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+type: "Bill"
+title: "PHARMACY&CONT SUB-NURSE"
+description: "Amends the Pharmacy Practice Act. Provides that a patient's agent for picking up prescription orders from the prescriber or delivering prescription drugs to a patient includes an advanced practice nurse, practical nurse, or registered nurse licensed under the Nurse Practice Act who provides hospice services to a hospice patient or who provides home health services to a person. Amends the Illinois Controlled Substances Act. Provides that an advanced practice nurse, practical nurse, or registered nurse licensed under the Nurse Practice Act who provides hospice services to a hospice patient or who provides home health services to a person may lawfully possess controlled substances prescribed for the patient under a lawful prescription of a practitioner."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/il"
+legislature: "Illinois General Assembly"
+session: "99th"
+identifier: "SB 689"
+citation: "Illinois SB 689 (99th)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: []
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 35
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2015-02-03"
+last_action: "2015-07-28"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1dc73e76-9831-4e88-85f3-552c5eaa3c6c"
+source_url: "http://ilga.gov/legislation/BillStatus.asp?DocNum=689&GAID=13&DocTypeID=SB&LegId=84930&SessionID=88&GA=99"
+source_hash: "e5be814d128b0138602e48b8c00dcd6ce266a96b325275a8ab9c519245578f1d"
+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 SB 689 (99th) — PHARMACY&CONT SUB-NURSE
+
+Amends the Pharmacy Practice Act. Provides that a patient's agent for picking up prescription orders from the prescriber or delivering prescription drugs to a patient includes an advanced practice nurse, practical nurse, or registered nurse licensed under the Nurse Practice Act who provides hospice services to a hospice patient or who provides home health services to a person. Amends the Illinois Controlled Substances Act. Provides that an advanced practice nurse, practical nurse, or registered nurse licensed under the Nurse Practice Act who provides hospice services to a hospice patient or who provides home health services to a person may lawfully possess controlled substances prescribed for the patient under a lawful prescription of a practitioner.
+
+## 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=09900SB0689&GA=99&SessionId=88&DocTypeId=SB&LegID=84930&DocNum=689&GAID=13&Session=&print=true)
+2. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://ilga.gov/legislation/fulltext.asp?DocName=09900SB0689eng&GA=99&SessionId=88&DocTypeId=SB&LegID=84930&DocNum=689&GAID=13&Session=&print=true)
+3. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://ilga.gov/legislation/fulltext.asp?DocName=09900SB0689enr&GA=99&SessionId=88&DocTypeId=SB&LegID=84930&DocNum=689&GAID=13&Session=&print=true)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Third Reading — **52–0** (pass) · upper
+- Third Reading — **110–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Matt Murphy — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2015-02-03** Filed with Secretary by Sen. Matt Murphy `filing`
+- **2015-02-03** First Reading `reading-1`
+- **2015-02-03** Referred to Assignments `referral-committee`
+- **2015-02-11** Assigned to Criminal Law `referral-committee`
+- **2015-02-18** Do Pass Criminal Law; 011-000-000 `committee-passage`
+- **2015-02-18** Placed on Calendar Order of 2nd Reading February 19, 2015
+- **2015-03-04** Senate Floor Amendment No. 1 Filed with Secretary by Sen. Matt Murphy `amendment-introduction`
+- **2015-03-04** Senate Floor Amendment No. 1 Referred to Assignments `referral-committee`
+- **2015-03-10** Senate Floor Amendment No. 1 Assignments Refers to Criminal Law
+- **2015-03-11** Senate Floor Amendment No. 1 Postponed - Criminal Law
+- **2015-03-11** Added as Chief Co-Sponsor Sen. Pamela J. Althoff
+- **2015-03-18** Senate Floor Amendment No. 1 Recommend Do Adopt Criminal Law; 009-000-000
+- **2015-03-18** Second Reading `reading-2`
+- **2015-03-18** Senate Floor Amendment No. 1 Adopted; Murphy `amendment-passage`
+- **2015-03-18** Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading March 19, 2015
+- **2015-03-18** Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Gary Forby
+- **2015-03-26** Third Reading - Passed; 052-000-000 `reading-3, passage`
+- **2015-03-27** Arrived in House `introduction`
+- **2015-03-30** Chief House Sponsor Rep. Grant Wehrli
+- **2015-04-14** First Reading `reading-1`
+- **2015-04-14** Referred to Rules Committee `referral-committee`
+- **2015-04-20** Assigned to Health Care Licenses Committee `referral-committee`
+- **2015-04-23** Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Julie A. Morrison
+- **2015-04-23** Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. David Koehler
+- **2015-04-29** Do Pass / Short Debate Health Care Licenses Committee; 010-000-000 `committee-passage`
+- **2015-04-29** Placed on Calendar 2nd Reading - Short Debate
+- **2015-05-06** Second Reading - Short Debate `reading-2`
+- **2015-05-06** Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading - Short Debate
+- **2015-05-06** Added Alternate Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Frances Ann Hurley
+- **2015-05-07** Third Reading - Short Debate - Passed 110-000-001 `reading-3, passage`
+- **2015-05-07** Passed Both Houses
+- **2015-06-05** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2015-07-28** Governor Approved `executive-signature`
+- **2015-07-28** Effective Date January 1, 2016
+- **2015-07-28** Public Act . . . . . . . . . 99-0163 `became-law`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1dc73e76-9831-4e88-85f3-552c5eaa3c6c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Illinois legislature records).
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