SB 2111

Abstract

Amends the Illinois Administrative Procedure Act. Provides that each final order must contain the name and the address of all parties of record to be named as defendants in judicial review. Amends the Administrative Review Law of the Code of Civil Procedure. Provides that the Administrative Review Law shall be liberally construed in the interests of justice to grant an orderly method of judicial review of administrative agency decisions. Changes provisions regarding amendment of a complaint to allow the addition as a party of any person or entity whom the court finds to have been a party to the administrative hearing that is the subject of review who was not otherwise named in the original complaint; also provides that the new party or parties must be added within 35 days after the court makes such a finding. Provides that, except as otherwise provided, in an action to review a final decision of an administrative agency, the administrative agency and all persons, other than the plaintiff or petitioner, who were identified in the final order as parties of record to the proceedings before the administrative agency shall be made defendants or respondents and may be served with summons at the address listed for each such party in the final written decision of the agency; also deletes certain language regarding naming of, and service upon, an unnamed party as a defendant or respondent. Contains applicability provisions. Effective immediately.