A lawyer's list of new public acts with links to the full text
The Illinois General Assembly sent dozens of bills of special interest to lawyers to the governor this session; he signed most and vetoed a few. Here are summaries of the new laws, organized by topic so you can quickly check what happened in your practice area. We also link to the full text of the public acts and, where available, Illinois Bar Journal coverage of the legislation. Among the new public acts is a family law rewrite and a parentage act reworking. A marijuana decriminalization bill was amendatorily vetoed by the governor.