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Bill	TRANSFER FEE COVENANT ACT	Creates the Transfer Fee Covenant Act. States legislative findings and declares that transfer fee covenants violate the public policy of favoring the transferability of real property free of unreasonable restraints. Defines transfer, transfer fee, and transfer fee covenant. Provides that a transfer fee covenant or a lien to secure the payment of a transfer fee that is recorded after the effective date is void, unenforceable, and does not run with the title to the real property. Provides that it cannot be presumed that the provisions of this Act mean that a transfer fee covenant or lien recorded before the effective date is valid and enforceable.	us/states/il	Illinois General Assembly	96th	SB 3747	Illinois SB 3747 (96th)	bill		enacted		3	42	3	2010-02-11	2010-07-27	openstates	ocd-bill/8e165bf5-0c42-4e40-8812-77ac829a12bf	http://ilga.gov/legislation/BillStatus.asp?DocNum=3747&GAID=10&DocTypeID=SB&LegId=51959&SessionID=76&GA=96	ddc4024a14595931b971da54e8c60bf15081d0e55bedcc53e1a55a31e007c0bf	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-il

Illinois SB 3747 (96th) — TRANSFER FEE COVENANT ACT

Creates the Transfer Fee Covenant Act. States legislative findings and declares that transfer fee covenants violate the public policy of favoring the transferability of real property free of unreasonable restraints. Defines transfer, transfer fee, and transfer fee covenant. Provides that a transfer fee covenant or a lien to secure the payment of a transfer fee that is recorded after the effective date is void, unenforceable, and does not run with the title to the real property. Provides that it cannot be presumed that the provisions of this Act mean that a transfer fee covenant or lien recorded before the effective date is valid and enforceable.

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

• Concurrence — 53–0 (pass) · upper
• Third Reading — 46–0 (pass) · upper
• Third Reading — 115–1 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• A. J. Wilhelmi — primary (person)
• Franco Coladipietro — cosponsor (person)
• Randy Ramey, Jr. — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2010-02-11 Filed with Secretary by Sen. A. J. Wilhelmi filing
• 2010-02-11 First Reading reading-1
• 2010-02-11 Referred to Assignments referral-committee
• 2010-02-24 Assigned to Judiciary referral-committee
• 2010-02-25 Added as Chief Co-Sponsor Sen. Kirk W. Dillard
• 2010-02-25 Added as Chief Co-Sponsor Sen. Dale A. Righter
• 2010-03-03 Do Pass Judiciary; 008-000-000 committee-passage
• 2010-03-03 Placed on Calendar Order of 2nd Reading March 4, 2010
• 2010-03-11 Second Reading reading-2
• 2010-03-11 Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading March 12, 2010
• 2010-03-15 Added as Chief Co-Sponsor Sen. Toi W. Hutchinson
• 2010-03-15 Third Reading - Passed; 046-000-000 reading-3, passage
• 2010-03-16 Arrived in House introduction
• 2010-03-16 Chief House Sponsor Rep. John A. Fritchey
• 2010-03-16 Placed on Calendar Order of First Reading reading-1
• 2010-03-16 Added Alternate Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Robert W. Pritchard
• 2010-03-16 First Reading reading-1
• 2010-03-16 Referred to Rules Committee referral-committee
• 2010-03-23 Added Alternate Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Linda Chapa LaVia
• 2010-03-23 Added Alternate Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Carol A. Sente
• 2010-03-23 Added Alternate Co-Sponsor Rep. Randy Ramey, Jr.
• 2010-03-25 Added Alternate Co-Sponsor Rep. Franco Coladipietro
• 2010-04-08 Assigned to Judiciary I - Civil Law Committee referral-committee
• 2010-04-21 House Committee Amendment No. 1 Filed with Clerk by Judiciary I - Civil Law Committee amendment-introduction
• 2010-04-21 House Committee Amendment No. 1 Adopted in Judiciary I - Civil Law Committee; by Voice Vote amendment-passage
• 2010-04-21 Do Pass as Amended / Short Debate Judiciary I - Civil Law Committee; 017-000-000 committee-passage
• 2010-04-21 Placed on Calendar 2nd Reading - Short Debate
• 2010-04-23 Second Reading - Short Debate reading-2
• 2010-04-23 Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading - Short Debate
• 2010-04-29 Third Reading - Short Debate - Passed 115-001-000 reading-3, passage
• 2010-04-30 Secretary's Desk - Concurrence House Amendment(s) 1
• 2010-04-30 Placed on Calendar Order of Concurrence House Amendment(s) 1 - May 3, 2010
• 2010-05-03 House Committee Amendment No. 1 Motion to Concur Filed with Secretary Sen. A. J. Wilhelmi filing
• 2010-05-03 House Committee Amendment No. 1 Motion to Concur Referred to Assignments referral-committee
• 2010-05-03 House Committee Amendment No. 1 Motion to Concur Assignments Referred to Judiciary referral-committee
• 2010-05-04 House Committee Amendment No. 1 Motion To Concur Recommended Do Adopt Judiciary; 009-000-000
• 2010-05-04 House Committee Amendment No. 1 Senate Concurs 053-000-002
• 2010-05-04 Passed Both Houses
• 2010-06-02 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2010-07-27 Governor Approved executive-signature
• 2010-07-27 Effective Date January 1, 2011
• 2010-07-27 Public Act . . . . . . . . . 96-1345 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/8e165bf5-0c42-4e40-8812-77ac829a12bf. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Illinois legislature records).