103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2023 and 2024
HB2930
 
Introduced 2/16/2023, by Rep. Dennis Tipsword, Jr.
 
SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 

 
    
765 ILCS 60/6.1 new
765 ILCS 60/7 rep.
765 ILCS 60/8 rep.

     Amends the Property Owned by Noncitizens Act. Repeals language providing that all noncitizens may acquire, hold, and dispose of real and personal property in the same manner and to the same extent as natural born citizens of the United States, and the personal estate of a noncitizen dying intestate shall be distributed in the same manner as the estates of natural born citizens, and all persons interested in such estate shall be entitled to proper distributive shares thereof under the laws of this state, whether they are noncitizens or not. Provides instead that noncitizens may acquire and hold real property only if the real property is purchased from another noncitizen, and the personal estate of a noncitizen dying intestate shall be escheated back to the State, including land subject to the Agricultural Foreign Investment Disclosure Act.
  


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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 Property Owned By Noncitizens Act is 
5amended  by adding Section 6.1 as follows:
 
6    (765 ILCS 60/6.1 new)
7    Sec. 6.1. Noncitizens; property. Noncitizens may acquire 
8and hold real property only if the real property is purchased 
9from another noncitizen, and the personal estate of a 
10noncitizen dying intestate shall be escheated back to the 
11State. This shall include land subject to the Agricultural 
12Foreign Investment Disclosure Act.
 

13    (765 ILCS 60/7 rep.)


14    (765 ILCS 60/8 rep.)

15    Section 10. The Property Owned By Noncitizens Act is 
16amended  by repealing Sections 7 and 8.