Bill Text: IL SB3414 | 2021-2022 | 102nd General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Department of Returning Resident Affairs Act and amends the Freedom of Information Act and the Property Tax Code. Contains declarations and findings. Creates the Second Chance State Housing Program under which the Department of Returning Resident Affairs shall provide decent, affordable single-family and multi-family housing opportunities to returning residents who have been prescreened for and referred to the Program by a hub site operator and have completed a 12-hour course conducted by or through a hub site operator using a U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development-approved housing counselor. Provides that the Department shall receive not less than 15% of the Illinois affordable housing tax credit allocation. Provides that the Department may borrow money and issue notes and bonds, issue renewal notes, issue bonds to pay such notes, refund any bonds by the issuance of new bonds, create funds and accounts, and exercise other powers. Provides that the property of the Department and its income and operation are exempt from taxation. Provides that the Department shall be considered to be a municipality under the Tax Increment Allocation Redevelopment Act and have all of the authority, rights, powers, duties, and obligations of a municipality under that Act, subject to specified provisions. Provides that the Department's territorial limits shall be anywhere within the State. Provides that the Director of Returning Resident Affairs shall fulfill the role of all officials of a municipality and its corporate authorities. Provides that the Department may offer non-recourse reverse mortgage loans to qualified borrowers, subject to specified conditions. Provides that no unit of local government shall enact any zoning, permit, building code or other requirement for the purpose of preventing the Department from acquiring, revitalizing, rehabilitating, and conveying an interest in single-family and multi-family residential housing to one or more returning residents. Authorizes the purchase by the Department of tax delinquent single-family or multi-family residential property, subject to specified conditions. Makes other changes. Contains a severability provision. Effective immediately, but does not take effect at all unless another Act becomes law.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-02-10 - Rule 3-9(a) / Re-referred to Assignments [SB3414 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2021-SB3414-Introduced.html

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102ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2021 and 2022 SB3414 Introduced 1/14/2022, by Sen. Mattie Hunter SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
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Amends the Department of Returning Resident Affairs Act and amends the Freedom of Information Act and the Property Tax Code. Contains declarations and findings. Creates the Second Chance State Housing Program under which the Department of Returning Resident Affairs shall provide decent, affordable single-family and multi-family housing opportunities to returning residents who have been prescreened for and referred to the Program by a hub site operator and have completed a 12-hour course conducted by or through a hub site operator using a U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development-approved housing counselor. Provides that the Department shall receive not less than 15% of the Illinois affordable housing tax credit allocation. Provides that the Department may borrow money and issue notes and bonds, issue renewal notes, issue bonds to pay such notes, refund any bonds by the issuance of new bonds, create funds and accounts, and exercise other powers. Provides that the property of the Department and its income and operation are exempt from taxation. Provides that the Department shall be considered to be a municipality under the Tax Increment Allocation Redevelopment Act and have all of the authority, rights, powers, duties, and obligations of a municipality under that Act, subject to specified provisions. Provides that the Department's territorial limits shall be anywhere within the State. Provides that the Director of Returning Resident Affairs shall fulfill the role of all officials of a municipality and its corporate authorities. Provides that the Department may offer non-recourse reverse mortgage loans to qualified borrowers, subject to specified conditions. Provides that no unit of local government shall enact any zoning, permit, building code or other requirement for the purpose of preventing the Department from acquiring, revitalizing, rehabilitating, and conveying an interest in single-family and multi-family residential housing to one or more returning residents. Authorizes the purchase by the Department of tax delinquent single-family or multi-family residential property, subject to specified conditions. Makes other changes. Contains a severability provision. Effective immediately, but does not take effect at all unless another Act becomes law.
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning State government.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Department of Returning Resident Affairs
Act is amended by adding Sections 80, 85, and 90 as follows:
(Sec. 80 new)
Sec. 80. References to Sections 80 through 90. Sections 80
through 90 may be referred to as the Second Chance State
Housing Program Act.
(Sec. 85 new)
Sec. 85. Second Chance State Housing Program; legislative
declarations and findings. The General Assembly finds and
declares that:
(1) While stable housing is fundamental to the ability
of most members of the general public to survive, succeed,
and thrive, it is especially crucial to persons returning
to this community from incarceration.
(2) The existence of substantial obstacles that
prevent returning residents from accessing needed housing
is clear from the approximately 60% of unsheltered men and
58% of unsheltered women in part of this State who report
being previously convicted.

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(3) The Metropolitan Planning Council has found that
"without the most basic of human needs -- a roof over a
head -- justice-involved individuals struggle to
reintegrate".
(4) The cost to Illinois of that failure to
reintegrate is high, resulting in approximately 40% of
formerly incarcerated individuals recidivating within 3
years of release and costing Illinois over $151,000 for
each recidivism event.
(5) By providing housing to returning residents
through the revitalization and rehabilitation of existing
tax delinquent, abandoned, and otherwise distressed
single-family and multi-family residential housing units,
the Second Chance State Housing Program serves to not only
stabilize the lives of returning residents and their
families, but also to stabilize disadvantaged communities;
(6) The health, welfare, and prosperity of all
Illinois citizens requires the State to take the actions
described herein that create the Second Chance State
Housing Program.
(Sec. 90 new)
Sec. 90. Second Chance State Housing Program,
(a) Establishment. The Second Chance State Housing Program
is established as a part of the Second Chance State Program
administered by the Department. The Department is authorized,

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directed, and required to administer the Second Chance State
Housing Program with the objective of providing decent,
affordable single-family and multi-family housing
opportunities to returning residents. To accomplish this and
administer and operate the Second Chance State Housing
Program, the Department shall have the following powers,
duties, and obligations in addition to other powers, duties,
and obligations provided to the Department under law.
(b) Housing development priorities and participant
qualification.
(1) The Second Chance State Housing Program shall be
implemented by the Department: (A) to the extent
reasonably feasible, by revitalizing and rehabilitating
existing tax delinquent, abandoned, and otherwise
distressed single-family and multi-family residential
housing units in order to provide both decent, affordable
rental and home ownership opportunities to returning
residents and their families; and (B) to the extent that a
need for such opportunities exists that cannot be
reasonably fulfilled by clause (A), then by such other
actions as the Department deems necessary and is legally
authorized to pursue, including, without limitation,
acquisition of other existing single-family and
multi-family residential housing units and construction of
new single-family and multi-family housing units.
(2) No person shall participate in the Second Chance

