---
type: "Bill"
title: "PARENT RESPONSIBILITY-LIABILTY"
description: "Amends the Parental Responsibility Law. Provides that, where a wilful or malicious act by the minor causes damage to real or personal property owned or leased by a local public entity, no recovery under the Act may exceed $100,000 actual damages for each local public entity that owns or leases the property. Defines \"local public entity\". Effective immediately."
jurisdiction: "us/states/il"
legislature: "Illinois General Assembly"
session: "94th"
identifier: "HB 766"
citation: "Illinois HB 766 (94th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 3
action_count: 33
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2005-02-01"
last_action: "2005-07-07"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/97d030c4-d648-413f-a357-1cba72434942"
source_url: "http://ilga.gov/legislation/BillStatus.asp?DocNum=766&GAID=8&DocTypeID=HB&LegId=15253&SessionID=50&GA=94"
source_hash: "1e8a4353abba66d9c6af8202eebbd142f6bf5bb1d59d7173ac145371cfbc9cd4"
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 766 (94th) — PARENT RESPONSIBILITY-LIABILTY

Amends the Parental Responsibility Law. Provides that, where a wilful or malicious act by the minor causes damage to real or personal property owned or leased by a local public entity, no recovery under the Act may exceed $100,000 actual damages for each local public entity that owns or leases the property. Defines "local public entity". 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=09400HB0766&GA=94&SessionId=50&DocTypeId=HB&LegID=15253&DocNum=766&GAID=8&Session=&print=true)
2. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://ilga.gov/legislation/fulltext.asp?DocName=09400HB0766eng&GA=94&SessionId=50&DocTypeId=HB&LegID=15253&DocNum=766&GAID=8&Session=&print=true)
3. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://ilga.gov/legislation/fulltext.asp?DocName=09400HB0766enr&GA=94&SessionId=50&DocTypeId=HB&LegID=15253&DocNum=766&GAID=8&Session=&print=true)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **57–0** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **115–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Randall M. Hultgren — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2005-02-01** Filed with the Clerk by Rep. Randall M. Hultgren `filing`
- **2005-02-02** First Reading `reading-1`
- **2005-02-02** Referred to Rules Committee `referral-committee`
- **2005-02-03** Added Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Sidney H. Mathias
- **2005-02-08** Assigned to Judiciary I - Civil Law Committee `referral-committee`
- **2005-02-24** House Committee Amendment No. 1 Filed with Clerk by Judiciary I - Civil Law Committee `amendment-introduction`
- **2005-02-24** House Committee Amendment No. 1 Adopted in Judiciary I - Civil Law Committee; by Voice Vote `amendment-passage`
- **2005-02-24** Do Pass as Amended / Short Debate Judiciary I - Civil Law Committee; 013-000-000 `committee-passage`
- **2005-02-25** Placed on Calendar 2nd Reading - Short Debate
- **2005-03-02** Added Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Sandra M. Pihos
- **2005-03-02** Second Reading - Short Debate `reading-2`
- **2005-03-02** Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading - Short Debate
- **2005-03-03** Added Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Paul D. Froehlich
- **2005-03-03** Added Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Ronald A. Wait
- **2005-03-03** Third Reading - Short Debate - Passed 115-000-000 `reading-3, passage`
- **2005-03-08** Arrive in Senate `introduction`
- **2005-03-08** Placed on Calendar Order of First Reading March 9, 2005 `reading-1`
- **2005-03-09** Chief Senate Sponsor Sen. William R. Haine
- **2005-03-09** First Reading `reading-1`
- **2005-03-09** Referred to Rules `referral-committee`
- **2005-04-13** Assigned to Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2005-04-20** Postponed - Judiciary
- **2005-05-05** Do Pass Judiciary; 007-000-000 `committee-passage`
- **2005-05-05** Placed on Calendar Order of 2nd Reading May 10, 2005
- **2005-05-11** Second Reading `reading-2`
- **2005-05-11** Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading May 12, 2005
- **2005-05-17** Added as Alternate Chief Co-Sponsor Sen. Edward D. Maloney
- **2005-05-17** Third Reading - Passed; 057-000-000 `reading-3, passage`
- **2005-05-17** Passed Both Houses
- **2005-06-15** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2005-07-07** Governor Approved `executive-signature`
- **2005-07-07** Effective Date July 7, 2005
- **2005-07-07** Public Act . . . . . . . . . 94-0130 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/97d030c4-d648-413f-a357-1cba72434942`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Illinois legislature records).