Filled9-1-1 surcharge · Illinois State Police

Illinois 911 surcharge remittance

We fill ILLINOIS 9-1-1 SURCHARGE REMITTANCE FORM in the state's own workbook, its formulas and layout untouched. You review it, sign it, and send it to Illinois State Police.

The state publishes a workbook and this product fills it in place, leaving its formulas, styles and layout exactly as the state issued them. The workbook recalculates its own totals when it is opened.

The Illinois State Police publishes the remittance form as an Excel workbook, and the product fills that same file, leaving its formulas, styles, images and printer settings untouched. The fill is tested by reopening the filled file and comparing it with the state’s blank. The state’s E-Pay dashboard is a payment gateway rather than a filing surface — the completed workbook is e-mailed to the agency either way — so nothing here describes Illinois as a portal state.

The rate in force now

Rate: $1.50 per line per month · 9-1-1 surcharge per network connection
Effective: 2018-01-01 → current
Cite: 50 ILCS 750/20(a)(1), with the parallel wireless provision at 50 ILCS 750/20(d)
Form rev.: EFFECTIVE 2025-08-27, from the form’s own EFFECTIVE cell. The agency publishes no revision label and the package carries no revision marker.
Source: Illinois General Assembly — 50 ILCS 750/20, Emergency Telephone System Act, current text as last amended by P.A. 104-204, read from the Assembly’s own static document mirror and corroborated against the rate cells of the agency’s own remittance workbook
Retrieved: Wed, August 12, 2026 · two independent fetches agree

Cadence

Monthly · set by statute

“Surcharge payments are due by the end of the next calendar month after the calendar month in which they were collected for deposit into the Statewide 9-1-1 Fund.”

50 ILCS 750/20(e)

Monthly, on the surcharges collected in the preceding calendar month. The statute is explicit that a carrier does not remit surcharges that have been billed to subscribers but not yet collected.

Due dates

9-1-1 surcharge remittance form and payment

To: Illinois State Police, Statewide 9-1-1 Division
Rule: the last day of the month after the period ends
Weekends: the date shown is not moved for a weekend or holiday
Applies to: Monthly

“Surcharge payments are due by the end of the next calendar month after the calendar month in which they were collected for deposit into the Statewide 9-1-1 Fund.”

50 ILCS 750/20(e)

The form and the payment travel on the same deadline, through two different channels.

Two other statutory clauses state the same duty in a different shape — 50 ILCS 750/20(d) says payment is due “not later than 30 days after the surcharge is collected”, and the administrative code says “within 30 days after collection”. The end-of-the-next-calendar-month rule in subsection (e) is the one that fixes a date on a filing period, and it is the one the engine computes.

Illinois publishes no weekend or holiday rule for this deadline, so the engine moves no date.

The statute adds an eight-day grace before a surcharge is deemed delinquent, and a penalty on a delinquency of the greater of $25 a month or one percent of the delinquent amount a month. Those are facts about the state’s own rules, recorded here and never rendered as a reason to hurry.

Counting rule

Per network connection: a voice-grade communications channel directly between a subscriber and a carrier’s public switched network that is capable of reaching a 9-1-1 system. Only connections in service count, sourced to the service address or the place of primary use, and the surcharge does not apply to a network connection provided for use with pay telephone services. Connections in the City of Chicago are outside the statewide surcharge entirely. No statewide numeric cap on connections per customer or per location was found.

An interconnected-VoIP provider charges and collects in the same manner as a provider of local exchange telecommunications service does for its end-user customers, so VoIP connections are counted like wireline network connections, and the state’s own workbook gives interconnected VoIP its own row at the same rate. Advanced service — a trunk, PBX, DS-1 or T-1 arrangement — is surcharged on concurrent voice paths rather than per physical channel, under the statutory tier table quoted below: up to five surcharges for up to ten voice-grade-equivalent paths, up to twenty for up to fifty, and twenty percent of the lines for more than fifty. A carrier that imposes fewer surcharges than the table allows must hold records demonstrating the voice-grade-equivalent capability of each path, and twenty surcharges apply where it cannot.

Per-customer cap
No statewide numeric cap on connections per customer or per location was found by either research pass. The advanced-service tier table is a counting rule for a single provisioned path group rather than a cap on a customer’s total connections.

“Until December 31, 2017, the surcharge shall be $0.87 per network connection and on and after January 1, 2018, the surcharge shall be $1.50 per network connection.”

50 ILCS 750/20(a)(1)

“(A) for up to 10 VGC voice paths or trunk lines, no more than 5 surcharges; (B) for up to 50 VGC voice paths or trunk lines, no more than 20 surcharges; and (C) for over 50 VGC voice patch or trunk lines, no more than 20% of the lines that have surcharges.”

