school | 17 | | building is to be constructed or located, or both) only in | 18 | | accordance
with Section 17-2.3 of this Act;
| 19 | | (5) districts maintaining only grades 1 through 8, .12% | 20 | | for
transportation purposes, provided that districts | 21 | | maintaining only grades
kindergarten through 8 which have | 22 | | an enrollment of at least 2600 students
may levy, subject | 23 | | to Section 17-2.2, at not to exceed a maximum rate of
.20% | 24 | | for transportation purposes for any school year in which | 25 | | the number of
students requiring transportation in the | 26 | | district exceeds by at least 2%
the number of students |
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| 1 | | requiring transportation in the district during the
| 2 | | preceding school year, as verified in the district's claim | 3 | | for pupil
transportation and reimbursement and as | 4 | | certified by the State Board of
Education to the county | 5 | | clerk of the county in which such district is
located not | 6 | | later than November 15 following the submission of such | 7 | | claim;
districts maintaining only grades 9 through 12, .12% | 8 | | for transportation
purposes; and districts maintaining | 9 | | grades 1 through 12, .14% for the
1985-86 school year, .16% | 10 | | for the 1986-87 school year, .18% for the 1987-88
school | 11 | | year and .20% for the 1988-89 school year and thereafter, | 12 | | for
transportation purposes;
| 13 | | (6) districts providing summer classes, .15% for | 14 | | educational
purposes, subject to Section 17-2.1 of this | 15 | | Act.
| 16 | | Whenever any special charter school district operating | 17 | | grades 1
through 12, has organized or shall organize under the | 18 | | general school
law, the district so organized may continue to | 19 | | levy taxes at not to
exceed the rate at which taxes were last | 20 | | actually extended by the
special charter district, except that | 21 | | if such rate at which taxes were
last actually extended by such | 22 | | special charter district was less than
the maximum rate for | 23 | | districts maintaining grades 1 through 12
authorized under this | 24 | | Section, such special charter district
nevertheless may levy | 25 | | taxes at a rate not to exceed the maximum rate for
districts | 26 | | maintaining grades 1 through 12 authorized under this Section,
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| 1 | | and except that if any such district maintains only grades 1 | 2 | | through 8,
the board may levy, for educational purposes, at a | 3 | | rate not to exceed
the maximum rate for elementary districts | 4 | | authorized under this Section.
| 5 | | Maximum rates before or after established in excess of | 6 | | those
prescribed shall not be affected by the amendatory Act of | 7 | | 1965.
| 8 | | Excluding any capital improvement tax, for levy year 2018 | 9 | | and thereafter, the aggregate tax rate levied annually upon the | 10 | | equalized assessed value of the taxable property of
the | 11 | | district by a school district having a population of
less than | 12 | | 500,000 inhabitants shall not exceed 4%; provided that those | 13 | | school districts shall continue to be subject to (i) the | 14 | | particular maximum rates set forth under this Section for | 15 | | educational purposes, operations and maintenance, and | 16 | | transportation and (ii) the district's limiting rate under the | 17 | | Property Tax Extension Limitation Law, if the district is | 18 | | subject to that Law. For levy year 2018 and thereafter, the | 19 | | State shall appropriate and the State Board of Education shall | 20 | | distribute to each school district funds sufficient to cover | 21 | | the revenue that the district would have received but for the | 22 | | reduction in its tax rate under this Section. | 23 | | (Source: P.A. 99-908, eff. 12-16-16.)
| 24 | | (105 ILCS 5/34-53.6 new) | 25 | | Sec. 34-53.6. Maximum aggregate rate. Excluding any |
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| 1 | | capital improvement tax, for levy year 2018 and thereafter, the | 2 | | aggregate tax rate levied annually upon the equalized assessed | 3 | | value of the taxable property of
the district by a school | 4 | | district in a city with a population of 500,000 or more | 5 | | inhabitants shall not exceed 4%; provided that the school | 6 | | district shall continue to be subject to (i) the particular | 7 | | maximum rates set forth under this Article and (ii) the | 8 | | district's limiting rate under the Property Tax Extension | 9 | | Limitation Law, if the district is subject to that Law. For | 10 | | levy year 2018 and thereafter, the State shall appropriate and | 11 | | the State Board of Education shall distribute to the school | 12 | | district funds sufficient to cover the revenue that the | 13 | | district would have received but for the reduction in its tax | 14 | | rate under this Section.
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