republic-os/legislation/us/states/il/101st/sb-196.md

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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	SB 196	Illinois SB 196 (101st)	bill		enacted		3	43	3	2019-01-30	2019-05-15	openstates	ocd-bill/52d6b5ce-eace-49fc-a4da-ef2df9b0025c	http://ilga.gov/legislation/BillStatus.asp?DocNum=196&GAID=15&DocTypeID=SB&LegId=116047&SessionID=108&GA=101	f0e9c0b24c2bdba39db1211d913e9361321027e7df34f543d092300fe1bb4d5e	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-il

Illinois SB 196 (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

• Third Reading — 113–0 (pass) · lower
• Concurrence — 56–0 (pass) · upper
• Third Reading — 54–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Gregory Harris — primary (person)
• John J. Cullerton — primary (person)
• Julie A. Morrison — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-01-30 Filed with Secretary by Sen. Melinda Bush filing
• 2019-01-30 First Reading reading-1
• 2019-01-30 Referred to Assignments referral-committee
• 2019-02-06 Assigned to Local Government referral-committee
• 2019-02-28 Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 Filed with Secretary by Sen. Melinda Bush amendment-introduction
• 2019-02-28 Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 Referred to Assignments referral-committee
• 2019-03-05 Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 Pursuant to Senate Rule 3-8(b-1), this amendment will remain in the Committee on Assignments.
• 2019-03-05 Added as Chief Co-Sponsor Sen. Julie A. Morrison
• 2019-03-06 Do Pass Local Government; 009-000-000 committee-passage
• 2019-03-06 Placed on Calendar Order of 2nd Reading
• 2019-03-06 Second Reading reading-2
• 2019-03-06 Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading March 7, 2019
• 2019-03-20 Third Reading - Passed; 054-000-000 reading-3, passage
• 2019-03-20 Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 Tabled Pursuant to Rule 5-4(a) amendment-failure
• 2019-03-20 Arrived in House introduction
• 2019-03-21 Chief House Sponsor Rep. Emanuel Chris Welch
• 2019-03-21 First Reading reading-1
• 2019-03-21 Referred to Rules Committee referral-committee
• 2019-03-28 Assigned to Executive Committee referral-committee
• 2019-03-29 Chief Sponsor Changed to Sen. John J. Cullerton
• 2019-04-01 House Committee Amendment No. 1 Filed with Clerk by Rep. Gregory Harris amendment-introduction
• 2019-04-01 House Committee Amendment No. 1 Referred to Rules Committee referral-committee
• 2019-04-02 Alternate Chief Sponsor Changed to Rep. Gregory Harris
• 2019-04-02 House Committee Amendment No. 1 Rules Refers to Executive Committee
• 2019-04-03 House Committee Amendment No. 1 Adopted in Executive Committee; by Voice Vote amendment-passage
• 2019-04-03 Do Pass as Amended / Short Debate Executive Committee; 010-000-000 committee-passage
• 2019-04-03 Placed on Calendar 2nd Reading - Short Debate
• 2019-04-03 Second Reading - Short Debate reading-2
• 2019-04-03 Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading - Short Debate
• 2019-04-04 Third Reading - Short Debate - Passed 113-000-000 reading-3, passage
• 2019-04-04 Secretary's Desk - Concurrence House Amendment(s) 1
• 2019-04-04 Placed on Calendar Order of Concurrence House Amendment(s) 1 - April 9, 2019
• 2019-04-09 House Committee Amendment No. 1 Motion to Concur Filed with Secretary Sen. John J. Cullerton filing
• 2019-04-09 House Committee Amendment No. 1 Motion to Concur Referred to Assignments referral-committee
• 2019-04-09 House Committee Amendment No. 1 Motion to Concur Assignments Referred to Executive referral-committee
• 2019-04-09 House Committee Amendment No. 1 Motion To Concur Recommended Do Adopt Executive; 015-000-000
• 2019-04-10 House Committee Amendment No. 1 Senate Concurs 056-000-000
• 2019-04-10 Senate Concurs
• 2019-04-10 Passed Both Houses
• 2019-04-11 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2019-05-15 Governor Approved executive-signature
• 2019-05-15 Effective Date May 15, 2019
• 2019-05-15 Public Act . . . . . . . . . 101-0005 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/52d6b5ce-eace-49fc-a4da-ef2df9b0025c. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Illinois legislature records).