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Bill	CT REPORTER-PROFICIENCY TEST	Amends the Court Reporters Act. Provides that each court reporter may be required by the chief judge to (rather than shall) take a test to verify his or her proficiency within one year of employment.	us/states/il	Illinois General Assembly	103rd	HB 4226	Illinois HB 4226 (103rd)	bill		enacted	Curtis J. Tarver, II Don Harmon	4	43	7	2023-11-08	2024-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/386c0cda-c57b-4f8c-89b8-b07f452908a5	https://beta.ilga.gov/Legislation/BillStatus?DocNum=4226&GAID=17&DocTypeID=HB&LegId=150950&SessionID=112	5278461f44f601457b585cd8e1a188ea24cd0c3ae9594339366714d21bd6d3c3	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-il

Illinois HB 4226 (103rd) — CT REPORTER-PROFICIENCY TEST

Amends the Court Reporters Act. Provides that each court reporter may be required by the chief judge to (rather than shall) take a test to verify his or her proficiency within one year of employment.

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. Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Judiciary — 9–0 (pass) · lower
• Third Reading — 107–0 (pass) · lower
• Third Reading — 14–0 (pass) · lower
• Third Reading — 58–0 (pass) · lower
• Executive, Amendment 1 — 13–0 (pass) · lower
• Concurrence, Amendment 1 — 103–0 (pass) · lower
• Executive, Amendment 1 — 12–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Curtis J. Tarver, II — primary (person)
• Don Harmon — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-11-08 Filed with the Clerk by Rep. Jay Hoffman filing
• 2023-11-08 First Reading reading-1
• 2023-11-08 Referred to Rules Committee
• 2024-02-14 Assigned to Judiciary - Civil Committee referral-committee
• 2024-02-21 Do Pass / Short Debate Judiciary - Civil Committee; 014-000-000
• 2024-02-21 Placed on Calendar 2nd Reading - Short Debate reading-2
• 2024-04-11 Second Reading - Short Debate reading-2
• 2024-04-11 Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading - Short Debate
• 2024-04-15 Third Reading - Short Debate - Passed 107-000-000 passage, reading-3
• 2024-04-16 Arrive in Senate introduction
• 2024-04-16 Placed on Calendar Order of First Reading reading-1
• 2024-04-16 Chief Senate Sponsor Sen. Doris Turner
• 2024-04-16 First Reading reading-1
• 2024-04-16 Referred to Assignments
• 2024-04-24 Assigned to Judiciary referral-committee
• 2024-05-01 Do Pass Judiciary; 009-000-000
• 2024-05-01 Placed on Calendar Order of 2nd Reading May 2, 2024 reading-2
• 2024-05-02 Second Reading reading-2
• 2024-05-02 Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading May 7, 2024
• 2024-05-17 Rule 2-10 Third Reading/Passage Deadline Established As May 24, 2024
• 2024-05-23 Senate Floor Amendment No. 1 Filed with Secretary by Sen. Don Harmon amendment-introduction
• 2024-05-23 Senate Floor Amendment No. 1 Referred to Assignments
• 2024-05-23 Alternate Chief Sponsor Changed to Sen. Don Harmon
• 2024-05-23 Senate Floor Amendment No. 1 Assignments Refers to Executive
• 2024-05-23 Senate Floor Amendment No. 1 Recommend Do Adopt Executive; 013-000-000
• 2024-05-23 Recalled to Second Reading reading-2
• 2024-05-23 Senate Floor Amendment No. 1 Adopted; Harmon amendment-passage
• 2024-05-23 Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading
• 2024-05-23 Third Reading - Passed; 058-000-000 passage, reading-3
• 2024-05-24 Arrived in House introduction
• 2024-05-24 Placed on Calendar Order of Concurrence Senate Amendment(s) 1
• 2024-05-24 Chief Sponsor Changed to Rep. Curtis J. Tarver, II
• 2024-05-24 Senate Floor Amendment No. 1 Motion Filed Concur Rep. Curtis J. Tarver, II
• 2024-05-24 Senate Floor Amendment No. 1 Motion to Concur Referred to Rules Committee
• 2024-05-24 Senate Floor Amendment No. 1 Motion to Concur Rules Referred to Executive Committee
• 2024-05-24 Senate Floor Amendment No. 1 Motion to Concur Recommends Be Adopted Executive Committee; 012-000-000
• 2024-05-25 Senate Floor Amendment No. 1 House Concurs 103-000-000
• 2024-05-25 House Concurs
• 2024-05-25 Passed Both Houses
• 2024-06-12 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2024-07-01 Governor Approved executive-signature
• 2024-07-01 Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0597 became-law
• 2024-07-01 Effective Date July 1, 2024

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/386c0cda-c57b-4f8c-89b8-b07f452908a5. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Illinois legislature records).