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SB 2639

Campaign materials; provide clarity regarding distance which must maintain from an election building.

2025 Regular Session Introduced by Jeff Tate

One-time $1.5B General Revenue Fund appropriation to the Metropolitan Mobility Authority's Additional Operating Funding Fund, effective July 1, 2025; no other provisions.

Died In Committee
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Bill Summary · SB 2639

SB 2639 — Summary (Introduced 2025)

Bill Number: SB 2639
Primary Sponsor: Sen. Ram Villivalam
Introduced: March 13 / March 19, 2025 (records vary)
Subject headings in file: Elections (metadata), Appropriations (text)
Status: Died in Committee (recorded 2025-02-04) — see “Procedural notes” below for conflicting entries

Purpose / Intent

The official bill text attached to the legislative filing is an appropriations measure. Its explicit purpose is to provide a one-time appropriation of state General Revenue Fund (GRF) dollars to the Metropolitan Mobility Authority Additional Operating Funding Fund. No programmatic changes, policy language regarding elections, or campaign-material distance rules appear in the attached text.

Key Provisions

  • Appropriates $1,500,000,000 from the General Revenue Fund to the Metropolitan Mobility Authority Additional Operating Funding Fund.
  • Effective date: July 1, 2025.
  • No other substantive provisions, conditions, or allocations are included in the introduced version beyond the single appropriation section.

Fiscal Impact

  • Direct appropriation of $1.5 billion from the state General Revenue Fund (GRF).
  • The bill does not specify sub-allocation, matching requirements, or reporting/oversight provisions in the introduced language.
  • Absent additional legislative language, the appropriation would increase planned expenditures from the GRF by up to $1.5 billion in FY 2026 (effective July 1, 2025).

Who Would Be Affected

  • Metropolitan Mobility Authority (MMA/Metropolitan Mobility Authority): would receive added operating funding deposited into its “Additional Operating Funding Fund.”
  • State of Illinois General Revenue Fund: reduction of available GRF dollars by the amount appropriated.
  • Taxpayers and other state-funded programs: could be indirectly affected depending on how the appropriation is offset in the state budget.

Procedural Status and Timeline (from the provided record)

  • Filed/Received by Senate: March 13 / March 19, 2025 (entries vary)
  • First reading / referred to committees: multiple entries show referrals to Elections (1/20/2025), Assignments, Local Government, and Land & Resource Management on various dates.
  • Committee activity: public hearings and testimony recorded on multiple dates (April–May 2025); votes and committee reports noted.
  • Legislative floor action entries (May 14–15, 2025) show readings, suspension of rules, and passage language; however, an earlier entry lists “Died In Committee” on 2025-02-04.

Important Notes and Discrepancies

  • Title/metadata provided by the requester references electoral law — "Campaign materials; provide clarity regarding distance which must maintain from an election building." However, the actual bill text attached (LRB10412679RTM23472b) is a pure appropriation to the Metropolitan Mobility Authority for $1.5 billion and contains no language on campaign materials, election buildings, or signage distances.
  • The legislative action history contains contradictory entries: an early “Died In Committee” notation (2025-02-04) but later records (March–May 2025) showing hearings, committee votes, and apparent passage steps. This may reflect clerical errors, multiple different bills labeled SB 2639 across sessions/versions, or mislinked metadata.
  • Recommendation: consult the official Illinois General Assembly bill page or the Secretary of the Senate records to confirm the authoritative bill text and current status before relying on this summary for legal, budgetary, or policy decisions.

If you want, I can: (1) fetch and compare the official bill text from the Illinois General Assembly website (if you provide access), or (2) draft a short briefing on likely implications of a $1.5 billion appropriation to the Metropolitan Mobility Authority based on comparable past appropriations.

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