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Bill	FIREFIGHTER EXAMINATION AGE	Amends the Illinois Municipal Code and the Fire Protection District Act. Provides that a person 35 years of age or older who has served a municipality as a regularly enrolled volunteer, paid-on-call, or part-time firefighter is eligible to take an examination for a position as a firefighter (removing a requirement the volunteer, paid-on-call, or part-time work was 5 years immediately preceding the time that the municipality begins to use full-time firefighters to provide all or part of its fire protection service). Effective immediately.	us/states/il	Illinois General Assembly	102nd	SB 2150	Illinois SB 2150 (102nd)	bill		enacted	Adam Niemerg Darren Bailey	3	29	2	2021-02-26	2021-08-13	openstates	ocd-bill/19569ea2-5233-4600-bc34-0a5720ecff4a	https://ilga.gov/legislation/BillStatus.asp?DocNum=2150&GAID=16&DocTypeID=SB&LegId=134801&SessionID=110&GA=102	d48212d18098607655de38debd42e4e80c842a6287bdc1f1af9cfb816149167c	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-il

Illinois SB 2150 (102nd) — FIREFIGHTER EXAMINATION AGE

Amends the Illinois Municipal Code and the Fire Protection District Act. Provides that a person 35 years of age or older who has served a municipality as a regularly enrolled volunteer, paid-on-call, or part-time firefighter is eligible to take an examination for a position as a firefighter (removing a requirement the volunteer, paid-on-call, or part-time work was 5 years immediately preceding the time that the municipality begins to use full-time firefighters to provide all or part of its fire protection service). 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 — 58–0 (pass) · upper
• Third Reading — 117–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Adam Niemerg — primary (person)
• Darren Bailey — primary (person)
• Andrew S. Chesney — cosponsor (person)
• Angelica Guerrero-Cuellar — cosponsor (person)
• Chapin Rose — cosponsor (person)
• Paul Jacobs — cosponsor (person)
• Rachelle Crowe — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-02-26 Filed with Secretary by Sen. Darren Bailey filing
• 2021-02-26 First Reading reading-1
• 2021-02-26 Referred to Assignments referral-committee
• 2021-03-16 Assigned to Public Safety referral-committee
• 2021-04-14 Do Pass Public Safety; 007-000-000 committee-passage
• 2021-04-14 Placed on Calendar Order of 2nd Reading April 15, 2021
• 2021-04-20 Second Reading reading-2
• 2021-04-20 Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading ** April 21, 2021
• 2021-04-22 Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Chapin Rose
• 2021-04-23 Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Rachelle Crowe
• 2021-04-23 Third Reading - Passed; 058-000-000 passage, reading-3
• 2021-04-26 Arrived in House introduction
• 2021-04-26 Chief House Sponsor Rep. Adam Niemerg
• 2021-04-27 First Reading reading-1
• 2021-04-27 Referred to Rules Committee referral-committee
• 2021-05-04 Assigned to Police & Fire Committee referral-committee
• 2021-05-13 Do Pass / Short Debate Police & Fire Committee; 013-000-001 committee-passage
• 2021-05-13 Placed on Calendar 2nd Reading - Short Debate
• 2021-05-13 Added Alternate Co-Sponsor Rep. Angelica Guerrero-Cuellar
• 2021-05-13 Added Alternate Co-Sponsor Rep. Andrew S. Chesney
• 2021-05-13 Added Alternate Co-Sponsor Rep. Paul Jacobs
• 2021-05-19 Second Reading - Short Debate reading-2
• 2021-05-19 Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading - Short Debate
• 2021-05-20 Third Reading - Short Debate - Passed 117-000-000 passage, reading-3
• 2021-05-20 Passed Both Houses
• 2021-06-17 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2021-08-13 Governor Approved executive-signature
• 2021-08-13 Effective Date August 13, 2021
• 2021-08-13 Public Act . . . . . . . . . 102-0375 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/19569ea2-5233-4600-bc34-0a5720ecff4a. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Illinois legislature records).