Bill
HB 2568
Extends equal parentage rights to children regardless of family form or conception method.
Status: Sent to the Governor (Enrolled / Re‑enrolled version enacted by General Assembly with amendments).
Introduced: February 7, 2025.
Primary subjects: Illinois Parentage Act of 2015 (parentage/surrogacy), Illinois Trust Code, Revised Uniform Unclaimed Property Act.
HB 2568 is a multi‑topic bill that (1) updates Illinois parentage law to ensure equal treatment of children and parents regardless of family form or method of conception (titled in the text the "Equality for Every Family Act"); (2) strengthens trustee recordkeeping and duties to search for unclaimed trust property; and (3) revises the State’s unclaimed‑property regime — changing presumptions of abandonment, reporting duties, enforcement authority, and procedures for recovery and escheat.
Parentage Act (750 ILCS 46 — “Equality for Every Family Act”)
- Rewrites public policy and many definitions to clarify that parent–child relationships and parental obligations extend equally to all children, regardless of parents’ marital status, age, gender, gender identity, or sexual orientation, and regardless of birth circumstances (including assisted reproduction and surrogacy).
- Adds and updates definitions (e.g., “assisted reproduction,” “gestational surrogacy,” “intended parent,” and genetic testing/parentage metrics).
- Makes numerous technical and substantive edits throughout Articles 1–9 of the Parentage Act (multiple sections listed).
Trust Code (760 ILCS 3)
- Requires trustees to take reasonable steps to control and protect trust property, including searching for and, where practicable, claiming unclaimed or presumptively abandoned property.
- Strengthens recordkeeping: trustees must keep adequate trust administration records and retain governing trust instruments and related trust records for a minimum of 7 years after trust termination; requires a search for presumptively abandoned property before destroying records.
Revised Uniform Unclaimed Property Act (765 ILCS 1026)
- Establishes new or modified definitions and procedures (finders, escheat fees, electronic game‑related property, etc.).
- Presumption of abandonment extended / clarified for certain tax‑deferred accounts: property in plans/accounts that qualify for U.S. tax deferral (including health savings accounts) is presumed abandoned 20 years after account opening (per bill synopsis).
- Requires State agencies to report final compensation due to a State employee who dies while employed as unclaimed property to the Treasurer.
- Makes holders of presumed‑abandoned property hold it in trust for the State Treasurer from the date the property is presumed abandoned.
- Requires the Treasurer to notify a State agency and the Governor’s Office of Management and Budget before escheating property allegedly owned by that agency to the General Revenue Fund if unclaimed after one year.
- Grants the Secretary of the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation authority to order regulated persons to immediately report/remit property in urgent situations.
- Creates a licensing/qualification regime for “finders” who contract with owners to recover property from the Treasurer.
- Adds procedural cooperation duties among State officers/agencies to help locate apparent owners and provisions for outreach/notice (including an administrator contact attempt in the 10th year after account opening).
If you want, I can:
- Extract and list the exact statutory subsections changed and provide side‑by‑side before/after language for selected sections (e.g., trust record retention or the HSA abandonment rule).
- Produce a short plain‑language explainer for families and for trustees/holders describing new obligations.
Compiled from official sources — confirm details with the bill’s official record.
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