Peoria Standard

Sen. Jil Tracy (R-Quincy) is making it easier to serve someone by allowing email notification in contested cases.

“This bill amends the Illinois Administrative Procedure Act and it provides that notice to a party in a contested case shall be formed in other forms and shall include email,” Tracy said of SB2644 during Senate debate April 17.

Based on the bill synopsis, the law “provides that an agency may request, but not require, unless otherwise required by law, an unrepresented party to designate an email address to which specified documents may be transmitted,” and “provides that no document described in specified provisions may be served by email to the extent the documents contains certain specified information.”

The service by email is considered complete on the day of communication.

“I would appreciate an I vote,” Tracy said, and fellow senators agreed, approving the measure 53-0.