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Bill	OPEN MEETINGS ACT-EXCEPTIONS	Amends the Open Meetings Act. Provides that a public body may hold a closed meeting to consider the appointment, employment, compensation, discipline, performance, or dismissal of specific employees, specific independent contractors, or specific volunteers (currently, only specific employees) of the public body or legal counsel for the public body, including hearing testimony on a complaint lodged against an employee, independent contractor, or volunteer of the public body or against legal counsel for the public body to determine its validity. Effective immediately.	us/states/il	Illinois General Assembly	101st	HB 2124	Illinois HB 2124 (101st)	bill		enacted		3	44	3	2019-02-06	2019-08-26	openstates	ocd-bill/fdf91432-f574-45a0-94e7-f20649e707cb	http://ilga.gov/legislation/BillStatus.asp?DocNum=2124&GAID=15&DocTypeID=HB&LegId=117800&SessionID=108&GA=101	4becbc39a6f89275bacd33db6ea3f9c4ffffb51af7c42683f80c81f16b85db98	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-il

Illinois HB 2124 (101st) — OPEN MEETINGS ACT-EXCEPTIONS

Amends the Open Meetings Act. Provides that a public body may hold a closed meeting to consider the appointment, employment, compensation, discipline, performance, or dismissal of specific employees, specific independent contractors, or specific volunteers (currently, only specific employees) of the public body or legal counsel for the public body, including hearing testimony on a complaint lodged against an employee, independent contractor, or volunteer of the public body or against legal counsel for the public body to determine its validity. 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

• Concurrence — 108–7 (pass) · lower
• Third Reading — 101–3 (pass) · lower
• Third Reading — 56–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Emanuel Chris Welch — primary (person)
• Melinda Bush — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-02-06 Filed with the Clerk by Rep. Emanuel Chris Welch filing
• 2019-02-06 First Reading reading-1
• 2019-02-06 Referred to Rules Committee referral-committee
• 2019-02-19 Assigned to State Government Administration Committee referral-committee
• 2019-02-27 Do Pass / Short Debate State Government Administration Committee; 011-000-000 committee-passage
• 2019-02-28 Placed on Calendar 2nd Reading - Short Debate
• 2019-03-14 House Floor Amendment No. 1 Filed with Clerk by Rep. Emanuel Chris Welch amendment-introduction
• 2019-03-14 House Floor Amendment No. 1 Referred to Rules Committee referral-committee
• 2019-03-19 House Floor Amendment No. 1 Recommends Be Adopted Rules Committee; 003-000-000 committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-03-19 Second Reading - Short Debate reading-2
• 2019-03-19 House Floor Amendment No. 1 Adopted amendment-passage
• 2019-03-19 Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading - Short Debate
• 2019-03-20 Recalled to Second Reading - Short Debate reading-2
• 2019-03-20 Held on Calendar Order of Second Reading - Short Debate reading-2
• 2019-03-26 Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading - Short Debate
• 2019-03-28 Third Reading - Short Debate - Passed 101-003-000 reading-3, passage
• 2019-04-03 Arrive in Senate introduction
• 2019-04-03 Placed on Calendar Order of First Reading reading-1
• 2019-04-03 Chief Senate Sponsor Sen. Melinda Bush
• 2019-04-03 First Reading reading-1
• 2019-04-03 Referred to Assignments referral-committee
• 2019-04-24 Assigned to Local Government referral-committee
• 2019-04-30 Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 Filed with Secretary by Sen. Melinda Bush amendment-introduction
• 2019-04-30 Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 Referred to Assignments referral-committee
• 2019-05-01 Postponed - Local Government
• 2019-05-01 Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 Assignments Refers to Local Government
• 2019-05-08 Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 Adopted amendment-passage
• 2019-05-08 Do Pass as Amended Local Government; 009-000-000 committee-passage
• 2019-05-08 Placed on Calendar Order of 2nd Reading May 9, 2019
• 2019-05-17 Second Reading reading-2
• 2019-05-17 Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading May 20, 2019
• 2019-05-21 Third Reading - Passed; 056-000-000 reading-3, passage
• 2019-05-21 Arrived in House introduction
• 2019-05-21 Placed on Calendar Order of Concurrence Senate Amendment(s) 1
• 2019-05-23 Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 Motion Filed Concur Rep. Emanuel Chris Welch
• 2019-05-23 Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 Motion to Concur Referred to Rules Committee referral-committee
• 2019-05-23 Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 Motion to Concur Recommends Be Adopted Rules Committee; 004-000-000
• 2019-05-29 Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 House Concurs 108-007-000
• 2019-05-29 House Concurs
• 2019-05-29 Passed Both Houses
• 2019-06-27 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2019-08-26 Governor Approved executive-signature
• 2019-08-26 Effective Date August 26, 2019
• 2019-08-26 Public Act . . . . . . . . . 101-0459 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/fdf91432-f574-45a0-94e7-f20649e707cb. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Illinois legislature records).