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Bill	WAGE THEFT-DAMAGES AMOUNT	Amends the Illinois Wage Payment and Collection Act. Provides that an employee is entitled to recover damages of 5% (rather than 2%) of the amount of any underpayments in wages for each month following the date of payment during which such underpayments remain unpaid. Effective immediately.	us/states/il	Illinois General Assembly	102nd	HB 118	Illinois HB 118 (102nd)	bill		enacted	Karina Villa Will Guzzardi	3	35	2	2021-01-13	2021-07-09	openstates	ocd-bill/bcf53f82-3e0b-4c46-b022-921c0368a501	https://ilga.gov/legislation/BillStatus.asp?DocNum=118&GAID=16&DocTypeID=HB&LegId=127930&SessionID=110&GA=102	5a7b72b09196ef2fe8eaa5783119bea19a30d6320ad2114ee58efa9fc9d8be89	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-il

Illinois HB 118 (102nd) — WAGE THEFT-DAMAGES AMOUNT

Amends the Illinois Wage Payment and Collection Act. Provides that an employee is entitled to recover damages of 5% (rather than 2%) of the amount of any underpayments in wages for each month following the date of payment during which such underpayments remain unpaid. 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 — 68–44 (pass) · lower
• Third Reading — 40–15 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Karina Villa — primary (person)
• Will Guzzardi — primary (person)
• Barbara Hernandez — cosponsor (person)
• Celina Villanueva — cosponsor (person)
• Elizabeth Hernandez — cosponsor (person)
• Kambium Buckner — cosponsor (person)
• Lakesia Collins — cosponsor (person)
• Ram Villivalam — cosponsor (person)
• Rita Mayfield — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-01-13 Filed with the Clerk by Rep. Will Guzzardi filing
• 2021-01-14 First Reading reading-1
• 2021-01-14 Referred to Rules Committee referral-committee
• 2021-01-19 Added Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Elizabeth Hernandez
• 2021-01-19 Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Kambium Buckner
• 2021-01-19 Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Barbara Hernandez
• 2021-01-20 Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Rita Mayfield
• 2021-02-23 Assigned to Labor & Commerce Committee referral-committee
• 2021-03-03 Do Pass / Short Debate Labor & Commerce Committee; 017-011-000 committee-passage
• 2021-03-04 Placed on Calendar 2nd Reading - Short Debate
• 2021-04-15 Second Reading - Short Debate reading-2
• 2021-04-15 Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading - Short Debate
• 2021-04-20 Removed from Short Debate Status
• 2021-04-20 Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading - Standard Debate
• 2021-04-20 Third Reading - Standard Debate - Passed 068-044-000 passage, reading-3
• 2021-04-20 Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Lakesia Collins
• 2021-04-21 Arrive in Senate introduction
• 2021-04-21 Placed on Calendar Order of First Reading reading-1
• 2021-04-21 Chief Senate Sponsor Sen. Ram Villivalam
• 2021-04-21 First Reading reading-1
• 2021-04-21 Referred to Assignments referral-committee
• 2021-04-28 Assigned to Labor referral-committee
• 2021-05-11 Alternate Chief Sponsor Changed to Sen. Karina Villa
• 2021-05-11 Added as Alternate Chief Co-Sponsor Sen. Ram Villivalam
• 2021-05-12 Do Pass Labor; 012-005-000 committee-passage
• 2021-05-12 Placed on Calendar Order of 2nd Reading May 13, 2021
• 2021-05-13 Second Reading reading-2
• 2021-05-13 Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading May 14, 2021
• 2021-05-13 Added as Alternate Chief Co-Sponsor Sen. Celina Villanueva
• 2021-05-25 Third Reading - Passed; 040-015-000 passage, reading-3
• 2021-05-25 Passed Both Houses
• 2021-06-23 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2021-07-09 Governor Approved executive-signature
• 2021-07-09 Effective Date July 9, 2021
• 2021-07-09 Public Act . . . . . . . . . 102-0050 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/bcf53f82-3e0b-4c46-b022-921c0368a501. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Illinois legislature records).