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Amends the Illinois Estate and Generation-Skipping Transfer Tax Act. Makes changes concerning the taxes due under the Act on estates that contain qualified farm property. Provides that, for the purposes of calculating the State Death Tax Credit, those estates are subject to an exemption of $6,000,000 (rather than an exclusion amount of $4,000,000), which shall be deducted from the net estate value after the net estate value is computed in accordance with the Act. Provides that the exemption shall be adjusted each year according to the increase in the Consumer Price Index. Makes changes concerning the calculation of the deceased spousal unused exclusion amount for those estates. Provides for a special use valuation to provide that the value of the qualified farm property shall be calculated without regard to certain limitations under the Internal Revenue Code. Makes changes concerning the definition of "qualified heir". Effective January 1, 2027.
Introduced
Jan 27, 2026
Last Action
Mar 5, 2026
Session
IL 104th
Sponsors
1 primary · 11 co
Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Jason Plummer
Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Chris Balkema
Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Andrew S. Chesney
Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Meg Loughran Cappel
Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Terri Bryant
Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Paul Faraci
Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Linda Holmes
Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Christopher Belt
Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Suzy Glowiak Hilton
Added as Chief Co-Sponsor Sen. Patrick J. Joyce
Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Patrick J. Joyce
Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Javier L. Cervantes
Chief Sponsor Changed to Sen. Doris Turner
Filed with Secretary by Sen. Mattie Hunter
First Reading
Referred to Assignments
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Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Jason Plummer
Javier L. Cervantes
Andrew S. Chesney
Patrick J. Joyce