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State Housing Program unless the person is a returning
resident who: (A) has been prescreened for and referred to
the Second Chance State Housing Program by a hub site
operator; and (B) has completed a 12-hour course conducted
by or through a hub site operator using a U.S. Department
of Housing and Urban Development-approved housing
counselor to prepare the returning resident to be a
homeowner or tenant. The course shall include, without
limitation, training on financial literacy and
responsibility, budgeting and financial management, the
rental and homebuying process, basic elements of a real
estate contract or lease, residential financing, title
insurance, real estate taxes, utilities, insurance, basic
home maintenance, delinquency and foreclosure prevention,
Second Chance State Housing Program requirements, and
other practical and legal requirements pertaining to being
a homeowner or tenant. The Department may promulgate
additional qualifications for participation in the Second
Chance State Housing Program that do not conflict with the
provisions of this Act.
(3) Hub site operators shall otherwise prepare
returning residents for participation in the Second Chance
State Housing Program and thereafter, returning residents'
ownership or rental of housing, including, without
limitation, assisting with securing affordable legal
representation and the establishment of necessary bank and

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utility accounts.
(c) Illinois affordable housing tax credit allocation. The
Department shall receive not less than 15% of the Illinois
affordable housing tax credit allocation. The Department is
authorized to utilize such credits in any manner not
prohibited by law.
(d) Low-income housing tax credits.
(1) The Department is hereby designated as charged
with responsibility for administering low-income housing
tax credits allocated to the State for incarceration
projects under Section 42 of the Internal Revenue Code of
1986, as amended. In fulfilling its responsibilities, the
Department is authorized to do all acts authorized or
required under Section 42 of the Internal Revenue Code of
1986, as amended, and to:
(A) Establish a plan for allocation of low-income
housing tax credits, prepare application forms for
allocation of such tax credits, and make allocation of
such tax credits to eligible individuals and
corporations.
(B) Initiate marketing, education, and outreach
projects throughout the State to maximize utilization
of all available low-income housing tax credits.
(C) Provide technical assistance and training to
local governments, including home rule jurisdictions,
to encourage coordination of local, State, and federal

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resources with the allocation of low-income housing
tax credits.
(D) Accept and allocate low-income housing tax
credits that may be transferred from Illinois home
rule jurisdictions.
(E) Assess fees to cover the costs of allocating
and administering the tax credits.
(2) The aggregate unused housing tax credit dollar
amount of all home rule jurisdictions available under
Section 42 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as
amended, shall be as of June 1 of each calendar year
reserved to the Department in an amount not under
$50,000,000 for allocation by the Department in the same
manner as the Illinois Housing Development Authority
allocates low-income housing tax credits allocated to the
State.
(e) Authority to issue debt.
(1) The Department may borrow money and issue its
notes and bonds in such principal amount, as, in the
opinion of the Department, shall be necessary to provide
sufficient funds for achieving the purposes of this
Section. The Department's bonds and notes may be issued as
general obligations of the Department payable from such
revenues, funds, and obligations of the Department as the
Department's order authorizing issuance of the bonds or
notes shall provide, or may be issued as limited

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obligations with a claim for payment solely from such
revenues, funds, and obligations as the Department's order
authorizing issuance of the bonds or notes shall provide
and may secure the payment thereof by, among other things,
the pledge, or assignment, or grant of a lien on or
security interest of mortgages and notes of others,
revenues derived from its operation of the Second Chance
State Housing Program and loan repayments and other funds,
if any, received by the Department.
(2) The Department may, from time to time, issue
renewal notes, issue bonds to pay such notes, and,
whenever it deems refunding expedient, refund any bonds by
the issuance of new bonds, whether the bonds to be
refunded have or have not matured, and issue bonds partly
to refund bonds then outstanding and partly for any other
purpose. The refunding bonds shall be sold and the
proceeds applied to the purchase, redemption or payment of
the bonds to be refunded.
(3) The Department may procure insurance against any
loss in connection with its bonds, notes, or property in
such amounts, and from such insurers, as may be necessary
or desirable. The Department may acquire any instruments
the purpose of which is to reduce the risk of loss due to
fluctuation in the interest rate or market price of those
investments or may enter into any agreements to insure,
protect, or preserve its investments from any loss

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(including, without limitation, loss caused by fluctuation
in interest rates, markets or in securities) in such
amounts and from such insurers, issuers, or other parties
as the Department deems appropriate.
(4) The Department may consent, whenever it deems it
necessary or desirable in the fulfillment of the purposes
of this Section, to the modification, with respect to rate
of interest, time of payment or any installment of
principal or interest, or any other terms, of any
mortgage, mortgage loan, mortgage loan commitment, other
loan, contract or agreement of any kind to which the
Department is a party.
(5) The Department may create such funds and accounts
as it deems necessary to service its notes and bonds and to
otherwise operate the Second Chance State Housing Program.
(6) The notes and bonds issued under this Section
shall be authorized by an order issued at the Director's
direction, shall bear such date or dates, and shall mature
at such time or times, not exceeding 50 years from the date
of issue, as the order may provide. The bonds may be issued
as serial bonds or as term bonds or as a combination
thereof. The notes and bonds shall bear interest at such
rate or rates as shall be determined by the order
authorizing issuance of the bonds and as otherwise allowed
by law. The notes and bonds shall be in such
denominations, be in such form, either coupon or

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registered, carry such registration privileges, be
executed in such manner, be payable in such medium of
payment, at such place or places and be subject to such
terms of redemption as the order authorizing them may
provide. The notes and bonds may be sold by the
Department, at public or private sale, at such price or
prices as the Department shall determine. The order for
the issuance of the notes or bonds may include any other
provisions that the Department determines are necessary,
expedient, or otherwise in the Department's best interest
for the issuance of the notes or bonds.
(7) In lieu of establishing various provisions
governing the issuance of the Department's notes or bonds,
including, without limitation, the rate at which the
Department's notes or bonds shall bear interest, the price
at which the notes or bonds shall be sold, and the date of
issuance of the notes or bonds, the order authorizing
their issuance may set maximum and minimum prices,
interest rates and annual interest cost to the Department,
a range for the date of issuance and maturities, and any
other terms that set ranges or criteria as the Department
may determine.
(8) The Department's order authorizing the issuance of
its notes or bonds may provide that interest rates may
vary from time to time depending upon criteria established
by the Department in that order, which may include,

