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Bill	EMPLOY/EDUC SUPPORT PERSONNEL	Amends the School Code. Adds a special education cooperative that dissolves or reorganizes to provisions concerning the continued employment of educational support personnel employees in a new, annexing, or receiving school district. Provides that with respect to a special education cooperative reorganization, the contractual continued service status of a teacher transfers to the new or different board. Amends the Workers' Compensation Act. Provides that it is unlawful for an employer to demote an employee because of the exercise of his or her rights or remedies under the Act. Effective immediately.	us/states/il	Illinois General Assembly	102nd	SB 3709	Illinois SB 3709 (102nd)	bill		enacted	Linda Holmes Maura Hirschauer	5	47	2	2022-01-21	2022-05-13	openstates	ocd-bill/0dd96f1e-d069-4339-af5b-1787a781fc1b	https://ilga.gov/legislation/BillStatus.asp?DocNum=3709&GAID=16&DocTypeID=SB&LegId=138722&SessionID=110&GA=102	36851429d8daa1cfd535a67d9746ebdf3dfc1e0f2414c1c56debc0e0328fbbfd	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-il

Illinois SB 3709 (102nd) — EMPLOY/EDUC SUPPORT PERSONNEL

Amends the School Code. Adds a special education cooperative that dissolves or reorganizes to provisions concerning the continued employment of educational support personnel employees in a new, annexing, or receiving school district. Provides that with respect to a special education cooperative reorganization, the contractual continued service status of a teacher transfers to the new or different board. Amends the Workers' Compensation Act. Provides that it is unlawful for an employer to demote an employee because of the exercise of his or her rights or remedies under the Act. 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. Senate Amendment 001 (committee substitute) — source
4. Senate Amendment 002 (committee substitute) — source
5. Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Third Reading — 113–0 (pass) · lower
• Third Reading — 48–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Linda Holmes — primary (person)
• Maura Hirschauer — primary (person)
• Amy Elik — cosponsor (person)
• C.D. Davidsmeyer — cosponsor (person)
• Daniel Swanson — cosponsor (person)
• Dave Severin — cosponsor (person)
• Mark Luft — cosponsor (person)
• Meg Loughran Cappel — cosponsor (person)
• Michael T. Marron — cosponsor (person)
• Norine K. Hammond — cosponsor (person)
• Suzy Glowiak Hilton — cosponsor (person)
• Tony McCombie — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2022-01-21 Filed with Secretary by Sen. Linda Holmes filing
• 2022-01-21 First Reading reading-1
• 2022-01-21 Referred to Assignments referral-committee
• 2022-02-01 Assigned to Education referral-committee
• 2022-02-09 Do Pass Education; 013-002-000 committee-passage
• 2022-02-09 Placed on Calendar Order of 2nd Reading February 10, 2022
• 2022-02-09 Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Meg Loughran Cappel
• 2022-02-16 Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Suzy Glowiak Hilton
• 2022-02-22 Second Reading reading-2
• 2022-02-22 Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading February 23, 2022
• 2022-02-22 Senate Floor Amendment No. 1 Filed with Secretary by Sen. Linda Holmes amendment-introduction
• 2022-02-22 Senate Floor Amendment No. 1 Referred to Assignments referral-committee
• 2022-02-23 Senate Floor Amendment No. 1 Assignments Refers to Education
• 2022-02-25 Rule 2-10 Third Reading Deadline Established As March 11, 2022 reading-3
• 2022-03-02 Senate Floor Amendment No. 2 Filed with Secretary by Sen. Linda Holmes amendment-introduction
• 2022-03-02 Senate Floor Amendment No. 2 Referred to Assignments referral-committee
• 2022-03-08 Senate Floor Amendment No. 2 Assignments Refers to Education
• 2022-03-09 Senate Floor Amendment No. 1 Recommend Do Adopt Education; 012-000-000
• 2022-03-09 Senate Floor Amendment No. 2 Recommend Do Adopt Education; 012-000-000
• 2022-03-09 Recalled to Second Reading reading-2
• 2022-03-09 Senate Floor Amendment No. 1 Adopted; Holmes amendment-passage
• 2022-03-09 Senate Floor Amendment No. 2 Adopted; Holmes amendment-passage
• 2022-03-09 Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading
• 2022-03-09 Third Reading - Passed; 048-000-000 passage, reading-3
• 2022-03-09 Arrived in House introduction
• 2022-03-10 Chief House Sponsor Rep. Maura Hirschauer
• 2022-03-10 First Reading reading-1
• 2022-03-10 Referred to Rules Committee referral-committee
• 2022-03-15 Added Alternate Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Amy Elik
• 2022-03-15 Added Alternate Co-Sponsor Rep. C.D. Davidsmeyer
• 2022-03-15 Added Alternate Co-Sponsor Rep. Norine K. Hammond
• 2022-03-15 Added Alternate Co-Sponsor Rep. Michael T. Marron
• 2022-03-15 Added Alternate Co-Sponsor Rep. Tony McCombie
• 2022-03-15 Added Alternate Co-Sponsor Rep. Dave Severin
• 2022-03-15 Added Alternate Co-Sponsor Rep. Daniel Swanson
• 2022-03-15 Added Alternate Co-Sponsor Rep. Mark Luft
• 2022-03-17 Assigned to Labor & Commerce Committee referral-committee
• 2022-03-23 Do Pass / Short Debate Labor & Commerce Committee; 024-000-000 committee-passage
• 2022-03-23 Placed on Calendar 2nd Reading - Short Debate
• 2022-03-24 Second Reading - Short Debate reading-2
• 2022-03-24 Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading - Short Debate
• 2022-03-31 Third Reading - Short Debate - Passed 113-000-001 passage, reading-3
• 2022-03-31 Passed Both Houses
• 2022-04-29 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2022-05-13 Governor Approved executive-signature
• 2022-05-13 Effective Date May 13, 2022
• 2022-05-13 Public Act . . . . . . . . . 102-0854 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/0dd96f1e-d069-4339-af5b-1787a781fc1b. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Illinois legislature records).