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92_HB6012ham001 LRB9214226SMdvam01 1 AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 6012 2 AMENDMENT NO. . Amend House Bill 6012 by replacing 3 everything after the enacting clause with the following: 4 "Section 5. The Simplified Municipal Telecommunications 5 Tax Act is amended by changing Section 5-5 as follows: 6 (35 ILCS 636/5-5) 7 (This Section may contain text from a Public Act with a 8 delayed effective date) 9 Sec. 5-5. Legislative intent. The Illinois General 10 Assembly has authorized the corporate authorities of any 11 municipality to impose various fees and taxes on the 12 privilege of originating or receiving telecommunications, and 13 on retailers engaged in the business of transmitting such 14 telecommunications, all of which are remitted by such 15 retailers directly to the imposing municipality. To simplify 16 the imposition and collection of municipal telecommunications 17 taxes and to reduce complication and burden, the General 18 Assembly is repealing the municipal telecommunications tax, 19 the municipal tax on the occupation or privilege of 20 transmitting messages, and the municipal infrastructure 21 maintenance fee, and is enacting this Simplified Municipal 22 Telecommunications Tax Act which provides for a single -2- LRB9214226SMdvam01 1 municipally imposed telecommunications tax which, for 2 municipalities with populations of less than 500,000, will be 3 collected by the Illinois Department of Revenue, but which, 4 for municipalities of 500,000 or more, will continue to be 5 collected by such municipalities. 6 (Source: P.A. 92-526, eff. 7-1-02.)".