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Child-earnings trust obligation
820 ILCS 205/2.6, 2.9, 12.6 (P.A. 103-0556, formerly SB 1782)
Not yet reviewed by an attorney. Primary text last checked August 30, 2026. This summary may be incomplete — see the open items below.
In plain language
Illinois's 820 ILCS 205/2.6, 2.9, 12.6 (P.A. 103-0556, formerly SB 1782) applies to children under 16. Once a child appears in 30% or more of a creator's compensated content over a 30-day period, the creator must set aside 50% of the child's share of compensation into a trust for that child.
- Effective
- 2024-07-01
- Status
- enacted
- Records required
- Yes
- Private right of action
- Yes
- Takedown right
- Not confirmed
- Hard age ban
- None
Notes
- Set-aside: half the percentage of content featuring the minor (100% featured -> 50% of gross; 30% featured -> 15% minimum).
- Minor has a private right of action if records are not kept, or if trust funding is knowingly/recklessly withheld.
- Released at 18 or emancipation.
Open items before this is fully reliable
- Engine models this as a continuously rolling 30-day window. The actual trigger is the 30%-in-any-30-day-period test being met at any point during the prior 12-month period — a 12-month look-back, not a simple rolling window. Not yet implemented.
- The statute also requires the minor's resulting compensation to meet a platform monetization threshold, or $0.10/view — a second eligibility prong the engine does not check at all (it only looks at content share).
- Two distinct private rights of action exist with different fault standards (strict liability for record-keeping failures under 2.6(d); 'knowingly or recklessly' for trust-funding failures under 12.6(c)) — the engine only tracks one boolean.