Bill Text: IL HB4943 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Motor Fuel Tax Law. In provisions concerning the distribution of proceeds, provides that, of the moneys distributed to municipalities with 500,000 or more inhabitants and counties with 500,000 or more inhabitants, 1% shall be used for improving, developing, or incentivizing the use of non-carbon emitting transportation infrastructure.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-02-07 - Referred to Rules Committee [HB4943 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2023-HB4943-Introduced.html

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103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2023 and 2024 HB4943 Introduced , by Rep. Daniel Didech SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
35 ILCS 505/8 from Ch. 120, par. 424
Amends the Motor Fuel Tax Law. In provisions concerning the distribution of proceeds, provides that, of the moneys distributed to municipalities with 500,000 or more inhabitants and counties with 500,000 or more inhabitants, 1% shall be used for improving, developing, or incentivizing the use of non-carbon emitting transportation infrastructure.
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning revenue.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Motor Fuel Tax Law is amended by changing
Section 8 as follows:
(35 ILCS 505/8) (from Ch. 120, par. 424)
Sec. 8. Distribution of proceeds of tax. Except as
provided in subsection (a-1) of this Section, Section 8a,
subdivision (h)(1) of Section 12a, Section 13a.6, and items
13, 14, 15, and 16 of Section 15, all money received by the
Department under this Act, including payments made to the
Department by member jurisdictions participating in the
International Fuel Tax Agreement, shall be deposited into a
special fund in the State treasury, to be known as the Motor
Fuel Tax Fund, and shall be used as follows:
(a) 2 1/2 cents per gallon of the tax collected on special
fuel under paragraph (b) of Section 2 and Section 13a of this
Act shall be transferred to the State Construction Account
Fund in the State Treasury; the remainder of the tax collected
on special fuel under paragraph (b) of Section 2 and Section
13a of this Act shall be deposited into the Road Fund;
(a-1) Beginning on July 1, 2019, an amount equal to the
amount of tax collected under subsection (a) of Section 2 and

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Section 13a as a result of the increase in the tax rate under
subsection (a) of Section 2 authorized by Public Act 101-32
shall be deposited each month into the Transportation Renewal
Fund; provided, however, that the amount that represents the
part (b) portion of the rate under Section 13a shall be
deposited each month into the Motor Fuel Tax Fund and the
Transportation Renewal Fund in the same proportion as the
amount collected under subsection (a) of Section 2;
(b) $420,000 shall be transferred each month to the State
Boating Act Fund to be used by the Department of Natural
Resources for the purposes specified in Article X of the Boat
Registration and Safety Act;
(c) $3,500,000 shall be transferred each month to the
Grade Crossing Protection Fund to be used as follows: not less
than $12,000,000 each fiscal year shall be used for the
construction or reconstruction of rail highway grade
separation structures; $5,500,000 in fiscal year 2022 and each
fiscal year thereafter shall be transferred to the
Transportation Regulatory Fund and shall be used to pay the
cost of administration of the Illinois Commerce Commission's
railroad safety program in connection with its duties under
subsection (3) of Section 18c-7401 of the Illinois Vehicle
Code, with the remainder to be used by the Department of
Transportation upon order of the Illinois Commerce Commission,
to pay that part of the cost apportioned by such Commission to
the State to cover the interest of the public in the use of

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highways, roads, streets, or pedestrian walkways in the county
highway system, township and district road system, or
municipal street system as defined in the Illinois Highway
Code, as the same may from time to time be amended, for
separation of grades, for installation, construction or
reconstruction of crossing protection or reconstruction,
alteration, relocation including construction or improvement
of any existing highway necessary for access to property or
improvement of any grade crossing and grade crossing surface
including the necessary highway approaches thereto of any
railroad across the highway or public road, or for the
installation, construction, reconstruction, or maintenance of
safety treatments to deter trespassing or a pedestrian walkway
over or under a railroad right-of-way, as provided for in and
in accordance with Section 18c-7401 of the Illinois Vehicle
Code. The Commission may order up to $2,000,000 per year in
Grade Crossing Protection Fund moneys for the improvement of
grade crossing surfaces and up to $300,000 per year for the
maintenance and renewal of 4-quadrant gate vehicle detection
systems located at non-high speed rail grade crossings. In
entering orders for projects for which payments from the Grade
Crossing Protection Fund will be made, the Commission shall
account for expenditures authorized by the orders on a cash
rather than an accrual basis. For purposes of this requirement
an "accrual basis" assumes that the total cost of the project
is expended in the fiscal year in which the order is entered,

