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type: "Bill"
title: "MINIMUM WAGE LAW BASEBALL"
description: "Amends the Minimum Wage Law. Excludes from the definition of \"employee\" an employee employed as a player who is 28 years old or younger, a manager, a coach, or an athletic trainer by a minor league professional baseball team not affiliated with a major league baseball club, if (A) the minor league professional baseball team does not operate for more than 7 months in any calendar year or (B) during the preceding calendar year, the minor league professional baseball team's average receipts for any 6-month period of the year were not more than 33 1/3% of its average receipts for the other 6 months of the year. Effective immediately."
jurisdiction: "us/states/il"
legislature: "Illinois General Assembly"
session: "100th"
identifier: "HB 3631"
citation: "Illinois HB 3631 (100th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 3
action_count: 28
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-02-10"
last_action: "2017-08-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0a54e3b8-830e-4e36-aad7-2be540cdff39"
source_url: "http://ilga.gov/legislation/BillStatus.asp?DocNum=3631&GAID=14&DocTypeID=HB&LegId=105551&SessionID=91&GA=100"
source_hash: "de1e894f0ef272d832c7e99b5c20c814435b7aa3cfa4e63a2791f551b0b00e73"
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 3631 (100th) — MINIMUM WAGE LAW BASEBALL
Amends the Minimum Wage Law. Excludes from the definition of "employee" an employee employed as a player who is 28 years old or younger, a manager, a coach, or an athletic trainer by a minor league professional baseball team not affiliated with a major league baseball club, if (A) the minor league professional baseball team does not operate for more than 7 months in any calendar year or (B) during the preceding calendar year, the minor league professional baseball team's average receipts for any 6-month period of the year were not more than 33 1/3% of its average receipts for the other 6 months of the year. 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=10000HB3631&GA=100&SessionId=91&DocTypeId=HB&LegID=105551&DocNum=3631&GAID=14&Session=&print=true)
2. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://ilga.gov/legislation/fulltext.asp?DocName=10000HB3631eng&GA=100&SessionId=91&DocTypeId=HB&LegID=105551&DocNum=3631&GAID=14&Session=&print=true)
3. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://ilga.gov/legislation/fulltext.asp?DocName=10000HB3631enr&GA=100&SessionId=91&DocTypeId=HB&LegID=105551&DocNum=3631&GAID=14&Session=&print=true)
## Votes
- Third Reading — **560** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **1090** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Jay Hoffman — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2017-02-10** Filed with the Clerk by Rep. Jay Hoffman `filing`
- **2017-02-10** First Reading `reading-1`
- **2017-02-10** Referred to Rules Committee `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-01** Assigned to Labor & Commerce Committee `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-01** Added Co-Sponsor Rep. LaToya Greenwood
- **2017-03-08** Do Pass / Short Debate Labor & Commerce Committee; 028-000-000 `committee-passage`
- **2017-03-09** Placed on Calendar 2nd Reading - Short Debate
- **2017-03-15** Second Reading - Short Debate `reading-2`
- **2017-03-15** Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading - Short Debate
- **2017-03-15** Added Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Lawrence Walsh, Jr.
- **2017-03-15** Added Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Jerry Costello, II
- **2017-03-23** Third Reading - Short Debate - Passed 109-000-000 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-03-23** Added Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Dan Brady
- **2017-03-28** Arrive in Senate `introduction`
- **2017-03-28** Placed on Calendar Order of First Reading March 29, 2017 `reading-1`
- **2017-05-02** Chief Senate Sponsor Sen. James F. Clayborne, Jr.
- **2017-05-03** First Reading `reading-1`
- **2017-05-03** Referred to Assignments `referral-committee`
- **2017-05-05** Approved for Consideration Assignments
- **2017-05-05** Placed on Calendar Order of 2nd Reading May 9, 2017
- **2017-05-23** Second Reading `reading-2`
- **2017-05-23** Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading May 24, 2017
- **2017-05-25** Third Reading - Passed; 056-000-000 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-05-25** Passed Both Houses
- **2017-06-23** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2017-08-18** Governor Approved `executive-signature`
- **2017-08-18** Effective Date August 18, 2017
- **2017-08-18** Public Act . . . . . . . . . 100-0192 `became-law`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0a54e3b8-830e-4e36-aad7-2be540cdff39`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Illinois legislature records).