MHOAI Legislative Alert

Terry Nelson

President

847-296-5762

 

 

ALERT: SB 192   Makes it out of the senate and into the house.

This is not only bad legislation that totally disregards standards set up by state, local, and federal governments regarding how our housing market allows manufactured homes to be set up safely and taxed as such, comments were made at the senate hearing with untruths about people who live in our housing market to an all time low, or high, depending on how you look at it.  Example:  Those people all live in $400,000 homes, they take money away from local government and never give anything back. We were presented as people who live under a rock and feasts on the mold.

For the last 3 or 4 years we have opposed this same bill that would allow southern counties of Illinois to pass a law that would negatively impact the whole state with a new type of tax law.  MHOAI has watched as homeowners in Ohio and other states believed that if only first time homeowners and those on their own land had different tax laws, it would not come into our communities in the future and they were wrong.  I would also like to add that MHOAI did work with counties during this same session with legislation that would make their lives easier regarding taxation on abandoned homes and printing of tax sales in newspapers.  Talk about a short memory, this makes senior moments look like a good thing.

 

Next week SB 192 goes to the House Revenue Committee http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/billstatus.asp?DocNum=192&GAID=8&GA=94&DocTypeID=SB&LegID=15322&SessionID=50  

 

The senate sponsor was asked on the senate floor if issues were worked out with the Illinois Department of Public Health regarding set-up standards, he said yes, this was not true.  The sponsor was asked if this bill would interfere with federal, state or local government standards regarding set-ups, he said no, this is not true.  While out of the senate we must make sure the state house representatives hear from the people who reside in this housing market asking for a no vote.  We ask you call state representatives on the revenue committee and ask for a no vote on SB 192. 

Remember you do not have to live in a manufactured home community to call, when on a committee you can call a representative outside your district, this is a lot of phone calls and e-mail so pass on numbers to others. You do not have to call during business hours, state representatives have voice mail which will ask you what bill (SB 192) you are calling about and how you want them to vote (NO), it takes less the 1 minute. In past years it did pass the senate but got stopped in the house and we can do it again. 

I will be at the house hearing and will do my best to meet one on one with those on the committee, but this is being presented as a fair tax bill. If your state representative is on this committee, there just can not be enough calls from constituents.

 

Chairperson :

Dan Reitz                                618-443-5757 

      

 

Member:

Mark H. Beaubien, Jr.            847-487-5252  

 

Republican Spokesperson :

Bob Biggins                             630-941-1278   

 

Vice-Chairperson :

Barbara Flynn Currie              773-667-0550

 

Member:

Gary Hannig                           217-839-2859

 

Member:

Thomas Holbrook                    618-394-2211

 

Member:

Roger Jenisch                         630- 653-4545

 

Member:

Carolyn H. Krause                  847-255-3184

 

Member:

Jack McGuire                           815-730-8600

 

Member:

Michael K. Smith                     309-647-7479

 

Member:

Ed Sullivan, Jr.                         847-566-5155

 

Member:

Wyvetter H. Younge                618-875-6323