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Bill	OPEN MEETINGS-SCHOOL EVENTS	Amends the Open Meetings Act. Provides that a public body may hold closed meetings to consider evidence or testimony presented to a school board regarding denial of admission to school events or property, provided that the school board prepares and makes available for public inspection a written decision setting forth its determinative reasoning. Effective immediately.	us/states/il	Illinois General Assembly	103rd	HB 2447	Illinois HB 2447 (103rd)	bill		enacted	Dagmara Avelar Meg Loughran Cappel	5	43	4	2023-02-15	2023-07-28	openstates	ocd-bill/3d253ebb-0845-4a61-ba59-b58ff3e721ed	https://beta.ilga.gov/Legislation/BillStatus?DocNum=2447&GAID=17&DocTypeID=HB&LegId=147529&SessionID=112	48da744ab03b7672a7886c2c0d2d2eb78e250efca4a4f61cb7ba6e297c5a8ac6	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-il

Illinois HB 2447 (103rd) — OPEN MEETINGS-SCHOOL EVENTS

Amends the Open Meetings Act. Provides that a public body may hold closed meetings to consider evidence or testimony presented to a school board regarding denial of admission to school events or property, provided that the school board prepares and makes available for public inspection a written decision setting forth its determinative reasoning. 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. Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Executive — 12–0 (pass) · lower
• Third Reading — 54–1 (pass) · lower
• Executive — 11–0 (pass) · lower
• Third Reading — 89–23 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Dagmara Avelar — primary (person)
• Meg Loughran Cappel — primary (person)
• Daniel Didech — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-02-15 Filed with the Clerk by Rep. Dagmara Avelar filing
• 2023-02-15 First Reading reading-1
• 2023-02-15 Referred to Rules Committee
• 2023-02-28 Assigned to Executive Committee referral-committee
• 2023-03-08 Do Pass / Short Debate Executive Committee; 011-000-000
• 2023-03-08 Placed on Calendar 2nd Reading - Short Debate reading-2
• 2023-03-22 Second Reading - Short Debate reading-2
• 2023-03-22 Held on Calendar Order of Second Reading - Short Debate reading-2
• 2023-03-27 Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee
• 2023-04-18 Approved for Consideration Rules Committee; 005-000-000
• 2023-04-18 Placed on Calendar 2nd Reading - Short Debate reading-2
• 2023-04-18 Third Reading Deadline Extended-Rule May 19, 2023
• 2023-04-18 House Floor Amendment No. 1 Filed with Clerk by Rep. Dagmara Avelar amendment-introduction
• 2023-04-18 House Floor Amendment No. 1 Referred to Rules Committee
• 2023-04-18 House Floor Amendment No. 1 Recommends Be Adopted Rules Committee; 005-000-000 committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-04-25 House Floor Amendment No. 2 Filed with Clerk by Rep. Dagmara Avelar amendment-introduction
• 2023-04-25 House Floor Amendment No. 2 Referred to Rules Committee
• 2023-05-02 House Floor Amendment No. 2 Recommends Be Adopted Rules Committee; 004-000-000 committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-05-03 House Floor Amendment No. 1 Adopted amendment-passage
• 2023-05-03 House Floor Amendment No. 2 Adopted amendment-passage
• 2023-05-03 Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading - Short Debate
• 2023-05-03 Third Reading - Short Debate - Passed 089-023-000 passage, reading-3
• 2023-05-04 Arrive in Senate introduction
• 2023-05-04 Placed on Calendar Order of First Reading reading-1
• 2023-05-04 Chief Senate Sponsor Sen. Meg Loughran Cappel
• 2023-05-04 First Reading reading-1
• 2023-05-04 Referred to Assignments
• 2023-05-09 Assigned to Executive referral-committee
• 2023-05-09 Rule 2-10 Committee Deadline Established As May 19, 2023
• 2023-05-11 Rule 2-10 Third Reading Deadline Established As May 25, 2023
• 2023-05-11 Rule 2-10 Committee Deadline Established As May 21, 2023
• 2023-05-12 Rule 2-10 Third Reading Deadline Established As May 19, 2023
• 2023-05-17 Do Pass Executive; 012-000-000
• 2023-05-17 Placed on Calendar Order of 2nd Reading reading-2
• 2023-05-17 Second Reading reading-2
• 2023-05-17 Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading May 18, 2023
• 2023-05-19 Third Reading - Passed; 054-001-000 passage, reading-3
• 2023-05-19 Passed Both Houses
• 2023-05-22 Added Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Daniel Didech
• 2023-06-16 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2023-07-28 Governor Approved executive-signature
• 2023-07-28 Effective Date July 28, 2023
• 2023-07-28 Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0311 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/3d253ebb-0845-4a61-ba59-b58ff3e721ed. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Illinois legislature records).