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without limitation, a variation in interest rates as may
be necessary to cause notes or bonds to be remarketable
from time to time at a price equal to their principal
amount (or compound accredited value in case of original
issue discount bonds), and may provide for appointment of
a national banking association, bank, trust company,
investment bank, or other financial institution to serve
as a remarketing agent in that connection. The
Department's order authorizing the issuance of its notes
or bonds may provide that alternative interest rates or
provisions will apply during such times as the notes or
bonds are held by a person providing a letter of credit or
other credit enhancement arrangement for those notes or
bonds. Notwithstanding any other provisions of law, there
shall be no statutory limitation on the interest rates
that such variable rate notes and bonds may bear from time
to time.
(9) The notes and bonds of the Department are
securities in which all public officers and bodies of this
State and all municipalities and municipal subdivisions,
all insurance companies and associations, and other
persons carrying on an insurance business, all banks,
trust companies, savings banks and savings associations,
saving and loan associations, investment companies, all
administrators, guardians, executors, trustees and other
fiduciaries, and all other persons whatsoever who are now

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or may hereafter be authorized to invest in bonds or other
obligations of the State, may properly and legally invest
funds, including capital, in their control or belonging to
them.
(10) Neither the Director nor any officer or employee
of the Department nor any other authorized person
executing the Department's orders, notes, and bonds shall
be liable personally on the Department's notes or bonds or
be subject to any personal liability or accountability by
reason of the issuance thereof.
(11) The property of the Department and its income and
operation shall be exempt from taxation.
(12) The Department shall have no taxing power. The
Department's notes and bonds shall not be a general
obligation of the State, the State shall not be liable on
the Department's notes or bonds and such notes and bonds
shall not be a debt of the State. The Department's notes
and bonds shall contain a statement to such effect on
their face.
(13) The creation of the Second Chance State Housing
Program is in all respects for the benefit of the people of
Illinois and for the improvement of their health, safety,
welfare, comfort, and security, and its purposes are
public purposes. In consideration thereof, the notes and
bonds of the Department issued under this Section and the
income therefrom shall be free from all taxation by the

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State or its political subdivisions, except for estate,
transfer, and inheritance taxes.
(14) Neither the Department nor any notes or bonds it
issues shall be subject to the Bond Authorization Act.
(f) Tax increment finance authority. Solely for the
purpose of providing decent, affordable housing opportunities
to returning residents, the Department shall be considered to
be a municipality under the Tax Increment Allocation
Redevelopment Act and have all of the authority, rights,
powers, duties, and obligations of a municipality under that
Act; provided that for purposes of exercising the authority,
rights, powers, duties, and obligations under that Act:
(1) The provisions of the Tax Increment Allocation
Redevelopment Act that pertain to sales or utility taxes
and industrial, commercial, or retail developments shall
not apply to the Department.
(2) The Department's territorial limits shall be
anywhere within the State.
(3) Requirements pertaining to comprehensive or
community plans and plan commissions shall mean the
comprehensive or community plan and plan commission of the
county, township, or municipality with jurisdiction over
the property in the redevelopment project area.
Requirements pertaining to school districts shall mean the
school districts with jurisdiction over the property in
the redevelopment project area. Requirements pertaining to

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library districts shall mean the library districts with
jurisdiction over the property in the redevelopment
project area.
(4) The Department may fulfill any ordinance or
resolution requirements by issuing an order.
(5) "Redevelopment project area" means an area in
which single-family and multi-family uses are permitted or
allowed by special use, planned unit development or a
similar zoning designation and that has been designated by
the Department, regardless of size, in respect to which
the Department has made a finding that there exist
conditions that cause the area to be classified as a
blighted area or a conservation area, or a combination of
both blighted areas and conservation areas.
(6) The Director shall fulfill the role of all
officials of a municipality and its corporate authorities.
(7) The Department may utilize revenues received under
the Tax Increment Allocation Redevelopment Act from one
redevelopment project area for eligible costs in another
redevelopment project area regardless of whether those
redevelopment project areas are contiguous.
(8) The provisions of the Tax Increment Allocation
Redevelopment Act pertaining to the issuance of
obligations shall not limit the authority provided to the
Department to issue debt under this Section. The
Department is authorized to pledge and use any revenues it

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receives under the Tax Increment Allocation Redevelopment
Act to repay such debt, regardless of the source of that
revenue and the purpose of the debt, including, without
limitation, using revenue received from one redevelopment
project area to pay debt incurred for the purpose of
redeveloping another redevelopment project area,
regardless of whether those redevelopment project areas
are contiguous.
(g) Authority to acquire tax delinquent property. The
Department may exercise the authority provided to it under the
Property Tax Code to acquire interests in tax delinquent
single-family and multi-family residential properties.
(h) Prohibition on exclusionary local law. No county,
township, municipality, special district, or other unit of
local government shall enact any zoning, permit, building code
or other requirement for the purpose of preventing the
Department from acquiring, revitalizing, rehabilitating, and
conveying an interest in single-family and multi-family
residential housing to one or more returning residents.
(i) Confidentiality of information. All information
provided by a returning resident to the Department, any
employee of the Department, a hub site operator or any
employee of a hub site operator under or in connection with
participation in the Second Chance State Housing Program shall
be confidential and shall not be disclosed except as required
by law.

