---
type: "Bill"
title: "MGD CARE REFORM-PROHIBITIONS"
description: "Amends the Managed Care Reform and Patient Rights Act. Prohibits health care plans from requiring enrollees to substitute their participating primary care physician during inpatient hospitalization, such as with a hospitalist physician licensed to practice medicine in all its branches (now, provides no example), without the agreement of the participating primary care physician. Effective immediately."
jurisdiction: "us/states/il"
legislature: "Illinois General Assembly"
session: "94th"
identifier: "HB 5339"
citation: "Illinois HB 5339 (94th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 3
action_count: 25
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2006-01-26"
last_action: "2006-06-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/19f628f3-7f6b-4721-b181-2ce19cd2c2a6"
source_url: "http://ilga.gov/legislation/BillStatus.asp?DocNum=5339&GAID=8&DocTypeID=HB&LegId=24613&SessionID=50&GA=94"
source_hash: "00c0e691ca7afeb72d0197d13d3233181b6a660548d378c6e60e6c226bca11b4"
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 HB 5339 (94th) — MGD CARE REFORM-PROHIBITIONS

Amends the Managed Care Reform and Patient Rights Act. Prohibits health care plans from requiring enrollees to substitute their participating primary care physician during inpatient hospitalization, such as with a hospitalist physician licensed to practice medicine in all its branches (now, provides no example), without the agreement of the participating primary care physician. Effective immediately.

## 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=09400HB5339&GA=94&SessionId=50&DocTypeId=HB&LegID=24613&DocNum=5339&GAID=8&Session=&print=true)
2. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://ilga.gov/legislation/fulltext.asp?DocName=09400HB5339eng&GA=94&SessionId=50&DocTypeId=HB&LegID=24613&DocNum=5339&GAID=8&Session=&print=true)
3. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://ilga.gov/legislation/fulltext.asp?DocName=09400HB5339enr&GA=94&SessionId=50&DocTypeId=HB&LegID=24613&DocNum=5339&GAID=8&Session=&print=true)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **114–0** (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — **57–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Keith P. Sommer — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2006-01-26** Filed with the Clerk by Rep. Keith P. Sommer `filing`
- **2006-01-26** First Reading `reading-1`
- **2006-01-26** Referred to Rules Committee `referral-committee`
- **2006-01-31** Assigned to Health Care Availability and Access Committee `referral-committee`
- **2006-02-07** Do Pass / Short Debate Health Care Availability and Access Committee; 011-000-000 `committee-passage`
- **2006-02-07** Placed on Calendar 2nd Reading - Short Debate
- **2006-02-09** Second Reading - Short Debate `reading-2`
- **2006-02-09** Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading - Short Debate
- **2006-02-16** Third Reading - Short Debate - Passed 114-000-000 `reading-3, passage`
- **2006-02-16** Arrive in Senate `introduction`
- **2006-02-16** Placed on Calendar Order of First Reading February 22, 2006 `reading-1`
- **2006-02-24** Chief Senate Sponsor Sen. Jeffrey M. Schoenberg
- **2006-02-27** First Reading `reading-1`
- **2006-02-27** Referred to Rules `referral-committee`
- **2006-03-15** Assigned to Health & Human Services `referral-committee`
- **2006-03-24** Do Pass Health & Human Services; 007-000-000 `committee-passage`
- **2006-03-24** Placed on Calendar Order of 2nd Reading March 27, 2006
- **2006-03-27** Second Reading `reading-2`
- **2006-03-27** Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading March 28, 2006
- **2006-03-28** Third Reading - Passed; 057-000-000 `reading-3, passage`
- **2006-03-28** Passed Both Houses
- **2006-04-26** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2006-06-16** Governor Approved `executive-signature`
- **2006-06-16** Effective Date June 16, 2006
- **2006-06-16** Public Act . . . . . . . . . 94-0866 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/19f628f3-7f6b-4721-b181-2ce19cd2c2a6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Illinois legislature records).