HB4380 Summary

• Replaces the term "born out of wedlock" with "nonmarital child" throughout Illinois law to update terminology while maintaining substantive legal rights and protections.

• Ensures nonmarital children have equal pension benefits, inheritance rights, and eligibility for survivor compensation as children born to married parents across multiple state codes.

• Updates sex education curriculum requirements in grades 6-12 to emphasize both abstinence and contraception, require medically accurate and age-appropriate content, and allow parental opt-out without academic penalty.

• Modifies insurance coverage provisions to prevent denial of health insurance enrollment for children based on their nonmarital status and requires insurers to facilitate custodial parent access to coverage information.

• Applies changes retroactively to pending cases and instruments executed after specified effective dates to ensure consistent application of updated terminology and legal standards.