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

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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-Chaptered.html

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Public Act 103-0073
SB0686 Enrolled 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 Counties Code is amended by changing
Section 4-7001 as follows:
(55 ILCS 5/4-7001) (from Ch. 34, par. 4-7001)
Sec. 4-7001. Coroner's fees. The fees of the coroner's
office shall be as follows:
1. For a copy of a transcript of sworn testimony:
$5.00 per page.
2. For a copy of an autopsy report (if not included in
transcript): $50.00.
3. For a copy of the verdict of a coroner's jury:
$5.00.
4. For a copy of a toxicology report: $25.00.
5. For a print of or an electronic file containing a
picture obtained by the coroner: actual cost or $3.00,
whichever is greater.
6. For each copy of miscellaneous reports, including
artist's drawings but not including police reports: actual
cost or $25.00, whichever is greater.
7. For a coroner's or medical examiner's permit to
cremate a dead human body: $50.00. The coroner may waive,

at his or her discretion, the permit fee if the coroner
determines that the person is indigent and unable to pay
the permit fee or under other special circumstances.
8. Except in a county with a population over
3,000,000, on and after January 1, 2024, 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: $15.00 for the entire
transcript. A request shall be deemed a proper request for
purpose of research or genealogy if the requested inquest
occurred not less than 20 years prior to the date of the
written request. The transcript shall be stamped with the
words "FOR GENEALOGY OR RESEARCH PURPOSES ONLY".
All of which fees shall be certified by the court; in the
case of inmates of any State charitable or penal institution,
the fees shall be paid by the operating department or
commission, out of the State Treasury. The coroner shall file
his or her claim in probate for his or her fees and he or she
shall render assistance to the State's attorney in the
collection of such fees out of the estate of the deceased. In
counties of less than 1,000,000 population, the State's
attorney shall collect such fees out of the estate of the
deceased.
Except in a county with a population over 3,000,000, on
and after January 1, 2024, the coroner may waive, at his or her
discretion, any fees under this Section if the coroner

determines that the person is indigent and unable to pay the
fee or under other special circumstances as determined by the
coroner.
Except as otherwise provided in this Section, whenever the
coroner is required by law to perform any of the duties of the
office of the sheriff, the coroner is entitled to the like fees
and compensation as are allowed by law to the sheriff for the
performance of similar services.
Except as otherwise provided in this Section, whenever the
coroner of any county is required to travel in the performance
of his or her duties, he or she shall receive the same mileage
fees as are authorized for the sheriff of such county.
All fees under this Section collected by or on behalf of
the coroner's office shall be paid over to the county
treasurer and deposited into a special account in the county
treasury. Moneys in the special account shall be used solely
for the purchase of electronic and forensic identification
equipment or other related supplies and the operating expenses
of the coroner's office.
The changes made by this amendatory Act of the 103rd
General Assembly do not apply retroactively.
(Source: P.A. 96-1161, eff. 7-21-10.)