SB2566ham001 99TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

Rep. Arthur Turner

Filed: 11/14/2016

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AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 2566

AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 2566 by replacing everything after the enacting clause with the following:

"Section 5. The Code of Civil Procedure is amended by changing Section 15-1507.1 as follows:

(735 ILCS 5/15-1507.1)

(Section scheduled to be repealed on March 2, 2017)

Sec. 15-1507.1. Judicial sale fee for Abandoned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund.

(a) Upon and at the sale of residential real estate under Section 15-1507, the purchaser shall pay to the person conducting the sale pursuant to Section 15-1507 a fee for deposit into the Abandoned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund, a special fund created in the State treasury. The fee shall be calculated at the rate of $1 for each $1,000 or fraction thereof of the amount paid by the purchaser to the person conducting the sale, as reflected in the receipt of sale issued to the purchaser, provided that in no event shall the fee exceed $300. No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the residential real estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other lienor acquiring the residential real estate whose rights in and to the residential real estate arose prior to the sale. Upon confirmation of the sale under Section 15-1508, the person conducting the sale shall remit the fee to the clerk of the court in which the foreclosure case is pending. The clerk shall remit the fee to the State Treasurer as provided in this Section, to be expended for the purposes set forth in Section 7.31 of the Illinois Housing Development Act.

(b) All fees paid by purchasers as provided in this Section shall be disbursed within 60 days after receipt by the clerk of the court as follows: (i) 98% to the State Treasurer for deposit into the Abandoned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund, and (ii) 2% to the clerk of the court to be retained by the clerk for deposit into the Circuit Court Clerk Operation and Administrative Fund to defray administrative expenses related to implementation of this Section.

(c) Not later than March 1 of each year, the clerk of the court shall submit to the Illinois Housing Development Authority a report of the funds collected and remitted during the preceding year pursuant to this Section.

(d) Subsections (a) and (b) of this Section shall become inoperative on January 1, 2018 2017. This Section is repealed on March 2, 2018 2017.

(Source: P.A. 98-20, eff. 6-11-13; 99-493, eff. 12-17-15.)

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