---
type: "Bill"
title: "HIGHER ED-CHIROPRACTIC-LOANS"
description: "Amends the Underserved Health Care Provider Workforce Act. Includes a student studying chiropractic medicine and chiropractic physicians in the Act's provisions. Amends the Loan Repayment for Physicians Act. Provides that the term \"physician\" means a person licensed under the Medical Practice Act of 1987 (instead of a person licensed under the Medical Practice Act of 1987 to practice medicine in all of its branches). Provides that the term \"educational loans\" means higher education student loans that a person has incurred in attending a registered professional physician education program, including a registered medical school or a registered chiropractic college or institution (instead of higher education student loans that a person has incurred in attending a registered professional physician education program)."
jurisdiction: "us/states/il"
legislature: "Illinois General Assembly"
session: "103rd"
identifier: "SB 1590"
citation: "Illinois SB 1590 (103rd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Christopher Belt", "Jay Hoffman"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 31
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2023-02-08"
last_action: "2023-06-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9b2ee9ad-1ca7-464f-b251-98d16b9d1637"
source_url: "https://beta.ilga.gov/Legislation/BillStatus?DocNum=1590&GAID=17&DocTypeID=SB&LegId=146347&SessionID=112"
source_hash: "a4fd0c5e46494c0a25ebaf6b2e75beb6bbe368e3c615f83781228b072555b599"
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 1590 (103rd) — HIGHER ED-CHIROPRACTIC-LOANS

Amends the Underserved Health Care Provider Workforce Act. Includes a student studying chiropractic medicine and chiropractic physicians in the Act's provisions. Amends the Loan Repayment for Physicians Act. Provides that the term "physician" means a person licensed under the Medical Practice Act of 1987 (instead of a person licensed under the Medical Practice Act of 1987 to practice medicine in all of its branches). Provides that the term "educational loans" means higher education student loans that a person has incurred in attending a registered professional physician education program, including a registered medical school or a registered chiropractic college or institution (instead of higher education student loans that a person has incurred in attending a registered professional physician education program).

## Version chain

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

1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://beta.ilga.gov/documents/legislation/103/SB/PDF/10300SB1590.pdf)
2. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://beta.ilga.gov/documents/legislation/103/SB/PDF/10300SB1590eng.pdf)
3. **Senate Amendment 001** (committee substitute) — [source](https://beta.ilga.gov/documents/legislation/103/SB/PDF/10300SB1590sam001.pdf)
4. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://beta.ilga.gov/documents/legislation/103/SB/PDF/10300SB1590enr.pdf)

## Votes

- Higher Education — **10–0** (pass) · lower
- Licensed Activities — **9–0** (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — **57–0** (pass) · lower
- Licensed Activities — **9–0** (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — **107–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Christopher Belt — primary (person)
- Jay Hoffman — primary (person)
- Kevin Schmidt — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-02-08** Filed with Secretary by Sen. Christopher Belt `filing`
- **2023-02-08** First Reading `reading-1`
- **2023-02-08** Referred to Assignments
- **2023-02-14** Assigned to Licensed Activities `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-23** Postponed - Licensed Activities
- **2023-03-02** Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 Filed with Secretary by Sen. Christopher Belt `amendment-introduction`
- **2023-03-02** Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 Referred to Assignments
- **2023-03-07** Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 Assignments Refers to Licensed Activities
- **2023-03-08** Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 Adopted; Licensed Activities `amendment-passage`
- **2023-03-09** Do Pass as Amended Licensed Activities; 009-000-000
- **2023-03-09** Placed on Calendar Order of 2nd Reading March 10, 2023 `reading-2`
- **2023-03-10** Second Reading `reading-2`
- **2023-03-10** Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading March 21, 2023
- **2023-03-23** Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading ** March 24, 2023
- **2023-03-29** Third Reading - Passed; 057-000-000 `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-03-30** Arrived in House `introduction`
- **2023-03-30** Chief House Sponsor Rep. Jay Hoffman
- **2023-03-30** First Reading `reading-1`
- **2023-03-30** Referred to Rules Committee
- **2023-04-18** Assigned to Higher Education Committee `referral-committee`
- **2023-04-20** Added Alternate Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Kevin Schmidt
- **2023-04-26** Do Pass / Short Debate Higher Education Committee; 010-000-000
- **2023-04-27** Placed on Calendar 2nd Reading - Short Debate `reading-2`
- **2023-05-02** Second Reading - Short Debate `reading-2`
- **2023-05-02** Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading - Short Debate
- **2023-05-11** Third Reading - Short Debate - Passed 107-000-000 `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-05-11** Passed Both Houses
- **2023-06-09** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2023-06-30** Governor Approved `executive-signature`
- **2023-06-30** Effective Date January 1, 2024
- **2023-06-30** Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0219 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9b2ee9ad-1ca7-464f-b251-98d16b9d1637`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Illinois legislature records).