---
type: "Bill"
title: "COMMUNAL KITCHENS"
description: "Amends the Food Handling Regulation Enforcement Act. Prohibits a public health district from regulating the preparing and serving of food in a private residential leasehold that is prepared by or for the lessees and consumed by the lessees and their guests."
jurisdiction: "us/states/il"
legislature: "Illinois General Assembly"
session: "101st"
identifier: "SB 2068"
citation: "Illinois SB 2068 (101st)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 3
action_count: 26
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-02-15"
last_action: "2019-08-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b4dcb0f9-a112-40e3-9334-062bf6ee5ea3"
source_url: "http://ilga.gov/legislation/BillStatus.asp?DocNum=2068&GAID=15&DocTypeID=SB&LegId=120145&SessionID=108&GA=101"
source_hash: "8e656ce0a90b5a7b903bd5062b5f1f119ee71acd72272d454bd3fd2b66563f1d"
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 2068 (101st) — COMMUNAL KITCHENS

Amends the Food Handling Regulation Enforcement Act. Prohibits a public health district from regulating the preparing and serving of food in a private residential leasehold that is prepared by or for the lessees and consumed by the lessees and their guests.

## 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=10100SB2068&GA=101&SessionId=108&DocTypeId=SB&LegID=120145&DocNum=2068&GAID=15&SpecSess=&Session=&print=true)
2. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://ilga.gov/legislation/fulltext.asp?DocName=10100SB2068eng&GA=101&SessionId=108&DocTypeId=SB&LegID=120145&DocNum=2068&GAID=15&SpecSess=&Session=&print=true)
3. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://ilga.gov/legislation/fulltext.asp?DocName=10100SB2068enr&GA=101&SessionId=108&DocTypeId=SB&LegID=120145&DocNum=2068&GAID=15&SpecSess=&Session=&print=true)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **53–0** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **104–6** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Chapin Rose — primary (person)
- Dan Caulkins — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2019-02-15** Filed with Secretary by Sen. Chapin Rose `filing`
- **2019-02-15** First Reading `reading-1`
- **2019-02-15** Referred to Assignments `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-05** Assigned to Human Services `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-12** Do Pass Human Services; 010-000-000 `committee-passage`
- **2019-03-12** Placed on Calendar Order of 2nd Reading March 13, 2019
- **2019-03-13** Second Reading `reading-2`
- **2019-03-13** Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading March 14, 2019
- **2019-03-27** Third Reading - Passed; 053-000-000 `reading-3, passage`
- **2019-03-27** Arrived in House `introduction`
- **2019-03-27** Chief House Sponsor Rep. Dan Caulkins
- **2019-03-27** First Reading `reading-1`
- **2019-03-27** Referred to Rules Committee `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-09** Assigned to Labor & Commerce Committee `referral-committee`
- **2019-05-08** Do Pass / Short Debate Labor & Commerce Committee; 024-000-000 `committee-passage`
- **2019-05-09** Placed on Calendar 2nd Reading - Short Debate
- **2019-05-16** Second Reading - Short Debate `reading-2`
- **2019-05-16** Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading - Short Debate
- **2019-05-23** Third Reading - Short Debate - Passed 104-006-000 `reading-3, passage`
- **2019-05-23** Motion Filed to Reconsider Vote Rep. La Shawn K. Ford
- **2019-05-23** Motion to Reconsider Vote - Withdrawn Rep. La Shawn K. Ford
- **2019-05-23** Passed Both Houses
- **2019-06-21** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2019-08-16** Governor Approved `executive-signature`
- **2019-08-16** Effective Date January 1, 2020
- **2019-08-16** Public Act . . . . . . . . . 101-0425 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b4dcb0f9-a112-40e3-9334-062bf6ee5ea3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Illinois legislature records).