Bill Text: IL SB1871 | 2019-2020 | 101st General Assembly | Engrossed

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Bill Title: Amends the Property Tax Code. Provides that, in a county under township organization with less than 3,000,000 inhabitants and an appointed board of review, the county board may, by resolution, require that members of the board of review have certain professional assessment designations. Provides that, if the county board requires those designations, then provisions of the Code concerning the political makeup of the board of review do not apply to that county. Effective immediately.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Failed) 2021-01-13 - Session Sine Die [SB1871 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2019-SB1871-Engrossed.html

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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
Sections 6-5 and 6-15 as follows:
(35 ILCS 200/6-5)
Sec. 6-5. Appointed boards of review. In counties under
township organization with less than 3,000,000 inhabitants in
which no board of review is elected under Section 6-35, there
shall be an appointed board of review to review the assessments
made by the supervisor of assessments. When there is no
existing appointed board of review, the chairman of the county
board shall appoint, with approval of the county board, 3
citizens of the county to comprise the board of review for that
county, 2 to serve for a one year term commencing on the
following June 1, and one to serve for a 2 year term commencing
on the same date. When an appointed board of review already
exists, successors shall be appointed and qualified to serve
for terms of 2 years commencing on June 1 of the year of
appointment and until their successors are appointed and
qualified. Vacancies shall be filled in like manner as original
appointments, for the balance of the unexpired term. Members of
the county board may be appointed to the board of review. A

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member of the board of review may be reappointed. No person may
serve on the board of review who is not qualified by experience
and training in property appraisal and property tax
administration.
(Source: P.A. 86-905; 87-1189; 88-455.)
(35 ILCS 200/6-15)
Sec. 6-15. Qualifications; political Political makeup; and
compensation; counties appointing a board of review under
Section 6-5.
(a) No person may serve on the board of review who is not
qualified by experience and training in property appraisal and
property tax administration.
(b) Except in such counties where the county board has by
resolution adopted the provisions of subsection (c), the The
board of review appointed under Section 6-5 shall consist of 3
members, 2 of whom are affiliated with the political party
polling the highest vote for any county office in the county at
the last general election prior to any appointment made under
this Section. The third member shall not be affiliated with
that same party.
(c) A county board may, by resolution, require that no
person may be appointed under Section 6-5 unless that person
has one of the following qualifications:
(1) any of the professional assessment designations
listed in subsection (c) of Section 2-45; or

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(2) a certified residential real estate appraiser
license or a certified general real estate appraiser
license issued under the Real Estate Appraiser Licensing
Act of 2002 or any successor real estate appraiser
licensing Act.
(d) Each member of the board of review shall receive an
annual salary to be fixed by the county board and paid out of
the county treasury.
(Source: P.A. 98-322, eff. 8-12-13.)
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.