Full Text of SB1825 96th General Assembly
SB1825ham004 96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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Rep. Barbara Flynn Currie
Filed: 5/30/2009
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| AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 1825
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| AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 1825, AS AMENDED, | 3 |
| with reference to page and line numbers of House Amendment No. | 4 |
| 3, on page 3, immediately below line 17, by inserting the | 5 |
| following:
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| "Section 10. If and only if Senate Bill 1739 of the 96th | 7 |
| General Assembly becomes law, then the Property Tax Code is | 8 |
| amended by changing Section 15-65 as follows:
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| (35 ILCS 200/15-65)
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| Sec. 15-65. Charitable purposes. All property of the | 11 |
| following is exempt
when actually and exclusively used for | 12 |
| charitable or beneficent purposes, and
not leased or otherwise | 13 |
| used with a view to profit:
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| (a) Institutions of public charity.
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| (b) Beneficent and charitable organizations | 16 |
| incorporated in any state of
the United States, including |
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| organizations whose owner, and no other person,
uses the | 2 |
| property exclusively for the distribution, sale, or resale | 3 |
| of donated
goods and related activities and uses all the | 4 |
| income from those activities to
support the charitable, | 5 |
| religious or beneficent activities of the owner,
whether or | 6 |
| not such activities occur on the property.
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| (c) Old people's homes, facilities for persons with a | 8 |
| developmental
disability, and not-for-profit organizations | 9 |
| providing services or facilities
related to the goals of | 10 |
| educational, social and physical development, if, upon
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| making application for the exemption, the applicant | 12 |
| provides affirmative
evidence that the home or facility or | 13 |
| organization is an exempt organization
under paragraph (3) | 14 |
| of Section 501(c) of the Internal Revenue Code or its
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| successor, and either: (i) the bylaws of the home or | 16 |
| facility or not-for-profit
organization provide for a | 17 |
| waiver or reduction, based on an individual's
ability to | 18 |
| pay, of any entrance fee, assignment of assets, or fee for | 19 |
| services,
or (ii) the home or facility is qualified, built | 20 |
| or financed under Section 202
of the National Housing Act | 21 |
| of 1959, as amended.
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| An applicant that has been granted an exemption under | 23 |
| this subsection on
the basis that its bylaws provide for a | 24 |
| waiver or reduction, based on an
individual's ability to | 25 |
| pay, of any entrance fee, assignment of assets, or fee
for | 26 |
| services may be periodically reviewed by the Department to |
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| determine if the
waiver or reduction was a past policy or | 2 |
| is a current policy. The Department
may revoke the | 3 |
| exemption if it finds that the policy for waiver or | 4 |
| reduction is
no longer current.
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| If a not-for-profit organization leases property that | 6 |
| is otherwise exempt
under this subsection to an | 7 |
| organization that conducts an activity on the
leased | 8 |
| premises that would entitle the lessee to an exemption from | 9 |
| real estate
taxes if the lessee were the owner of the | 10 |
| property, then the leased property
is exempt.
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| (d) Not-for-profit health maintenance organizations | 12 |
| certified by the
Director of the Illinois Department of | 13 |
| Insurance under the Health Maintenance
Organization Act, | 14 |
| including any health maintenance organization that
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| provides services to members at prepaid rates approved by | 16 |
| the Illinois
Department of Insurance if the membership of | 17 |
| the organization is sufficiently
large or of indefinite | 18 |
| classes so that the community is benefited by its
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| operation. No exemption shall apply to any hospital or | 20 |
| health maintenance
organization which has been adjudicated | 21 |
| by a court of competent jurisdiction to
have denied | 22 |
| admission to any person because of race, color, creed, sex | 23 |
| or
national origin.
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| (e) All free public libraries.
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| (f) Historical societies.
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| Property otherwise qualifying for an exemption under this |
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| Section shall not
lose its exemption because the legal title is | 2 |
| held (i) by an entity that is
organized solely to hold that | 3 |
| title and that qualifies under paragraph (2) of
Section 501(c) | 4 |
| of the Internal Revenue Code or its successor, whether or not
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| that entity receives rent from the charitable organization for | 6 |
| the repair and
maintenance of the property, (ii) by an entity | 7 |
| that is organized as
a
partnership or , beginning with the 2009 | 8 |
| assessment year, a limited liability company, in which the | 9 |
| charitable organization, or an affiliate or
subsidiary of the | 10 |
| charitable organization, is a general partner of the | 11 |
| partnership or managing member of the limited liability | 12 |
| company, for the
purposes of owning and operating a residential | 13 |
| rental property that has
received an allocation of Low Income | 14 |
| Housing Tax Credits for 100%
of the dwelling units under | 15 |
| Section 42 of the Internal Revenue
Code of 1986, as amended, or | 16 |
| (iii) for any assessment year including and subsequent to
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| January 1, 1996 for which an application for exemption has been | 18 |
| filed and a
decision on which has not become final and | 19 |
| nonappealable, by a limited
liability company organized under | 20 |
| the Limited Liability Company Act provided
that (A) the limited | 21 |
| liability
company's sole member or
members, as that term is | 22 |
| used in Section 1-5 of the Limited Liability Company
Act, are | 23 |
| the institutions of public charity that actually and | 24 |
| exclusively use
the property for charitable and beneficent | 25 |
| purposes; (B) the limited liability company is a disregarded | 26 |
| entity for federal and Illinois income tax purposes and, as a |
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| result, the limited liability company is deemed exempt from | 2 |
| income tax liability by virtue of the Internal Revenue Code | 3 |
| Section 501(c)(3) status of its sole member or members; and (C) | 4 |
| the limited
liability company does not lease the property or | 5 |
| otherwise use it with a view
to profit.
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| (Source: P.A. 91-416, eff. 8-6-99; 92-382, eff. 8-16-01; | 7 |
| 09600SB1739ham001.)".
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