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 1                    AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 517

 2        AMENDMENT NO.     .  Amend Senate Bill 517  by  replacing
 3    the title with the following:
 4        "AN ACT in relation to the Attorneys Lien Act."; and

 5    by  replacing  everything  after the enacting clause with the
 6    following:

 7        "Section 5.  The Attorneys Lien Act is amended by  adding
 8    Section 2 as follows:

 9        (770 ILCS 5/2 new)
10        Sec. 2.  Attorneys representing the State of Illinois.
11        (a)  The General Assembly finds as follows:
12             (1)    The  Attorneys  Lien Act provides a procedure
13        for attorneys at  law  to  obtain  a  lien  upon  claims,
14        demands,  and  causes  of action placed in their hands by
15        their clients for suit or collection, or upon which  suit
16        or  action has been instituted, for the amount of any fee
17        which may have been  agreed  upon  by  and  between  such
18        attorneys  and  their  clients, or in the absence of such
19        agreement, for a reasonable fee, for the services of such
20        suits, claims, demands, or causes of action,  plus  costs
21        and expenses.
 
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 1             (2)  The Attorneys Lien Act does not now create, nor
 2        has  it  ever  created, a lien for attorneys representing
 3        the State of  Illinois  in  suits,  claims,  demands,  or
 4        causes  of  action brought by such attorneys on behalf of
 5        the State of Illinois, for the amount of any fee from the
 6        State of Illinois which may be due such attorneys.
 7             (3)  Attorneys representing the  State  of  Illinois
 8        have  nevertheless  filed a lien in the case of People of
 9        the State of Illinois v. Philip Morris  et  al.  (Circuit
10        Court  of  Cook  County,  No. 96-L13146), which lien such
11        attorneys are attempting to enforce by claiming  a  right
12        to recover fees based on a contract entered into with the
13        State of Illinois.
14             (4)  The  Attorneys  Lien  Act therefore needs to be
15        clarified that it does not give rise,  nor  has  it  ever
16        given rise, to lien rights for attorneys in litigation in
17        which  they  are  representing  the State of Illinois for
18        fees allegedly owed by the State of Illinois.
19        (b)  This Act does not create a lien,  nor  has  it  ever
20    created  a  lien,  in  favor of any attorney representing the
21    State of Illinois in connection with (i) any  claim,  demand,
22    suit,  or  cause  of action pursued by the State of Illinois,
23    (ii) any verdict, judgment, or order entered in favor of  the
24    State  of  Illinois, or (iii) any money or property recovered
25    by the State of Illinois, and, as a particular application of
26    the foregoing, the Act did not create a lien in favor of  the
27    attorneys  representing  the State of Illinois in the case of
28    People of the State of  Illinois  v.  Philip  Morris  et  al.
29    (Circuit Court of Cook County, No. 96-L13146).
30        (c)  This  amendatory Act of the 92nd General Assembly is
31    declarative of existing law.

32        Section 99.  Effective date.  This Act takes effect  upon
33    becoming law.".

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