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while a "cash basis" allocates the cost of the project among
fiscal years as expenditures are actually made. To meet the
requirements of this subsection, the Illinois Commerce
Commission shall develop annual and 5-year project plans of
rail crossing capital improvements that will be paid for with
moneys from the Grade Crossing Protection Fund. The annual
project plan shall identify projects for the succeeding fiscal
year and the 5-year project plan shall identify projects for
the 5 directly succeeding fiscal years. The Commission shall
submit the annual and 5-year project plans for this Fund to the
Governor, the President of the Senate, the Senate Minority
Leader, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, and the
Minority Leader of the House of Representatives on the first
Wednesday in April of each year;
(d) of the amount remaining after allocations provided for
in subsections (a), (a-1), (b), and (c), a sufficient amount
shall be reserved to pay all of the following:
(1) the costs of the Department of Revenue in
administering this Act;
(2) the costs of the Department of Transportation in
performing its duties imposed by the Illinois Highway Code
for supervising the use of motor fuel tax funds
apportioned to municipalities, counties and road
districts;
(3) refunds provided for in Section 13, refunds for
overpayment of decal fees paid under Section 13a.4 of this

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Act, and refunds provided for under the terms of the
International Fuel Tax Agreement referenced in Section
14a;
(4) from October 1, 1985 until June 30, 1994, the
administration of the Vehicle Emissions Inspection Law,
which amount shall be certified monthly by the
Environmental Protection Agency to the State Comptroller
and shall promptly be transferred by the State Comptroller
and Treasurer from the Motor Fuel Tax Fund to the Vehicle
Inspection Fund, and for the period July 1, 1994 through
June 30, 2000, one-twelfth of $25,000,000 each month, for
the period July 1, 2000 through June 30, 2003, one-twelfth
of $30,000,000 each month, and $15,000,000 on July 1,
2003, and $15,000,000 on January 1, 2004, and $15,000,000
on each July 1 and October 1, or as soon thereafter as may
be practical, during the period July 1, 2004 through June
30, 2012, and $30,000,000 on June 1, 2013, or as soon
thereafter as may be practical, and $15,000,000 on July 1
and October 1, or as soon thereafter as may be practical,
during the period of July 1, 2013 through June 30, 2015,
for the administration of the Vehicle Emissions Inspection
Law of 2005, to be transferred by the State Comptroller
and Treasurer from the Motor Fuel Tax Fund into the
Vehicle Inspection Fund;
(4.5) beginning on July 1, 2019, the costs of the
Environmental Protection Agency for the administration of

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the Vehicle Emissions Inspection Law of 2005 shall be
paid, subject to appropriation, from the Motor Fuel Tax
Fund into the Vehicle Inspection Fund; beginning in 2019,
no later than December 31 of each year, or as soon
thereafter as practical, the State Comptroller shall
direct and the State Treasurer shall transfer from the
Vehicle Inspection Fund to the Motor Fuel Tax Fund any
balance remaining in the Vehicle Inspection Fund in excess
of $2,000,000;
(5) amounts ordered paid by the Court of Claims; and
(6) payment of motor fuel use taxes due to member
jurisdictions under the terms of the International Fuel
Tax Agreement. The Department shall certify these amounts
to the Comptroller by the 15th day of each month; the
Comptroller shall cause orders to be drawn for such
amounts, and the Treasurer shall administer those amounts
on or before the last day of each month;
(e) after allocations for the purposes set forth in
subsections (a), (a-1), (b), (c), and (d), the remaining
amount shall be apportioned as follows:
(1) Until January 1, 2000, 58.4%, and beginning
January 1, 2000, 45.6% shall be deposited as follows:
(A) 37% into the State Construction Account Fund,
and
(B) 63% into the Road Fund, $1,250,000 of which
shall be reserved each month for the Department of

