Jack D. Franks

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Jack D. Franks
Illinois House of Representatives District 63
Incumbent
Assumed office 1999
Current term ends 2010
Political party	Democrat
Profession	Attorney
Website	House site

Jack Franks is a Democratic member of the Illinois House of Representatives. He has represented the 63rd district since first winning election in November 1998.

Special Service Areas

In 2009, Franks is a co-sponsor of Senate Bill 1555. SB 1555 would alter the way that taxes are imposed in Special Service Areas throughout the state.^[1]

Current state law allows municipalities to create special service areas, or SSAs. SSAs can generate funding to build infrastructure projects that are intended to benefit a geographical area that is less than borders of a municipality. This can include sewer projects, street repairs and so on.

Property owners located within an SSAs pay more on their property taxes for a set period (usually 20 years) until bonds issued to pay for the project are repaid. Residents can stop a town or county from imposing an SSA by collecting signatures on a petition from 51% of the area's property owners of record and 51% of the registered voters within the SSA.

Franks objects to this. His legislation would require the municipality that wants to impose the tax to hold a vote before they impose the tax, rather than putting the burden of collecting signatures on those who oppose the tax. According to Frank, SB 1555 "would require the people who are trying to raise taxes on the citizens to prove that 51 percent of the people want their taxes raised."^[1]

External links

• Illinois General Assembly - Representative Jack D. Franks (D) 58th District
  • Bills Committees
• Project Vote Smart - Representative Jack D. Franks (IL) profile
• Campaign contributions: 2008, 2006, 2004, 2002, 2000 and 1998.
• Profile of Jack Franks from the Illinois House Democrats

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