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 1                     AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 774

 2        AMENDMENT NO.     .  Amend House Bill  774  by  replacing
 3    everything after the enacting clause with the following:

 4        "Section  5.  The  Trusts  and Trustees Act is amended by
 5    adding Section 5.3 as follows:

 6        (760 ILCS 5/5.3 new)
 7        Sec. 5.3.  Investing for total return. With  the  consent
 8    of  the beneficiaries then entitled to receive or eligible to
 9    have the benefit  of  the  income,  and  in  the  absence  of
10    specific  direction  to  the  contrary  by the settlor in the
11    trust document, a trustee may, but is not required to, invest
12    for total return. A trustee invests for total return when the
13    trustee, exercising reasonable business judgment, invests the
14    trust's portfolio with the object  of  increasing  the  total
15    return from the trust's investments expected over the life of
16    the trust without regard to whether the return takes the form
17    of current income or capital gain.
18        If  a trustee invests for total return, the income of the
19    trust  shall  be  credited  with  income  from  the   trust's
20    investments  in accordance with the Principal and Income Act,
21    and shall also be credited, first from realized capital gain,
22    and then from unrealized capital gain, but only to the extent
 
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 1    either gain exists, with the  additional  income  amount.  As
 2    used  in  this  Section, "additional income amount" means the
 3    amount of additional trust accounting income,  if  any,  that
 4    would  have been earned by the trust had the trustee invested
 5    without regard to a total return  approach  and  the  trust's
 6    portfolio  had  been  allocated among asset classes solely in
 7    accordance with the duty  to  balance  the  needs  of  income
 8    beneficiaries  for  trust accounting income and the interests
 9    of remaindermen in growth of principal.  In  determining  the
10    amount  of additional trust accounting income that would have
11    been generated from the portfolio   allocation,  the  trustee
12    may  use the average current income return for market indices
13    that are customarily used by trustees in the  measurement  of
14    investment performance for each such asset class.
15        The trustee shall credit the income of the trust with the
16    additional  income  amount within a reasonable time after the
17    close of the trust's tax year, and shall  calculate  realized
18    and  unrealized  capital gains as of the close of the trust's
19    tax year on average over the 3 preceding tax  years  (or,  if
20    the  trust has existed for less than 3 years, over the lesser
21    number of years).
22        A trustee's judgment concerning any portfolio allocation,
23    any additional income amount, or investing for  total  return
24    under  this  Section may be challenged if it  was an abuse of
25    discretion. A court may determine that a trustee  abused  its
26    discretion  only  if  the trustee's judgment was inconsistent
27    with the prudent investor rule, but not  merely  because  the
28    court  would  have  made a different judgment.  A beneficiary
29    who  challenges  a  trustee's  judgment  has  the  burden  of
30    establishing that it was an abuse of discretion.
31        A trustee shall  notify  the  primary  beneficiaries,  as
32    defined  in  Section  16.1  of  this  Act, of its election to
33    invest for total return and  the  election  shall  remain  in
34    effect until revoked by a notice from the trustee to the then
 
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 1    primary beneficiaries.".

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