Bill Amendment: IL HB0598 | 2025-2026 | 104th General Assembly

NOTE: For additional amemendments please see the Bill Drafting List

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Bill Title: GOVERNMENT-TECH

Status: 2026-05-19 - Added as Alternate Co-Sponsor Sen. Laura M. Murphy [HB0598 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2025-HB0598-House_Amendment_001.html

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Rep. Eva-Dina Delgado

Filed: 2/20/2026

 

 

 

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AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 598
AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 598 by replacing
everything after the enacting clause with the following:
"Section 5. The Property Tax Code is amended by changing
Section 21-150 as follows:
(35 ILCS 200/21-150)
Sec. 21-150. Time of applying for judgment. Except as
otherwise provided in this Section or by ordinance or
resolution enacted under subsection (c) of Section 21-40, in
any county with fewer than 3,000,000 inhabitants, all
applications for judgment and order of sale for taxes and
special assessments on delinquent properties shall be made
within 90 days after the second installment due date. In Cook
County, all applications for judgment and order of sale for
taxes and special assessments on delinquent properties shall
be made (i) by July 1, 2011 for tax year 2009, (ii) by July 1,

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2012 for tax year 2010, (iii) by July 1, 2013 for tax year
2011, (iv) by July 1, 2014 for tax year 2012, (v) by July 1,
2015 for tax year 2013, (vi) by May 1, 2016 for tax year 2014,
(vii) by March 1, 2017 for tax year 2015, (viii) by April 1 of
the next calendar year after the second installment due date
for tax year 2016 and 2017, and (ix) within 365 days of the
second installment due date for each tax year thereafter.
Notwithstanding these dates, in Cook County, the
application for judgment and order of sale for the 2018 annual
tax sale that would normally be held in calendar year 2020
shall not be filed earlier than the first day of the first
month during which there is no longer a statewide COVID-19
public health emergency, as evidenced by an effective disaster
declaration of the Governor covering all counties in the
State, except that in no event may this application for
judgment and order of sale be filed later than October 1, 2021.
When a tax sale is delayed because of a statewide COVID-19
public health emergency, no subsequent annual tax sale may
begin earlier than 180 days after the last day of the prior
delayed tax sale, and no scavenger tax sale may begin earlier
than 90 days after the last day of the prior delayed tax sale.
In those counties which have adopted an ordinance under
Section 21-40, the application for judgment and order of sale
for delinquent taxes shall be made in December.
Notwithstanding these dates, in Cook County, the
application for judgment and order of sale for the 2023 annual

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tax sale that would normally be held in calendar year 2025
shall be filed on or before December 1, 2026 March 10, 2026.
Notwithstanding Sections 9-260, 18-250, 20-100, 21-15, 21-25,
and 21-45, in Cook County, interest shall not accrue between
September 2, 2025 and January 1, 2027 April 1, 2026 on
delinquent warrant year 2023 tax balances.
In the 10 years next following the completion of a general
reassessment of property in any county with 3,000,000 or more
inhabitants, made under an order of the Department,
applications for judgment and order of sale shall be made as
soon as may be and on the day specified in the advertisement
required by Section 21-110 and 21-115. If for any cause the
court is not held on the day specified, the cause shall stand
continued, and it shall be unnecessary to re-advertise the
list or notice.
Within 30 days after the day specified for the application
for judgment the court shall hear and determine the matter. If
judgment is rendered, the sale shall begin on the date within 5
business days specified in the notice as provided in Section
21-115. If the collector is prevented from advertising and
obtaining judgment within the time periods specified by this
Section, the collector may obtain judgment at any time
thereafter; but if the failure arises by the county
collector's not complying with any of the requirements of this
Code, he or she shall be held on his or her official bond for
the full amount of all taxes and special assessments charged

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against him or her. Any failure on the part of the county
collector shall not be allowed as a valid objection to the
collection of any tax or assessment, or to entry of a judgment
against any delinquent properties included in the application
of the county collector.
As used in this Section, "warrant year" means the year
preceding the calendar year in which the taxes first became
due and payable.
(Source: P.A. 104-6, eff. 6-16-25.)
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.".