republic-os/legislation/us/states/il/103rd/hb-4251.md

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Bill	ELECTRONIC WILLS-SCOPE	Amends the Electronic Nontestamentary Estate Planning Documents Article of the Electronic Wills and Remote Witnesses Act. Provides that the Article does not apply to a nontestamentary estate planning document, will, or terms of a trust if the terms governing the document expressly preclude use of an electronic record or electronic signature (rather than does not apply to a nontestamentary estate planning document, will, or terms of a trust governing the document expressly preclude use of an electronic record or electronic signature).	us/states/il	Illinois General Assembly	103rd	HB 4251	Illinois HB 4251 (103rd)	bill		enacted	Laura Ellman Margaret Croke	3	26	4	2023-12-04	2024-07-19	openstates	ocd-bill/4e84abec-3298-471a-902e-31132237650d	https://beta.ilga.gov/Legislation/BillStatus?DocNum=4251&GAID=17&DocTypeID=HB&LegId=151057&SessionID=112	23b49ab7723ce4c7143896eaeed6239c1cd32196d92062cdf6e1519d9403173c	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-il

Illinois HB 4251 (103rd) — ELECTRONIC WILLS-SCOPE

Amends the Electronic Nontestamentary Estate Planning Documents Article of the Electronic Wills and Remote Witnesses Act. Provides that the Article does not apply to a nontestamentary estate planning document, will, or terms of a trust if the terms governing the document expressly preclude use of an electronic record or electronic signature (rather than does not apply to a nontestamentary estate planning document, will, or terms of a trust governing the document expressly preclude use of an electronic record or electronic signature).

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. Introduced (filed) — source
2. Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
3. Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Third Reading — 57–0 (pass) · lower
• Third Reading — 12–0 (pass) · lower
• Third Reading — 108–0 (pass) · lower
• Judiciary — 9–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Laura Ellman — primary (person)
• Margaret Croke — primary (person)
• Jenn Ladisch Douglass — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

• 2023-12-04 Filed with the Clerk by Rep. Margaret Croke filing
• 2024-01-16 First Reading reading-1
• 2024-01-16 Referred to Rules Committee
• 2024-01-31 Assigned to Judiciary - Civil Committee referral-committee
• 2024-02-07 Do Pass / Short Debate Judiciary - Civil Committee; 012-000-000
• 2024-02-07 Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Jenn Ladisch Douglass
• 2024-02-08 Placed on Calendar 2nd Reading - Short Debate reading-2
• 2024-04-10 Second Reading - Short Debate reading-2
• 2024-04-10 Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading - Short Debate
• 2024-04-17 Third Reading - Short Debate - Passed 108-000-000 passage, reading-3
• 2024-04-18 Arrive in Senate introduction
• 2024-04-18 Placed on Calendar Order of First Reading April 30, 2024 reading-1
• 2024-04-19 Chief Senate Sponsor Sen. Laura Ellman
• 2024-04-19 First Reading reading-1
• 2024-04-19 Referred to Assignments
• 2024-04-24 Assigned to Judiciary referral-committee
• 2024-05-01 Do Pass Judiciary; 009-000-000
• 2024-05-01 Placed on Calendar Order of 2nd Reading May 2, 2024 reading-2
• 2024-05-02 Second Reading reading-2
• 2024-05-02 Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading May 7, 2024
• 2024-05-15 Third Reading - Passed; 057-000-000 passage, reading-3
• 2024-05-15 Passed Both Houses
• 2024-06-13 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2024-07-19 Governor Approved executive-signature
• 2024-07-19 Effective Date January 1, 2025
• 2024-07-19 Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0666 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/4e84abec-3298-471a-902e-31132237650d. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Illinois legislature records).