HB3888ham001 98TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

Rep. Anthony DeLuca

Filed: 4/8/2014

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AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 3888

AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 3888 by replacing everything after the enacting clause with the following:

"Section 5. The Property Tax Code is amended by adding Section 18-184.15 as follows:

(35 ILCS 200/18-184.15 new)

Sec. 18-184.15. Grocery store abatement. Any taxing district may, by ordinance, order the county clerk to abate all or a portion of its taxes on property that (i) contains a grocery store or supermarket that offers fresh produce for sale at retail and (ii) is located in an area that qualified as a food desert in the taxable year immediately preceding the taxable year in which the grocery store or supermarket first conducted business at that location.

For the purposes of this Section, a "food desert" means a census tract in the State in which (i) the poverty rate is 20% or greater, or the median family income is at or below 80% of the area median family income, and (ii) at least 33% of the census tract's population lives more than one mile from a supermarket or grocery store in the case of a census tract located in a Metropolitan Statistical Area, or more than 10 miles from a supermarket or grocery store in the case of a census tract located outside of a Metropolitan Statistical Area.".