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(j) The Department may offer non-recourse reverse mortgage
loans to qualified borrowers with the same restrictions and
requirements as prescribed in Section 6.1 of the Illinois
Banking Act. The Authority may seek funds from the Federal
Home Loan Bank of Chicago to fund reverse mortgage loans made
under this Section. Reverse mortgage loans may be made under
terms that qualify the loans for purchase by the Federal
National Mortgage Association.
(k) The Department may do any and all things necessary or
convenient to carry out its purposes and exercise the powers,
either separately or jointly, expressly given and granted in
this Section.
Section 10. The Freedom of Information Act is amended by
changing Section 7 as follows:
(5 ILCS 140/7) (from Ch. 116, par. 207)
Sec. 7. Exemptions.
(1) When a request is made to inspect or copy a public
record that contains information that is exempt from
disclosure under this Section, but also contains information
that is not exempt from disclosure, the public body may elect
to redact the information that is exempt. The public body
shall make the remaining information available for inspection
and copying. Subject to this requirement, the following shall
be exempt from inspection and copying:

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(a) Information specifically prohibited from
disclosure by federal or State law or rules and
regulations implementing federal or State law.
(b) Private information, unless disclosure is required
by another provision of this Act, a State or federal law or
a court order.
(b-5) Files, documents, and other data or databases
maintained by one or more law enforcement agencies and
specifically designed to provide information to one or
more law enforcement agencies regarding the physical or
mental status of one or more individual subjects.
(c) Personal information contained within public
records, the disclosure of which would constitute a
clearly unwarranted invasion of personal privacy, unless
the disclosure is consented to in writing by the
individual subjects of the information. "Unwarranted
invasion of personal privacy" means the disclosure of
information that is highly personal or objectionable to a
reasonable person and in which the subject's right to
privacy outweighs any legitimate public interest in
obtaining the information. The disclosure of information
that bears on the public duties of public employees and
officials shall not be considered an invasion of personal
privacy.
(d) Records in the possession of any public body
created in the course of administrative enforcement

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proceedings, and any law enforcement or correctional
agency for law enforcement purposes, but only to the
extent that disclosure would:
(i) interfere with pending or actually and
reasonably contemplated law enforcement proceedings
conducted by any law enforcement or correctional
agency that is the recipient of the request;
(ii) interfere with active administrative
enforcement proceedings conducted by the public body
that is the recipient of the request;
(iii) create a substantial likelihood that a
person will be deprived of a fair trial or an impartial
hearing;
(iv) unavoidably disclose the identity of a
confidential source, confidential information
furnished only by the confidential source, or persons
who file complaints with or provide information to
administrative, investigative, law enforcement, or
penal agencies; except that the identities of
witnesses to traffic accidents, traffic accident
reports, and rescue reports shall be provided by
agencies of local government, except when disclosure
would interfere with an active criminal investigation
conducted by the agency that is the recipient of the
request;
(v) disclose unique or specialized investigative

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techniques other than those generally used and known
or disclose internal documents of correctional
agencies related to detection, observation or
investigation of incidents of crime or misconduct, and
disclosure would result in demonstrable harm to the
agency or public body that is the recipient of the
request;
(vi) endanger the life or physical safety of law
enforcement personnel or any other person; or
(vii) obstruct an ongoing criminal investigation
by the agency that is the recipient of the request.
(d-5) A law enforcement record created for law
enforcement purposes and contained in a shared electronic
record management system if the law enforcement agency
that is the recipient of the request did not create the
record, did not participate in or have a role in any of the
events which are the subject of the record, and only has
access to the record through the shared electronic record
management system.
(d-6) Records contained in the Officer Professional
Conduct Database under Section 9.2 9.4 of the Illinois
Police Training Act, except to the extent authorized under
that Section. This includes the documents supplied to the
Illinois Law Enforcement Training Standards Board from the
Illinois State Police and Illinois State Police Merit
Board.

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(e) Records that relate to or affect the security of
correctional institutions and detention facilities.
(e-5) Records requested by persons committed to the
Department of Corrections, Department of Human Services
Division of Mental Health, or a county jail if those
materials are available in the library of the correctional
institution or facility or jail where the inmate is
confined.
(e-6) Records requested by persons committed to the
Department of Corrections, Department of Human Services
Division of Mental Health, or a county jail if those
materials include records from staff members' personnel
files, staff rosters, or other staffing assignment
information.
(e-7) Records requested by persons committed to the
Department of Corrections or Department of Human Services
Division of Mental Health if those materials are available
through an administrative request to the Department of
Corrections or Department of Human Services Division of
Mental Health.
(e-8) Records requested by a person committed to the
Department of Corrections, Department of Human Services
Division of Mental Health, or a county jail, the
disclosure of which would result in the risk of harm to any
person or the risk of an escape from a jail or correctional
institution or facility.

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(e-9) Records requested by a person in a county jail
or committed to the Department of Corrections or
Department of Human Services Division of Mental Health,
containing personal information pertaining to the person's
victim or the victim's family, including, but not limited
to, a victim's home address, home telephone number, work
or school address, work telephone number, social security
number, or any other identifying information, except as
may be relevant to a requester's current or potential case
or claim.
(e-10) Law enforcement records of other persons
requested by a person committed to the Department of
Corrections, Department of Human Services Division of
Mental Health, or a county jail, including, but not
limited to, arrest and booking records, mug shots, and
crime scene photographs, except as these records may be
relevant to the requester's current or potential case or
claim.
(f) Preliminary drafts, notes, recommendations,
memoranda and other records in which opinions are
expressed, or policies or actions are formulated, except
that a specific record or relevant portion of a record
shall not be exempt when the record is publicly cited and
identified by the head of the public body. The exemption
provided in this paragraph (f) extends to all those
records of officers and agencies of the General Assembly

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that pertain to the preparation of legislative documents.
(g) Trade secrets and commercial or financial
information obtained from a person or business where the
trade secrets or commercial or financial information are
furnished under a claim that they are proprietary,
privileged, or confidential, and that disclosure of the
trade secrets or commercial or financial information would
cause competitive harm to the person or business, and only
insofar as the claim directly applies to the records
requested.
The information included under this exemption includes
all trade secrets and commercial or financial information
obtained by a public body, including a public pension
fund, from a private equity fund or a privately held
company within the investment portfolio of a private
equity fund as a result of either investing or evaluating
a potential investment of public funds in a private equity
fund. The exemption contained in this item does not apply
to the aggregate financial performance information of a
private equity fund, nor to the identity of the fund's
managers or general partners. The exemption contained in
this item does not apply to the identity of a privately
held company within the investment portfolio of a private
equity fund, unless the disclosure of the identity of a
privately held company may cause competitive harm.
Nothing contained in this paragraph (g) shall be

