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Bill	EQUAL PAY AFRICAN AMERICANS	Amends the Equal Pay Act of 2003. Provides that no employer may discriminate between employees by paying wages to an African-American employee at a rate less than the rate at which the employer pays wages to another employee who is not African-American for the same or substantially similar work on a job that requires equal skill, effort, and responsibility and is performed under similar working conditions. Sets forth exceptions,	us/states/il	Illinois General Assembly	100th	HB 4743	Illinois HB 4743 (100th)	bill		enacted		3	52	4	2018-02-13	2018-11-30	openstates	ocd-bill/1965bbfe-8e34-4500-b86c-dc0a6ada6152	http://ilga.gov/legislation/BillStatus.asp?DocNum=4743&GAID=14&DocTypeID=HB&LegId=110003&SessionID=91&GA=100	2bc6bcac90f9615d3e2f14cf0f1e0d040ac8c61be263215faca40c47f70d8595	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-il

Illinois HB 4743 (100th) — EQUAL PAY AFRICAN AMERICANS

Amends the Equal Pay Act of 2003. Provides that no employer may discriminate between employees by paying wages to an African-American employee at a rate less than the rate at which the employer pays wages to another employee who is not African-American for the same or substantially similar work on a job that requires equal skill, effort, and responsibility and is performed under similar working conditions. Sets forth exceptions,

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. Introduced (filed) — source
2. Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
3. Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Motion — 75–17 (fail) · lower
• Motion — 49–1 (pass) · upper
• Third Reading — 66–11 (pass) · lower
• Third Reading — 53–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Elgie R. Sims, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
• Emil Jones, III — cosponsor (person)
• La Shawn K. Ford — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-02-13 Filed with the Clerk by Rep. La Shawn K. Ford filing
• 2018-02-13 First Reading reading-1
• 2018-02-13 Referred to Rules Committee referral-committee
• 2018-02-21 Assigned to Economic Justice & Equity Committee referral-committee
• 2018-02-23 Added Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Litesa E. Wallace
• 2018-02-28 Do Pass / Short Debate Economic Justice & Equity Committee; 006-003-000 committee-passage
• 2018-03-01 Placed on Calendar 2nd Reading - Short Debate
• 2018-03-06 Second Reading - Short Debate reading-2
• 2018-03-06 Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading - Short Debate
• 2018-03-06 Added Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Emanuel Chris Welch
• 2018-03-07 Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Nicholas K Smith
• 2018-03-07 Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Steven A. Andersson
• 2018-03-07 Third Reading - Short Debate - Passed 066-011-000 reading-3, passage
• 2018-03-07 Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Rita Mayfield
• 2018-03-07 Added Co-Sponsor Rep. LaToya Greenwood
• 2018-03-07 Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Camille Y. Lilly
• 2018-03-07 Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Marcus C. Evans, Jr.
• 2018-03-07 Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Melissa Conyears-Ervin
• 2018-03-07 Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Jehan Gordon-Booth
• 2018-03-07 Added Co-Sponsor Rep. André Thapedi
• 2018-03-09 Arrive in Senate introduction
• 2018-03-09 Placed on Calendar Order of First Reading reading-1
• 2018-03-09 Chief Senate Sponsor Sen. Kimberly A. Lightford
• 2018-03-09 First Reading reading-1
• 2018-03-09 Referred to Assignments referral-committee
• 2018-03-09 Added as Alternate Chief Co-Sponsor Sen. Napoleon Harris, III
• 2018-03-12 Added as Alternate Co-Sponsor Sen. Emil Jones, III
• 2018-04-25 Assigned to Labor referral-committee
• 2018-05-09 Do Pass Labor; 015-001-000 committee-passage
• 2018-05-09 Placed on Calendar Order of 2nd Reading May 10, 2018
• 2018-05-17 Second Reading reading-2
• 2018-05-17 Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading May 18, 2018
• 2018-05-23 Added as Alternate Chief Co-Sponsor Sen. Kwame Raoul
• 2018-05-23 Third Reading - Passed; 053-000-000 reading-3, passage
• 2018-05-23 Passed Both Houses
• 2018-06-21 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2018-08-20 Governor Amendatory Veto executive-veto
• 2018-11-13 Placed on Calendar Amendatory Veto
• 2018-11-14 Amendatory Veto Motion - Motion Filed Accept Amendatory Veto Rep. La Shawn K. Ford
• 2018-11-14 Amendatory Veto Motion - Motion Referred to Rules Committee referral-committee
• 2018-11-14 Motion Filed Override Amendatory Veto Rep. La Shawn K. Ford
• 2018-11-14 3/5 Vote Required
• 2018-11-14 Override Amendatory Veto - House Passed 075-017-000
• 2018-11-14 Motion Tabled withdrawal
• 2018-11-14 Placed on Calendar Amendatory Veto November 15, 2018
• 2018-11-27 Motion Filed Override Amendatory Veto Sen. Kimberly A. Lightford
• 2018-11-28 3/5 Vote Required
• 2018-11-28 Override Amendatory Veto - Senate Passed 049-001-000
• 2018-11-28 Amendatory Veto Overridden Both Houses
• 2018-11-30 Added as Alternate Co-Sponsor Sen. Elgie R. Sims, Jr.
• 2018-11-30 Effective Date January 1, 2019
• 2018-11-30 Public Act . . . . . . . . . 100-1140 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/1965bbfe-8e34-4500-b86c-dc0a6ada6152. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Illinois legislature records).