Amends the Local Government Taxpayers' Bill of Rights Act. Provides that the statute of limitations set by a unit of local government for the determination and assessment of taxes covered by the Act may not exceed 10 years (currently, 4 years) after the end of the calendar year for which the return for the period was filed or the end of the calendar year in which the return for the period was due, whichever occurs later. Makes conforming changes concerning the tolling of this 10-year period. Amends the Illinois Municipal Code. In a Section concerning municipal audits of public utilities, provides that municipalities may request information from public utilities no more than annually (currently, no more than once every 2 years). Provides that, if the public utility fails to respond in a timely manner to the request for information with complete information, the public utility shall be liable to the municipality for a penalty of $1,000 for each day it fails to produce the requested information. Provides that, if a public utility is liable for any error in past tax payments in excess of $5,000 that were unknown prior to an audit from the municipality, then the public utility shall reimburse the municipality for the cost of the audit. Sets forth conditions under which the public utility may be liable for attorney's fees incurred by the municipality. Senate Floor Amendment No. 1 Adds reference to: 220 ILCS 5/9-224.1 new Replaces everything after the enacting clause. Reinserts the provisions of the introduced bill with the following changes. In provisions amending the Local Government Taxpayers' Bill of Rights Act, creates a 7-year statute of limitations for utility taxes (currently, 4 years). In provisions amending the Illinois Municipal Code, provides that a public utility that is an electric utility may not provide customer-specific information. Provides that penalties for failure to respond to requests for information shall be assessed by the municipality, but may be reduced or vacated by the municipality or a court of competent jurisdiction upon demonstration by the public utility that the public utility's failure to provide the requested information resulted from excusable neglect. In provisions concerning a public utility's liability for premises that have been annexed to the municipality, provides that the utility shall only be liable beginning 60 days after the date that the municipality provided the public utility notice of the annexation. Adds provisions amending the Public Utilities Act. Provides that the Illinois Commerce Commission shall not consider: (i) costs associated with a municipal audit; (ii) any court costs, attorney's fees, or other fees incurred under certain provisions of the Illinois Municipal Code; (iii) unpaid utility taxes owed to a municipality; or (iv) any penalties or interest imposed by a municipality under certain provisions of the Illinois Municipal Code to be expenses for the purpose of determining any rate or charge. Senate Floor Amendment No. 2 Adds reference to: 220 ILCS 5/16-122 Makes changes to the bill as amended by Senate Amendment No. 1 to provide that the Illinois Commerce Commission shall not consider: (i) any court costs, attorney's fees, or other fees incurred under certain provisions of the Illinois Municipal Code; or (ii) any penalties or interest imposed by a municipality under certain provisions of the Illinois Municipal Code to be expenses for the purpose of determining any rate or charge (Senate Amendment No. 1 also includes costs associated with a municipal audit and unpaid utility taxes owed to a municipality in the list). Further amends the Public Utilities Act to provide that customer specific billing, usage, or load shape data may be provided to a unit of local government if the unit of local government is requesting the information for the purposes of an audit under specified provisions of the Illinois Municipal Code. House Floor Amendment No. 4 Deletes reference to: 220 ILCS 5/9-224.1 new Replaces everything after the enacting clause. Reinserts the provisions of the engrossed bill with changes. In provisions amending the Local Government Taxpayers' Bill of Rights Act, provides that a notice of determination of tax due or assessment (removing the limitation in the engrossed bill to utility taxes) may be issued more than 5 years (rather than 7 years in the engrossed bill) after the end of the calendar year for which the return or the period was filed or the end of the calendar year in which the return for the period was due, whichever occurs later. Provides that a timely performed audit or review shall toll the applicable 5-year period for a period of not more than 1 year. Makes other changes. In provisions amending the Illinois Municipal Code relating to a municipality's tax review of a public utility: specifies information that may be requested by the municipality related to premises-specific and other information used by the public utility to determine the amount of tax due to the municipality; revises provisions relating to information that may be collected related to the premises address for customer accounts; provides that the public utility shall attempt to resolve any questions or issues that arise in the tax review without disclosing any customer-specific information and provides that the public utility or municipality may pursue questions or issues before the Department of Revenue; modifies provisions relating to penalties that a public utility can face related to a tax review; modifies provisions relating to the public utility liability to the municipality for unpaid taxes; adds provisions relating to using a web portal rather than email to receive notice of annexations and boundary changes and provisions relating to the Department of Revenue developing and publishing a written process to be used by each public utility and each municipality that imposes a specified tax; and makes other changes. In provisions concerning the Public Utilities Act, makes changes in provisions concerning customer information. Effective immediately.