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Transportation to be used in accordance with the
provisions of Sections 6-901 through 6-906 of the
Illinois Highway Code;
(2) Until January 1, 2000, 41.6%, and beginning
January 1, 2000, 54.4% shall be transferred to the
Department of Transportation to be distributed as follows:
(A) 49.10% to the municipalities of the State,
(B) 16.74% to the counties of the State having
1,000,000 or more inhabitants,
(C) 18.27% to the counties of the State having
less than 1,000,000 inhabitants,
(D) 15.89% to the road districts of the State.
Of the moneys distributed under subparagraphs (A),
(B), and (C) of this paragraph (2) to municipalities with
500,000 or more inhabitants and counties with 500,000 or
more inhabitants, 1% shall be used to improve, develop, or
incentivize the use of non-carbon emitting transportation
infrastructure, including, but not limited to, safe public
bicycle infrastructure, safe pedestrian infrastructure, or
electric buses and other public transit improvements.
If a township is dissolved under Article 24 of the
Township Code, McHenry County shall receive any moneys
that would have been distributed to the township under
this subparagraph, except that a municipality that assumes
the powers and responsibilities of a road district under
paragraph (6) of Section 24-35 of the Township Code shall

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receive any moneys that would have been distributed to the
township in a percent equal to the area of the dissolved
road district or portion of the dissolved road district
over which the municipality assumed the powers and
responsibilities compared to the total area of the
dissolved township. The moneys received under this
subparagraph shall be used in the geographic area of the
dissolved township. If a township is reconstituted as
provided under Section 24-45 of the Township Code, McHenry
County or a municipality shall no longer be distributed
moneys under this subparagraph.
As soon as may be after the first day of each month, the
Department of Transportation shall allot to each municipality
its share of the amount apportioned to the several
municipalities which shall be in proportion to the population
of such municipalities as determined by the last preceding
municipal census if conducted by the Federal Government or
Federal census. If territory is annexed to any municipality
subsequent to the time of the last preceding census the
corporate authorities of such municipality may cause a census
to be taken of such annexed territory and the population so
ascertained for such territory shall be added to the
population of the municipality as determined by the last
preceding census for the purpose of determining the allotment
for that municipality. If the population of any municipality
was not determined by the last Federal census preceding any

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apportionment, the apportionment to such municipality shall be
in accordance with any census taken by such municipality. Any
municipal census used in accordance with this Section shall be
certified to the Department of Transportation by the clerk of
such municipality, and the accuracy thereof shall be subject
to approval of the Department which may make such corrections
as it ascertains to be necessary.
As soon as may be after the first day of each month, the
Department of Transportation shall allot to each county its
share of the amount apportioned to the several counties of the
State as herein provided. Each allotment to the several
counties having less than 1,000,000 inhabitants shall be in
proportion to the amount of motor vehicle license fees
received from the residents of such counties, respectively,
during the preceding calendar year. The Secretary of State
shall, on or before April 15 of each year, transmit to the
Department of Transportation a full and complete report
showing the amount of motor vehicle license fees received from
the residents of each county, respectively, during the
preceding calendar year. The Department of Transportation
shall, each month, use for allotment purposes the last such
report received from the Secretary of State.
As soon as may be after the first day of each month, the
Department of Transportation shall allot to the several
counties their share of the amount apportioned for the use of
road districts. The allotment shall be apportioned among the

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several counties in the State in the proportion which the
total mileage of township or district roads in the respective
counties bears to the total mileage of all township and
district roads in the State. Funds allotted to the respective
counties for the use of road districts therein shall be
allocated to the several road districts in the county in the
proportion which the total mileage of such township or
district roads in the respective road districts bears to the
total mileage of all such township or district roads in the
county. After July 1 of any year prior to 2011, no allocation
shall be made for any road district unless it levied a tax for
road and bridge purposes in an amount which will require the
extension of such tax against the taxable property in any such
road district at a rate of not less than either .08% of the
value thereof, based upon the assessment for the year
immediately prior to the year in which such tax was levied and
as equalized by the Department of Revenue or, in DuPage
County, an amount equal to or greater than $12,000 per mile of
road under the jurisdiction of the road district, whichever is
less. Beginning July 1, 2011 and each July 1 thereafter, an
allocation shall be made for any road district if it levied a
tax for road and bridge purposes. In counties other than
DuPage County, if the amount of the tax levy requires the
extension of the tax against the taxable property in the road
district at a rate that is less than 0.08% of the value
thereof, based upon the assessment for the year immediately

