99TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2015 and 2016
HB4413
 
Introduced , by Rep. Greg Harris
 
SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
  
320 ILCS 25/5  from Ch. 67 1/2, par. 405

    Amends the Senior Citizens and Persons with Disabilities Property Tax Relief Act.  Makes a technical change in a Section concerning
pharmaceutical assistance procedures.



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A BILL FOR
 


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1    AN ACT concerning aging.

 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, 
3represented in the General Assembly: 

 
4    Section 5. The Senior Citizens and Persons with 
5Disabilities Property Tax Relief Act is amended by changing 
6Section 5 as follows:
 



7    (320 ILCS 25/5)  (from Ch. 67 1/2, par. 405)



8    Sec. 5. Procedure. 

9    (a) In general.  Claims must be filed after January 1, on 
10forms prescribed
by the
the Department.  No claim may be filed 
11more than one year after December 31
of the year for which the 
12claim is filed.
13    (b) Claim is Personal.  The right to file a claim under this 
14Act
shall be personal to the claimant and shall not survive his 
15death, but
such right may be exercised on behalf of a claimant 
16by his legal
guardian or attorney-in-fact.  If a claimant dies 
17after having filed a
timely claim, the amount thereof shall be 
18disbursed to his surviving spouse
or, if no spouse survives, to 
19his surviving dependent minor children in
equal parts, provided 
20the spouse or child, as the case may be, resided with
the 
21claimant at the time he filed his claim.  If at the time of 
22disbursement
neither the claimant nor his spouse is surviving, 
23and no dependent minor
children of the claimant are surviving 
 
 
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1the amount of the claim shall
escheat to the State.

2    (c) One claim per household.  Only one member of a household 
3may file
a claim under this Act in any calendar year; where 
4both members of a
household are otherwise entitled to claim a 
5grant under this Act, they
must agree as to which of them will 
6file a claim for that year.

7    (d) (Blank).

8    (e) Pharmaceutical Assistance Procedures.
Prior to July 1, 
92012, the Department of Healthcare and Family Services shall 
10determine eligibility for pharmaceutical assistance using
the 
11applicant's current income.  The Department shall determine a 
12person's
current income in the manner provided by the 
13Department by rule.

14    (f) A person may not under any circumstances charge a fee 
15to a claimant under this Act for assistance in completing an 
16application form for a property tax relief grant under this 
17Act. 
18(Source: P.A. 96-491, eff. 8-14-09; 96-804, eff. 1-1-10; 
1996-1000, eff. 7-2-10; 97-689, eff. 6-14-12.)