putintime Posted January 22, 2009 Share Posted January 22, 2009 HB0273 Property Tax / Disabled Veteran / Abatement House Rep - Sponsor - Ron Stevens Introduced 01/21/09 Statutes Amended In Order of Appearance 35 ILCS 200/18-179 new Synopsis As Introduced Amends the Property Tax Code. Requires the county clerk to abate a percentage of the property taxes levied on each parcel of property that is owned and used exclusively as a home by a disabled veteran, or the spouse or unmarried surviving spouse of the veteran. Provides that the percentage of taxes to be abated is equal to the percentage of disability of the veteran. Effective immediately. Contact your State Represenatives / Senators to Co-Sponsor this for second and third reading or it will die.... Take Care Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justme1949 Posted January 22, 2009 Share Posted January 22, 2009 Hi Pete, Thank you for staying on top of this for the Illinois Vets. I did write my representatives last year and got back some generic response. I've tried pulling up the e-mail addresses today for the Illinois reps but I can't seem to find them(again). Is there any chance you would have a link that you can post? It may not just be helping me but other Illinois vets who can also have access to their representative e-mail address. Thank you! (wife of Viet nam Vet) Justme Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
putintime Posted January 22, 2009 Share Posted January 22, 2009 Justme49 - What I did was ordered 100 Handbooks of Government in Illinois, It has all the email addresses for those that have one, those that don't have one listed I call and ask for it. If you want I can snail mail you a book, I've been giving them out all over. It is the 2007-2008 version and a total of 10 new faces are in the House / Senate and their information is not updated on the Web site yet. We must unite and write, now is the time to act....Let them know we are watching them. I have already emailed 35 reps to co-sponsor HB0273, This legislative bill is very much to the point depending on you disabilty % will exempt that much property tax. The other one they past Public Act 95-0644 can be minipulated on how each county reads it. Just let me know... Take Care, Pete Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justme1949 Posted January 23, 2009 Share Posted January 23, 2009 Pete, Thank you so much for the offer to mail one to me. In the meantime though I'll keep looking online for an e-mail address. I'll send you PM with our address. Take care Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
putintime Posted January 23, 2009 Share Posted January 23, 2009 Justme49. Got your address, I will get it out within a couple days... Take Care, Pete Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samalw Posted January 27, 2009 Share Posted January 27, 2009 I'm also putting the final touches on a letter/fax/e-mail that I will be getting out to ALL of the IL Representatives and Senators urging them to co-sponsor/suport HB0273. They won't have Blago to blame for his unconstitutionally "rewriting" a bill as they claimed he did to HB4201 back in August when it passed in the house but failed in the Senate. It doesn't look like many of them have published e-mail addresses. I've never written a representative on ANY level asking for support for anything until this. This is big. I hope and pray it passes. Al Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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