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construed to prevent a person or business from consenting
to disclosure.
(h) Proposals and bids for any contract, grant, or
agreement, including information which if it were
disclosed would frustrate procurement or give an advantage
to any person proposing to enter into a contractor
agreement with the body, until an award or final selection
is made. Information prepared by or for the body in
preparation of a bid solicitation shall be exempt until an
award or final selection is made.
(i) Valuable formulae, computer geographic systems,
designs, drawings and research data obtained or produced
by any public body when disclosure could reasonably be
expected to produce private gain or public loss. The
exemption for "computer geographic systems" provided in
this paragraph (i) does not extend to requests made by
news media as defined in Section 2 of this Act when the
requested information is not otherwise exempt and the only
purpose of the request is to access and disseminate
information regarding the health, safety, welfare, or
legal rights of the general public.
(j) The following information pertaining to
educational matters:
(i) test questions, scoring keys and other
examination data used to administer an academic
examination;

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(ii) information received by a primary or
secondary school, college, or university under its
procedures for the evaluation of faculty members by
their academic peers;
(iii) information concerning a school or
university's adjudication of student disciplinary
cases, but only to the extent that disclosure would
unavoidably reveal the identity of the student; and
(iv) course materials or research materials used
by faculty members.
(k) Architects' plans, engineers' technical
submissions, and other construction related technical
documents for projects not constructed or developed in
whole or in part with public funds and the same for
projects constructed or developed with public funds,
including, but not limited to, power generating and
distribution stations and other transmission and
distribution facilities, water treatment facilities,
airport facilities, sport stadiums, convention centers,
and all government owned, operated, or occupied buildings,
but only to the extent that disclosure would compromise
security.
(l) Minutes of meetings of public bodies closed to the
public as provided in the Open Meetings Act until the
public body makes the minutes available to the public
under Section 2.06 of the Open Meetings Act.

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(m) Communications between a public body and an
attorney or auditor representing the public body that
would not be subject to discovery in litigation, and
materials prepared or compiled by or for a public body in
anticipation of a criminal, civil, or administrative
proceeding upon the request of an attorney advising the
public body, and materials prepared or compiled with
respect to internal audits of public bodies.
(n) Records relating to a public body's adjudication
of employee grievances or disciplinary cases; however,
this exemption shall not extend to the final outcome of
cases in which discipline is imposed.
(o) Administrative or technical information associated
with automated data processing operations, including, but
not limited to, software, operating protocols, computer
program abstracts, file layouts, source listings, object
modules, load modules, user guides, documentation
pertaining to all logical and physical design of
computerized systems, employee manuals, and any other
information that, if disclosed, would jeopardize the
security of the system or its data or the security of
materials exempt under this Section.
(p) Records relating to collective negotiating matters
between public bodies and their employees or
representatives, except that any final contract or
agreement shall be subject to inspection and copying.

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(q) Test questions, scoring keys, and other
examination data used to determine the qualifications of
an applicant for a license or employment.
(r) The records, documents, and information relating
to real estate purchase negotiations until those
negotiations have been completed or otherwise terminated.
With regard to a parcel involved in a pending or actually
and reasonably contemplated eminent domain proceeding
under the Eminent Domain Act, records, documents, and
information relating to that parcel shall be exempt except
as may be allowed under discovery rules adopted by the
Illinois Supreme Court. The records, documents, and
information relating to a real estate sale shall be exempt
until a sale is consummated.
(s) Any and all proprietary information and records
related to the operation of an intergovernmental risk
management association or self-insurance pool or jointly
self-administered health and accident cooperative or pool.
Insurance or self insurance (including any
intergovernmental risk management association or self
insurance pool) claims, loss or risk management
information, records, data, advice or communications.
(t) Information contained in or related to
examination, operating, or condition reports prepared by,
on behalf of, or for the use of a public body responsible
for the regulation or supervision of financial

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institutions, insurance companies, or pharmacy benefit
managers, unless disclosure is otherwise required by State
law.
(u) Information that would disclose or might lead to
the disclosure of secret or confidential information,
codes, algorithms, programs, or private keys intended to
be used to create electronic signatures under the Uniform
Electronic Transactions Act.
(v) Vulnerability assessments, security measures, and
response policies or plans that are designed to identify,
prevent, or respond to potential attacks upon a
community's population or systems, facilities, or
installations, the destruction or contamination of which
would constitute a clear and present danger to the health
or safety of the community, but only to the extent that
disclosure could reasonably be expected to jeopardize the
effectiveness of the measures or the safety of the
personnel who implement them or the public. Information
exempt under this item may include such things as details
pertaining to the mobilization or deployment of personnel
or equipment, to the operation of communication systems or
protocols, or to tactical operations.
(w) (Blank).
(x) Maps and other records regarding the location or
security of generation, transmission, distribution,
storage, gathering, treatment, or switching facilities

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owned by a utility, by a power generator, or by the
Illinois Power Agency.
(y) Information contained in or related to proposals,
bids, or negotiations related to electric power
procurement under Section 1-75 of the Illinois Power
Agency Act and Section 16-111.5 of the Public Utilities
Act that is determined to be confidential and proprietary
by the Illinois Power Agency or by the Illinois Commerce
Commission.
(z) Information about students exempted from
disclosure under Sections 10-20.38 or 34-18.29 of the
School Code, and information about undergraduate students
enrolled at an institution of higher education exempted
from disclosure under Section 25 of the Illinois Credit
Card Marketing Act of 2009.
(aa) Information the disclosure of which is exempted
under the Viatical Settlements Act of 2009.
(bb) Records and information provided to a mortality
review team and records maintained by a mortality review
team appointed under the Department of Juvenile Justice
Mortality Review Team Act.
(cc) Information regarding interments, entombments, or
inurnments of human remains that are submitted to the
Cemetery Oversight Database under the Cemetery Care Act or
the Cemetery Oversight Act, whichever is applicable.
(dd) Correspondence and records (i) that may not be