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prior to the year in which the tax was levied and as equalized
by the Department of Revenue, then the amount of the
allocation for that road district shall be a percentage of the
maximum allocation equal to the percentage obtained by
dividing the rate extended by the district by 0.08%. In DuPage
County, if the amount of the tax levy requires the extension of
the tax against the taxable property in the road district at a
rate that is less than the lesser of (i) 0.08% of the value of
the taxable property in the road district, based upon the
assessment for the year immediately prior to the year in which
such tax was levied and as equalized by the Department of
Revenue, or (ii) a rate that will yield an amount equal to
$12,000 per mile of road under the jurisdiction of the road
district, then the amount of the allocation for the road
district shall be a percentage of the maximum allocation equal
to the percentage obtained by dividing the rate extended by
the district by the lesser of (i) 0.08% or (ii) the rate that
will yield an amount equal to $12,000 per mile of road under
the jurisdiction of the road district.
Prior to 2011, if any road district has levied a special
tax for road purposes pursuant to Sections 6-601, 6-602, and
6-603 of the Illinois Highway Code, and such tax was levied in
an amount which would require extension at a rate of not less
than .08% of the value of the taxable property thereof, as
equalized or assessed by the Department of Revenue, or, in
DuPage County, an amount equal to or greater than $12,000 per

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mile of road under the jurisdiction of the road district,
whichever is less, such levy shall, however, be deemed a
proper compliance with this Section and shall qualify such
road district for an allotment under this Section. Beginning
in 2011 and thereafter, if any road district has levied a
special tax for road purposes under Sections 6-601, 6-602, and
6-603 of the Illinois Highway Code, and the tax was levied in
an amount that would require extension at a rate of not less
than 0.08% of the value of the taxable property of that road
district, as equalized or assessed by the Department of
Revenue or, in DuPage County, an amount equal to or greater
than $12,000 per mile of road under the jurisdiction of the
road district, whichever is less, that levy shall be deemed a
proper compliance with this Section and shall qualify such
road district for a full, rather than proportionate, allotment
under this Section. If the levy for the special tax is less
than 0.08% of the value of the taxable property, or, in DuPage
County if the levy for the special tax is less than the lesser
of (i) 0.08% or (ii) $12,000 per mile of road under the
jurisdiction of the road district, and if the levy for the
special tax is more than any other levy for road and bridge
purposes, then the levy for the special tax qualifies the road
district for a proportionate, rather than full, allotment
under this Section. If the levy for the special tax is equal to
or less than any other levy for road and bridge purposes, then
any allotment under this Section shall be determined by the

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other levy for road and bridge purposes.
Prior to 2011, if a township has transferred to the road
and bridge fund money which, when added to the amount of any
tax levy of the road district would be the equivalent of a tax
levy requiring extension at a rate of at least .08%, or, in
DuPage County, an amount equal to or greater than $12,000 per
mile of road under the jurisdiction of the road district,
whichever is less, such transfer, together with any such tax
levy, shall be deemed a proper compliance with this Section
and shall qualify the road district for an allotment under
this Section.
In counties in which a property tax extension limitation
is imposed under the Property Tax Extension Limitation Law,
road districts may retain their entitlement to a motor fuel
tax allotment or, beginning in 2011, their entitlement to a
full allotment if, at the time the property tax extension
limitation was imposed, the road district was levying a road
and bridge tax at a rate sufficient to entitle it to a motor
fuel tax allotment and continues to levy the maximum allowable
amount after the imposition of the property tax extension
limitation. Any road district may in all circumstances retain
its entitlement to a motor fuel tax allotment or, beginning in
2011, its entitlement to a full allotment if it levied a road
and bridge tax in an amount that will require the extension of
the tax against the taxable property in the road district at a
rate of not less than 0.08% of the assessed value of the

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