(30 ILCS 400/0.01) (from Ch. 127, par. 313.9) Sec. 0.01. Short title. This Act may be cited as the Mental Health Institution Bond Act. (Source: P.A. 86-1324.)

(30 ILCS 400/1) (from Ch. 127, par. 314) Sec. 1. The State of Illinois is authorized to issue and sell and provide for the retirement of bonds of the State of Illinois to the amount of $150,000,000 for the purpose of providing funds in order to relieve overcrowded conditions by making permanent improvements at mental health and other public welfare institutions owned by this State which are now under the jurisdiction, management and control of the Department of Public Welfare. (Source: Laws 1959, p. 2068.)

(30 ILCS 400/2) (from Ch. 127, par. 315) Sec. 2. The Building Bond Board, hereinafter called the Board, is created to consist of the Governor, the State Treasurer and the Attorney General. The issuance, sale and retirement of bonds authorized by this Act shall be under the general supervision and control of the Board. The bonds shall bear interest, payable annually, from their date, at the rate of not more than the maximum rate authorized by the Bond Authorization Act, as amended at the time of the making of the contract. They shall be serial bonds and be dated, issued and sold from time to time in such amounts as may be necessary to provide sufficient money to make improvements provided for in this Act. Each bond shall be in the denomination of $1000.00 or some multiple thereof, and shall be made payable within 25 years from its date. These bonds shall be signed by the Governor and attested by the Secretary of State under the seal of the State and countersigned by the State Treasurer. The signatures of the Governor and the Secretary of State may be lithographed facsimile signatures. Interest coupons with lithographed facsimile signatures of the Governor, Secretary of State and State Treasurer may be attached to the bonds. The fact that an officer whose signature or facsimile thereof appears on a bond or interest coupon no longer holds such office at the time the bond or coupon is delivered shall not invalidate such bond or interest coupon. Pending the preparation and execution of any such bonds, temporary bonds may be issued with or without interest coupons. The bonds shall be sold to the highest and best bidders, for not less than their par value, upon sealed bids. The Board shall, from time to time as bonds are to be sold, advertise in at least 2 daily newspapers one of which is published in the City of Springfield and one in the City of Chicago for proposals to purchase the bonds. Each of such advertisements for proposals shall be published at least 10 days prior to the date of the opening of the bids. The Board may reserve the right to reject any and all bids. The bonds may, at the request of owners, be registered with the Secretary of State. The bonds shall be deposited with the State Treasurer and when sold the proceeds of the bonds shall be paid into the State treasury and kept in a separate fund which shall be known as the Public Welfare Building Fund, which separate fund is hereby created. With respect to instruments for the payment of money issued under this Section either before, on, or after the effective date of this amendatory Act of 1989, it is and always has been the intention of the General Assembly (i) that the Omnibus Bond Acts are and always have been supplementary grants of power to issue instruments in accordance with the Omnibus Bond Acts, regardless of any provision of this Act that may appear to be or to have been more restrictive than those Acts, (ii) that the provisions of this Section are not a limitation on the supplementary authority granted by the Omnibus Bond Acts, and (iii) that instruments issued under this Section within the supplementary authority granted by the Omnibus Bond Acts are not invalid because of any provision of this Act that may appear to be or to have been more restrictive than those Acts. (Source: P.A. 86-4.)

(30 ILCS 400/3) (from Ch. 127, par. 316) Sec. 3. The proceeds from the sale of bonds issued pursuant to this Act shall be used for making permanent improvements at State owned mental health and other public welfare institutions. As used in this Act, the term "permanent improvements" means and includes construction of buildings, enlargement and rehabilitation of existing buildings, with fixed equipment installed; preparation of plans and specifications therefor; land acquisition; landscaping and construction of sidewalks, roads, driveways and parking space; and all other things necessary for completion of construction of buildings and grounds in connection therewith. (Source: Laws 1959, p. 2068.)

(30 ILCS 400/4) (from Ch. 127, par. 317) Sec. 4. The State Treasurer may, with the approval of the Governor, invest and reinvest, at the existing market price and in any event not to exceed 102% of par plus accrued interest, any money in the Public Welfare Building Fund in the State treasury which, in the opinion of the Governor communicated in writing to the State Treasurer, is not needed for current expenditures due or about to become due from such fund, in obligations of the United States Government maturing not more than one year after the date of purchase. The cost price of all such obligations shall be considered as cash in the custody of the State Treasurer and such obligations shall be conveyed at cost price as cash by the State Treasurer to his successor. The money in the Public Welfare Building Fund in the form of such obligations shall be set up by the State Treasurer as a separate account of such fund and shown distinctly in every report issued by him regarding fund balances. All earnings accruing upon such investment shall be paid into the Public Welfare Building Bond Retirement and Interest Fund in the State treasury, which separate fund in the State treasury is hereby created. All of the moneys received from the sale or redemption of such obligations of the United States Government shall be replaced in the Public Welfare Building Fund. (Source: Laws 1959, p. 2068.)

(30 ILCS 400/5) (from Ch. 127, par. 318) Sec. 5. To the extent that funds are available in the General Revenue Fund of the State, the General Assembly is authorized to direct the transfer, from time to time, from the General Revenue Fund to the Public Welfare Building Bond Retirement and Interest Fund of sufficient money to pay the principal of and interest on the bonds provided for by this Act, as the same become due, and to the extent such transfer of funds is authorized by the General Assembly for that purpose, the taxes levied for the payment of the principal of and interest on said bonds as provided by Section 6 of this Act shall be abated. (Source: Laws 1959, p. 2068.)

(30 ILCS 400/6) (from Ch. 127, par. 319) Sec. 6. Each year, after this Act becomes fully operative, and until all of the bonds issued as provided in this Act have been retired, there is levied a direct annual tax upon all real and personal property in this State subject to taxation of such amount as shall be necessary and sufficient to pay the interest annually as it shall accrue, on all bonds issued under the provisions of this Act and also to pay and discharge the principal of such bonds at par value, as such bonds fall due; and the amounts of such direct annual tax shall be appropriated for that specific purpose. The proceeds of this tax shall be paid into the Public Welfare Building Bond Retirement and Interest Fund in the State treasury. The required rate of such direct annual tax shall be fixed each year by the officers charged by law with fixing the rate for State taxes on the valuation of real and personal property in this State subject to taxation in accordance with the provisions of the statutes in such cases: provided, however, that if money has been transferred from the General Revenue Fund to the Public Welfare Building Bond Retirement and Interest Fund for the same purpose for which said direct annual tax is levied and imposed then said officers shall in fixing the rate of said direct annual tax make proper allowance in the amount of money so transferred in reduction of the tax levied under this Section and the tax levied under this Section shall be abated in that amount. (Source: Laws 1959, p. 2068.)

(30 ILCS 400/10) (from Ch. 127, par. 320) Sec. 10. This Act shall go into full force and effect upon receiving at the general election at which it is submitted the majority of votes required by the Constitution. The provisions of this Act for the payment of the principal of said bonds at maturity and of the interest thereon annually, as it shall accrue, by authorizing the General Assembly to direct the transfer of funds in the General Revenue Fund to the Public Welfare Building Bond Retirement and Interest Fund for that purpose and by the direct annual tax upon real and personal property which has been levied and imposed herein for that purpose, shall be irrepealable until such debt and interest is paid in full, and for the making of such payments the faith of the State of Illinois is hereby pledged. (Source: P.A. 81-1489.)