Bill Text: IL HB4069 | 2019-2020 | 101st General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Property Tax Code. Makes changes concerning the alternate valuation applied to property containing a solar energy system. Provides that, beginning in assessment year 2020, the alternate valuation shall be the lesser of the value of the property without the solar energy system or the value of the property with the solar energy system. Provides that the owner of the property is not required to file an application for this alternate valuation.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-06-23 - Rule 19(b) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB4069 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2019-HB4069-Introduced.html

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101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2019 and 2020 HB4069 Introduced , by Rep. Daniel Didech SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
35 ILCS 200/10-10
Amends the Property Tax Code. Makes changes concerning the alternate valuation applied to property containing a solar energy system. Provides that, beginning in assessment year 2020, the alternate valuation shall be the lesser of the value of the property without the solar energy system or the value of the property with the solar energy system. Provides that the owner of the property is not required to file an application for this alternate valuation.
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AN ACT concerning revenue.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Property Tax Code is amended by changing
Section 10-10 as follows:
(35 ILCS 200/10-10)
Sec. 10-10. Valuation of solar energy systems.
(a) Until assessment year 2020, when When a solar energy
system has been installed in improvements on any property, the
owner of that property is entitled to claim, by filing with the
chief county assessment officer, an alternate valuation of
those improvements. When a claim for alternate valuation is
filed, the chief county assessment officer shall ascertain the
value of the improvements as if equipped with a conventional
heating or cooling system and the value of the improvements as
equipped with the solar energy system. So long as the solar
energy system is used in total or part as the means of
utilizing solar energy improvements, the alternate valuation
computed as the lesser of the two values ascertained under this
paragraph shall be applied. When the solar energy system so
valued ceases to be used as the means of heating or cooling
those improvements, the owner of that property shall within 30
days notify the chief county assessment officer in writing by

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certified mail.
(b) Beginning in assessment year 2020, when a solar energy
system has been installed on any property, the chief county
assessment officer shall ascertain the value of the property
without the solar energy system and the value of the property
with the solar energy system. The alternate valuation computed
as the lesser of those 2 values shall be applied to the
property. Beginning in assessment year 2020, the owner of the
property is not required to file an application for this
alternate valuation.
(Source: P.A. 80-430; 88-455.)