Bill Text: IL SB3300 | 2019-2020 | 101st General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the State Property Control Act. Requires the Director of Central Management Services, as administrator, to assess surplus real property held by the State and determine whether such property is unsellable in its current assessed condition. Provides assessment factors. Requires the administrator to prepare a report based upon the assessment that includes all surplus real properties that he or she assessed as unsellable. Provides further contents of the report. Requires the administrator to submit the report to the Governor and the General Assembly beginning on or before February 1, 2022, and for every even-numbered year thereafter. Provides that the administrator is authorized, subject to General Assembly approval, to pursue the recommended course of action for each property specified in the report. Allows the administrator to use funds held in the Sustainable Ownership and Surplus Property Environmental Clean-up Fund for specified purposes. Creates the Sustainable Ownership and Surplus Property Environmental Clean-up Fund as a special fund in the State treasury. Specifies the use of the Fund. Provides for the adoption of rules. Amends the State Finance Act to provide for the Sustainable Ownership and Surplus Property Environmental Clean-up Fund.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-1)

Status: (Failed) 2021-01-13 - Session Sine Die [SB3300 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2019-SB3300-Introduced.html

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101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2019 and 2020 SB3300 Introduced 2/11/2020, by Sen. Steve McClure SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
30 ILCS 105/5.930 new
30 ILCS 605/7.9 new
Amends the State Property Control Act. Requires the Director of Central Management Services, as administrator, to assess surplus real property held by the State and determine whether such property is unsellable in its current assessed condition. Provides assessment factors. Requires the administrator to prepare a report based upon the assessment that includes all surplus real properties that he or she assessed as unsellable. Provides further contents of the report. Requires the administrator to submit the report to the Governor and the General Assembly beginning on or before February 1, 2022, and for every even-numbered year thereafter. Provides that the administrator is authorized, subject to General Assembly approval, to pursue the recommended course of action for each property specified in the report. Allows the administrator to use funds held in the Sustainable Ownership and Surplus Property Environmental Clean-up Fund for specified purposes. Creates the Sustainable Ownership and Surplus Property Environmental Clean-up Fund as a special fund in the State treasury. Specifies the use of the Fund. Provides for the adoption of rules. Amends the State Finance Act to provide for the Sustainable Ownership and Surplus Property Environmental Clean-up Fund.
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AN ACT concerning finance.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The State Finance Act is amended by adding
Section 5.930 as follows:
(30 ILCS 105/5.930 new)
Sec. 5.930. The Sustainable Ownership and Surplus Property
Environmental Clean-up Fund.
Section 10. The State Property Control Act is amended by
adding Section 7.9 as follows:
(30 ILCS 605/7.9 new)
Sec. 7.9. Long-vacant surplus real property.
(a) The administrator shall assess surplus real property,
as defined under Section 7.1, and determine whether such
property is unsellable in its current assessed condition. The
administrator shall consider the following factors in making
his or her assessment under this Section:
(1) the length of time the property has been designated
as surplus real property, with properties held as such for
more than 5 years being considered unsellable for purposes
of this Section, absent extenuating circumstances;

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(2) the annual State maintenance and security costs in
relation to the property's estimated fair market value; and
(3) any excessive liabilities or other prominent
concerns.
(b) The administrator shall prepare a report based upon the
assessment that includes all surplus real properties that he or
she assessed as unsellable. The report shall further include:
(1) the number of years each property has been vacant;
(2) the assessed fair market value of each property, as
determined by an appraisal;
(3) the annual maintenance costs the State incurs for
each property;
(4) the estimated demolition and remediation costs of
each property;
(5) a statement describing any attempts made by the
administrator to sell each property, including the issues
faced in attempting to sell each property; and
(6) a recommendation of the type of action the State
should take to address the issues on each property,
including an estimated cost of such work and a timeline to
complete such work.
(c) Beginning on or before February 1, 2022, and for every
even-numbered year thereafter, the administrator shall submit
the report prepared under this Section to the Governor and the
General Assembly. Subject to approval by the General Assembly,
the administrator is authorized to pursue the recommended

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course of action for each property specified in the report. The
administrator may use, subject to appropriation, funds held in
the Sustainable Ownership and Surplus Property Environmental
Clean-up Fund for demolition and environmental remediation
costs at the proposed surplus properties, and any other action
related to the disposal of properties specified in the report.
(d) The Sustainable Ownership and Surplus Property
Environmental Clean-up Fund is created as a special fund in the
State treasury. Subject to appropriation, moneys in the Fund
shall be used by the administrator for demolishing structures,
conducting environmental remediation work, and other related
actions at surplus real properties as authorized under this
Section.
Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary,
the Sustainable Ownership and Surplus Property Environmental
Clean-up Fund is not subject to sweeps, administrative charges
or chargebacks, or any other fiscal or budgetary maneuver that
would in any way transfer any funds from the Sustainable
Ownership and Surplus Property Environmental Clean-up Fund
into any other fund of the State.
For the purposes of this subsection (d), "structures" means
any building, improvement, pipe system, or other engineered
system or edifice built or constructed on the surplus real
property.
(e) The administrator may adopt rules necessary to
implement and perform the requirements of this Section.