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91_SB0750

 
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 1        AN ACT concerning interest, amending named Acts.

 2        Be it enacted by the People of  the  State  of  Illinois,
 3    represented in the General Assembly:

 4        Section  5.  The  Code  of  Civil Procedure is amended by
 5    changing Section 2-1303 as follows:

 6        (735 ILCS 5/2-1303) (from Ch. 110, par. 2-1303)
 7        Sec. 2-1303.  Prejudgment and  postjudgment  interest  on
 8    judgment.
 9        (a)  Prejudgment interest shall be recovered as follows:
10             (1)  On  all  moneys  after  they  become due on any
11        bond, bill,  promissory  note,  or  other  instrument  in
12        writing.
13             (2)  On  money  lent  or  advanced  for  the  use of
14        another.
15             (3)  On money due on the settlement of account  from
16        the  day  of liquidating accounts between the parties and
17        ascertaining the balance.
18             (4)  On money received to the  use  of  another  and
19        retained without the owner's knowledge.
20             (5)  On   money  withheld  by  an  unreasonable  and
21        vexatious delay of payment.
22             (6)  On a sum awarded  for  breach  of  an  oral  or
23        written agreement.
24             (7)  Because  of  an  intentional  act  depriving or
25        otherwise interfering with title  to,  or  enjoyment  of,
26        real or personal property, including money.
27             (8)  As otherwise provided by law or in equity.
28        (b)  Prejudgment interest shall be computed from the date
29    the  cause  of  action  first  arose, except that interest on
30    damages incurred after that date shall be computed  from  the
31    date  incurred.   If  the  damages  were  incurred at various
 
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 1    times, interest shall be computed on each item from the  date
 2    it  was  incurred  or  on  all  of  the damages from a single
 3    reasonable intermediate date.
 4        (c)  Except as otherwise agreed, the rate of  prejudgment
 5    interest  for  each calendar year or portion thereof shall be
 6    1% per annum above the rate equal to the coupon  issue  yield
 7    equivalent  (as  determined by the United States Secretary of
 8    the Treasury) of the average accepted auction price  for  the
 9    last   auction   of  52-week  United  States  Treasury  bills
10    conducted during the preceding calendar year.   The  rate  of
11    prejudgment  interest shall be computed each calendar year in
12    accordance with this subsection and shall be applied daily to
13    the date of judgment.
14        (d)  Judgments recovered in any court shall draw interest
15    at the rate of 3% per annum above the  rate  for  prejudgment
16    interest,  calculated  from  the  date  of the judgment until
17    satisfied except when the judgment debtor is a unit of  local
18    government  as  defined  in  Section  1 of Article VII of the
19    Constitution,  a  school  district,   a   community   college
20    district, or any other governmental entity, in which case the
21    rate  shall  be  equal  to the rate for prejudgment interest.
22    When judgment is entered upon any award, report, or  verdict,
23    interest  shall  be  computed  at  the rate specified in this
24    subsection (d), determined as of the day  of  judgment,  from
25    the  time  when  the award, report, or verdict is rendered to
26    the time judgment is entered thereon, and shall  be  included
27    in the judgment.  Interest shall be computed and charged only
28    on  the unsatisfied portion of the judgment as it exists from
29    time to time.  The judgment debtor may, by tender of  payment
30    of  judgment,  costs,  and  interest  accrued  to the date of
31    tender, stop the further accrual of interest on the  judgment
32    notwithstanding  the  prosecution of an appeal or other steps
33    to reverse, vacate, or modify the judgment.
34        (e)  The courts shall take judicial notice of  the  rates
 
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 1    provided in this Section.
 2        (f)  Subsections  (a)  through  (e)  apply  to  causes if
 3    action accruing on  or  after  the  effective  date  of  this
 4    amendatory Act of the 91st General Assembly.
 5        (g)  This  subsection  (g)  applies  to  causes of action
 6    accruing before the effective date of this amendatory Act  of
 7    the  91st  General Assembly. Judgments recovered in any court
 8    shall draw interest at the rate of 9% per annum from the date
 9    of the judgment until satisfied or  6%  per  annum  when  the
10    judgment  debtor is a unit of local government, as defined in
11    Section 1 of  Article  VII  of  the  Constitution,  a  school
12    district,   a   community  college  district,  or  any  other
13    governmental entity.   When  judgment  is  entered  upon  any
14    award,  report  or verdict, interest shall be computed at the
15    above rate, from the time when made or rendered to  the  time
16    of  entering  judgment  upon  the  same,  and included in the
17    judgment.  Interest shall be computed and charged only on the
18    unsatisfied portion of the judgment as it exists from time to
19    time.  The judgment  debtor  may  by  tender  of  payment  of
20    judgment,  costs  and interest accrued to the date of tender,
21    stop  the  further  accrual  of  interest  on  such  judgment
22    notwithstanding the prosecution of an appeal, or other  steps
23    to reverse, vacate or modify the judgment.
24    (Source: P.A. 85-907.)

25        Section  10.  The  Interest  Act  is  amended by changing
26    Section 2 as follows:

27        (815 ILCS 205/2) (from Ch. 17, par. 6402)
28        Sec. 2. This Section does not apply to causes  of  action
29    accruing  on  or  after the effective date of this amendatory
30    Act of the 91st General Assembly.  Creditors shall be allowed
31    to receive at the rate of five (5) per centum per  annum  for
32    all   moneys  after  they  become  due  on  any  bond,  bill,
 
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 1    promissory note, or other instrument  of  writing;  on  money
 2    lent  or advanced for the use of another; on money due on the
 3    settlement of account from the day  of  liquidating  accounts
 4    between  the  parties  and ascertaining the balance; on money
 5    received to the use  of  another  and  retained  without  the
 6    owner's  knowledge;  and on money withheld by an unreasonable
 7    and  vexatious  delay  of  payment.  In  the  absence  of  an
 8    agreement between the creditor and debtor governing  interest
 9    charges,  upon  30  days'  written  notice  to the debtor, an
10    assignee or agent of the  creditor  may  charge  and  collect
11    interest as provided in this Section on behalf of a creditor.
12    (Source: P.A. 90-417, eff. 1-1-98.)

13        Section  99.  Effective date.  This Act takes effect upon
14    becoming law.

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