republic-os/legislation/us/states/il/103rd/hb-1122.md

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Bill	FREELANCE WORKER PROTECTION	Creates the Freelance Worker Protection Act. Provides that freelance workers must be compensated by hiring parties for their services in a timely manner. Provides that whenever a hiring party retains the services of a freelance worker, the contract between the hiring party and the freelance worker shall be reduced to writing. Provides that no hiring party shall threaten, intimidate, discipline, harass, deny a work opportunity to, or discriminate against a freelance worker, or take any other action that penalizes a freelance worker for, or is reasonably likely to deter a freelance worker from, exercising or attempting to exercise any right guaranteed under the Act. Contains provisions concerning complaints to the Director of Labor; the powers and duties of the Director; civil actions brought by freelance workers; civil actions brought by the State; the scope of freelance worker contracts; a public awareness campaign; and surveys, information collection, and reporting requirements. Effective immediately.	us/states/il	Illinois General Assembly	103rd	HB 1122	Illinois HB 1122 (103rd)	bill		enacted	Don Harmon Will Guzzardi	6	48	5	2023-01-10	2023-08-04	openstates	ocd-bill/05568f5c-8b5e-4aab-866e-8c76091e1a3d	https://beta.ilga.gov/Legislation/BillStatus?DocNum=1122&GAID=17&DocTypeID=HB&LegId=143137&SessionID=112	407634cc21f9b2d3c813163d7b24d6b4a8fb43dbce694b2d9d272ad5ef60af7b	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-il

Illinois HB 1122 (103rd) — FREELANCE WORKER PROTECTION

Creates the Freelance Worker Protection Act. Provides that freelance workers must be compensated by hiring parties for their services in a timely manner. Provides that whenever a hiring party retains the services of a freelance worker, the contract between the hiring party and the freelance worker shall be reduced to writing. Provides that no hiring party shall threaten, intimidate, discipline, harass, deny a work opportunity to, or discriminate against a freelance worker, or take any other action that penalizes a freelance worker for, or is reasonably likely to deter a freelance worker from, exercising or attempting to exercise any right guaranteed under the Act. Contains provisions concerning complaints to the Director of Labor; the powers and duties of the Director; civil actions brought by freelance workers; civil actions brought by the State; the scope of freelance worker contracts; a public awareness campaign; and surveys, information collection, and reporting requirements. 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. House Amendment 001 (committee substitute) — source
4. House Amendment 002 (committee substitute) — source
5. House Amendment 003 (committee substitute) — source
6. Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Labor — 12–1 (pass) · lower
• Third Reading — 68–38 (pass) · lower
• Labor & Commerce — 18–10 (pass) · lower
• Labor & Commerce, Amendment 3 — 18–8 (pass) · lower
• Third Reading — 35–20 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Don Harmon — primary (person)
• Will Guzzardi — primary (person)
• Aarón M. Ortíz — cosponsor (person)
• Cristina Castro — cosponsor (person)
• Javier L. Cervantes — cosponsor (person)
• Marcus C. Evans, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
• Mike Simmons — cosponsor (person)
• Ram Villivalam — cosponsor (person)
• Robert Peters — cosponsor (person)
• Sonya M. Harper — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-01-10 Prefiled with Clerk by Rep. Will Guzzardi filing
• 2023-01-12 First Reading reading-1
• 2023-01-12 Referred to Rules Committee
• 2023-02-07 Assigned to Labor & Commerce Committee referral-committee
• 2023-02-15 Added Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Aarón M. Ortíz
• 2023-02-17 House Committee Amendment No. 1 Filed with Clerk by Rep. Will Guzzardi amendment-introduction
• 2023-02-17 House Committee Amendment No. 1 Referred to Rules Committee
• 2023-02-21 Added Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Marcus C. Evans, Jr.
• 2023-02-28 House Committee Amendment No. 1 Rules Refers to Labor & Commerce Committee
• 2023-03-03 House Committee Amendment No. 2 Filed with Clerk by Rep. Will Guzzardi amendment-introduction
• 2023-03-03 House Committee Amendment No. 2 Referred to Rules Committee
• 2023-03-07 House Committee Amendment No. 2 Rules Refers to Labor & Commerce Committee
• 2023-03-08 House Committee Amendment No. 2 Adopted in Labor & Commerce Committee; 018-010-000 amendment-passage
• 2023-03-08 Do Pass as Amended / Short Debate Labor & Commerce Committee; 018-010-000
• 2023-03-08 House Committee Amendment No. 1 Tabled amendment-failure
• 2023-03-09 Placed on Calendar 2nd Reading - Short Debate reading-2
• 2023-03-17 House Floor Amendment No. 3 Filed with Clerk by Rep. Will Guzzardi amendment-introduction
• 2023-03-17 House Floor Amendment No. 3 Referred to Rules Committee
• 2023-03-21 House Floor Amendment No. 3 Rules Refers to Labor & Commerce Committee
• 2023-03-22 House Floor Amendment No. 3 Recommends Be Adopted Labor & Commerce Committee; 018-008-000 committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-03-22 Second Reading - Short Debate reading-2
• 2023-03-22 Held on Calendar Order of Second Reading - Short Debate reading-2
• 2023-03-24 House Floor Amendment No. 3 Adopted amendment-passage
• 2023-03-24 Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading - Short Debate
• 2023-03-24 Added Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Sonya M. Harper
• 2023-03-24 Third Reading - Short Debate - Passed 068-038-000 passage, reading-3
• 2023-03-27 Arrive in Senate introduction
• 2023-03-27 Placed on Calendar Order of First Reading reading-1
• 2023-03-27 Chief Senate Sponsor Sen. Cristina H. Pacione-Zayas
• 2023-03-27 First Reading reading-1
• 2023-03-27 Referred to Assignments
• 2023-04-05 Added as Alternate Chief Co-Sponsor Sen. Javier L. Cervantes
• 2023-04-10 Added as Alternate Chief Co-Sponsor Sen. Cristina Castro
• 2023-04-12 Assigned to Labor referral-committee
• 2023-04-17 Added as Alternate Chief Co-Sponsor Sen. Ram Villivalam
• 2023-04-18 Added as Alternate Chief Co-Sponsor Sen. Robert Peters
• 2023-04-27 Do Pass Labor; 012-001-000
• 2023-04-27 Placed on Calendar Order of 2nd Reading May 2, 2023 reading-2
• 2023-05-03 Second Reading reading-2
• 2023-05-03 Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading May 4, 2023
• 2023-05-11 Third Reading - Passed; 035-020-000 passage, reading-3
• 2023-05-11 Passed Both Houses
• 2023-05-11 Added as Alternate Co-Sponsor Sen. Mike Simmons
• 2023-06-09 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2023-06-12 Alternate Chief Sponsor Changed to Sen. Don Harmon
• 2023-08-04 Governor Approved executive-signature
• 2023-08-04 Effective Date July 1, 2024
• 2023-08-04 Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0417 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/05568f5c-8b5e-4aab-866e-8c76091e1a3d. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Illinois legislature records).