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Bill	PROP TX-FALLEN OFFICER ABATE	Amends the Property Tax Code. Provides that the corporate authorities of a home rule municipality with 1,000,000 or more inhabitants, by ordinance, may order the county clerk to abate any percentage of the taxes levied by the municipality and any other taxing district on each parcel of certain qualified residential property within the corporate limits of the municipality that is owned by the surviving spouse of a fallen police officer or rescue worker. Effective immediately.	us/states/il	Illinois General Assembly	96th	SB 1942	Illinois SB 1942 (96th)	bill		enacted		3	45	3	2009-02-20	2009-11-25	openstates	ocd-bill/27c4f643-364b-49d8-bda8-178c9bca7a40	http://ilga.gov/legislation/BillStatus.asp?DocNum=1942&GAID=10&DocTypeID=SB&LegId=44839&SessionID=76&GA=96	57182101a348cbc999ec60fcd022102bf50f93d714224e72c5953a6e7d81403e	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-il

Illinois SB 1942 (96th) — PROP TX-FALLEN OFFICER ABATE

Amends the Property Tax Code. Provides that the corporate authorities of a home rule municipality with 1,000,000 or more inhabitants, by ordinance, may order the county clerk to abate any percentage of the taxes levied by the municipality and any other taxing district on each parcel of certain qualified residential property within the corporate limits of the municipality that is owned by the surviving spouse of a fallen police officer or rescue worker. 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

• Concurrence — 56–0 (pass) · upper
• Third Reading — 59–0 (pass) · upper
• Third Reading — 112–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Terry Link — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2009-02-20 Filed with Secretary by Sen. Kwame Raoul filing
• 2009-02-20 First Reading reading-1
• 2009-02-20 Referred to Assignments referral-committee
• 2009-03-04 Assigned to Revenue referral-committee
• 2009-03-12 Do Pass Revenue; 007-000-000 committee-passage
• 2009-03-12 Placed on Calendar Order of 2nd Reading March 17, 2009
• 2009-03-13 Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Antonio Muñoz
• 2009-03-24 Second Reading reading-2
• 2009-03-24 Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading March 25, 2009
• 2009-04-01 Third Reading - Passed; 059-000-000 reading-3, passage
• 2009-04-01 Arrived in House introduction
• 2009-04-01 Placed on Calendar Order of First Reading reading-1
• 2009-04-01 Chief House Sponsor Rep. Michael P. McAuliffe
• 2009-04-01 First Reading reading-1
• 2009-04-01 Referred to Rules Committee referral-committee
• 2009-04-14 Assigned to Revenue & Finance Committee referral-committee
• 2009-04-28 Added Alternate Co-Sponsor Rep. Michael J. Zalewski
• 2009-05-08 Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee referral-committee
• 2009-10-21 Final Action Deadline Extended-9(b) November 30, 2009
• 2009-10-21 Assigned to Revenue & Finance Committee referral-committee
• 2009-10-28 House Committee Amendment No. 1 Filed with Clerk by Revenue & Finance Committee amendment-introduction
• 2009-10-28 House Committee Amendment No. 1 Adopted in Revenue & Finance Committee; by Voice Vote amendment-passage
• 2009-10-28 Do Pass as Amended / Short Debate Revenue & Finance Committee; 009-000-000 committee-passage
• 2009-10-28 Placed on Calendar 2nd Reading - Short Debate
• 2009-10-28 Alternate Chief Sponsor Changed to Rep. Ed Sullivan, Jr.
• 2009-10-28 Second Reading - Short Debate reading-2
• 2009-10-28 Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading - Short Debate
• 2009-10-29 Alternate Co-Sponsor Removed Rep. Michael J. Zalewski
• 2009-10-29 Added Alternate Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. JoAnn D. Osmond
• 2009-10-29 Added Alternate Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Mark H. Beaubien, Jr.
• 2009-10-29 Third Reading - Short Debate - Passed 112-000-002 reading-3, passage
• 2009-10-29 Secretary's Desk - Concurrence House Amendment(s) 1
• 2009-10-29 Placed on Calendar Order of Concurrence House Amendment(s) 1 - October 30, 2009
• 2009-10-30 Chief Sponsor Changed to Sen. Terry Link
• 2009-10-30 House Committee Amendment No. 1 Motion to Concur Filed with Secretary Sen. Terry Link filing
• 2009-10-30 House Committee Amendment No. 1 Motion to Concur Referred to Assignments referral-committee
• 2009-10-30 House Committee Amendment No. 1 Motion to Concur Assignments Referred to Revenue referral-committee
• 2009-10-30 House Committee Amendment No. 1 Motion To Concur Recommended Do Adopt Revenue; 007-000-000
• 2009-10-30 House Committee Amendment No. 1 Senate Concurs 056-000-000
• 2009-10-30 Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Dan Kotowski
• 2009-10-30 Passed Both Houses
• 2009-11-09 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2009-11-25 Governor Approved executive-signature
• 2009-11-25 Effective Date November 25, 2009
• 2009-11-25 Public Act . . . . . . . . . 96-0825 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/27c4f643-364b-49d8-bda8-178c9bca7a40. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Illinois legislature records).