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Bill	JUV CT-UNATTENDED MINOR	Amends the Juvenile Court Act of 1987. Provides that a neglected minor includes any minor (rather than a minor under 14 years) whose parent or other person responsible for the minor's welfare leaves the minor without supervision for an unreasonable period of time without regard for the mental or physical health, safety, or welfare of that minor. Provides that a minor shall not be considered neglected for the sole reason that the minor was engaged in independent activities, except if the person responsible for the minor's health, safety, or welfare willfully disregards danger that the independent activity poses to the physical or mental health of the minor under circumstances when the danger is sufficiently obvious that no reasonable person would cause or permit the minor to be unsupervised in such a situation given the minor's level of maturity, physical condition, or mental abilities. Provides factors that must be considered in determining if a minor's needs can be sufficiently met during an independent activity. Amends the Criminal Code of 2012 to change the child abandonment statute. Deletes language providing that a person commits child abandonment by leaving a child who is under the age of 13 without supervision by a responsible person over the age of 14 for a period of 24 hours or more. Provides instead that a person commits child abandonment when he or she, as a parent, guardian, or other person having physical custody or control of a child, without regard for the mental or physical health, safety, or welfare of that child, knowingly permits a child to engage in independent activities that were unreasonable under the circumstances or for an unreasonable period of time without regard for the minor's mental or physical health, safety or well-being. Provides that no specific age shall be determinative of reasonableness, and that reasonableness shall be determined by the maturity of each individual child. Effective immediately.	us/states/il	Illinois General Assembly	103rd	SB 1834	Illinois SB 1834 (103rd)	bill		enacted	Elgie R. Sims, Jr. Justin Slaughter	4	34	5	2023-02-09	2023-06-30	openstates	ocd-bill/01c5364a-4496-4c3d-b3aa-3b53a8a8549d	https://beta.ilga.gov/Legislation/BillStatus?DocNum=1834&GAID=17&DocTypeID=SB&LegId=146671&SessionID=112	54d18a166535a1784f9787a66a1066f4395d155b0f042d8328f7496e74a3faf7	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-il

Illinois SB 1834 (103rd) — JUV CT-UNATTENDED MINOR

Amends the Juvenile Court Act of 1987. Provides that a neglected minor includes any minor (rather than a minor under 14 years) whose parent or other person responsible for the minor's welfare leaves the minor without supervision for an unreasonable period of time without regard for the mental or physical health, safety, or welfare of that minor. Provides that a minor shall not be considered neglected for the sole reason that the minor was engaged in independent activities, except if the person responsible for the minor's health, safety, or welfare willfully disregards danger that the independent activity poses to the physical or mental health of the minor under circumstances when the danger is sufficiently obvious that no reasonable person would cause or permit the minor to be unsupervised in such a situation given the minor's level of maturity, physical condition, or mental abilities. Provides factors that must be considered in determining if a minor's needs can be sufficiently met during an independent activity. Amends the Criminal Code of 2012 to change the child abandonment statute. Deletes language providing that a person commits child abandonment by leaving a child who is under the age of 13 without supervision by a responsible person over the age of 14 for a period of 24 hours or more. Provides instead that a person commits child abandonment when he or she, as a parent, guardian, or other person having physical custody or control of a child, without regard for the mental or physical health, safety, or welfare of that child, knowingly permits a child to engage in independent activities that were unreasonable under the circumstances or for an unreasonable period of time without regard for the minor's mental or physical health, safety or well-being. Provides that no specific age shall be determinative of reasonableness, and that reasonableness shall be determined by the maturity of each individual child. 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. Senate Amendment 001 (committee substitute) — source
4. Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Third Reading — 13–0 (pass) · lower
• Third Reading — 57–0 (pass) · lower
• Sp. Comm on Crim Law and Pub Safety — 10–0 (pass) · lower
• Third Reading — 111–0 (pass) · lower
• Sp. Comm on Crim Law and Pub Safety — 10–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Elgie R. Sims, Jr. — primary (person)
• Justin Slaughter — primary (person)
• Carol Ammons — cosponsor (person)
• Janet Yang Rohr — cosponsor (person)
• Lakesia Collins — cosponsor (person)
• Mary E. Flowers — cosponsor (person)
• Sara Feigenholtz — cosponsor (person)
• Sonya M. Harper — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-02-09 Filed with Secretary by Sen. Elgie R. Sims, Jr. filing
• 2023-02-09 First Reading reading-1
• 2023-02-09 Referred to Assignments
• 2023-02-14 Added as Chief Co-Sponsor Sen. Sara Feigenholtz
• 2023-02-21 Assigned to Special Committee on Criminal Law and Public Safety referral-committee
• 2023-03-02 Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 Filed with Secretary by Sen. Elgie R. Sims, Jr. amendment-introduction
• 2023-03-02 Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 Referred to Assignments
• 2023-03-07 Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 Assignments Refers to Special Committee on Criminal Law and Public Safety
• 2023-03-09 Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 Adopted; Special Committee on Criminal Law and Public Safety amendment-passage
• 2023-03-10 Do Pass as Amended Special Committee on Criminal Law and Public Safety; 010-000-000
• 2023-03-10 Placed on Calendar Order of 2nd Reading March 21, 2023 reading-2
• 2023-03-22 Second Reading reading-2
• 2023-03-22 Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading March 23, 2023
• 2023-03-29 Third Reading - Passed; 057-000-000 passage, reading-3
• 2023-03-30 Arrived in House introduction
• 2023-03-30 Chief House Sponsor Rep. Justin Slaughter
• 2023-03-30 First Reading reading-1
• 2023-03-30 Referred to Rules Committee
• 2023-04-18 Assigned to Judiciary - Criminal Committee referral-committee
• 2023-04-25 Do Pass / Short Debate Judiciary - Criminal Committee; 013-000-000
• 2023-04-26 Placed on Calendar 2nd Reading - Short Debate reading-2
• 2023-04-27 Added Alternate Co-Sponsor Rep. Janet Yang Rohr
• 2023-05-03 Second Reading - Short Debate reading-2
• 2023-05-03 Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading - Short Debate
• 2023-05-09 Added Alternate Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Mary E. Flowers
• 2023-05-09 Added Alternate Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Carol Ammons
• 2023-05-09 Added Alternate Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Lakesia Collins
• 2023-05-09 Added Alternate Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Sonya M. Harper
• 2023-05-09 Third Reading - Short Debate - Passed 111-000-000 passage, reading-3
• 2023-05-09 Passed Both Houses
• 2023-06-07 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2023-06-30 Governor Approved executive-signature
• 2023-06-30 Effective Date June 30, 2023
• 2023-06-30 Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0233 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/01c5364a-4496-4c3d-b3aa-3b53a8a8549d. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Illinois legislature records).