---
type: "Bill"
title: "NURSE AGENCY-CIVIL PENALTIES"
description: "Amends the Nurse Agency Licensing Act. Provides that any person who violates any provision of the Act or the rules adopted under the Act shall be subject to a civil penalty of up to $10,000 per occurrence payable to the Department of Labor for the purpose of enforcing the Act (rather than a licensee or applicant who violates any provision of the Act or the rules adopted under the Act shall be subject to a civil penalty of $10,000 per occurrence)."
jurisdiction: "us/states/il"
legislature: "Illinois General Assembly"
session: "104th"
identifier: "SB 67"
citation: "Illinois SB 67 (104th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Marcus C. Evans, Jr.", "Robert Peters"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 29
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2025-01-13"
last_action: "2025-08-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2b38db32-f53a-48a2-bab3-1fcdf2e88fb6"
source_url: "https://ilga.gov/Legislation/BillStatus?DocNum=67&GAID=18&DocTypeID=SB&LegId=157172&SessionID=114"
source_hash: "1bee538dd4e517887c27b819e95953692dba7603c06486959b6c61cc9607093a"
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 67 (104th) — NURSE AGENCY-CIVIL PENALTIES

Amends the Nurse Agency Licensing Act. Provides that any person who violates any provision of the Act or the rules adopted under the Act shall be subject to a civil penalty of up to $10,000 per occurrence payable to the Department of Labor for the purpose of enforcing the Act (rather than a licensee or applicant who violates any provision of the Act or the rules adopted under the Act shall be subject to a civil penalty of $10,000 per occurrence).

## 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/10400SB0067.pdf)
2. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://ilga.gov/documents/legislation/104/SB/PDF/10400SB0067eng.pdf)
3. **Senate Amendment 001** (committee substitute) — [source](https://ilga.gov/documents/legislation/104/SB/PDF/10400SB0067sam001.pdf)
4. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://ilga.gov/documents/legislation/104/SB/PDF/10400SB0067enr.pdf)

## Votes

- Labor — **18–0** (pass) · upper
- Labor & Commerce — **17–7** (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — **75–40** (pass) · lower
- Labor — **18–0** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **55–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Marcus C. Evans, Jr. — primary (person)
- Robert Peters — primary (person)
- Laura M. Murphy — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-13** Filed with Secretary by Sen. Robert Peters `filing`
- **2025-01-13** First Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-01-13** Referred to Assignments
- **2025-01-22** Assigned to Labor `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-19** Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Laura M. Murphy
- **2025-02-25** Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 Filed with Secretary by Sen. Robert Peters `amendment-introduction`
- **2025-02-25** Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 Referred to Assignments
- **2025-02-25** Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 Assignments Refers to Labor
- **2025-03-04** Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 Adopted `amendment-passage`
- **2025-03-05** Do Pass as Amended Labor; 018-000-000
- **2025-03-05** Placed on Calendar Order of 2nd Reading March 6, 2025 `reading-2`
- **2025-04-01** Second Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-04-01** Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading April 2, 2025
- **2025-04-03** Third Reading - Passed; 055-000-000 `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-04** Arrived in House `introduction`
- **2025-04-04** Chief House Sponsor Rep. Marcus C. Evans, Jr.
- **2025-04-07** First Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-04-07** Referred to Rules Committee
- **2025-04-17** Assigned to Labor & Commerce Committee `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-23** Do Pass / Short Debate Labor & Commerce Committee; 017-007-000
- **2025-04-24** Placed on Calendar 2nd Reading - Short Debate `reading-2`
- **2025-05-13** Second Reading - Short Debate `reading-2`
- **2025-05-13** Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading - Standard Debate
- **2025-05-22** Third Reading - Standard Debate - Passed 075-040-000 `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 August 15, 2025
- **2025-08-15** Public Act . . . . . . . . . 104-0343 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2b38db32-f53a-48a2-bab3-1fcdf2e88fb6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Illinois legislature records).