Bill Text: IL SB3901 | 2025-2026 | 104th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Illinois Marriage and Dissolution of Marriage Act. Provides legislative intent that the misuse of artificial intelligence involves the fabrication of evidence that can be fake, manipulated, or non-existent that can have a profound effect in family law cases. Provides that its misuse can be particularly harmful in family law proceedings because of the emotion involved. Requires that on the request of either party, the court must review evidence under Supreme Court Rule 901 to evaluate proposed evidence that may have been generated by artificial intelligence as that term is defined in the Illinois Human Rights Act.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2026-05-22 - Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 Rule 3-9(a) / Re-referred to Assignments [SB3901 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2025-SB3901-Introduced.html

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104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2025 and 2026SB3901 Introduced 2/6/2026, by Sen. Mary Edly-Allen SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
750 ILCS 5/105 from Ch. 40, par. 105
Amends the Illinois Marriage and Dissolution of Marriage Act. Provides legislative intent that the misuse of artificial intelligence involves the fabrication of evidence that can be fake, manipulated, or non-existent that can have a profound effect in family law cases. Provides that its misuse can be particularly harmful in family law proceedings because of the emotion involved. Requires that on the request of either party, the court must review evidence under Supreme Court Rule 901 to evaluate proposed evidence that may have been generated by artificial intelligence as that term is defined in the Illinois Human Rights Act.
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning civil law.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Illinois Marriage and Dissolution of
Marriage Act is amended by changing Section 105 as follows:
(750 ILCS 5/105) (from Ch. 40, par. 105)
Sec. 105. Application of Civil Practice Law.)
(a) The provisions of the Civil Practice Law shall apply
to all proceedings under this Act, except as otherwise
provided in this Act.
(b) A proceeding for dissolution of marriage, legal
separation or declaration of invalidity of marriage shall be
entitled "In re the Marriage of ... and ...". A parental
responsibility allocation or support proceeding shall be
entitled "In re the (Parental Responsibility) (Support) of
...".
(c) The initial pleading in all proceedings under this Act
shall be denominated a petition. A responsive pleading shall
be denominated a response. If new matter by way of defense is
pleaded in the response, a reply may be filed by the
petitioner, but the failure to reply is not an admission of the
legal sufficiency of the new matter. All other pleadings under
this Act shall be denominated as provided in the Civil

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Practice Law.
(c-5) Notwithstanding any other law, the court must review
evidence in proceedings under this Act under Supreme Court
Rule 901 to evaluate whether the proposed evidence may have
been generated by artificial intelligence as that term is
defined in the Illinois Human Rights Act.
(d) As used in this Section, "pleadings" includes any
petition or motion filed in the dissolution of marriage case
which, if independently filed, would constitute a separate
cause of action, including, but not limited to, actions for
declaratory judgment, injunctive relief, and orders of
protection. Actions under this subsection are subject to
motions filed pursuant to Sections 2-615 and 2-619 of the Code
of Civil Procedure.
(Source: P.A. 99-90, eff. 1-1-16.)