republic-os/legislation/us/states/il/103rd/sb-56.md

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Bill	INS-MEDICARE ENROLLMENT PERIOD	Amends the Illinois Insurance Code. In provisions concerning Medicare supplement policy minimum standards, provides that if an individual is at least 65 years of age but no more than 75 years of age and has an existing Medicare supplement policy, then the individual is entitled to an annual open enrollment period lasting 45 days, commencing with the individual's birthday, and the individual may purchase any Medicare supplement policy with the same issuer or any affiliate authorized to transact business in the State (instead of only the same issuer) that offers benefits equal to or lesser than those provided by the previous coverage.	us/states/il	Illinois General Assembly	103rd	SB 56	Illinois SB 56 (103rd)	bill		enacted	Bob Morgan Laura Fine	4	38	5	2023-01-20	2024-08-02	openstates	ocd-bill/70347203-5c12-4161-ab7f-720ff1ad487b	https://beta.ilga.gov/Legislation/BillStatus?DocNum=56&GAID=17&DocTypeID=SB&LegId=143202&SessionID=112	4fb2a8543c2167246cda4e58e46c23b798de61b549bc4d1419862f643e3c75d7	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-il

Illinois SB 56 (103rd) — INS-MEDICARE ENROLLMENT PERIOD

Amends the Illinois Insurance Code. In provisions concerning Medicare supplement policy minimum standards, provides that if an individual is at least 65 years of age but no more than 75 years of age and has an existing Medicare supplement policy, then the individual is entitled to an annual open enrollment period lasting 45 days, commencing with the individual's birthday, and the individual may purchase any Medicare supplement policy with the same issuer or any affiliate authorized to transact business in the State (instead of only the same issuer) that offers benefits equal to or lesser than those provided by the previous coverage.

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 — 53–0 (pass) · lower
• Insurance — 10–0 (pass) · lower
• Third Reading — 112–0 (pass) · lower
• Insurance — 15–0 (pass) · lower
• Insurance — 10–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Bob Morgan — primary (person)
• Laura Fine — primary (person)
• Christopher Belt — cosponsor (person)
• Elgie R. Sims, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
• Julie A. Morrison — cosponsor (person)
• Laura M. Murphy — cosponsor (person)
• Mary Edly-Allen — cosponsor (person)
• Mattie Hunter — cosponsor (person)
• Suzy Glowiak Hilton — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-01-20 Filed with Secretary by Sen. Laura Fine filing
• 2023-01-20 First Reading reading-1
• 2023-01-20 Referred to Assignments
• 2023-01-31 Assigned to Insurance referral-committee
• 2023-02-08 Postponed - Insurance
• 2023-03-10 Rule 3-9(a) / Re-referred to Assignments
• 2024-01-10 Re-assigned to Insurance referral-committee
• 2024-02-15 Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 Filed with Secretary by Sen. Laura Fine amendment-introduction
• 2024-02-15 Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 Referred to Assignments
• 2024-02-20 Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 Assignments Refers to Insurance
• 2024-03-06 Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 Adopted amendment-passage
• 2024-03-06 Do Pass as Amended Insurance; 010-000-000
• 2024-03-06 Placed on Calendar Order of 2nd Reading March 7, 2024 reading-2
• 2024-03-07 Added as Chief Co-Sponsor Sen. Laura M. Murphy
• 2024-03-07 Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Julie A. Morrison
• 2024-03-21 Second Reading reading-2
• 2024-03-21 Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading March 22, 2024
• 2024-04-09 Third Reading - Passed; 053-000-000 passage, reading-3
• 2024-04-09 Arrived in House introduction
• 2024-04-09 Chief House Sponsor Rep. Bob Morgan
• 2024-04-10 First Reading reading-1
• 2024-04-10 Referred to Rules Committee
• 2024-04-10 Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Mary Edly-Allen
• 2024-04-10 Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Christopher Belt
• 2024-04-11 Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Mattie Hunter
• 2024-04-11 Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Elgie R. Sims, Jr.
• 2024-04-12 Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Suzy Glowiak Hilton
• 2024-04-24 Assigned to Insurance Committee referral-committee
• 2024-04-30 Do Pass / Short Debate Insurance Committee; 015-000-000
• 2024-05-01 Placed on Calendar 2nd Reading - Short Debate reading-2
• 2024-05-06 Second Reading - Short Debate reading-2
• 2024-05-06 Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading - Short Debate
• 2024-05-09 Third Reading - Short Debate - Passed 112-000-000 passage, reading-3
• 2024-05-09 Passed Both Houses
• 2024-06-07 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2024-08-02 Governor Approved executive-signature
• 2024-08-02 Effective Date January 1, 2026
• 2024-08-02 Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0747 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/70347203-5c12-4161-ab7f-720ff1ad487b. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Illinois legislature records).