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disclosed under Section 11-9 of the Illinois Public Aid
Code or (ii) that pertain to appeals under Section 11-8 of
the Illinois Public Aid Code.
(ee) The names, addresses, or other personal
information of persons who are minors and are also
participants and registrants in programs of park
districts, forest preserve districts, conservation
districts, recreation agencies, and special recreation
associations.
(ff) The names, addresses, or other personal
information of participants and registrants in programs of
park districts, forest preserve districts, conservation
districts, recreation agencies, and special recreation
associations where such programs are targeted primarily to
minors.
(gg) Confidential information described in Section
1-100 of the Illinois Independent Tax Tribunal Act of
2012.
(hh) The report submitted to the State Board of
Education by the School Security and Standards Task Force
under item (8) of subsection (d) of Section 2-3.160 of the
School Code and any information contained in that report.
(ii) Records requested by persons committed to or
detained by the Department of Human Services under the
Sexually Violent Persons Commitment Act or committed to
the Department of Corrections under the Sexually Dangerous

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Persons Act if those materials: (i) are available in the
library of the facility where the individual is confined;
(ii) include records from staff members' personnel files,
staff rosters, or other staffing assignment information;
or (iii) are available through an administrative request
to the Department of Human Services or the Department of
Corrections.
(jj) Confidential information described in Section
5-535 of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois.
(kk) The public body's credit card numbers, debit card
numbers, bank account numbers, Federal Employer
Identification Number, security code numbers, passwords,
and similar account information, the disclosure of which
could result in identity theft or impression or defrauding
of a governmental entity or a person.
(ll) Records concerning the work of the threat
assessment team of a school district.
(mm) Records provided by a returning resident pursuant
to or in connection with participation in the Second
Chance State Housing Program.
(1.5) Any information exempt from disclosure under the
Judicial Privacy Act shall be redacted from public records
prior to disclosure under this Act.
(2) A public record that is not in the possession of a
public body but is in the possession of a party with whom the
agency has contracted to perform a governmental function on

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behalf of the public body, and that directly relates to the
governmental function and is not otherwise exempt under this
Act, shall be considered a public record of the public body,
for purposes of this Act.
(3) This Section does not authorize withholding of
information or limit the availability of records to the
public, except as stated in this Section or otherwise provided
in this Act.
(Source: P.A. 101-434, eff. 1-1-20; 101-452, eff. 1-1-20;
101-455, eff. 8-23-19; 101-652, eff. 1-1-22; 102-38, eff.
6-25-21; 102-558, eff. 8-20-21; revised 11-22-21.)
Section 15. The Property Tax Code is amended by changing
Sections 21-95, 21-100, and 21-260 and by adding Section 21-92
as follows:
(35 ILCS 200/21-92 new)
Sec. 21-92. Purchase and sale by Department of Returning
Resident Affairs. When any single-family or multi-family
residential property is delinquent, or is forfeited for each
of 2 or more years, and is offered for sale under any of the
provisions of this Code, and the county board of the county in
which the property is located has not applied to purchase it,
the Department of Returning Resident Affairs may apply to
purchase it. The Director of Returning Resident Affairs may
appoint on its behalf some officer or person to attend such

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sales and bid or, in the case of forfeited property, to apply
to the county clerk to purchase. The Department of Returning
Resident Affairs shall apply on the bid or purchase the unpaid
taxes and special assessments due upon the property. No cash
need be paid. The Department of Returning Resident Affairs may
take steps necessary to acquire title to the property and may
manage and operate the property, including, but not limited
to, mowing of grass, removal of nuisance greenery, removal of
garbage, waste, debris or other materials, or the demolition,
repair, or remediation of unsafe structures. When the
Department of Returning Resident Affairs is a petitioner for a
tax deed, no filing fee shall be required. When the Department
of Returning Resident Affairs is the petitioner for a tax
deed, one petition may be filed including all parcels that are
tax delinquent within the county or taxing district, and any
publication made under Section 22-20 of this Code may combine
all such parcels within a single notice. The notice shall list
the street or common address, if known, of the parcels for
informational purposes. The Department of Returning Resident
Affairs shall not be required to allege and prove that all
taxes and special assessments which become due and payable
after the sale to the county have been paid nor shall the
county be required to pay the subsequently accruing taxes or
special assessments at any time. The county collector shall be
prohibited from including the property in the tax sale of one
or more subsequent years. The lien of taxes and special

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assessments which become due and payable after a sale to the
Department of Returning Resident Affairs shall merge in the
fee title of that Department on the issuance of a deed. The
Department may sell or assign the property so acquired, or the
certificate of purchase to it, to any party.
(35 ILCS 200/21-95)
Sec. 21-95. Tax abatement after acquisition by a
governmental unit. When any county, municipality, school
district, forest preserve district, or park district or the
Department of Returning Resident Affairs acquires property
through the foreclosure of a lien, through a judicial deed,
through the foreclosure of receivership certificate lien, or
by acceptance of a deed of conveyance in lieu of foreclosing
any lien against the property, or when a government unit
acquires property under the Abandoned Housing Rehabilitation
Act or a blight reduction or abandoned property program
administered by the Illinois Housing Development Authority, or
when any county or other taxing district acquires a deed for
property under Section 21-90 or Sections 21-145 and 21-260, or
when the Department of Returning Resident Affairs acquires a
deed for property under Section 21-90a, or when any county,
municipality, school district, forest preserve district, or
park district acquires title to property that was to be
transferred to that county, municipality, school district,
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an annexation agreement, development agreement, donation
agreement, plat of subdivision, or zoning ordinance by an
entity that has been dissolved or is being dissolved or has
been in bankruptcy proceedings or is in bankruptcy
proceedings, all due or unpaid property taxes and existing
liens for unpaid property taxes imposed or pending under any
law or ordinance of this State or any of its political
subdivisions shall become null and void.
(Source: P.A. 100-314, eff. 8-24-17; 100-445, eff. 1-1-18;
100-863, eff. 8-14-18.)
(35 ILCS 200/21-100)
Sec. 21-100. Notice to county officials; voiding of tax
bills. The county board or corporate authorities of the
county, or other taxing district or the Department of
Returning Resident Affairs acquiring property under Section
21-95 shall give written notice of the acquisition to the
chief county assessment officer and the county collector and
the county clerk of the county in which the property is
located, and request the voiding of the tax liens as provided
in this Section. The notice shall describe the acquired
property by legal description or property index number.
Upon receipt of the notice, the county collector and
county clerk shall void the current and all prior unpaid taxes
on the records in their respective offices by entering the
following statement upon their records for the property:

