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Bill	DCFS-FICTIVE KIN	Amends the Children and Family Services Act. Changes the definition of "fictive kin" to mean an individual, unrelated by birth or marriage, who: (i) is shown to have significant and close (rather than close) personal or emotional ties with the child or the child's family prior to the child's placement with the individual; or (ii) is the current foster parent of a child in the custody or guardianship of the Department of Children and Family Services, if the child has been placed in the home (rather than placed in the home for at least one year) and has established a significant and family-like relationship with the foster parent. Effective immediately.	us/states/il	Illinois General Assembly	100th	SB 1746	Illinois SB 1746 (100th)	bill		enacted		3	29	2	2017-02-09	2017-08-11	openstates	ocd-bill/e79ffa4c-27d8-4631-a9f6-cbdd8b45ee13	http://ilga.gov/legislation/BillStatus.asp?DocNum=1746&GAID=14&DocTypeID=SB&LegId=104704&SessionID=91&GA=100	50df7bb037e79d877cb1412c5e1ea8ea7c7c051f73294c298802a23db157d691	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-il

Illinois SB 1746 (100th) — DCFS-FICTIVE KIN

Amends the Children and Family Services Act. Changes the definition of "fictive kin" to mean an individual, unrelated by birth or marriage, who: (i) is shown to have significant and close (rather than close) personal or emotional ties with the child or the child's family prior to the child's placement with the individual; or (ii) is the current foster parent of a child in the custody or guardianship of the Department of Children and Family Services, if the child has been placed in the home (rather than placed in the home for at least one year) and has established a significant and family-like relationship with the foster parent. Effective immediately.

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

• Third Reading — 99–0 (pass) · lower
• Third Reading — 57–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Chapin Rose — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-02-09 Filed with Secretary by Sen. Chapin Rose filing
• 2017-02-09 First Reading reading-1
• 2017-02-09 Referred to Assignments referral-committee
• 2017-02-28 Assigned to Human Services referral-committee
• 2017-03-08 Postponed - Human Services
• 2017-03-10 Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 Filed with Secretary by Sen. Chapin Rose amendment-introduction
• 2017-03-10 Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 Referred to Assignments referral-committee
• 2017-03-14 Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 Assignments Refers to Human Services
• 2017-03-14 Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 Adopted amendment-passage
• 2017-03-15 Do Pass as Amended Human Services; 006-000-000 committee-passage
• 2017-03-15 Placed on Calendar Order of 2nd Reading March 16, 2017
• 2017-04-06 Second Reading reading-2
• 2017-04-06 Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading April 25, 2017
• 2017-04-27 Third Reading - Passed; 057-000-000 reading-3, passage
• 2017-04-27 Arrived in House introduction
• 2017-04-27 Chief House Sponsor Rep. Chad Hays
• 2017-04-27 First Reading reading-1
• 2017-04-27 Referred to Rules Committee referral-committee
• 2017-05-09 Assigned to Human Services Committee referral-committee
• 2017-05-17 Do Pass / Short Debate Human Services Committee; 010-000-000 committee-passage
• 2017-05-17 Placed on Calendar 2nd Reading - Short Debate
• 2017-05-18 Second Reading - Short Debate reading-2
• 2017-05-18 Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading - Short Debate
• 2017-05-19 Third Reading - Short Debate - Passed 099-000-000 reading-3, passage
• 2017-05-19 Passed Both Houses
• 2017-06-16 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2017-08-11 Governor Approved executive-signature
• 2017-08-11 Effective Date August 11, 2017
• 2017-08-11 Public Act . . . . . . . . . 100-0101 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/e79ffa4c-27d8-4631-a9f6-cbdd8b45ee13. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Illinois legislature records).