Illinois Senate Bill 2219 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)
Status: Failed on January 9 2019 - 100% progression
Action: 2019-01-09 - Session Sine Die
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Amends the Election Code. Provides that it is unlawful for any individual who is engaged in the business of providing legal representation in real estate tax assessment appeals to make campaign contributions of more than $750, in the aggregate, to any political committee established to promote the candidacy of a candidate for township or multi-township assessor, county assessor, county supervisor of assessments, or member of the board of review in any jurisdiction where that individual provides such legal representation. Provides that it is unlawful for any candidate, political committee, or other person to knowingly accept or receive such a contribution. Amends the Property Tax Code. Requires assessment officials to transmit to the chief county assessment officer valuation models for the assessor's jurisdiction, and requires the chief county assessment officer to post that information on his or her Internet website. Makes changes to the definition of "fair cash value". Makes changes concerning sales ratio studies. Requires the Department of Revenue to conduct audits of assessment practices. Provides that, if the county or township is deemed to be persistently non-compliant with the audit, then the assessment official shall be removed from office, and the vacancy shall be filled by the county board.

PROP TX-ASSESSMENTS

Sen. John Cullerton [D]

Sen. Jacqueline Collins [D]

Sen. William Cunningham [D]

Sen. Kwame Raoul [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2019-01-09	Senate	Session Sine Die
2019-01-06	Senate	Chief Sponsor Changed to Sen. John J. Cullerton
2018-01-24	Senate	Added as Chief Co-Sponsor Sen. Kwame Raoul
2017-06-23	Senate	Added as Chief Co-Sponsor Sen. Bill Cunningham
2017-06-23	Senate	Added as Chief Co-Sponsor Sen. Jacqueline Y. Collins
2017-06-23	Senate	Referred to Assignments
2017-06-23	Senate	First Reading
2017-06-23	Senate	Filed with Secretary by Sen. Daniel Biss

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
10	5	9-50	New Code	See Bill Text
35	200	1-50	Amended Code	Citation Text
35	200	17-10	Amended Code	Citation Text
35	200	4-35	New Code	See Bill Text
35	200	8-11	New Code	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/BillStatus.asp?DocNum=2219&GAID=14&DocTypeID=SB&SessionID=91&GA=100
Text	https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/100/SB/10000SB2219.htm