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Amends the Liquor Control Act of 1934. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title. Senate Floor Amendment No. 1 Deletes reference to: 235 ILCS 5/1-1 Adds reference to: 235 ILCS 5/5-3 from Ch. 43, par. 118 Replaces everything after the enacting clause. Amends the Liquor Control Act of 1934. Reduces the license fees for first-class wine manufacturers and first-class wine-makers. Effective immediately. Senate Floor Amendment No. 2 Changes the effective date to August 1, 2022 (rather than an immediate effective date). House Floor Amendment No. 2 Adds reference to: 235 ILCS 5/5-1 from Ch. 43, par. 115 Further amends the Liquor Control Act of 1934. Provides that a non-home rule municipality may not regulate the delivery of alcoholic liquor inconsistent with certain provisions of the Act concerning delivery of alcoholic liquor by retailers. Changes the effective date from August 1, 2022 to immediate.
Amends the Counties Code. Changes the Rental Housing Support Program State surcharge a county recorder must collect on each real-estate related document from $9 to $18. Increases the fee a county may charge for recording documents. Makes conforming changes. Amends the Rental Housing Support Program Act. Provides that annual receipts distributed under the Rental Housing Support Program shall be distributed with priority to local administering agencies from the county in which the annual receipts were collected. Provides that the Illinois Housing Development Authority shall wait at least 6 months after annual receipts are deposited into the Rental Housing Support Program Fund before distributing the annual receipts. Provides that the Authority shall work with each county to ensure that at least one local administering agency is located within each county. House Floor Amendment No. 1 Deletes reference to: 310 ILCS 105/10 Adds reference to: 310 ILCS 105/30 new Replaces everything after the enacting clause. Reinserts the provisions of the introduced bill with the following changes: provides that, as part of the request-for-proposal process and subject to specified requirements, best efforts will be used to prioritize local administering agencies that serve the county in which annual receipts were collected upon receipt of current data from the Department of Revenue applicable to the annual receipts (rather than annual receipts shall be distributed with priority to local administering agencies from the county in which the annual receipts were collected); removes a provision requiring the Illinois Housing Development Authority to wait at least 6 months after annual receipts are deposited into the Rental Housing Support Program Fund before distributing the annual receipts; provides that the Illinois Housing Development Authority shall use best efforts through outreach to local administering agencies to encourage at least one local administering agency to serve each county in the State (rather than the Authority shall work with each county to ensure that at least one local administering agency is located within each county); and creates the Illinois Rental Housing Support Program Funding Allocation Task Force, which shall study and make recommendations regarding the equitable distribution of rental housing support funds across the State and shall also work with the Authority as funding allocations will be required to be adjusted due to data released by the United States Census Bureau on the 2020 decennial census. Effective January 1, 2022. Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 Changes the effective date of the bill to July 1, 2023 (rather than January 1, 2022). Makes conforming changes to the date the Illinois Rental Housing Support Program Funding Allocation Task Force is required to submit its report (from March 31, 2022 to September 30, 2023) and the date the Task Force provisions are repealed (from March 31, 2023 to September 30, 2024). Senate Floor Amendment No. 3 Provides that the Governor shall appoint 3 members (rather than one member) to the Task Force from an organization representing Illinois county clerks and recorders (rather than Illinois clerks and recorders), including appointments from the Chicago suburbs, from a small metropolitan area, and from a rural area. Makes technical corrections in provisions about appointment of a member representing a local administering agency from a rural area to the Task Force.
Amends the Election Code. Provides that each election precinct shall contain 1,200 voters (currently, 500 voters in counties, 600 voters in a municipality with a board of election commissioners and fewer than 500,000 inhabitants, or 400 voters in a municipality with a board of election commissioners and more than 500,000 inhabitants). Makes corresponding and other changes. In provisions concerning the county board of a county with less than 3,000,000 inhabitants, removes language providing that an election precinct with more than 600 voters may be divided. Provides that a county board may (rather than shall) at specified meetings, redivide, consolidate, or readjust (rather than redivide or readjust) election precincts to meet the 1,200 voters per precinct standard. In provisions concerning a municipality with a board of election commissioners, provides that a city with over 500,000 residents may (rather than shall) rearrange its precincts within 90 days of a presidential election or at any time when the number of votes cast exceeds 1,200 (rather than equals 600) to meet the 1,200 voters per precinct standard. Effective immediately.
