Illinois Senate Bill 1710 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Failed on January 8 2013 - 100% progression
Action: 2013-01-08 - Session Sine Die
Text: Latest bill text (Amended) [HTML]

Amends the Property Tax Code. Provides that all tax sales that are not conducted using automated means shall be videotaped. In a Section concerning penalty bids, provides that the collector may, at his or her discretion, declare the taxes forfeited if multiple simultaneous bids of the same percentage are made and those bids are the lowest. Provides that, if there are multiple bids for 0%, then the collector shall randomly select one of the bidders to be the purchaser of the property. Provides that, during the sale, each bidder's penalty percentage shall be disclosed to the other bidders. Provides that bidders shall have the opportunity to reduce their bids during the sale after previous bids have been disclosed. Provides that a record of the winning bid and the name of the tax purchaser shall be open to public inspection.

PROP TX-TAX SALE-PENALTY BIDS

Sen. William Haine [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2013-01-08	Senate	Session Sine Die
2011-07-23	Senate	Pursuant to Senate Rule 3-9(b) / Referred to Assignments
2011-03-17	Senate	Placed on Calendar Order of 2nd Reading March 17, 2011
2011-03-17	Senate	Do Pass as Amended Revenue; 008-000-000
2011-03-16	Senate	Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 Adopted
2011-03-10	Senate	Postponed - Revenue
2011-03-10	Senate	Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 Postponed - Revenue
2011-03-09	Senate	Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 Assignments Refers to Revenue
2011-03-08	Senate	Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 Referred to Assignments
2011-03-08	Senate	Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 Filed with Secretary by Sen. William R. Haine
2011-03-03	Senate	Postponed - Revenue
2011-02-23	Senate	Assigned to Revenue
2011-02-09	Senate	Referred to Assignments
2011-02-09	Senate	First Reading
2011-02-09	Senate	Filed with Secretary by Sen. William R. Haine

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
35	200	21-205	Amended Code	Citation Text
35	200	21-215	Amended Code	Citation Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/BillStatus.asp?DocNum=1710&GAID=11&DocTypeID=SB&SessionID=84&GA=97
Text	https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/97/SB/09700SB1710.htm
Text	https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/97/SB/09700SB1710sam001.htm