HB6890 96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2009 and 2010
HB6890

Introduced , by Rep. Tom Cross - Jim Durkin - Sidney H. Mathias

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

35 ILCS 200/16-120

Amends the Property Tax Code. In a Section concerning decisions of the board of review in a county with 3,000,000 or more inhabitants, provides that each recommendation in favor of or against revising an assessment shall be published on the board's website within 48 hours after the taxpayer receives notification of the appeal decision. Effective immediately.

FISCAL NOTE ACT MAY APPLY

STATE MANDATES ACT MAY REQUIRE REIMBURSEMENT

A BILL FOR

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 16-120 as follows:

(35 ILCS 200/16-120)

Sec. 16-120. Decision on complaints. In counties with 3,000,000 or more inhabitants, at its meeting for the purpose of revising and correcting the assessments, the board of appeals (until the first Monday in December 1998 and the board of review beginning the first Monday in December 1998 and thereafter), upon complaint filed by a taxpayer or taxing district as prescribed in this Code, may revise the entire assessment of any taxpayer, or any part thereof, and correct the same as shall appear to the board to be just. The assessment of the property of any taxpayer shall not be increased unless that taxpayer or his agent shall first have been notified in writing and been given an opportunity to be heard. Each recommendation in favor of or against revising an assessment shall be published on the board's website, along with the name of the board member or staff member making the recommendation, within 48 hours after the taxpayer receives notification of the appeal decision.

(Source: P.A. 88-455; 89-126, eff. 7-11-95; 89-671, eff. 8-14-96.)

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