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"Acquired by ... (name of county, municipality, school
district, or park district or the Department of Returning
Resident Affairs acquiring the property under Section 21-95).
Taxes due and unpaid on this property ... (give legal
description or property index number and address of the
property) ... are waived and null and void under Section
21-100 of the Property Tax Code. The tax bills of this property
are hereby voided and liens for the taxes are extinguished."
(Source: P.A. 96-1142, eff. 7-21-10.)
(35 ILCS 200/21-260)
Sec. 21-260. Collector's scavenger sale. Upon the county
collector's application under Section 21-145, to be known as
the Scavenger Sale Application, the Court shall enter judgment
for the general taxes, special taxes, special assessments,
interest, penalties and costs as are included in the
advertisement and appear to be due thereon after allowing an
opportunity to object and a hearing upon the objections as
provided in Section 21-175, and order those properties sold by
the County Collector at public sale, or by electronic
automated sale if the collector chooses to conduct an
electronic automated sale pursuant to Section 21-261, to the
highest bidder for cash, notwithstanding the bid may be less
than the full amount of taxes, special taxes, special
assessments, interest, penalties and costs for which judgment
has been entered.

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(a) Conducting the sale; bidding sale - Bidding. All
properties shall be offered for sale in consecutive order as
they appear in the delinquent list. The minimum bid for any
property shall be $250 or one-half of the tax if the total
liability is less than $500. For in-person scavenger sales,
the successful bidder shall pay the amount of the minimum bid
to the County Collector by the end of the business day on which
the bid was placed. That amount shall be paid in cash, by
certified or cashier's check, by money order, or, if the
successful bidder is a governmental unit, by a check issued by
that governmental unit. For electronic automated scavenger
sales, the successful bidder shall pay the minimum bid amount
by the close of the business day on which the bid was placed.
That amount shall be paid online via ACH debit or by the
electronic payment method required by the county collector.
For in-person scavenger sales, if the bid exceeds the minimum
bid, the successful bidder shall pay the balance of the bid to
the county collector in cash, by certified or cashier's check,
by money order, or, if the successful bidder is a governmental
unit, by a check issued by that governmental unit by the close
of the next business day. For electronic automated scavenger
sales, the successful bidder shall pay, by the close of the
next business day, the balance of the bid online via ACH debit
or by the electronic payment method required by the county
collector. If the minimum bid is not paid at the time of sale
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day, then the sale is void and the minimum bid, if paid, is
forfeited to the county general fund. In that event, the
property shall be reoffered for sale within 30 days of the last
offering of property in regular order. The collector shall
make available to the public a list of all properties to be
included in any reoffering due to the voiding of the original
sale. The collector is not required to serve or publish any
other notice of the reoffering of those properties. In the
event that any of the properties are not sold upon reoffering,
or are sold for less than the amount of the original voided
sale, the original bidder who failed to pay the bid amount
shall remain liable for the unpaid balance of the bid in an
action under Section 21-240. Liability shall not be reduced
where the bidder upon reoffering also fails to pay the bid
amount, and in that event both bidders shall remain liable for
the unpaid balance of their respective bids. A sale of
properties under this Section shall not be final until
confirmed by the court.
(b) Confirmation of sales. The county collector shall file
his or her report of sale in the court within 30 days of the
date of sale of each property. No notice of the county
collector's application to confirm the sales shall be required
except as prescribed by rule of the court. Upon confirmation,
except in cases where the sale becomes void under Section
22-85, or in cases where the order of confirmation is vacated
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rem lien of the general taxes, special taxes and special
assessments for which judgment has been entered and a
redemption shall not revive the lien. Confirmation of the sale
shall in no event affect the owner's personal liability to pay
the taxes, interest and penalties as provided in this Code or
prevent institution of a proceeding under Section 21-440 to
collect any amount that may remain due after the sale.
(c) Issuance of tax sale certificates. Upon confirmation
of the sale, the County Clerk and the County Collector shall
issue to the purchaser a certificate of purchase in the form
prescribed by Section 21-250 as near as may be. A certificate
of purchase shall not be issued to any person who is ineligible
to bid at the sale or to receive a certificate of purchase
under Section 21-265.
(d) Scavenger Tax Judgment, Sale and Redemption Record;
sale Record - Sale of parcels not sold. The county collector
shall prepare a Scavenger Tax Judgment, Sale and Redemption
Record. The county clerk shall write or stamp on the scavenger
tax judgment, sale, forfeiture and redemption record opposite
the description of any property offered for sale and not sold,
or not confirmed for any reason, the words "offered but not
sold". The properties which are offered for sale under this
Section and not sold or not confirmed shall be offered for sale
annually thereafter in the manner provided in this Section
until sold, except in the case of mineral rights, which after
10 consecutive years of being offered for sale under this

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Section and not sold or confirmed shall no longer be required
to be offered for sale. Single-family and multi-family
residential properties shall first be offered without charge
to the Department of Returning Resident Affairs . At any time
between annual sales the County Collector may advertise for
sale any properties subject to sale under judgments for sale
previously entered under this Section and not executed for any
reason. The advertisement and sale shall be regulated by the
provisions of this Code as far as applicable.
(e) Proceeding to tax deed. The owner of the certificate
of purchase shall give notice as required by Sections 22-5
through 22-30, and may extend the period of redemption as
provided by Section 21-385. At any time within 6 months prior
to expiration of the period of redemption from a sale under
this Code, the owner of a certificate of purchase may file a
petition and may obtain a tax deed under Sections 22-30
through 22-55. Within 30 days from filing of the petition, the
owner of a certificate must file with the county clerk the
names and addresses of the owners of the property and those
persons entitled to service of notice at their last known
addresses. The clerk shall mail notice within 30 days from the
date of the filing of addresses with the clerk. All
proceedings for the issuance of a tax deed and all tax deeds
for properties sold under this Section shall be subject to
Sections 22-30 through 22-55. Deeds issued under this Section
are subject to Section 22-70. This Section shall be liberally

