Bill Text: IL HB3956 | 2021-2022 | 102nd General Assembly | Enrolled

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Bill Title: Amends the Circuit Court Clerk Regulation Act. Allows a clerk or deputy clerk of a circuit court to prepare or draft any document if such documents as such clerks are by statute or supreme court order required or authorized to draft or prepare (rather than "by law required, or by some statute authorized to draft or prepare").

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Passed) 2021-08-27 - Public Act . . . . . . . . . 102-0619 [HB3956 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2021-HB3956-Enrolled.html

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HB3956 Enrolled LRB102 11747 LNS 17081 b
AN ACT concerning courts.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Circuit Court Clerk Regulation Act is
amended by changing Section 1 as follows:
(705 ILCS 110/1) (from Ch. 37, par. 328)
Sec. 1. It shall be unlawful for any clerk or deputy clerk
of a circuit court to prepare or draft any document which is to
be filed or recorded in the court in which he or she is clerk
or deputy clerk, except such documents as such clerks are by
statute or supreme court order law required, or by some
statute authorized to draft or prepare; and that it shall be
unlawful for any such clerk or deputy clerk to act as an
administrator, executor or guardian, or to act as a trustee by
appointment (of any court of which he or she is clerk or deputy
clerk) or of the last will of any person who is not a family
member of the clerk or deputy clerk.
For purposes of this Section, "family member" shall mean a
spouse; child, natural or adopted; parent; brother; or sister
of the clerk or deputy clerk.
(Source: P.A. 87-713.)