Public Act 100-1079
 
SB3120 EnrolledLRB100 19566 JLS 34834 b

    AN ACT concerning civil law.
 
    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
 
    Section 5. The Probate Act of 1975 is amended by changing
Section 18-10 as follows:
 
    (755 ILCS 5/18-10)  (from Ch. 110 1/2, par. 18-10)
    Sec. 18-10. Classification of claims against decedent's
estate. All claims against the estate of a decedent are divided
into classes in the manner following:
    1st: Funeral and burial expenses, expenses of
administration, and statutory custodial claims. For the
purposes of this paragraph, funeral and burial expenses paid by
any person, including a surviving spouse, are funeral and
burial expenses; and funeral and burial expenses include
reasonable amounts paid for a burial space, crypt or niche, a
marker on the burial space, care of the burial space, crypt or
niche, and interest on these amounts. Interest on these amounts
shall accrue beginning 60 days after issuance of letters of
office to the representative of the decedent's estate, or if no
such letters of office are issued, then beginning 60 days after
those amounts are due, up to the rate of 9% per annum as
allowed by contract or law.
    2nd: The surviving spouse's or child's award.
    3rd: Debts due the United States.
    4th: Reasonable and necessary medical, hospital, and
nursing home expenses for the care of the decedent during the
year immediately preceding death; and money Money due employees
of the decedent of not more than $800 for each claimant for
services rendered within 4 months prior to the decedent's death
and expenses attending the last illness.
    5th: Money and property received or held in trust by
decedent which cannot be identified or traced.
    6th: Debts due this State and any county, township, city,
town, village or school district located within this State.
    7th: All other claims.
(Source: P.A. 87-509.)
 
    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.