Bill Text: IL SB3503 | 2013-2014 | 98th General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Amends the Property Tax Code. Provides that each supervisor of assessments, assessor, deputy assessor, county treasurer, or member of a board of review must successfully complete a minimum of 15 hours of continuing education hours each year, except that board of review members in counties with more than 300,000 and less than 3,000,000 inhabitants must meet certain additional criteria. Provides that, at the annual meeting of supervisors of assessments, the supervisor shall instruct all assessors and their deputies in the type of software or other method of assessment that township assessors must use. Provides that the chief county assessment officer shall publish a list of all reduced assessments on the county's website. Provides that each notice of a final board of review action shall be postmarked (or e-mailed, if applicable) no later than 120 days after that final board of review action. Provides that, with respect to taxpayer complaints filed with the board of review, if the assessed value of the property for the year in question exceeds the assessed value of the property for the previous general assessment year by more than 5%, then the assessor or chief county assessment officer who certified the assessment has the burden of proving that the assessment is correct. Provides that the board of review may grant a continuance of any hearing before the board of review for good cause. Effective immediately.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-1)
Status: (Failed) 2015-01-13 - Session Sine Die [SB3503 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2013-SB3503-Amended.html
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| 1 | AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 3503
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| 2 | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 3503 on page 1, | ||||||
| 3 | line 6, by replacing "4-17" with "9-17"; and
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| 4 | by deleting everything from line 16 on page 2 through line 8 on | ||||||
| 5 | page 3; and
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| 6 | on page 5, immediately below line 4, by inserting the | ||||||
| 7 | following:
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| 8 | "(35 ILCS 200/9-17 new) | ||||||
| 9 | Sec. 9-17. Annual meeting with the Department. | ||||||
| 10 | (a) The Department shall, in each year, assemble all | ||||||
| 11 | supervisors of assessment who have been appointed or elected | ||||||
| 12 | under Section 3-5 or 3-45 for consultation and shall instruct | ||||||
| 13 | them in the uniformity of their functions. The instructions | ||||||
| 14 | shall be in writing and shall be available to the public. | ||||||
| 15 | Notice of the annual assembly shall be published on the | ||||||
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| 1 | Department's website. The assembly may be held concurrently | ||||||
| 2 | with the assembly for board of review members under subsection | ||||||
| 3 | (b) and shall be open to the public. | ||||||
| 4 | (b) The Department shall, in each year, assemble all board | ||||||
| 5 | of review members who have been appointed or elected under | ||||||
| 6 | Section 6-5, 6-30, or 6-35, and all county commissioners | ||||||
| 7 | constituting a board of review under Section 6-30, for | ||||||
| 8 | consultation and shall instruct them in the uniformity of their | ||||||
| 9 | functions. The instructions shall be in writing and shall be | ||||||
| 10 | available to the public. Notice of the annual assembly shall be | ||||||
| 11 | published on the Department's website. The assembly may be held | ||||||
| 12 | concurrently with the assembly for supervisors of assessments | ||||||
| 13 | under subsection (a) and shall be open to the public. | ||||||
| 14 | (c) This Section does not apply to supervisors of | ||||||
| 15 | assessment or board of review members in counties with more | ||||||
| 16 | than 3,000,000 inhabitants."; and
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| 17 | on page 5, line 13, after the period, by inserting "This | ||||||
| 18 | Section does not apply in any county with more than 3,000,000 | ||||||
| 19 | residents.".
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