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+type: "Bill"
+title: "HOSPITALS-PATIENT RELIGION"
+description: "Amends the Hospital Licensing Act. Provides that every hospital must adopt policies and procedures to ensure that, in making decisions concerning the treatment of a patient at the hospital, health care professionals must take into account the patient's religious beliefs."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/il"
+legislature: "Illinois General Assembly"
+session: "95th"
+identifier: "HB 3604"
+citation: "Illinois HB 3604 (95th)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: []
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 32
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2007-02-27"
+last_action: "2007-08-14"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/812aff64-44cd-4734-a479-af62f697a0ca"
+source_url: "http://ilga.gov/legislation/BillStatus.asp?DocNum=3604&GAID=9&DocTypeID=HB&LegId=32481&SessionID=51&GA=95"
+source_hash: "2304983e6b9bfec2486023188f5f8f574b2053bb3d87913c7f284d24368fa638"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-il"]
+---
+
+# Illinois HB 3604 (95th) — HOSPITALS-PATIENT RELIGION
+
+Amends the Hospital Licensing Act. Provides that every hospital must adopt policies and procedures to ensure that, in making decisions concerning the treatment of a patient at the hospital, health care professionals must take into account the patient's religious beliefs.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](http://ilga.gov/legislation/fulltext.asp?DocName=09500HB3604&GA=95&SessionId=51&DocTypeId=HB&LegID=32481&DocNum=3604&GAID=9&Session=&print=true)
+2. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://ilga.gov/legislation/fulltext.asp?DocName=09500HB3604eng&GA=95&SessionId=51&DocTypeId=HB&LegID=32481&DocNum=3604&GAID=9&Session=&print=true)
+3. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://ilga.gov/legislation/fulltext.asp?DocName=09500HB3604enr&GA=95&SessionId=51&DocTypeId=HB&LegID=32481&DocNum=3604&GAID=9&Session=&print=true)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Third Reading — **116–0** (pass) · lower
+- Third Reading — **55–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Sara Feigenholtz — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2007-02-27** Filed with the Clerk by Rep. Sara Feigenholtz `filing`
+- **2007-02-28** First Reading `reading-1`
+- **2007-02-28** Referred to Rules Committee `referral-committee`
+- **2007-03-01** Assigned to Human Services Committee `referral-committee`
+- **2007-03-07** Do Pass / Short Debate Human Services Committee; 009-000-000 `committee-passage`
+- **2007-03-07** Placed on Calendar 2nd Reading - Short Debate
+- **2007-03-13** Second Reading - Short Debate `reading-2`
+- **2007-03-13** Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading - Short Debate
+- **2007-04-19** House Floor Amendment No. 1 Filed with Clerk by Rep. Sara Feigenholtz `amendment-introduction`
+- **2007-04-19** House Floor Amendment No. 1 Referred to Rules Committee `referral-committee`
+- **2007-04-23** House Floor Amendment No. 1 Recommends Be Adopted Rules Committee; 003-000-000 `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2007-04-24** Recalled to Second Reading - Short Debate `reading-2`
+- **2007-04-24** House Floor Amendment No. 1 Adopted by Voice Vote `amendment-passage`
+- **2007-04-24** Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading - Short Debate
+- **2007-04-25** Third Reading - Short Debate - Passed 116-000-000 `reading-3, passage`
+- **2007-04-26** Arrive in Senate `introduction`
+- **2007-04-26** Placed on Calendar Order of First Reading `reading-1`
+- **2007-04-26** Chief Senate Sponsor Sen. Ira I. Silverstein
+- **2007-04-26** First Reading `reading-1`
+- **2007-04-26** Referred to Rules `referral-committee`
+- **2007-05-02** Assigned to Public Health `referral-committee`
+- **2007-05-03** Added as Alternate Chief Co-Sponsor Sen. Jeffrey M. Schoenberg
+- **2007-05-15** Do Pass Public Health; 007-000-000 `committee-passage`
+- **2007-05-15** Placed on Calendar Order of 2nd Reading May 16, 2007
+- **2007-05-15** Second Reading `reading-2`
+- **2007-05-15** Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading May 16, 2007
+- **2007-05-18** Third Reading - Passed; 055-000-000 `reading-3, passage`
+- **2007-05-18** Passed Both Houses
+- **2007-06-15** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2007-08-14** Governor Approved `executive-signature`
+- **2007-08-14** Effective Date January 1, 2008
+- **2007-08-14** Public Act . . . . . . . . . 95-0181 `became-law`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/812aff64-44cd-4734-a479-af62f697a0ca`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Illinois legislature records).
+