50 ILCS 750/20(a)(1.5)

Collection allowance

1.74%

Applies to: the gross amount collected
On the form: The “Less 1.74% Admin. Fee” column of the remittance workbook, one row per service type

“The telecommunications carrier collecting the surcharge may deduct and retain 1.74% of the gross amount of surcharge collected”

50 ILCS 750/20(b-10), with the same allowance for wireless carriers at 50 ILCS 750/20(d)

The workbook computes this row for itself and prints the rule on its own face: “The allowed administrative fee deduction for all carriers is 1.74%.” The amount remitted is the gross surcharge net of the deduction, so presenting the gross collected as the amount due would overstate every Illinois filing. Do not use three percent — that figure belongs to the separate Chicago municipal surcharge, and the administrative code PDF the agency still posts prints it alongside the pre-2018 rate because it is a stale 2016 adopted-rules notice.

Rate history

1 window on record

The engine resolves the window that covers the filing period, never the latest one. A back period therefore prices at the rate that was in force for it.

2018-01-01 → current
$1.50 per line per month · 9-1-1 surcharge per network connection
50 ILCS 750/20(a)(1), with the parallel wireless provision at 50 ILCS 750/20(d)
https://ilga.gov/documents/legislation/ilcs/documents/005007500K20.htm · retrieved Wed, August 12, 2026
The statute writes both the old and the new amount into one sentence, so the January 1, 2018 boundary is the state’s own words rather than an inference: $0.87 until December 31, 2017 and $1.50 on and after January 1, 2018.
The amount has not moved since. The section as currently codified still reads $1.50 after its most recent amendment.
Chicago’s municipal surcharge is a separate charge under a separate section, capped by state law at $5.00 per connection and stepping down to a $2.50 cap on January 1, 2029. It is not part of this window and never rides this form.
Sections 2, 20 and 30 of the Act each carry a scheduled-repeal tag of December 31, 2027. That is routine Illinois sunset-review drafting and the sections have been re-extended repeatedly, most recently in 2025; nothing suggests an actual repeal, and the drift check carries a calendar flag ahead of the date.

Zero-report rule

not published

Zero report · not on record

Illinois does not state whether a remittance form must be filed for a month with no Illinois connections or nothing collected. The nearest statutory language is an accrual carve-out — a carrier does not remit what it has billed but not collected — which answers a different question. The agency’s E-Pay manual tells filers to complete every field “unless the field is zero”, which anticipates zero values on the form without making a zero filing mandatory. No sworn or declaratory zero-report language exists in Illinois for this filing, and none may be composed.

Searched: The Emergency Telephone System Act sections on the surcharge and the fund, 83 Ill. Admin. Code Part 1329 as the agency posts it, the Statewide 9-1-1 Division frequently-asked-questions page, and the agency’s E-Pay collections manual. Both research passes reached the same absence.

Record retention

5 years

The rule applies to carriers, vendors and interconnected-VoIP providers alike. It is read from the Part 1329 text the Illinois State Police posts on its own site; that document is stale on the rate and on the deduction, so the retention duty is cited from it while the rate and the deduction come from the statute.

“Effective January 1, 2016, all books and records shall be retained for a minimum of five years. All books and records shall be available for review or audit by the Department, its representatives, the Illinois Auditor General, and other governmental entities with monitoring authority, upon reasonable notice and during normal business hours.”

83 Ill. Admin. Code 1329.620(a) and (d)

Registration

A provider registers by sending the agency’s Carrier Contact Form together with a current IRS Form W-9. The registered FEIN then becomes the lookup key in the state’s E-Pay collections dashboard. No separate account number or personal identification number is issued.

https://isp.illinois.gov/Statewide911Division/GetFile/0a60bba1-64bf-4aee-b825-dc5a6ef63860

The Carrier Contact Form is linked from the Statewide 9-1-1 Division forms page beside the remittance workbook itself.

The state’s own workbook

Form: The state publishes no form identifier. Illinois assigns this form no number. The agency’s forms page links it as the “Illinois Surcharge Remittance Form”, the document’s own title reads “ILLINOIS 9-1-1 SURCHARGE REMITTANCE FORM”, and the server names the download “E-Pay Remit Form.xlsx” in its content-disposition header.
Title: ILLINOIS 9-1-1 SURCHARGE REMITTANCE FORM
Revision: EFFECTIVE 2025-08-27, from the form’s own EFFECTIVE cell. The agency publishes no revision label and the package carries no revision marker.
Published at: https://isp.illinois.gov/Statewide911Division/GetFile/5af56deb-004b-41ca-a7ab-d1de86953de1

The completed workbook is e-mailed to ISP.911RemitForm@illinois.gov. Payment travels separately and is split by amount: a remittance under $100,000 must be made electronically through the state’s E-Pay collections dashboard, where the carrier is looked up by FEIN, and a remittance of $100,000 or more is mailed by check to Springfield. A provider who pays electronically still e-mails the completed workbook.

