Bill Text: IL HB3526 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Recreational Trails of Illinois Act. Provides that the fees for public access stickers shall be deposited as follows: (1) $5 from the sale of each off-highway vehicle trails public access sticker shall be deposited into the Tick Research, Education, and Evaluation (TREE) Fund, which is created as a special fund in the State treasury. Provides that moneys deposited in the Tick Research, Education, and Evaluation (TREE) Fund shall be paid as grants for the ordinary and contingent expenses associated with tick research, education, and evaluation; and (2) the remainder of the fees for public access stickers shall be deposited into the Off-Highway Vehicle Trails Fund to be used for improvements to Illinois State Parks (rather than all fees for public access stickers being deposited into the Off-Highway Vehicle Trails Fund). Amends the State Finance Act to make conforming changes.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-2)

Status: (Engrossed) 2023-05-03 - Added as Alternate Co-Sponsor Sen. Sara Feigenholtz [HB3526 Detail]

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103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2023 and 2024 HB3526 Introduced , by Rep. Dan Swanson SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
520 ILCS 5/1.28 from Ch. 61, par. 1.28
Amends the Wildlife Code. Provides that fines and fees deposited into the Wildlife and Fish Fund may be used to increase public safety through grants to not-for-profit entities for tick research, education, and evaluation. Effective immediately.
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning wildlife.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Wildlife Code is amended by changing
Section 1.28 as follows:
(520 ILCS 5/1.28) (from Ch. 61, par. 1.28)
Sec. 1.28. Fees and fines; deposit in funds. All fees,
fines, including bond forfeitures, income of whatsoever kind
or nature derived from hunting and fishing activities on lands
or waters or both under the jurisdiction or control of the
Department, and all penalties collected under this Act shall
be deposited in the State Treasury and shall be set apart in a
special fund to be known as the "Wildlife and Fish Fund";
except that fees derived solely from the sale of salmon
stamps, income from art contests for the salmon stamp,
including income from the sale of reprints, and gifts,
donations, grants and bequests of money for the conservation
and propagation of salmon shall be deposited in the State
Treasury and set apart in the special fund to be known as the
"Salmon Fund"; and except that fees derived solely from the
sale of state migratory waterfowl stamps, and gifts,
donations, grants and bequests of money for the conservation
and propagation of waterfowl shall be deposited in the special

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fund to be known as the "State Migratory Waterfowl Stamp
Fund"; and except that, of fees derived solely from the sale of
State Habitat Stamps, 64% shall be deposited into the Illinois
Habitat Fund, 30% into the State Pheasant Fund, and 6% into the
State Furbearer Fund. Income generated from the sale of
artwork associated with the State Habitat Stamps shall be
deposited into the Illinois Habitat Fund. All interest that
accrues from monies deposited into the Wildlife and Fish Fund,
the Salmon Fund, the State Migratory Waterfowl Stamp Fund, the
State Furbearer Fund, the State Pheasant Fund, and the
Illinois Habitat Fund shall be deposited into those funds,
respectively. Appropriations from the "Wildlife and Fish Fund"
shall be made only to the Department for the carrying out of
the powers and functions vested by law in the Department for
the administration and management of fish and wildlife
resources of this State for such activities as the purchase of
land for fish hatcheries, wildlife refuges, preserves and
public shooting and fishing grounds; the purchase and
distribution of wild birds, the eggs of wild birds, and wild
mammals for rescuing, restoring and distributing fish; the
maintenance of wildlife refuges, or preserves, public shooting
grounds, public fishing grounds and fish hatcheries; and the
feeding and care of wild birds, wild animals and fish; and the
increasing of public safety by making grants to not-for-profit
entities for tick research, education, and evaluation.
(Source: P.A. 95-853, eff. 8-18-08.)

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