Rep. Anthony DeLuca
Filed: 4/8/2014
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| 1 | AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 3888
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| 2 | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 3888 by replacing | ||||||
| 3 | everything after the enacting clause with the following:
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| 4 | "Section 5. The Property Tax Code is amended by adding | ||||||
| 5 | Section 18-184.15 as follows: | ||||||
| 6 | (35 ILCS 200/18-184.15 new) | ||||||
| 7 | Sec. 18-184.15. Grocery store abatement. Any taxing | ||||||
| 8 | district may, by ordinance, order the county clerk to abate all | ||||||
| 9 | or a portion of its taxes on property that (i) contains a | ||||||
| 10 | grocery store or supermarket that offers fresh produce for sale | ||||||
| 11 | at retail and (ii) is located in an area that qualified as a | ||||||
| 12 | food desert in the taxable year immediately preceding the | ||||||
| 13 | taxable year in which the grocery store or supermarket first | ||||||
| 14 | conducted business at that location. | ||||||
| 15 | For the purposes of this Section, a "food desert" means a | ||||||
| 16 | census tract in the State in which (i) the poverty rate is 20% | ||||||
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| 1 | or greater, or the median family income is at or below 80% of | ||||||
| 2 | the area median family income, and (ii) at least 33% of the | ||||||
| 3 | census tract's population lives more than one mile from a | ||||||
| 4 | supermarket or grocery store in the case of a census tract | ||||||
| 5 | located in a Metropolitan Statistical Area, or more than 10 | ||||||
| 6 | miles from a supermarket or grocery store in the case of a | ||||||
| 7 | census tract located outside of a Metropolitan Statistical | ||||||
| 8 | Area.".
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