---
type: "Bill"
title: "COUNTY CODE-ENFORCE JUDGMENTS"
description: "Amends the Counties Code. Provides that a judgment relating to a county code violation is a debt due and owing to a county and the findings, decision, and order of the hearing officer may be enforced in the same manner as a judgment entered by a court (currently, may be collected in accordance with applicable law)."
jurisdiction: "us/states/il"
legislature: "Illinois General Assembly"
session: "99th"
identifier: "SB 2833"
citation: "Illinois SB 2833 (99th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 3
action_count: 26
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2016-02-17"
last_action: "2016-08-05"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7038a0c5-f4a6-434b-9099-7d71ceaf8332"
source_url: "http://ilga.gov/legislation/BillStatus.asp?DocNum=2833&GAID=13&DocTypeID=SB&LegId=96145&SessionID=88&GA=99"
source_hash: "2db8a7d16399ae53ba91969dd786b2c85f0a090dbf7f55f6487570852d81216f"
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 2833 (99th) — COUNTY CODE-ENFORCE JUDGMENTS

Amends the Counties Code. Provides that a judgment relating to a county code violation is a debt due and owing to a county and the findings, decision, and order of the hearing officer may be enforced in the same manner as a judgment entered by a court (currently, may be collected in accordance with applicable law).

## 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=09900SB2833&GA=99&SessionId=88&DocTypeId=SB&LegID=96145&DocNum=2833&GAID=13&Session=&print=true)
2. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://ilga.gov/legislation/fulltext.asp?DocName=09900SB2833eng&GA=99&SessionId=88&DocTypeId=SB&LegID=96145&DocNum=2833&GAID=13&Session=&print=true)
3. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://ilga.gov/legislation/fulltext.asp?DocName=09900SB2833enr&GA=99&SessionId=88&DocTypeId=SB&LegID=96145&DocNum=2833&GAID=13&Session=&print=true)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **77–32** (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — **58–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Emil Jones, III — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2016-02-17** Filed with Secretary by Sen. Emil Jones, III `filing`
- **2016-02-17** First Reading `reading-1`
- **2016-02-17** Referred to Assignments `referral-committee`
- **2016-03-01** Assigned to Local Government `referral-committee`
- **2016-03-09** Postponed - Local Government
- **2016-03-17** Do Pass Local Government; 010-000-000 `committee-passage`
- **2016-03-17** Placed on Calendar Order of 2nd Reading April 5, 2016
- **2016-04-20** Second Reading `reading-2`
- **2016-04-20** Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading April 21, 2016
- **2016-04-21** Third Reading - Passed; 058-000-000 `reading-3, passage`
- **2016-04-21** Arrived in House `introduction`
- **2016-04-21** Chief House Sponsor Rep. John M. Cabello
- **2016-04-21** First Reading `reading-1`
- **2016-04-21** Referred to Rules Committee `referral-committee`
- **2016-05-02** Assigned to Judiciary - Civil Committee `referral-committee`
- **2016-05-11** Do Pass / Short Debate Judiciary - Civil Committee; 008-002-000 `committee-passage`
- **2016-05-11** Placed on Calendar 2nd Reading - Short Debate
- **2016-05-17** Alternate Chief Sponsor Changed to Rep. Robert Martwick
- **2016-05-19** Second Reading - Short Debate `reading-2`
- **2016-05-19** Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading - Short Debate
- **2016-05-27** Third Reading - Short Debate - Passed 077-032-001 `reading-3, passage`
- **2016-05-27** Passed Both Houses
- **2016-06-27** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2016-08-05** Governor Approved `executive-signature`
- **2016-08-05** Effective Date January 1, 2017
- **2016-08-05** Public Act . . . . . . . . . 99-0739 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7038a0c5-f4a6-434b-9099-7d71ceaf8332`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Illinois legislature records).