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Bill	PRIOR AUTHORIZATION-EMERGENCY	Amends the Prior Authorization Reform Act. Changes the definition of "emergency services" to provide that for the purposes of the provisions, emergency services are not required to be provided in the emergency department of a hospital. Provides that notwithstanding any other provision of law, a health insurance issuer or a contracted utilization review organization may not require prior authorization or approval by the health plan for emergency services.	us/states/il	Illinois General Assembly	103rd	HB 4055	Illinois HB 4055 (103rd)	bill		enacted	David Koehler William E Hauter	5	44	5	2023-04-27	2024-07-19	openstates	ocd-bill/d52b491d-6f1c-45cc-ba5e-873214a59eb9	https://beta.ilga.gov/Legislation/BillStatus?DocNum=4055&GAID=17&DocTypeID=HB&LegId=149849&SessionID=112	e101b77aa7421e91c78c2d001a46faa6857f7b445966eef85dd6e55513f66a88	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-il

Illinois HB 4055 (103rd) — PRIOR AUTHORIZATION-EMERGENCY

Amends the Prior Authorization Reform Act. Changes the definition of "emergency services" to provide that for the purposes of the provisions, emergency services are not required to be provided in the emergency department of a hospital. Provides that notwithstanding any other provision of law, a health insurance issuer or a contracted utilization review organization may not require prior authorization or approval by the health plan for emergency services.

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

• Insurance — 10–0 (pass) · lower
• Insurance — 15–0 (pass) · lower
• Third Reading — 106–0 (pass) · lower
• Third Reading — 56–0 (pass) · lower
• Insurance, Amendment 2 — 15–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• David Koehler — primary (person)
• William E Hauter — primary (person)
• Brandun Schweizer — cosponsor (person)
• Dave Severin — cosponsor (person)
• Jason Bunting — cosponsor (person)
• Jed Davis — cosponsor (person)
• Kevin Schmidt — cosponsor (person)
• Martin McLaughlin — cosponsor (person)
• Patrick Sheehan — cosponsor (person)
• Paul Jacobs — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-04-27 Filed with the Clerk by Rep. William E Hauter filing
• 2023-04-27 First Reading reading-1
• 2023-04-27 Referred to Rules Committee
• 2024-02-01 Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Kevin Schmidt
• 2024-03-05 Assigned to Insurance Committee referral-committee
• 2024-04-02 House Committee Amendment No. 1 Filed with Clerk by Rep. William E Hauter amendment-introduction
• 2024-04-02 House Committee Amendment No. 1 Referred to Rules Committee
• 2024-04-02 Do Pass / Short Debate Insurance Committee; 015-000-000
• 2024-04-02 House Committee Amendment No. 1 Tabled amendment-failure
• 2024-04-03 Placed on Calendar 2nd Reading - Short Debate reading-2
• 2024-04-09 House Floor Amendment No. 2 Filed with Clerk by Rep. William E Hauter amendment-introduction
• 2024-04-09 House Floor Amendment No. 2 Referred to Rules Committee
• 2024-04-15 House Floor Amendment No. 2 Rules Refers to Insurance Committee
• 2024-04-15 House Floor Amendment No. 2 Rules Refers to Insurance Committee
• 2024-04-17 House Floor Amendment No. 2 Recommends Be Adopted Insurance Committee; 015-000-000 committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-04-17 Second Reading - Short Debate reading-2
• 2024-04-17 Held on Calendar Order of Second Reading - Short Debate reading-2
• 2024-04-19 House Floor Amendment No. 2 Adopted amendment-passage
• 2024-04-19 Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading - Short Debate
• 2024-04-19 Third Reading - Short Debate - Passed 106-000-000 passage, reading-3
• 2024-04-19 Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Jason Bunting
• 2024-04-19 Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Patrick Sheehan
• 2024-04-19 Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Dave Severin
• 2024-04-19 Added Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Martin McLaughlin
• 2024-04-19 Added Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Paul Jacobs
• 2024-04-19 Added Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Brandun Schweizer
• 2024-04-19 Added Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Jed Davis
• 2024-04-24 Arrive in Senate introduction
• 2024-04-24 Placed on Calendar Order of First Reading reading-1
• 2024-04-24 Chief Senate Sponsor Sen. David Koehler
• 2024-04-24 First Reading reading-1
• 2024-04-24 Referred to Assignments
• 2024-04-30 Assigned to Insurance referral-committee
• 2024-04-30 Rule 2-10 Committee Deadline Established As May 10, 2024
• 2024-05-08 Do Pass Insurance; 010-000-000
• 2024-05-08 Placed on Calendar Order of 2nd Reading May 9, 2024 reading-2
• 2024-05-09 Second Reading reading-2
• 2024-05-09 Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading
• 2024-05-15 Third Reading - Passed; 056-000-000 passage, reading-3
• 2024-05-15 Passed Both Houses
• 2024-06-13 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2024-07-19 Governor Approved executive-signature
• 2024-07-19 Effective Date January 1, 2026
• 2024-07-19 Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0659 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/d52b491d-6f1c-45cc-ba5e-873214a59eb9. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Illinois legislature records).