---
type: "Bill"
title: "FIREFIGHTER EXAMINATION AGE"
description: "Amends the Illinois Municipal Code and the Fire Protection District Act. Provides that a person 35 years of age or older who has served a municipality as a regularly enrolled volunteer, paid-on-call, or part-time firefighter is eligible to take an examination for a position as a firefighter (removing a requirement the volunteer, paid-on-call, or part-time work was 5 years immediately preceding the time that the municipality begins to use full-time firefighters to provide all or part of its fire protection service). Effective immediately."
jurisdiction: "us/states/il"
legislature: "Illinois General Assembly"
session: "102nd"
identifier: "SB 2150"
citation: "Illinois SB 2150 (102nd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Adam Niemerg", "Darren Bailey"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 29
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-02-26"
last_action: "2021-08-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/19569ea2-5233-4600-bc34-0a5720ecff4a"
source_url: "https://ilga.gov/legislation/BillStatus.asp?DocNum=2150&GAID=16&DocTypeID=SB&LegId=134801&SessionID=110&GA=102"
source_hash: "d48212d18098607655de38debd42e4e80c842a6287bdc1f1af9cfb816149167c"
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 2150 (102nd) — FIREFIGHTER EXAMINATION AGE

Amends the Illinois Municipal Code and the Fire Protection District Act. Provides that a person 35 years of age or older who has served a municipality as a regularly enrolled volunteer, paid-on-call, or part-time firefighter is eligible to take an examination for a position as a firefighter (removing a requirement the volunteer, paid-on-call, or part-time work was 5 years immediately preceding the time that the municipality begins to use full-time firefighters to provide all or part of its fire protection service). Effective immediately.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://ilga.gov/legislation/102/SB/PDF/10200SB2150.pdf)
2. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://ilga.gov/legislation/102/SB/PDF/10200SB2150eng.pdf)
3. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://ilga.gov/legislation/102/SB/PDF/10200SB2150enr.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **58–0** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **117–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Adam Niemerg — primary (person)
- Darren Bailey — primary (person)
- Andrew S. Chesney — cosponsor (person)
- Angelica Guerrero-Cuellar — cosponsor (person)
- Chapin Rose — cosponsor (person)
- Paul Jacobs — cosponsor (person)
- Rachelle Crowe — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-02-26** Filed with Secretary by Sen. Darren Bailey `filing`
- **2021-02-26** First Reading `reading-1`
- **2021-02-26** Referred to Assignments `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-16** Assigned to Public Safety `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-14** Do Pass Public Safety; 007-000-000 `committee-passage`
- **2021-04-14** Placed on Calendar Order of 2nd Reading April 15, 2021
- **2021-04-20** Second Reading `reading-2`
- **2021-04-20** Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading ** April 21, 2021
- **2021-04-22** Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Chapin Rose
- **2021-04-23** Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Rachelle Crowe
- **2021-04-23** Third Reading - Passed; 058-000-000 `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-04-26** Arrived in House `introduction`
- **2021-04-26** Chief House Sponsor Rep. Adam Niemerg
- **2021-04-27** First Reading `reading-1`
- **2021-04-27** Referred to Rules Committee `referral-committee`
- **2021-05-04** Assigned to Police & Fire Committee `referral-committee`
- **2021-05-13** Do Pass / Short Debate Police & Fire Committee; 013-000-001 `committee-passage`
- **2021-05-13** Placed on Calendar 2nd Reading - Short Debate
- **2021-05-13** Added Alternate Co-Sponsor Rep. Angelica Guerrero-Cuellar
- **2021-05-13** Added Alternate Co-Sponsor Rep. Andrew S. Chesney
- **2021-05-13** Added Alternate Co-Sponsor Rep. Paul Jacobs
- **2021-05-19** Second Reading - Short Debate `reading-2`
- **2021-05-19** Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading - Short Debate
- **2021-05-20** Third Reading - Short Debate - Passed 117-000-000 `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-05-20** Passed Both Houses
- **2021-06-17** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2021-08-13** Governor Approved `executive-signature`
- **2021-08-13** Effective Date August 13, 2021
- **2021-08-13** Public Act . . . . . . . . . 102-0375 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/19569ea2-5233-4600-bc34-0a5720ecff4a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Illinois legislature records).