Plain English Breakdown
The official bill title and metadata label this legislation 'CROHNS AND COLITIS AWARENESS', yet the full text provided amends municipal codes regarding school construction fees. This discrepancy between the catch title and the actual legal content is noted in the source material but not resolved by it.
Using Developer Fees for New School Buildings
This law allows cities to collect fees from developers to pay for new school buildings if the development specifically creates a need for them.
What This Bill Does
- Amends the Illinois Municipal Code regarding how municipalities handle developer donations and impact fees.
- Allows these fees to be used to build new school buildings or improve school infrastructure, including technological infrastructure.
- Requires that the need for the new building must come specifically and uniquely from the development project itself.
- Mandates that the affected school district must officially certify both the necessity of the building and its costs.
Who It Names or Affects
- Cities and municipalities in Illinois
- Real estate developers creating subdivisions or new developments
- Local school districts
Terms To Know
- Impact fees
- Charges collected from developers to help pay for public improvements needed because of their construction projects.
- Developer donations
- Money or land given by a developer to the city as part of building a new project.
Limits and Unknowns
- The law only applies if the school district proves the development uniquely caused the need for the new building.
- It does not allow these fees to be used for general school costs unrelated to specific developments.
- This Act takes effect immediately upon becoming law.