96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2009 and 2010
HB4843


 
Introduced 1/15/2010, by Rep. Jack McGuire
 
SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:















35 ILCS 5/806










 Amends the Illinois Income Tax Act. Provides that taxpayers who are blind are exempt from the penalty for failure to pay estimated taxes. Defines "blind". Effective immediately.
















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 AN ACT concerning revenue.


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 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,

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represented in the General Assembly:



4
 Section 5. The Illinois Income Tax Act is amended by 
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changing Section 806 as follows:



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 (35 ILCS 5/806)



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 (Text of Section before amendment by P.A. 96-339)

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 Sec. 806. Exemption from penalty. An individual taxpayer 
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shall not be
subject to a penalty for failing to pay estimated 
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tax as required by Section
803 if the
taxpayer is (i) 65 years 
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of age or older and is a permanent resident of a nursing
home 
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or (ii) blind.
For purposes of this Section, "nursing home" 
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means a skilled nursing or
intermediate long term care facility 
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that is subject to licensure by the
Illinois
Department of 
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Public Health under the Nursing Home Care Act. For purposes of 
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this Section, "blind" means a person whose central visual 
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acuity does not exceed 20/200 in the better eye with correcting 
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lenses or whose visual acuity, if better than 20/200, is 
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accompanied by a limit to the field of vision in the better eye 
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to such a degree that its widest diameter subtends an angle of 
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no greater than 20 degrees. In determining whether an 
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individual is blind, there shall be an examination by a 
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physician skilled in diseases of the eye, or by an optometrist, 
 


 






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whichever the individual shall select.

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(Source: P.A. 90-491, eff. 1-1-98.)


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 (Text of Section after amendment by P.A. 96-339)

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 Sec. 806. Exemption from penalty. An individual taxpayer 
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shall not be
subject to a penalty for failing to pay estimated 
6
tax as required by Section
803 if the
taxpayer is (i) 65 years 
7
of age or older and is a permanent resident of a nursing
home 
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or (ii) blind.
For purposes of this Section, "nursing home" 
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means a skilled nursing or
intermediate long term care facility 
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that is subject to licensure by the
Illinois
Department of 
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Public Health under the Nursing Home Care Act or the MR/DD 
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Community Care Act. For purposes of this Section, "blind" means 
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a person whose central visual acuity does not exceed 20/200 in 
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the better eye with correcting lenses or whose visual acuity, 
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if better than 20/200, is accompanied by a limit to the field 
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of vision in the better eye to such a degree that its widest 
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diameter subtends an angle of no greater than 20 degrees. In 
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determining whether an individual is blind, there shall be an 
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examination by a physician skilled in diseases of the eye, or 
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by an optometrist, whichever the individual shall select.

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(Source: P.A. 96-339, eff. 7-1-10.)



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 Section 95. No acceleration or delay. Where this Act makes 
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changes in a statute that is represented in this Act by text 
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that is not yet or no longer in effect (for example, a Section 
 


 






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represented by multiple versions), the use of that text does 
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not accelerate or delay the taking effect of (i) the changes 
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made by this Act or (ii) provisions derived from any other 
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Public Act.

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 Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon 
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becoming law.