Creates the Local Accumulation of Funds Act. Provides that a unit of local government's funds, excluding the capital fund, shall not exceed an amount equal to or greater than 2.5 times the annual average expenditure of the previous 3 fiscal years of the unit of local government. Defines "capital fund" as a capital fund of a township or a similar fund of another unit of local government established to dedicate funds toward capital improvement as a part of the unit of local government's annual budget. Amends the Township Code repealing a Section about accumulation of funds. Effective immediately.
Amends the Technology Development Act. Provides for additional specified information to be reported by a TDA II-Recipient Fund to the State Treasurer on a quarterly or annual basis for all investments. Provides for the allocation of the aggregate dollar amount available for new investments. Requires the State Treasurer to disclose on the website of the State Treasurer specified aggregate financial performance information for TDA II-Recipient Funds. Provides that the Technology Development Fund is a nonappropriated trust fund within the State treasury (rather than a special fund outside of the State treasury with the State Treasurer as custodian). Requires the State Treasurer to publish on his or her official website specified information regarding the Technology Development Fund for the previous fiscal year. Defines terms. Makes conforming changes. Senate Floor Amendment No. 1 Deletes reference to: 30 ILCS 265/11 30 ILCS 265/20 Adds reference to: 30 ILCS 105/5.970 new 30 ILCS 105/6z-130 new Replaces everything after the enacting clause. Amends the State Finance Act. Creates the Fund Mental Health and Substance Use Prevention Fund as a special fund in the State treasury. Provides that the Department of Human Services must make grants, from appropriations made from the Fund, to units of local government and Illinois public universities for the purposes of providing mental health and substance abuse prevention to people who are incarcerated and providing mental health and substance abuse prevention for those encountering the criminal justice system with a primary focus to people who are incarcerated in the county jail or recently discharged. Provides that, notwithstanding any other provision of law, moneys in the Fund Mental Health and Substance Use Prevention Fund may not be appropriated, assigned, or transferred to another State fund. Senate Floor Amendment No. 2 Specifies that it is the Department of Human Services that must make grants to units of local government and Illinois public universities.
Amends the Abandoned Refrigerator Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
Amends the State Budget Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Provides that beginning with the budget prepared for fiscal year 2022, the rate of growth of general funds appropriations shall not exceed the rate of growth of the Illinois median household income. Defines "rate of growth of the Illinois median household income". Effective immediately.
Amends the Illinois Income Tax Act. Provides that an amount equal to the sum of (i) 8% of the net revenue realized from the tax imposed upon individuals, trusts, estates, and electing pass-through entities and (ii) 9.11% of the net revenue realized from the tax imposed upon corporations shall be deposited into the Local Government Distributive Fund (currently, an amount equal to the sum of (i) 6.06% of the net revenue realized from the tax imposed upon individuals, trusts, and estates and (ii) 6.85% of the net revenue realized from the tax imposed upon corporations shall be deposited into the Local Government Distributive Fund). Amends the State Revenue Sharing Act to provide that amounts paid into the Local Government Distributive Fund are appropriated on a continuing basis. Effective July 1, 2022.
Amends the Illinois Power Agency Act. In provisions concerning the renewable portfolio standards, specifies the goals for procurement of renewable energy credits and cost-effective renewable energy resources that shall be included in the long-term renewable resources procurement plan and makes other changes concerning these procurements and provides for the calculation of the cost of equity for the purposes of recovering all reasonable and prudently incurred costs of energy efficiency measures from retail customers. Provides that savings of fuels other than electricity achieved by measures that educate about, incentivize, encourage, or otherwise support the use of electricity to power vehicles shall count towards the applicable annual incremental goal and shall not be included in determining certain limits. Amends the Public Utilities Act. Provides that an electric utility that serves less than 3,000,000 retail customers but more than 500,000 customers in this State may plan for, construct, install, control, own, manage, or operate photovoltaic electricity production facilities and any energy storage facilities that are planned for, constructed, installed, controlled, owned, managed, or operated in connection with photovoltaic electricity production facilities without obtaining a certificate of public convenience and necessity subject to specified terms and conditions. Provides that a public utility that provided electric service to at least 1,000,000 retail customers in Illinois and gas service to at least 500,000 retail customers in Illinois may elect to recover its natural gas delivery services costs through a performance-based rate. Provides that, beginning in 2022, without obtaining any approvals from the Commission or any other agency, regardless of whether any such approval would otherwise be required, a participating utility that is a combination utility shall pay $1,000,000 per year for 10 years to the energy low-income and support program. Adds provisions authorizing certain utilities to plan for, construct, install, control, own, manage, or operate electric vehicle charging infrastructure. Amends the Prevailing Wage Act to include specified facilities financed in whole or in part with renewable energy resources in the definition of "public works". Makes other changes. Effective immediately.