103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2023 and 2024
SB0201

 

Introduced 1/31/2023, by Sen. Laura M. Murphy

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
735 ILCS 5/15-1515 new

    Amends the Mortgage Foreclosure Article of the Code of Civil Procedure. Requires a court file to be sealed upon the commencement of any foreclosure action during the COVID-19 emergency and economic recovery period. Provides that if a residential eviction action filed during the COVID-19 emergency and economic recovery period is pending on the effective date of the amendatory Act and is not sealed, the court shall order the sealing of the court file. Provides that the amendatory Act applies to any action to foreclose a mortgage relating to (i) residential real estate, and (ii) real estate improved with a dwelling structure containing dwelling units for 6 or fewer families living independently of each other in which the mortgagor is a natural person landlord renting the dwelling units, even if the mortgagor does not occupy any of the dwelling units as the mortgagor's personal residence. Effective immediately.


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A BILL FOR

 

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1    AN ACT concerning civil law.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The Code of Civil Procedure is amended by
5adding Section 15-1515 as follows:
 
6    (735 ILCS 5/15-1515 new)
7    Sec. 15-1515. COVID-19 emergency sealing of court file.
8    (a) As used in this Section:
9    "Court file" means the court file created when a
10foreclosure action is filed with the court.
11    "COVID-19 emergency and economic recovery period" means
12the period beginning on March 9, 2020, when the Governor
13issued the first disaster proclamation for the State to
14address the circumstances related to COVID-19 and ending on
15March 31, 2023.
16    (b) The court file shall be sealed upon the commencement
17of any foreclosure action during the COVID-19 emergency and
18economic recovery period. If a residential eviction action
19filed during the COVID-19 emergency and economic recovery
20period is pending on the effective date of this amendatory Act
21of the 103rd General Assembly and is not sealed, the court
22shall order the sealing of the court file.
23    (c) This Section applies to any action to foreclose a

 

 

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1mortgage relating to: (i) residential real estate as defined
2in Section 15-1219; and (ii) real estate improved with a
3dwelling structure containing dwelling units for 6 or fewer
4families living independently of each other in which the
5mortgagor is a natural person landlord renting the dwelling
6units, even if the mortgagor does not occupy any of the
7dwelling units as the mortgagor's personal residence.
8    (d) This Section is repealed on June 1, 2025.
 
9    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
10becoming law.