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91_HB3192ham001 LRB9111248SMdvam01 1 AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 3192 2 AMENDMENT NO. . Amend House Bill 3192 by replacing 3 the title with the following: 4 "AN ACT to amend the Telecommunications Municipal 5 Infrastructure Maintenance Fee Act by changing Section 20."; 6 and 7 by replacing everything after the enacting clause with the 8 following: 9 "Section 5. The Telecommunications Municipal 10 Infrastructure Maintenance Fee Act is amended by changing 11 Section 20 as follows: 12 (35 ILCS 635/20) 13 Sec. 20. Municipal telecommunications infrastructure 14 maintenance fee. 15 (a) A municipality may impose a municipal infrastructure 16 maintenance fee upon telecommunications retailers in an 17 amount specified in subsection (b). On and after the 18 effective date of this amendatory Act of 1997, a certified 19 copy of an ordinance or resolution imposing a fee under this 20 Section shall be filed with the Department of Revenue within 21 30 days after the effective date of this amendatory Act or -2- LRB9111248SMdvam01 1 the effective date of the ordinance or resolution imposing 2 such fee, whichever is later. Failure to file a certified 3 copy of the ordinance or resolution imposing a fee under this 4 Section shall have no effect on the validity of the ordinance 5 or resolution. The Department of Revenue shall create and 6 maintain a list of all ordinances and resolutions filed 7 pursuant to this Section and make that list, as well as 8 copies of the ordinances and resolutions, available to the 9 public for a reasonable fee. 10 (b) The amount of the municipal infrastructure 11 maintenance fee imposed upon a telecommunications retailer 12 under this Section shall not exceed: (i) in a municipality 13 with a population of more than 500,000, 2.0% of all gross 14 charges charged by the telecommunications retailer to service 15 addresses in the municipality for telecommunications 16 originating or received in the municipality; and (ii) in a 17 municipality with a population of 500,000 or less, 1.0% of 18 all gross charges charged by the telecommunications retailer 19 to service addresses in the municipality for 20 telecommunications originating or received in the 21 municipality. If imposed, the municipal telecommunications 22 infrastructure fee must be in 1/4% increments. However, the 23 fee shall not be imposed in any case in which the imposition 24 of the fee would violate the Constitution or statutes of the 25 United States. 26 (c) The municipal telecommunications infrastructure fee 27 authorized by this Section shall be collected, enforced, and 28 administered as set forth in subsection (c) of Section 25 of 29 this Act. 30 (Source: P.A. 90-154, eff. 1-1-98; 90-562, eff. 12-16-97.)".