Remit to

Hybrid, state plus local

Agency: Illinois State Police
Division: Statewide 9-1-1 Division; remittances handled by the Office of Finance, Accounts Receivable / 9-1-1 Surcharge
Payee: State of Illinois, ETSA Funds
Address: The completed workbook is e-mailed to ISP.911RemitForm@illinois.gov. A remittance of $100,000 or more is mailed with a check to Illinois State Police — Office of Finance, Accounts Receivable/9-1-1 Surcharge, 801 South 7th Street, Springfield, IL 62703.
Contact: ISP.911RemitForm@illinois.gov for the form · ISP.911Admin@illinois.gov for surcharge administration and registration
Rate set by: The General Assembly, by statute. No agency sets or adjusts the amount.

Out of scope

Illinois has a local component this product does not cover.

Outside the City of Chicago, the whole per-connection surcharge is a single state-administered charge remitted to the Illinois State Police for the Statewide 9-1-1 Fund on one form covering every Illinois 9-1-1 authority — there is no jurisdiction-by-jurisdiction split for a provider to track. Chicago is the local component, and it is a carve-out rather than an addition: the City is excluded from the statewide surcharge and from the administrative code’s scope entirely, and it imposes, collects and receives its own municipal surcharge under a separate section with its own three percent carrier deduction. A provider with Chicago customers has a City obligation that this product does not cover and that never rides the state form.

The City of Chicago municipal 9-1-1 surcharge
Chicago is excluded from the statewide surcharge and from the administrative code’s scope, and imposes, collects and receives its own surcharge under 50 ILCS 750/15.3 with its own three percent carrier deduction. A provider serving Chicago customers has a City obligation this product does not compute, does not prepare and does not track, and it is named here so a Chicago-heavy provider does not read the state filing as covering them.
The prepaid wireless 9-1-1 surcharge
Collected at the retail point of sale and administered by the Illinois Department of Revenue rather than by the Illinois State Police. A different remitter and a different agency.
The wireless subscriber-count transmittal
A wireless carrier owes the agency a separate monthly transmittal of subscriber counts by five-digit ZIP code, with its own delinquency penalty. It is not part of the surcharge remittance and this product does not produce it.

Everything else this record does not know

Rate history · not on record

This record prices no period before January 1, 2018. The statute states the prior amount of $0.87 per network connection and the date it ran until, but not the date that amount began, and neither research pass pinned a start from a primary source. A back period earlier than January 2018 is refused rather than priced against a window with an invented start date.

Searched: The current text of 50 ILCS 750/20 and its public-act history, and the agency’s own posted copy of 83 Ill. Admin. Code Part 1329.

Form revision · not on record

The workbook carries no printed form identifier and no revision code. Its own EFFECTIVE cell holds a date, and the file’s document properties hold a modification date, but the agency describes neither as a revision. The product therefore tracks the file by its fingerprint rather than by a stated revision.

Searched: The face of the workbook, its document properties, and the Statewide 9-1-1 Division forms page.

Counting rule · not on record

Whether the Joint Committee on Administrative Rules’ current text of 83 Ill. Admin. Code Part 1329 has been amended to match the 2018 rate and the 1.74% deduction is unresolved. The copy the Illinois State Police posts still prints three percent and the pre-2018 rate, which makes it a stale adopted-rules notice from 2016; both research passes received a not-found response from the Assembly’s administrative-code routes. The statute is unambiguous and controls the rate and the deduction, and the procedural and retention language from the posted copy is still usable.

Searched: The agency’s posted Part 1329 document and the General Assembly’s administrative-code routes.

Scope · not on record

The City of Chicago’s own imposed surcharge amount could not be confirmed from a City primary source; the City code library and the City’s own site both refused automated fetch. State law caps it at $5.00 per connection, dropping to a $2.50 cap on January 1, 2029, and a secondary source indicates the City imposes the full $5.00. It is a local obligation outside this product either way, and the figure is left unstated rather than carried from a source that is not the City’s own.

Searched: The City code library, the City of Chicago site, and the capping provision at 50 ILCS 750/15.3.

Sources

Every fact above traces to one of these, retrieved Wed, August 12, 2026.

The record was reached by two independent research passes that agreed. Each source below opens at the address it was read from, with the date it was read.

Illinois General Assembly — 50 ILCS 750/20

The rate and its January 1, 2018 boundary verbatim, the prior $0.87 amount, the advanced-service tier table verbatim, the 1.74% deduction at subsection (b-10) and its wireless parallel, the due-date rule verbatim, the eight-day delinquency trigger and its penalty, and the $100,000 electronic-payment threshold.