104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2025 and 2026 SB1447 Introduced 1/31/2025, by Sen. Cristina Castro SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: 55 ILCS 5/5-1049.2 Amends the Counties Code. Provides that the lease of real estate is permitted when a property, structure, or facility owned by Kane County can be used for athletic purposes in the interest of the public or for the benefit and enjoyment of residents of the county if the property, structure, or facility acquired by Kane County was being used for athletic purposes prior to the county acquiring the property, structure, or facility. For leases entered into under this provision after the effective date of the amendatory Act, the lease must require (i) the lessee to allow any organization that used the land at the time the lease is executed to continue to use the land for the leased purposes during the term of the lease and (ii) the lessor to continue, during the term of the lease, to employ, in the same capacity, any persons who provided services on the land at the time the lease is executed. LRB104 10058 RTM 20129 b A BILL FOR 104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2025 and 2026 SB1447 Introduced 1/31/2025, by Sen. Cristina Castro SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: 55 ILCS 5/5-1049.2 55 ILCS 5/5-1049.2 Amends the Counties Code. Provides that the lease of real estate is permitted when a property, structure, or facility owned by Kane County can be used for athletic purposes in the interest of the public or for the benefit and enjoyment of residents of the county if the property, structure, or facility acquired by Kane County was being used for athletic purposes prior to the county acquiring the property, structure, or facility. For leases entered into under this provision after the effective date of the amendatory Act, the lease must require (i) the lessee to allow any organization that used the land at the time the lease is executed to continue to use the land for the leased purposes during the term of the lease and (ii) the lessor to continue, during the term of the lease, to employ, in the same capacity, any persons who provided services on the land at the time the lease is executed. LRB104 10058 RTM 20129 b LRB104 10058 RTM 20129 b A BILL FOR 104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2025 and 2026 SB1447 Introduced 1/31/2025, by Sen. Cristina Castro SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: 55 ILCS 5/5-1049.2 55 ILCS 5/5-1049.2 55 ILCS 5/5-1049.2 Amends the Counties Code. Provides that the lease of real estate is permitted when a property, structure, or facility owned by Kane County can be used for athletic purposes in the interest of the public or for the benefit and enjoyment of residents of the county if the property, structure, or facility acquired by Kane County was being used for athletic purposes prior to the county acquiring the property, structure, or facility. For leases entered into under this provision after the effective date of the amendatory Act, the lease must require (i) the lessee to allow any organization that used the land at the time the lease is executed to continue to use the land for the leased purposes during the term of the lease and (ii) the lessor to continue, during the term of the lease, to employ, in the same capacity, any persons who provided services on the land at the time the lease is executed. LRB104 10058 RTM 20129 b LRB104 10058 RTM 20129 b LRB104 10058 RTM 20129 b A BILL FOR SB1447LRB104 10058 RTM 20129 b SB1447 LRB104 10058 RTM 20129 b SB1447 LRB104 10058 RTM 20129 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 5-1049.2 as follows: 6 (55 ILCS 5/5-1049.2) 7 Sec. 5-1049.2. Lease of county property. 8 (a) The county board may lease real estate acquired or 9 held by the county for any term not exceeding 99 years and may 10 lease the real estate when, in the opinion of the county board, 11 the real estate is no longer necessary, appropriate, required 12 for the use of, profitable to, or for the best interests of the 13 county. The authority to lease shall be exercised by an 14 ordinance passed by three-fourths of the full county board 15 then holding office, at any regular meeting or at any special 16 meeting called for that purpose. 17 (b) Notwithstanding subsection (a), upon three-fourths 18 vote, by the full county board, the county board may lease 19 farmland acquired or held by the county for any term not 20 exceeding 5 years. Farmland may be leased to either public or 21 private entities via a cash lease, crop-sharing arrangement, 22 or custom farming arrangement. The bid process for a lease 23 entered into under this subsection must be publicly advertised 104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2025 and 2026 SB1447 Introduced 1/31/2025, by Sen. Cristina Castro SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: 55 ILCS 5/5-1049.2 55 ILCS 5/5-1049.2 55 ILCS 5/5-1049.2 Amends the Counties Code. Provides that the lease of real estate is permitted when a property, structure, or facility owned by Kane County can be used for athletic purposes in the interest of the public or for the benefit and enjoyment of residents of the county if the property, structure, or facility acquired by Kane County was being used for athletic purposes prior to the county acquiring the property, structure, or facility. For leases entered into under this provision after the effective date of the amendatory Act, the lease must require (i) the lessee to allow any organization that used the land at the time the lease is executed to continue to use the land for the leased purposes during the term of the lease and (ii) the lessor to continue, during the term of the lease, to employ, in the same capacity, any persons who provided services on the land at the time the lease is executed. LRB104 10058 RTM 20129 b LRB104 10058 RTM 20129 b LRB104 10058 RTM 20129 b A BILL FOR 55 ILCS 5/5-1049.2 LRB104 10058 RTM 20129 b SB1447 LRB104 10058 RTM 20129 b SB1447- 2 -LRB104 10058 RTM 20129 b SB1447 - 2 - LRB104 10058 RTM 20129 b SB1447 - 2 - LRB104 10058 RTM 20129 b SB1447 - 2 - LRB104 10058 RTM 20129 b