95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2007 and 2008
SB2097

 

Introduced 2/14/2008, by Sen. A. J. Wilhelmi

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
35 ILCS 200/10-115

    Amends the Property Tax Code. Provides that the Farmland Assessment Technical Advisory Board is authorized to meet at its discretion or at the request of the Director.


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A BILL FOR

 

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1     AN ACT concerning revenue.
 
2     Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
 
4     Section 5. The Property Tax Code is amended by changing
5 Section 10-115 as follows:
 
6     (35 ILCS 200/10-115)
7     Sec. 10-115. Department guidelines and valuations for
8 farmland. The Department shall issue guidelines and
9 recommendations for the valuation of farmland to achieve
10 equitable assessment within and between counties.
11     The Director of Revenue shall appoint a five-person
12 Farmland Assessment Technical Advisory Board, consisting of
13 technical experts from the colleges or schools of agriculture
14 of the State universities and State and federal agricultural
15 agencies, to advise in and provide data and technical
16 information needed for implementation of this Section. The
17 Farmland Assessment Technical Advisory Board is authorized to
18 meet at its discretion or at the request of the Director.
19     By May 1 of each year, the Department shall certify to each
20 chief county assessment officer the following, calculated from
21 data provided by the Farmland Technical Advisory Board, on a
22 per acre basis by soil productivity index for harvested
23 cropland, using moving averages for the most recent 5-year

 

 

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1 period for which data are available:
2         (a) gross income, estimated by using yields per acre as
3     assigned to soil productivity indices, the crop mix for
4     each soil productivity index as determined by the College
5     of Agriculture of the University of Illinois and average
6     prices received by farmers for principal crops as published
7     by the Illinois Crop Reporting Service;
8         (b) production costs, other than land costs, provided
9     by the College of Agriculture of the University of
10     Illinois;
11         (c) net return to land, which shall be the difference
12     between (a) and (b) above;
13         (d) a proposed agricultural economic value determined
14     by dividing the net return to land by the moving average of
15     the Federal Land Bank farmland mortgage interest rate as
16     calculated by the Department;
17         (e) the equalized assessed value per acre of farmland
18     for each soil productivity index, which shall be 33-1/3% of
19     the agricultural economic value, or the percentage as
20     provided under Section 17-5; but any increase or decrease
21     in the equalized assessed value per acre by soil
22     productivity index shall not exceed 10% from the immediate
23     preceding year's soil productivity index certified
24     assessed value;
25         (f) a proposed average equalized assessed value per
26     acre of cropland for each individual county, weighted by

 

 

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1     the distribution of soils by productivity index in the
2     county; and
3         (g) a proposed average equalized assessed value per
4     acre for all farmland in each county, weighted (i) to
5     consider the proportions of all farmland acres in the
6     county which are cropland, permanent pasture, and other
7     farmland, and (ii) to reflect the valuations for those
8     types of land and debasements for slope and erosion as
9     required by Section 10-125.
10 (Source: P.A. 91-357, eff. 7-29-99.)