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Bill	FOIA-MEDICAL RECORDS	Amends the Freedom of Information Act. Modifies the definition of "private information" by providing that medical records include electronic medical records and the information contained within or extracted from an electronic medical records system operated or maintained by a Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act covered entity. Exempts from disclosure all protected health information that may be contained within or extracted from any record held by a covered entity, including information that alone or compiled or under circumstances in which the patient information combined with other information could allow for patient identification, in compliance with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act.	us/states/il	Illinois General Assembly	103rd	SB 1670	Illinois SB 1670 (103rd)	bill		enacted	Marcus C. Evans, Jr. Sara Feigenholtz	5	44	7	2023-02-08	2023-08-11	openstates	ocd-bill/9d4bbb39-3d65-4a7a-a6ca-0914ae454102	https://beta.ilga.gov/Legislation/BillStatus?DocNum=1670&GAID=17&DocTypeID=SB&LegId=146450&SessionID=112	319b2fef600b0a0ecf2cc575b59580324e395af0e75eddd5d6d223b4493c63f0	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-il

Illinois SB 1670 (103rd) — FOIA-MEDICAL RECORDS

Amends the Freedom of Information Act. Modifies the definition of "private information" by providing that medical records include electronic medical records and the information contained within or extracted from an electronic medical records system operated or maintained by a Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act covered entity. Exempts from disclosure all protected health information that may be contained within or extracted from any record held by a covered entity, including information that alone or compiled or under circumstances in which the patient information combined with other information could allow for patient identification, in compliance with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act.

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 — 11–0 (pass) · lower
• Third Reading — 113–0 (pass) · lower
• Executive, Amendment 2 — 12–0 (pass) · lower
• Third Reading — 57–0 (pass) · lower
• Concurrence, Amendment 2 — 57–0 (pass) · lower
• Executive — 12–0 (pass) · lower
• Executive, Amendment 2 — 10–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Marcus C. Evans, Jr. — primary (person)
• Sara Feigenholtz — primary (person)
• Laura M. Murphy — cosponsor (person)
• Willie Preston — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-02-08 Filed with Secretary by Sen. Robert Peters filing
• 2023-02-08 First Reading reading-1
• 2023-02-08 Referred to Assignments
• 2023-02-21 Assigned to Executive referral-committee
• 2023-03-07 Chief Sponsor Changed to Sen. Sara Feigenholtz
• 2023-03-09 Do Pass Executive; 011-000-000
• 2023-03-09 Placed on Calendar Order of 2nd Reading March 10, 2023 reading-2
• 2023-03-29 Second Reading reading-2
• 2023-03-29 Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading March 30, 2023
• 2023-03-30 Third Reading - Passed; 057-000-000 passage, reading-3
• 2023-03-30 Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Willie Preston
• 2023-03-31 Arrived in House introduction
• 2023-04-04 Chief House Sponsor Rep. Marcus C. Evans, Jr.
• 2023-04-11 First Reading reading-1
• 2023-04-11 Referred to Rules Committee
• 2023-04-18 Assigned to Executive Committee referral-committee
• 2023-04-25 House Committee Amendment No. 1 Filed with Clerk by Rep. Marcus C. Evans, Jr. amendment-introduction
• 2023-04-25 House Committee Amendment No. 1 Referred to Rules Committee
• 2023-04-26 Do Pass / Short Debate Executive Committee; 012-000-000
• 2023-04-26 House Committee Amendment No. 1 Tabled amendment-failure
• 2023-04-26 Placed on Calendar 2nd Reading - Short Debate reading-2
• 2023-05-01 House Floor Amendment No. 2 Filed with Clerk by Rep. Marcus C. Evans, Jr. amendment-introduction
• 2023-05-01 House Floor Amendment No. 2 Referred to Rules Committee
• 2023-05-02 House Floor Amendment No. 2 Rules Refers to Executive Committee
• 2023-05-08 Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Laura M. Murphy
• 2023-05-10 House Floor Amendment No. 2 Recommends Be Adopted Executive Committee; 010-000-000 committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-05-10 Second Reading - Short Debate reading-2
• 2023-05-10 Held on Calendar Order of Second Reading - Short Debate reading-2
• 2023-05-11 House Floor Amendment No. 2 Adopted amendment-passage
• 2023-05-11 Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading - Short Debate
• 2023-05-11 Third Reading - Short Debate - Passed 113-000-000 passage, reading-3
• 2023-05-11 Secretary's Desk - Concurrence House Amendment(s) 2
• 2023-05-11 Placed on Calendar Order of Concurrence House Amendment(s) 2 - May 15, 2023
• 2023-05-16 House Floor Amendment No. 2 Motion to Concur Filed with Secretary Sen. Sara Feigenholtz filing
• 2023-05-16 House Floor Amendment No. 2 Motion to Concur Referred to Assignments
• 2023-05-16 House Floor Amendment No. 2 Motion to Concur Assignments Referred to Executive
• 2023-05-17 House Floor Amendment No. 2 Motion To Concur Recommended Do Adopt Executive; 012-000-000
• 2023-05-19 House Floor Amendment No. 2 Senate Concurs 057-000-000
• 2023-05-19 Senate Concurs
• 2023-05-19 Passed Both Houses
• 2023-06-16 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2023-08-11 Governor Approved executive-signature
• 2023-08-11 Effective Date January 1, 2024
• 2023-08-11 Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0554 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/9d4bbb39-3d65-4a7a-a6ca-0914ae454102. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Illinois legislature records).