On June 25, 2021, the governor of Illinois signed a bill (2021 IL S.B. 2176) that enacts the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act (UETA) in the state (815 ILCS 333/1 to 333/20.5). The new law also:

Illinois became the 49th state to adopt the UETA, along with the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands. New York is the only state that has not adopted the UETA (but it has adopted a similar law making electronic signatures legally enforceable). The bill repealed Illinois’s prior electronic signature law, the Electronic Commerce Security Act (ECSA). The Illinois UETA applies to any electronic record or electronic signature created, generated, sent, communicated, received, or stored on or after June 25, 2021, the effective date of the act (815 ILCS 333/4).

As a result of the adoption of the UETA, Practical Law is in the process of updating the following standard clauses:

For more information, see Practice Note, Signature Requirements for an Enforceable Contract.