---
type: "Bill"
title: "NURSING HOME-PENALTY-HEARING"
description: "Amends the Nursing Home Care Act. In provisions authorizing a facility to respond to the assessment of a fine by transmitting to the Department of Public Health a percentage of the amount assessed instead of requesting a hearing, provides that a facility may transmit to the Department 65% of the amount assessed for each violation specified in the penalty assessment (deletes an alternative provision authorizing a facility to transmit up to 75% of the amount assessed in the case of a fine subject to offset by the amount of a federal civil monetary penalty). Effective immediately."
jurisdiction: "us/states/il"
legislature: "Illinois General Assembly"
session: "97th"
identifier: "SB 3499"
citation: "Illinois SB 3499 (97th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 3
action_count: 26
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2012-02-08"
last_action: "2012-07-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/fdaebfcb-deec-41ac-934c-00bc1cbcf1db"
source_url: "http://ilga.gov/legislation/BillStatus.asp?DocNum=3499&GAID=11&DocTypeID=SB&LegId=65172&SessionID=84&GA=97"
source_hash: "00fa29e9e879cd12e6be0ca313cd414e29b392da3e3649395ac0fa6aca36da6c"
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 3499 (97th) — NURSING HOME-PENALTY-HEARING

Amends the Nursing Home Care Act. In provisions authorizing a facility to respond to the assessment of a fine by transmitting to the Department of Public Health a percentage of the amount assessed instead of requesting a hearing, provides that a facility may transmit to the Department 65% of the amount assessed for each violation specified in the penalty assessment (deletes an alternative provision authorizing a facility to transmit up to 75% of the amount assessed in the case of a fine subject to offset by the amount of a federal civil monetary penalty). 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=09700SB3499&GA=97&SessionId=84&DocTypeId=SB&LegID=65172&DocNum=3499&GAID=11&Session=&print=true)
2. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://ilga.gov/legislation/fulltext.asp?DocName=09700SB3499eng&GA=97&SessionId=84&DocTypeId=SB&LegID=65172&DocNum=3499&GAID=11&Session=&print=true)
3. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://ilga.gov/legislation/fulltext.asp?DocName=09700SB3499enr&GA=97&SessionId=84&DocTypeId=SB&LegID=65172&DocNum=3499&GAID=11&Session=&print=true)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **72–45** (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — **57–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Jeffrey M. Schoenberg — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2012-02-08** Filed with Secretary by Sen. Jeffrey M. Schoenberg `filing`
- **2012-02-08** First Reading `reading-1`
- **2012-02-08** Referred to Assignments `referral-committee`
- **2012-02-17** Assigned to Public Health `referral-committee`
- **2012-02-28** Postponed - Public Health
- **2012-03-07** Do Pass Public Health; 010-000-000 `committee-passage`
- **2012-03-07** Placed on Calendar Order of 2nd Reading March 8, 2012
- **2012-03-08** Second Reading `reading-2`
- **2012-03-08** Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading March 21, 2012
- **2012-03-29** Third Reading - Passed; 057-000-000 `reading-3, passage`
- **2012-03-29** Arrived in House `introduction`
- **2012-03-29** Chief House Sponsor Rep. Daniel Biss
- **2012-03-29** Placed on Calendar Order of First Reading `reading-1`
- **2012-03-29** First Reading `reading-1`
- **2012-03-29** Referred to Rules Committee `referral-committee`
- **2012-04-16** Assigned to Human Services Committee `referral-committee`
- **2012-05-02** Do Pass / Short Debate Human Services Committee; 010-000-000 `committee-passage`
- **2012-05-02** Placed on Calendar 2nd Reading - Short Debate
- **2012-05-11** Second Reading - Short Debate `reading-2`
- **2012-05-11** Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading - Short Debate
- **2012-05-23** Third Reading - Short Debate - Passed 072-045-000 `reading-3, passage`
- **2012-05-23** Passed Both Houses
- **2012-06-21** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2012-07-30** Governor Approved `executive-signature`
- **2012-07-30** Effective Date July 30, 2012
- **2012-07-30** Public Act . . . . . . . . . 97-0870 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/fdaebfcb-deec-41ac-934c-00bc1cbcf1db`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Illinois legislature records).