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Bill	EDU LABOR ACT-EMPLOYEE DEFN	Amends the Illinois Educational Labor Relations Act. Provides that the term "student" within the definition of "educational employee" or "employee" as used in the Act excludes (rather than includes) graduate students who are research assistants primarily performing duties that involve research, graduate assistants primarily performing duties that are pre-professional, graduate students who are teaching assistants primarily performing duties that involve the delivery and support of instruction, or any other graduate assistants. Effective immediately.	us/states/il	Illinois General Assembly	101st	HB 253	Illinois HB 253 (101st)	bill		enacted		3	51	2	2019-01-09	2019-08-16	openstates	ocd-bill/3d987e52-4256-41a8-ba9b-e8a517c40da4	http://ilga.gov/legislation/BillStatus.asp?DocNum=253&GAID=15&DocTypeID=HB&LegId=114220&SessionID=108&GA=101	b57b7ea9e8bbafef892ffc1b38d91d35c4f1d6d8a464bb3c6767fb6d053bdc64	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-il

Illinois HB 253 (101st) — EDU LABOR ACT-EMPLOYEE DEFN

Amends the Illinois Educational Labor Relations Act. Provides that the term "student" within the definition of "educational employee" or "employee" as used in the Act excludes (rather than includes) graduate students who are research assistants primarily performing duties that involve research, graduate assistants primarily performing duties that are pre-professional, graduate students who are teaching assistants primarily performing duties that involve the delivery and support of instruction, or any other graduate assistants. 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 — 72–37 (pass) · lower
• Third Reading — 35–19 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Ann Gillespie — cosponsor (person)
• Camille Y. Lilly — cosponsor (person)
• Celina Villanueva — cosponsor (person)
• Christopher Belt — cosponsor (person)
• Jonathan Carroll — cosponsor (person)
• Laura Fine — primary (person)
• Luis Arroyo — cosponsor (person)
• Ram Villivalam — cosponsor (person)
• Theresa Mah — cosponsor (person)
• Will Guzzardi — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-01-09 Filed with the Clerk by Rep. Will Guzzardi filing
• 2019-01-09 First Reading reading-1
• 2019-01-09 Referred to Rules Committee referral-committee
• 2019-01-29 Assigned to Labor & Commerce Committee referral-committee
• 2019-02-27 Do Pass / Short Debate Labor & Commerce Committee; 017-010-000 committee-passage
• 2019-02-28 Placed on Calendar 2nd Reading - Short Debate
• 2019-03-01 Correctional Note Filed
• 2019-03-04 Judicial Note Filed
• 2019-03-04 Pension Note Filed
• 2019-03-04 State Debt Impact Note Filed
• 2019-03-04 Fiscal Note Filed
• 2019-03-05 Land Conveyance Appraisal Note Filed
• 2019-03-05 State Mandates Fiscal Note Requested by Rep. Grant Wehrli
• 2019-03-05 Balanced Budget Note Requested by Rep. Grant Wehrli
• 2019-03-05 Housing Affordability Impact Note Filed
• 2019-03-06 Second Reading - Short Debate reading-2
• 2019-03-06 Held on Calendar Order of Second Reading - Short Debate reading-2
• 2019-03-06 State Mandates Fiscal Note Filed
• 2019-03-06 Home Rule Note Filed
• 2019-03-07 Balanced Budget Note Filed
• 2019-03-14 House Floor Amendment No. 1 Filed with Clerk by Rep. Will Guzzardi 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
• 2019-03-20 Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Celina Villanueva
• 2019-03-20 Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Luis Arroyo
• 2019-03-20 Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Theresa Mah
• 2019-03-20 Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Camille Y. Lilly
• 2019-03-20 Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Jonathan Carroll
• 2019-03-21 House Floor Amendment No. 1 Adopted amendment-passage
• 2019-03-21 Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading - Short Debate
• 2019-03-28 Third Reading - Short Debate - Passed 072-037-000 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. Laura Fine
• 2019-04-03 First Reading reading-1
• 2019-04-03 Referred to Assignments referral-committee
• 2019-04-15 Added as Alternate Co-Sponsor Sen. Ann Gillespie
• 2019-04-15 Added as Alternate Chief Co-Sponsor Sen. Ann Gillespie
• 2019-04-24 Assigned to Labor referral-committee
• 2019-05-07 Added as Alternate Co-Sponsor Sen. Christopher Belt
• 2019-05-07 Added as Alternate Co-Sponsor Sen. Ram Villivalam
• 2019-05-08 Do Pass Labor; 011-005-000 committee-passage
• 2019-05-08 Placed on Calendar Order of 2nd Reading May 9, 2019
• 2019-05-09 Second Reading reading-2
• 2019-05-09 Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading May 14, 2019
• 2019-05-21 Third Reading - Passed; 035-019-000 reading-3, passage
• 2019-05-21 Passed Both Houses
• 2019-06-19 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2019-08-16 Governor Approved executive-signature
• 2019-08-16 Effective Date January 1, 2020
• 2019-08-16 Public Act . . . . . . . . . 101-0380 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/3d987e52-4256-41a8-ba9b-e8a517c40da4. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Illinois legislature records).