---
type: "Bill"
title: "EDUCATION-TECH"
description: "Amends the Educational Opportunity for Military Children Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title."
jurisdiction: "us/states/il"
legislature: "Illinois General Assembly"
session: "104th"
identifier: "SB 409"
citation: "Illinois SB 409 (104th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Aarón M. Ortíz", "Robert Peters"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 40
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2025-01-24"
last_action: "2025-08-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6b1f95ed-05a0-40e1-8f5e-fa0960d2dcad"
source_url: "https://ilga.gov/Legislation/BillStatus?DocNum=409&GAID=18&DocTypeID=SB&LegId=158035&SessionID=114"
source_hash: "8c9e52b385edc7802466e95720ce2db49df488984f9bd55656654a98dec24da5"
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 409 (104th) — EDUCATION-TECH

Amends the Educational Opportunity for Military Children Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.

## Version chain

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

1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://ilga.gov/documents/legislation/104/SB/PDF/10400SB0409.pdf)
2. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://ilga.gov/documents/legislation/104/SB/PDF/10400SB0409eng.pdf)
3. **Senate Amendment 001** (committee substitute) — [source](https://ilga.gov/documents/legislation/104/SB/PDF/10400SB0409sam001.pdf)
4. **Senate Amendment 002** (committee substitute) — [source](https://ilga.gov/documents/legislation/104/SB/PDF/10400SB0409sam002.pdf)
5. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://ilga.gov/documents/legislation/104/SB/PDF/10400SB0409enr.pdf)

## Votes

- Executive — **11–0** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **92–19** (pass) · lower
- Higher Education — **10–0** (pass) · lower
- Higher Education, Amendment 2 — **12–0** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **57–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Aarón M. Ortíz — primary (person)
- Robert Peters — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-24** Filed with Secretary by Sen. Don Harmon `filing`
- **2025-01-24** First Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-01-24** Referred to Assignments
- **2025-03-12** Assigned to Executive `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-19** Do Pass Executive; 011-000-000
- **2025-03-19** Placed on Calendar Order of 2nd Reading March 20, 2025 `reading-2`
- **2025-03-20** Second Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-03-20** Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading April 1, 2025
- **2025-04-09** Senate Floor Amendment No. 1 Filed with Secretary by Sen. Robert Peters `amendment-introduction`
- **2025-04-09** Senate Floor Amendment No. 1 Referred to Assignments
- **2025-04-11** Rule 2-10 Third Reading Deadline Established As May 9, 2025
- **2025-04-23** Senate Floor Amendment No. 1 Assignments Refers to Higher Education
- **2025-04-29** Chief Sponsor Changed to Sen. Robert Peters
- **2025-04-29** Senate Floor Amendment No. 2 Filed with Secretary by Sen. Robert Peters `amendment-introduction`
- **2025-04-29** Senate Floor Amendment No. 2 Referred to Assignments
- **2025-04-30** Senate Floor Amendment No. 2 Assignments Refers to Higher Education
- **2025-05-07** Senate Floor Amendment No. 2 Recommend Do Adopt Higher Education; 012-000-000
- **2025-05-07** Recalled to Second Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-05-07** Senate Floor Amendment No. 2 Adopted; Peters `amendment-passage`
- **2025-05-07** Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading
- **2025-05-07** Third Reading - Passed; 057-000-000 `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-05-07** Senate Floor Amendment No. 1 Tabled Pursuant to Rule 5-4(a) `amendment-failure`
- **2025-05-07** Arrived in House `introduction`
- **2025-05-07** Chief House Sponsor Rep. Emanuel "Chris" Welch
- **2025-05-07** First Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-05-07** Referred to Rules Committee
- **2025-05-13** Alternate Chief Sponsor Changed to Rep. Aarón M. Ortíz
- **2025-05-13** Assigned to Higher Education Committee `referral-committee`
- **2025-05-13** Committee/Final Action Deadline Extended-9(b) May 31, 2025
- **2025-05-21** Do Pass / Short Debate Higher Education Committee; 010-000-000
- **2025-05-21** Placed on Calendar 2nd Reading - Short Debate `reading-2`
- **2025-05-21** Second Reading - Short Debate `reading-2`
- **2025-05-21** Held on Calendar Order of Second Reading - Short Debate `reading-2`
- **2025-05-22** Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading - Short Debate
- **2025-05-22** Third Reading - Short Debate - Passed 092-019-000 `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-05-22** Passed Both Houses
- **2025-06-20** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-08-15** Governor Approved `executive-signature`
- **2025-08-15** Effective Date January 1, 2026
- **2025-08-15** Public Act . . . . . . . . . 104-0357 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6b1f95ed-05a0-40e1-8f5e-fa0960d2dcad`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Illinois legislature records).