Bill Text: IL SB0686 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Counties Code. Provides that, except in a county with a population over 3,000,000, fees for a certified copy of a transcript of sworn testimony of a coroner's inquest made by written request declaring the request is for research or genealogy purposes is $15.00 for the entire transcript. Provides that a request shall be deemed a proper request for purposes of research or genealogy if the requested inquest occurred not less than 20 years prior to the date of the written request. Provides that the transcript shall be stamped with the words "FOR GENEALOGY OR RESEARCH PURPOSES ONLY". Provides that, except in a county with a population over 3,000,000, a coroner may waive, at his or her discretion, any coroner fees (rather than only the cremation permit fee) if the coroner determines that the person is indigent and unable to pay the permit fee or under other special circumstances as determined by the coroner.

Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 11-1)

Status: (Passed) 2023-06-09 - Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0073 [SB0686 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2023-SB0686-Introduced.html

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103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2023 and 2024 SB0686 Introduced 2/2/2023, by Sen. Don Harmon SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
50 ILCS 350/1
Amends the Community Self-Revitalization Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
LRB103 03139 AWJ 48145 b
A BILL FOR
SB0686 LRB103 03139 AWJ 48145 b
AN ACT concerning local government.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Community Self-Revitalization Act is
amended by changing Section 1 as follows:
(50 ILCS 350/1)
Sec. 1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the the
Community Self-Revitalization Act.
(Source: P.A. 95-557, eff. 8-30-07.)