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92_SB0713ham001 LRB9208029SMdvam05 1 AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 713 2 AMENDMENT NO. . Amend Senate Bill 713 by replacing 3 everything after the enacting clause with the following: 4 "Section 5. The Property Tax Code is amended by adding 5 Section 18-181 as follows: 6 (35 ILCS 200/18-181 new) 7 Sec. 18-181. Abatement for newly-constructed base load 8 electric generating stations. 9 (a) Any taxing district that has an assessed valuation 10 for the year 2000, as equalized by the Department of Revenue, 11 that is at least 15% less than its assessed valuation for the 12 year 1999 may, upon a majority vote of its governing 13 authority, contract with the owner of a base load electric 14 generating station with a generating capacity of at least 500 15 megawatts newly-constructed within the taxing district for 16 the abatement of the station's taxes for a period not to 17 exceed 10 years, subject to the following limitations: 18 (1) if the equalized assessed valuation of the 19 newly-constructed base load electric generating station 20 is equal to or greater than $25,000,000 but less than 21 $50,000,000, then the abatement may not exceed (i) over 22 the 10-year term of the contract, 5% of the taxing -2- LRB9208029SMdvam05 1 district's aggregate taxes from the newly-constructed 2 base load electric generating station and (ii) in any one 3 year of the contract, 20% of the taxing district's taxes 4 from the newly-constructed base load electric generating 5 station; 6 (2) if the equalized assessed valuation of the 7 newly-constructed base load electric generating station 8 is equal to or greater than $50,000,000 but less than 9 $75,000,000, then the abatement may not exceed (i) over 10 the 10-year term of the contract, 10% of the taxing 11 district's aggregate taxes from the newly-constructed 12 base load electric generating station and (ii) in any one 13 year of the contract, 35% of the taxing district's taxes 14 from the newly-constructed base load electric generating 15 station; 16 (3) if the equalized assessed valuation of the 17 newly-constructed base load electric generating station 18 is equal to or greater than $75,000,000 but less than 19 $100,000,000, then the abatement may not exceed (i) over 20 the 10-year term of the contract, 15% of the taxing 21 district's aggregate taxes from the newly-constructed 22 base load electric generating station and (ii) in any one 23 year of the contract, 50% of the taxing district's taxes 24 from the newly-constructed base load electric generating 25 station; 26 (4) if the equalized assessed valuation of the 27 newly-constructed base load electric generating station 28 is equal to or greater than $100,000,000, then the 29 abatement may not exceed (i) over the 10-year term of the 30 contract, 20% of the taxing district's aggregate taxes 31 from the newly-constructed base load electric generating 32 station and (ii) in any one year of the contract, 60% of 33 the taxing district's taxes from the newly-constructed 34 base load electric generating station. -3- LRB9208029SMdvam05 1 (b) The contract is not effective unless it contains 2 provisions requiring the owner of the newly-constructed base 3 load electric generating station to repay to the taxing 4 district all amounts previously abated, together with 5 interest computed at the rate and in the manner provided for 6 delinquent taxes, in the event that the owner of the 7 newly-constructed base load electric generating station 8 closes the station before the expiration of the contract 9 period. 10 (c) The authorization of taxing districts to contract 11 under this Section expires on January 1, 2002. 12 Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon 13 becoming law.".