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Bill	PROP TX-PASSENGER RAIL	Amends the Property Tax Code. Removes a sunset provision concerning increases in a property's overall valuation that are directly attributable to the investment, improvement, replacement, or expansion of railroad operating property through State or federal government programs necessary for high speed passenger rail transportation (currently, those provisions sunset on December 31, 2019). Effective immediately.	us/states/il	Illinois General Assembly	101st	HB 2578	Illinois HB 2578 (101st)	bill		enacted		3	35	2	2019-02-13	2019-08-02	openstates	ocd-bill/fccb811c-a22d-4c34-a2d7-7f92771e8b5e	http://ilga.gov/legislation/BillStatus.asp?DocNum=2578&GAID=15&DocTypeID=HB&LegId=118707&SessionID=108&GA=101	4de1acc4ab787c24afac0384be18c03dd1011dbd0914738abcb45f1db1a8af89	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-il

Illinois HB 2578 (101st) — PROP TX-PASSENGER RAIL

Amends the Property Tax Code. Removes a sunset provision concerning increases in a property's overall valuation that are directly attributable to the investment, improvement, replacement, or expansion of railroad operating property through State or federal government programs necessary for high speed passenger rail transportation (currently, those provisions sunset on December 31, 2019). Effective immediately.

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. Introduced (filed) — source
2. Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
3. Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Third Reading — 51–1 (pass) · upper
• Third Reading — 99–2 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Carol Ammons — cosponsor (person)
• Laura Fine — primary (person)
• Marcus C. Evans, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
• Michael J. Zalewski — primary (person)

Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

• 2019-02-13 Filed with the Clerk by Rep. Michael J. Zalewski filing
• 2019-02-13 First Reading reading-1
• 2019-02-13 Referred to Rules Committee referral-committee
• 2019-02-26 Assigned to Revenue & Finance Committee referral-committee
• 2019-03-06 To Property Tax Subcommittee
• 2019-03-07 House Committee Amendment No. 1 Filed with Clerk by Rep. Michael J. Zalewski amendment-introduction
• 2019-03-07 House Committee Amendment No. 1 Referred to Rules Committee referral-committee
• 2019-03-12 House Committee Amendment No. 1 Rules Refers to Revenue & Finance Committee
• 2019-03-21 Recommends Do Pass Subcommittee/ Revenue & Finance Committee; 006-000-000 committee-passage
• 2019-03-21 Reported Back To Revenue & Finance Committee;
• 2019-03-21 House Committee Amendment No. 1 Adopted in Revenue & Finance Committee; by Voice Vote amendment-passage
• 2019-03-21 Do Pass as Amended / Short Debate Revenue & Finance Committee; 014-000-000 committee-passage
• 2019-03-21 Placed on Calendar 2nd Reading - Short Debate
• 2019-03-26 Second Reading - Short Debate reading-2
• 2019-03-26 Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading - Short Debate
• 2019-03-26 Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Marcus C. Evans, Jr.
• 2019-03-28 Third Reading - Short Debate - Passed 099-002-000 reading-3, passage
• 2019-03-28 Added Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Carol Ammons
• 2019-04-03 Arrive in Senate introduction
• 2019-04-03 Placed on Calendar Order of First Reading reading-1
• 2019-04-03 Chief Senate Sponsor Sen. Laura Fine
• 2019-04-03 First Reading reading-1
• 2019-04-03 Referred to Assignments referral-committee
• 2019-04-24 Assigned to Revenue referral-committee
• 2019-05-01 Postponed - Revenue
• 2019-05-09 Do Pass Revenue; 005-003-000 committee-passage
• 2019-05-09 Placed on Calendar Order of 2nd Reading May 14, 2019
• 2019-05-14 Second Reading reading-2
• 2019-05-14 Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading May 15, 2019
• 2019-05-21 Third Reading - Passed; 051-001-000 reading-3, passage
• 2019-05-21 Passed Both Houses
• 2019-06-19 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2019-08-02 Governor Approved executive-signature
• 2019-08-02 Effective Date August 2, 2019
• 2019-08-02 Public Act . . . . . . . . . 101-0186 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/fccb811c-a22d-4c34-a2d7-7f92771e8b5e. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Illinois legislature records).