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Bill	EPA-MICROPLASTICS	Amends the Environmental Protection Act. Requires the Environmental Protection Agency to propose and the Pollution Control Board to adopt rules defining what microplastics are for purposes of regulating their presence in drinking water. Directs the Agency to propose and the Board to adopt rules establishing a standard methodology to be used in the testing of drinking water for microplastics, requirements for testing drinking water for microplastics, and standards for the accreditation by the Agency of qualified laboratories to analyze drinking water for microplastics. Provides that the Agency, if it deems doing so is appropriate, is to consider issuing a notification level to aid consumers in the interpretation of the results of drinking water testing.	us/states/il	Illinois General Assembly	103rd	SB 1563	Illinois SB 1563 (103rd)	bill		enacted	Jennifer Gong-Gershowitz Julie A. Morrison	5	43	6	2023-02-08	2023-06-09	openstates	ocd-bill/9adff5e7-cf18-4806-a2ef-d18143ffbe3c	https://beta.ilga.gov/Legislation/BillStatus?DocNum=1563&GAID=17&DocTypeID=SB&LegId=146318&SessionID=112	34bb7617cf13decfd6521bb86f03465b1af38565b7b11260a0dc55aa4e3cc693	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-il

Illinois SB 1563 (103rd) — EPA-MICROPLASTICS

Amends the Environmental Protection Act. Requires the Environmental Protection Agency to propose and the Pollution Control Board to adopt rules defining what microplastics are for purposes of regulating their presence in drinking water. Directs the Agency to propose and the Board to adopt rules establishing a standard methodology to be used in the testing of drinking water for microplastics, requirements for testing drinking water for microplastics, and standards for the accreditation by the Agency of qualified laboratories to analyze drinking water for microplastics. Provides that the Agency, if it deems doing so is appropriate, is to consider issuing a notification level to aid consumers in the interpretation of the results of drinking water testing.

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

• Environment and Conservation, Amendment 2 — 9–0 (pass) · lower
• Environment and Conservation — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• Third Reading — 104–0 (pass) · lower
• Energy & Environment — 25–0 (pass) · lower
• Environment and Conservation — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• Third Reading — 56–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Jennifer Gong-Gershowitz — primary (person)
• Julie A. Morrison — primary (person)
• Adriane Johnson — cosponsor (person)
• Daniel Didech — cosponsor (person)
• Jeff Keicher — cosponsor (person)
• Joyce Mason — cosponsor (person)
• Laura Fine — cosponsor (person)
• Laura M. Murphy — cosponsor (person)
• Mary Edly-Allen — cosponsor (person)
• Rachel Ventura — cosponsor (person)
• Rita Mayfield — cosponsor (person)
• Sharon Chung — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-02-08 Filed with Secretary by Sen. Julie A. Morrison filing
• 2023-02-08 First Reading reading-1
• 2023-02-08 Referred to Assignments
• 2023-02-14 Assigned to Environment and Conservation referral-committee
• 2023-03-02 Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 Filed with Secretary by Sen. Julie A. Morrison amendment-introduction
• 2023-03-02 Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 Referred to Assignments
• 2023-03-07 Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 Assignments Refers to Environment and Conservation
• 2023-03-09 Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 Adopted; Environment and Conservation amendment-passage
• 2023-03-09 Do Pass as Amended Environment and Conservation; 008-000-000
• 2023-03-09 Placed on Calendar Order of 2nd Reading March 10, 2023 reading-2
• 2023-03-21 Senate Floor Amendment No. 2 Filed with Secretary by Sen. Julie A. Morrison amendment-introduction
• 2023-03-21 Senate Floor Amendment No. 2 Referred to Assignments
• 2023-03-22 Senate Floor Amendment No. 2 Assignments Refers to Environment and Conservation
• 2023-03-23 Senate Floor Amendment No. 2 Recommend Do Adopt Environment and Conservation; 009-000-000
• 2023-03-24 Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Laura Fine
• 2023-03-28 Second Reading reading-2
• 2023-03-28 Senate Floor Amendment No. 2 Adopted; Morrison amendment-passage
• 2023-03-28 Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading March 29, 2023
• 2023-03-30 Third Reading - Passed; 056-000-000 passage, reading-3
• 2023-03-30 Added as Chief Co-Sponsor Sen. Mary Edly-Allen
• 2023-03-30 Added as Chief Co-Sponsor Sen. Adriane Johnson
• 2023-03-30 Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Rachel Ventura
• 2023-03-31 Arrived in House introduction
• 2023-03-31 Chief House Sponsor Rep. Jennifer Gong-Gershowitz
• 2023-04-11 First Reading reading-1
• 2023-04-11 Referred to Rules Committee
• 2023-04-18 Assigned to Energy & Environment Committee referral-committee
• 2023-04-18 Added Alternate Co-Sponsor Rep. Rita Mayfield
• 2023-04-21 Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Laura M. Murphy
• 2023-04-25 Do Pass / Short Debate Energy & Environment Committee; 025-000-000
• 2023-04-26 Placed on Calendar 2nd Reading - Short Debate reading-2
• 2023-05-03 Second Reading - Short Debate reading-2
• 2023-05-03 Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading - Short Debate
• 2023-05-03 Added Alternate Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Jeff Keicher
• 2023-05-04 Added Alternate Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Daniel Didech
• 2023-05-08 Third Reading - Short Debate - Passed 104-000-000 passage, reading-3
• 2023-05-08 Passed Both Houses
• 2023-05-08 Added Alternate Co-Sponsor Rep. Joyce Mason
• 2023-05-08 Added Alternate Co-Sponsor Rep. Sharon Chung
• 2023-06-06 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2023-06-09 Governor Approved executive-signature
• 2023-06-09 Effective Date January 1, 2024
• 2023-06-09 Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0093 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/9adff5e7-cf18-4806-a2ef-d18143ffbe3c. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Illinois legislature records).