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SB3243 • 2026
PROPERTY ASSESSMENT LISTS
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PROPERTY ASSESSMENT LISTS
Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Terri Bryant
Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Neil Anderson
Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Sally J. Turner
Filed with Secretary by Sen. Chris Balkema
First Reading
Referred to Assignments
PROPERTY ASSESSMENT LISTS
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Full Text of SB3243 Home Legislation Full Text SB3243 - 104th General Assembly Bill Status Full Text Votes Witness Slips Select Menu Bill Status Full Text Votes Witness Slips Printer Friendly Version Introduced Printer Friendly Version Introduced Open PDF 104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2025 and 2026 SB3243 Introduced 2/2/2026, by Sen. Chris Balkema SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: 55 ILCS 5/3-5025 from Ch. 34, par. 3-5025 Amends the Counties Code. Provides that any recorder may publish property assessment lists in a newspaper of general circulation in the county or on the county's public-facing website. LRB104 18674 RTM 32117 b A BILL FOR SB3243 LRB104 18674 RTM 32117 b 1 AN ACT concerning local government. 2 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, 3 represented in the General Assembly: 4 Section 5. The Counties Code is amended by changing 5 Section 3-5025 as follows: 6 (55 ILCS 5/3-5025) (from Ch. 34, par. 3-5025) 7 Sec. 3-5025. Books. Every recorder shall keep the 8 following books or computer databases: 9 1. An entry book, in which the recorder shall, 10 immediately on the receipt of any instrument to be 11 recorded or filed, enter, in the order of its reception, 12 the names of the parties thereto, its date, the day of the 13 month, hour and year of receiving the same, and a brief 14 description of the premises, indorsing upon each 15 instrument a number corresponding with the number of such 16 entry. 17 2. A grantor's index, in which shall be entered the 18 name of each grantor, in alphabetical order, the name of 19 the grantee, date of the instrument, time of receipt, kind 20 of instrument, consideration, the book and page in which 21 it is recorded, or the number under which it is filed, and 22 a brief description of the premises. 23 3. A grantee's index, in which shall be entered the SB3243 - 2 - LRB104 18674 RTM 32117 b 1 name of each grantee, in alphabetical order, the name of 2 the grantor, date of the instrument, time of receipt, kind 3 of instrument, consideration, the book and page in which 4 it is recorded, or the number under which it is filed, and 5 a brief description of the premises. 6 4. An index to each book or computer database of 7 record, in which shall be entered, in alphabetical order, 8 the name of each grantor and grantee, and the page number 9 in which or reference number to which the instrument is 10 recorded. 11 5. When required by the county board, an abstract 12 book, which shall show by tracts every conveyance or 13 incumbrance recorded, the date of the instrument, time of 14 filing the same, the book and page where the same is 15 recorded; which book shall be so kept as to show a true 16 chain of title to each tract and the incumbrances thereon, 17 as shown by the records of the office. 18 6. An index to recorded maps, plats and subdivisions, 19 such index to be made by description of land mapped, or 20 subdivided by range, township, Section, quarter-section, 21 etc. 22 7. An index showing in alphabetical order the names of 23 the parties against whom judgments have been rendered or 24 made and transcripts or memoranda of such judgments have 25 been recorded, and the parties named in notices recorded 26 pursuant to Section 1 of "An Act concerning constructive SB3243 - 3 - LRB104 18674 RTM 32117 b 1 notice of condemnation proceedings, proceedings to sell 2 real property of decedents to pay debts, or other suits 3 seeking equitable relief involving real property, and 4 proceedings in bankruptcy" approved June 11, 1917, as 5 amended. 6 8. An index of all ordinances, petitions, assessment 7 rolls, orders, judgments or other documents filed or 8 recorded in respect of any drainage or special assessment 9 matter sufficient to enable the public to identify all 10 tracts involved therein and to locate all the documents 11 which have been filed or recorded. The recorder may 12 solicit the assistance of the State Records Commission in 13 organizing and indexing these documents. 14 Any recorder may publish property assessment lists in a 15 newspaper of general circulation in the county or on the 16 county's public-facing website. 17 Any recorder may install or contract for the use of a 18 computerized system that will permit automated entry and 19 indexing, alphabetically by document, of instruments filed in 20 the office and that will provide both quick search and 21 retrieval of such entries and hard copy print output, whether 22 on paper, optical disk media, or microfilm, of such entries as 23 indexed. If such a computerized system has been in use in the 24 office for at least 6 months and the recorder determines that 25 it provides accurate and reliable indices that may be stored 26 as permanent records, more quickly and efficiently than the SB3243 - 4 - LRB104 18674 RTM 32117 b 1 system previously used, the recorder may thereafter 2 discontinue the use of the manual system and use only the 3 computerized system for such indices. In that event, 4 references in this Division to books, records or forms as 5 relate to such indices are intended to encompass and refer to 6 the computer system and all materials and forms directly 7 related to that system and its proper use. 8 This Section is subject to the Local Records Act. 9 (Source: P.A. 103-400, eff. 1-1-24 .) Footer Disclaimer This site is maintained for the Illinois General Assembly by the Legislative Information System, 705 Stratton Building, Springfield, Illinois 62706. 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