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Bill	SMALL ESTATE AFFIDAVIT	Amends the Small Estates Article of the Probate Act of 1975. Allows a small estate affidavit to be used to transfer personal property in a decedent's estate if: (1) no letters of office are outstanding on the decedent's estate and no petition for letters is contemplated or pending in the State or in any other jurisdiction; and (2) the decedent's personal estate passing to any party by intestacy or under a will is limited to tangible and intangible personal property not exceeding $150,000 and motor vehicles registered with the Secretary of State. Makes a corresponding change in the form for a small estate affidavit. Provides that the changes made to the Act apply to a decedent whose date of death is on or after the effective date of the amendatory Act. Effective immediately.	us/states/il	Illinois General Assembly	104th	SB 83	Illinois SB 83 (104th)	bill		enacted	Curtis J. Tarver, II Doris Turner	4	36	5	2025-01-17	2025-08-15	openstates	ocd-bill/7c285d3c-e374-4276-bead-ee49b289fe9f	https://ilga.gov/Legislation/BillStatus?DocNum=83&GAID=18&DocTypeID=SB&LegId=157195&SessionID=114	37216f72bbf0f4c003868a2a1694cd39bd628f2d59df120191e2f10bbd90176e	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-il

Illinois SB 83 (104th) — SMALL ESTATE AFFIDAVIT

Amends the Small Estates Article of the Probate Act of 1975. Allows a small estate affidavit to be used to transfer personal property in a decedent's estate if: (1) no letters of office are outstanding on the decedent's estate and no petition for letters is contemplated or pending in the State or in any other jurisdiction; and (2) the decedent's personal estate passing to any party by intestacy or under a will is limited to tangible and intangible personal property not exceeding $150,000 and motor vehicles registered with the Secretary of State. Makes a corresponding change in the form for a small estate affidavit. Provides that the changes made to the Act apply to a decedent whose date of death is on or after the effective date of the amendatory Act. Effective immediately.

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. Senate Amendment 001 (committee substitute) — source
4. Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Third Reading — 19–0 (pass) · lower
• Third Reading — 115–0 (pass) · lower
• Judiciary — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Third Reading — 54–1 (pass) · upper
• Judiciary, Amendment 1 — 7–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Curtis J. Tarver, II — primary (person)
• Doris Turner — primary (person)
• Andrew S. Chesney — cosponsor (person)
• Diane Blair-Sherlock — cosponsor (person)
• Lakesia Collins — cosponsor (person)
• Laura M. Murphy — cosponsor (person)
• Paul Faraci — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-01-17 Filed with Secretary by Sen. Doris Turner filing
• 2025-01-17 First Reading reading-1
• 2025-01-17 Referred to Assignments
• 2025-01-22 Assigned to Judiciary referral-committee
• 2025-01-31 Do Pass Judiciary; 007-000-000
• 2025-01-31 Placed on Calendar Order of 2nd Reading February 4, 2025 reading-2
• 2025-02-18 Senate Floor Amendment No. 1 Filed with Secretary by Sen. Doris Turner amendment-introduction
• 2025-02-18 Senate Floor Amendment No. 1 Referred to Assignments
• 2025-02-19 Senate Floor Amendment No. 1 Assignments Refers to Judiciary
• 2025-02-19 Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Laura M. Murphy
• 2025-02-26 Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Paul Faraci
• 2025-02-26 Added as Chief Co-Sponsor Sen. Paul Faraci
• 2025-02-27 Senate Floor Amendment No. 1 Recommend Do Adopt Judiciary; 007-000-000
• 2025-03-19 Second Reading reading-2
• 2025-03-19 Senate Floor Amendment No. 1 Adopted; D. Turner amendment-passage
• 2025-03-19 Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading March 20, 2025
• 2025-04-03 Third Reading - Passed; 054-001-000 passage, reading-3
• 2025-04-03 Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Andrew S. Chesney
• 2025-04-03 Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Lakesia Collins
• 2025-04-04 Arrived in House introduction
• 2025-04-04 Chief House Sponsor Rep. Curtis J. Tarver, II
• 2025-04-07 First Reading reading-1
• 2025-04-07 Referred to Rules Committee
• 2025-04-17 Assigned to Judiciary - Civil Committee referral-committee
• 2025-04-23 Do Pass / Short Debate Judiciary - Civil Committee; 019-000-000
• 2025-04-23 Placed on Calendar 2nd Reading - Short Debate reading-2
• 2025-05-16 Second Reading - Short Debate reading-2
• 2025-05-16 Held on Calendar Order of Second Reading - Short Debate reading-2
• 2025-05-22 Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading - Short Debate
• 2025-05-22 Third Reading - Short Debate - Passed 115-000-000 passage, reading-3
• 2025-05-22 Passed Both Houses
• 2025-05-22 Added Alternate Co-Sponsor Rep. Diane Blair-Sherlock
• 2025-06-20 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2025-08-15 Governor Approved executive-signature
• 2025-08-15 Effective Date August 15, 2025
• 2025-08-15 Public Act . . . . . . . . . 104-0346 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/7c285d3c-e374-4276-bead-ee49b289fe9f. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Illinois legislature records).