Bill Text: IL HB3117 | 2019-2020 | 101st General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Property Tax Code. Provides that deputies and clerks appointed by a county assessor in a county with less than 3,000,000 inhabitants shall be appointed with the advice and consent of the county board. Provides that their compensation is to be fixed by the county board and paid by the county. Effective immediately.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-03-29 - Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB3117 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2019-HB3117-Introduced.html

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101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2019 and 2020 HB3117 Introduced 2/15/2019, by Rep. Brad Halbrook SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
35 ILCS 200/3-65
Amends the Property Tax Code. Provides that deputies and clerks appointed by a county assessor in a county with less than 3,000,000 inhabitants shall be appointed with the advice and consent of the county board. Provides that their compensation is to be fixed by the county board and paid by the county. Effective immediately.
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FISCAL NOTE ACT MAY APPLY
A BILL FOR
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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 3-65 as follows:
(35 ILCS 200/3-65)
Sec. 3-65. Deputy county assessors - Counties of less than
3,000,000 with elected assessor. The county assessor in
counties with less than 3,000,000 inhabitants which elect a
county assessor under Section 3-45 may appoint, with the advice
and consent of the county board, as many suitable persons as in
his or her judgment are necessary to act as deputies and
clerks, their compensation to be fixed by the county board and
paid by the county, who shall perform the duties assigned to
them by the county assessor. They shall hold their office at
the will of the county assessor, and shall receive compensation
determined by the assessor to be paid out of the county
treasury. Such deputy assessors shall, before entering upon
their duties, take the oath or affirmation prescribed for the
assessors.
In counties with less than 3,000,000 inhabitants which
elect a county assessor under Section 3-45, in all townships
not lying completely within the limits of one city, the

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township assessor shall be ex-officio the deputy assessor to
make the assessments in the township where he or she is
elected. If, in any township, the township assessor shall not
be able, by himself or herself within the time allowed by law,
to make the assessment of the township, any additional deputy
assessors required to make the assessment shall be residents
and legal voters of that township, and shall be nominated by
the township's board of trustees and appointed by the county
assessor only upon that nomination. Deputy assessors so
appointed shall act under the supervision of the ex-officio
deputy town assessors.
(Source: P.A. 82-783; 88-455.)
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.