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| | 104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2025 and 2026
SB3604 Introduced 2/5/2026, by Sen. Steve Stadelman SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
| | | Amends the Cemetery Oversight Act. In provisions concerning the Cemetery Relief Fund, provides that the Fund shall be used by the State Comptroller (instead of the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation) solely for the purpose of providing reimbursements (instead of grants) to units of local government, to cemeteries registered with the State Comptroller, and to not-for-profit organizations to clean up cemeteries that have been abandoned or neglected, are at risk of going into receivership, insolvency, or being abandoned, or are otherwise in need of additional care. Provides that, in the event there is a structural surplus in the Cemetery Oversight Licensing and Disciplinary Fund, the Department may transfer (instead of expend) moneys out of the Cemetery Oversight Licensing and Disciplinary Fund for the reimbursements. |
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| 1 | | AN ACT concerning regulation.
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| 2 | | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, |
| 3 | | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | | Section 5. The Cemetery Oversight Act is amended by |
| 5 | | changing Section 25-75 as follows:
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| 6 | | (225 ILCS 411/25-75) |
| 7 | | (Section scheduled to be repealed on January 1, 2027) |
| 8 | | Sec. 25-75. Cemetery Relief Fund. |
| 9 | | (a) A special income-earning fund is hereby created in the |
| 10 | | State treasury, known as the Cemetery Relief Fund. |
| 11 | | (b) Beginning on July 1, 2011, and occurring on an annual |
| 12 | | basis every year thereafter, three percent of the moneys in |
| 13 | | the Cemetery Oversight Licensing and Disciplinary Fund shall |
| 14 | | be transferred into the Cemetery Relief Fund. |
| 15 | | (c) All moneys monies transferred into the Fund fund |
| 16 | | together with all accumulated undistributed income thereon |
| 17 | | shall be held as a special fund in the State treasury. The Fund |
| 18 | | fund shall be used by the State Comptroller solely for the |
| 19 | | purpose of providing reimbursements grants to units of local |
| 20 | | government, to cemeteries registered with the State |
| 21 | | Comptroller, and to not-for-profit organizations, including, |
| 22 | | but not limited to, not-for-profit cemetery authorities, to |
| 23 | | clean up cemeteries that have been abandoned or , neglected, |