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construed so that the deeds provided for in this Section
convey merchantable title.
(f) Redemptions from scavenger sales. Redemptions may be
made from sales under this Section in the same manner and upon
the same terms and conditions as redemptions from sales made
under the County Collector's annual application for judgment
and order of sale, except that in lieu of penalty the person
redeeming shall pay interest as follows if the sale occurs
before September 9, 1993:
(1) If redeemed within the first 2 months from the
date of the sale, 3% per month or portion thereof upon the
amount for which the property was sold;
(2) If redeemed between 2 and 6 months from the date of
the sale, 12% of the amount for which the property was
sold;
(3) If redeemed between 6 and 12 months from the date
of the sale, 24% of the amount for which the property was
sold;
(4) If redeemed between 12 and 18 months from the date
of the sale, 36% of the amount for which the property was
sold;
(5) If redeemed between 18 and 24 months from the date
of the sale, 48% of the amount for which the property was
sold;
(6) If redeemed after 24 months from the date of sale,
the 48% herein provided together with interest at 6% per

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year thereafter.
If the sale occurs on or after September 9, 1993, the
person redeeming shall pay interest on that part of the amount
for which the property was sold equal to or less than the full
amount of delinquent taxes, special assessments, penalties,
interest, and costs, included in the judgment and order of
sale as follows:
(1) If redeemed within the first 2 months from the
date of the sale, 3% per month upon the amount of taxes,
special assessments, penalties, interest, and costs due
for each of the first 2 months, or fraction thereof.
(2) If redeemed at any time between 2 and 6 months from
the date of the sale, 12% of the amount of taxes, special
assessments, penalties, interest, and costs due.
(3) If redeemed at any time between 6 and 12 months
from the date of the sale, 24% of the amount of taxes,
special assessments, penalties, interest, and costs due.
(4) If redeemed at any time between 12 and 18 months
from the date of the sale, 36% of the amount of taxes,
special assessments, penalties, interest, and costs due.
(5) If redeemed at any time between 18 and 24 months
from the date of the sale, 48% of the amount of taxes,
special assessments, penalties, interest, and costs due.
(6) If redeemed after 24 months from the date of sale,
the 48% provided for the 24 months together with interest
at 6% per annum thereafter on the amount of taxes, special

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assessments, penalties, interest, and costs due.
The person redeeming shall not be required to pay any
interest on any part of the amount for which the property was
sold that exceeds the full amount of delinquent taxes, special
assessments, penalties, interest, and costs included in the
judgment and order of sale.
Notwithstanding any other provision of this Section,
except for owner-occupied single family residential units
which are condominium units, cooperative units or dwellings,
the amount required to be paid for redemption shall also
include an amount equal to all delinquent taxes on the
property which taxes were delinquent at the time of sale. The
delinquent taxes shall be apportioned by the county collector
among the taxing districts in which the property is situated
in accordance with law. In the event that all moneys received
from any sale held under this Section exceed an amount equal to
all delinquent taxes on the property sold, which taxes were
delinquent at the time of sale, together with all publication
and other costs associated with the sale, then, upon
redemption, the County Collector and the County Clerk shall
apply the excess amount to the cost of redemption.
(g) Bidding by county or other taxing districts. Any
taxing district and the Department of Returning Resident
Affairs may bid at a scavenger sale. The county board of the
county in which properties offered for sale under this Section
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an interest in the taxes for the nonpayment of which the
parcels are offered. The County or the Department of Returning
Resident Affairs shall apply on the bid the unpaid taxes due
upon the property and no cash need be paid. The County or other
taxing district or the Department of Returning Resident
Affairs acquiring a tax sale certificate shall take all steps
necessary to acquire title to the property and may manage and
operate the property so acquired.
When a county, or other taxing district within the county,
or the Department of Returning Resident Affairs is a
petitioner for a tax deed, no filing fee shall be required on
the petition. The county as a tax creditor and as trustee for
other tax creditors, or other taxing district within the
county or the Department of Returning Resident Affairs shall
not be required to allege and prove that all taxes and special
assessments which become due and payable after the sale to the
county have been paid. The county or the Department of
Returning Resident Affairs shall not be required to pay the
subsequently accruing taxes or special assessments at any
time. Upon the written request of the county board or its
designee, the county collector shall not offer the property
for sale at any tax sale subsequent to the sale of the property
to the county under this Section. The lien of taxes and special
assessments which become due and payable after a sale to a
county shall merge in the fee title of the county, or other
taxing district, on the issuance of a deed. The County may sell

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the properties so acquired, or the certificate of purchase
thereto, and the proceeds of the sale shall be distributed to
the taxing districts in proportion to their respective
interests therein. The presiding officer of the county board,
with the advice and consent of the County Board, may appoint
some officer or person to attend scavenger sales and bid on its
behalf.
(h) Miscellaneous provisions. In the event that the tract
of land or lot sold at any such sale is not redeemed within the
time permitted by law and a tax deed is issued, all moneys that
may be received from the sale of properties in excess of the
delinquent taxes, together with all publication and other
costs associated with the sale, shall, upon petition of any
interested party to the court that issued the tax deed, be
distributed by the County Collector pursuant to order of the
court among the persons having legal or equitable interests in
the property according to the fair value of their interests in
the tract or lot. Section 21-415 does not apply to properties
sold under this Section. Appeals may be taken from the orders
and judgments entered under this Section as in other civil
cases. The remedy herein provided is in addition to other
remedies for the collection of delinquent taxes.
(i) The changes to this Section made by Public Act 95-477
this amendatory Act of the 95th General Assembly apply only to
matters in which a petition for tax deed is filed on or after
June 1, 2008 (the effective date of Public Act 95-477) this

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amendatory Act of the 95th General Assembly.
(Source: P.A. 102-519, eff. 8-20-21; 102-528, eff. 1-1-22;
revised 10-18-21.)
Section 97. Severability. The provisions of this Act are
severable under Section 1.31 of the Statute on Statutes.
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law, but this Act does not take effect at all unless
"An Act creating the Department of Returning Resident Affairs"
of the 102nd General Assembly becomes law.
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Statutes amended in order of appearance