Bill Title: Creates the Illinois Trust Code. Provides that the Code applies to express trusts, charitable or noncharitable, and trusts created pursuant to a statute, judgment, or decree that requires the trust to be administered in the manner of an express trust. Defines terms. Adds provisions governing: judicial proceedings; representation; creation, validity, modification, and termination of trusts; creditor's claims; spendthrift and discretionary trusts; revocable trusts; the office of trustee; duties and powers of the trustee; the Illinois Prudent Investor Law; life insurance; affiliated investments; liability of trustees and rights of persons dealing with a trustee; total return trusts; trust decanting; the Uniform Powers of Appointment Law; perpetuities; and application of the Code to existing trusts. Repeals the Trusts and Trustees Act, the Trusts and Dissolutions of Marriage Act, the Uniform Powers of Appointment Act (added by Public Act 100-1044), the Statute Concerning Perpetuities, the Perpetuities Vesting Act, and the Trust Accumulation Act. Makes corresponding changes in the Public Use Trust Act, the Township Code, the Corporate Fiduciary Act, the Community-Integrated Living Arrangements Licensure and Certification Act, the Title Insurance Act, the Illinois Funeral or Burial Funds Act, the Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Code, the Illinois Marriage and Dissolution of Marriage Act, the Probate Act of 1975, the Illinois Power of Attorney Act, the Common Trust Fund Act, the Religious Corporation Act, and the Illinois Pre-Need Cemetery Sales Act. Effective January 1, 2020.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Passed) 2019-07-12 - Public Act . . . . . . . . . 101-0048 [HB1471 Detail]

Text: Latest bill text (Chaptered) [HTML]

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Voting Records

Chamber	Vote	Date	Yea	Nay	NV	Abs	Total	Result	Source	View
Senate	Third Reading in Senate	2019-05-16	57	0	2	0	59	Passed	Link	View
House	Third Reading in House	2019-03-20	114	0	1	0	115	Passed	Link	View

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