SB1959ham001 94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

Executive Committee

Filed: 1/7/2007

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AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 1959

AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 1959 by replacing everything after the enacting clause with the following:

"Section 5. The State Property Control Act is amended by adding Section 8.3 as follows:

(30 ILCS 605/8.3 new)

Sec. 8.3. John J. Madden Mental Health Center.

(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act or any other law to the contrary, the administrator is authorized under this Section to sell all or any part, from time to time, of the property in Cook County known as the John J. Madden Mental Health Center, if ever it is declared no longer needed by the Secretary of Human Services, to Loyola University Medical Center at its fair market value as determined under subsection (b).

(b) The administrator shall obtain 3 appraisals of property to be sold under subsection (a). Each appraiser must be licensed under the Real Estate Appraiser Licensing Act of 2002, or a successor Act. At least 2 of the appraisals must be performed by appraisers residing in Cook County. The average of these 3 appraisals, plus the cost of obtaining the appraisals, shall represent the fair market value of the property to be sold.

(c) Neither all nor any part of the property may be sold or leased to any other party by the administrator or by any other State officer or agency, at any time, unless it has first been offered for sale to Loyola University Medical Center as provided in this Section.

Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon becoming law.".