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Bill	HIGHER ED-REFUGEE-TRANSCRIPT	Amends the Public Higher Education Act. Provides that each public institution of higher education shall pay on behalf of a refugee or reimburse a refugee for payment of any transcript evaluation fees that are required by the public institution of higher education to be paid during the admission process. Effective immediately.	us/states/il	Illinois General Assembly	103rd	SB 2690	Illinois SB 2690 (103rd)	bill		enacted	Hoan Huynh Mike Porfirio	3	35	4	2024-01-10	2024-08-09	openstates	ocd-bill/245327d6-dd3d-4c3a-ae24-dbcfd3da3bf8	https://beta.ilga.gov/Legislation/BillStatus?DocNum=2690&GAID=17&DocTypeID=SB&LegId=151334&SessionID=112	bfc84f92f97f5837d99aaacd05e02c580cd564b4ac171cc408a55a9d294e3f0c	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-il

Illinois SB 2690 (103rd) — HIGHER ED-REFUGEE-TRANSCRIPT

Amends the Public Higher Education Act. Provides that each public institution of higher education shall pay on behalf of a refugee or reimburse a refugee for payment of any transcript evaluation fees that are required by the public institution of higher education to be paid during the admission process. 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. Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Higher Education — 10–0 (pass) · lower
• Higher Education — 12–0 (pass) · lower
• Third Reading — 87–22 (pass) · lower
• Third Reading — 57–1 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Hoan Huynh — primary (person)
• Mike Porfirio — primary (person)
• Adriane Johnson — cosponsor (person)
• Celina Villanueva — cosponsor (person)
• Karina Villa — cosponsor (person)
• Kevin John Olickal — cosponsor (person)
• Mary Edly-Allen — cosponsor (person)
• Mattie Hunter — cosponsor (person)
• Michael E. Hastings — cosponsor (person)
• Michael W. Halpin — cosponsor (person)
• Mike Simmons — cosponsor (person)
• Rachel Ventura — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-10 Filed with Secretary by Sen. Mike Porfirio filing
• 2024-01-10 First Reading reading-1
• 2024-01-10 Referred to Assignments
• 2024-01-31 Assigned to Higher Education referral-committee
• 2024-02-08 Added as Chief Co-Sponsor Sen. Michael E. Hastings
• 2024-02-21 Do Pass Higher Education; 010-000-000
• 2024-02-21 Placed on Calendar Order of 2nd Reading February 22, 2024 reading-2
• 2024-03-07 Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Adriane Johnson
• 2024-03-14 Second Reading reading-2
• 2024-03-14 Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading March 20, 2024
• 2024-04-10 Third Reading - Passed; 057-001-000 passage, reading-3
• 2024-04-10 Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Celina Villanueva
• 2024-04-10 Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Mattie Hunter
• 2024-04-10 Arrived in House introduction
• 2024-04-10 Chief House Sponsor Rep. Hoan Huynh
• 2024-04-10 Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Michael W. Halpin
• 2024-04-10 Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Karina Villa
• 2024-04-10 Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Mary Edly-Allen
• 2024-04-10 Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Rachel Ventura
• 2024-04-11 First Reading reading-1
• 2024-04-11 Referred to Rules Committee
• 2024-04-11 Added as Chief Co-Sponsor Sen. Mike Simmons
• 2024-04-15 Assigned to Higher Education Committee referral-committee
• 2024-05-01 Do Pass / Short Debate Higher Education Committee; 012-000-000
• 2024-05-02 Placed on Calendar 2nd Reading - Short Debate reading-2
• 2024-05-07 Added Alternate Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Kevin John Olickal
• 2024-05-13 Second Reading - Short Debate reading-2
• 2024-05-13 Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading - Short Debate
• 2024-05-17 Third Reading/Final Action Deadline Extended-9(b) May 24, 2024
• 2024-05-22 Third Reading - Short Debate - Passed 087-022-000 passage, reading-3
• 2024-05-22 Passed Both Houses
• 2024-06-20 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2024-08-09 Governor Approved executive-signature
• 2024-08-09 Effective Date August 9, 2024
• 2024-08-09 Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0913 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/245327d6-dd3d-4c3a-ae24-dbcfd3da3bf8. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Illinois legislature records).