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Bill	DAY CARE CENTER-CIVIC ORG	Amends the Child Care Act of 1969. Provides that the definition of "day care center" does not include special activities programs that are conducted by civic, charitable, and governmental organizations on an organized basis (instead of special activities programs that are conducted on an organized and periodic basis). Adds programs offered by arboretums, nature centers, and botanic gardens to the special activities programs that are excluded from the definition of "day care center".	us/states/il	Illinois General Assembly	104th	HB 1168	Illinois HB 1168 (104th)	bill		enacted	Laura Ellman Terra Costa Howard	4	33	5	2025-01-07	2025-08-01	openstates	ocd-bill/6163a6a6-6d24-40b2-81c7-70360f742800	https://ilga.gov/Legislation/BillStatus?DocNum=1168&GAID=18&DocTypeID=HB&LegId=156913&SessionID=114	146f92f68ad5db5f2075b8c986a14176de043acf5ec952ca2f9e97f58b67600e	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-il

Illinois HB 1168 (104th) — DAY CARE CENTER-CIVIC ORG

Amends the Child Care Act of 1969. Provides that the definition of "day care center" does not include special activities programs that are conducted by civic, charitable, and governmental organizations on an organized basis (instead of special activities programs that are conducted on an organized and periodic basis). Adds programs offered by arboretums, nature centers, and botanic gardens to the special activities programs that are excluded from the definition of "day care center".

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. Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Third Reading — 114–0 (pass) · lower
• Child Care Access & Early Childhood — 13–0 (pass) · lower
• Health and Human Services — 8–0 (pass) · upper
• Child Care Access & Early Childhood, Amendment 1 — 13–0 (pass) · lower
• Third Reading — 58–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Laura Ellman — primary (person)
• Terra Costa Howard — primary (person)
• Nicole La Ha — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-01-07 Prefiled with Clerk by Rep. Terra Costa Howard filing
• 2025-01-09 First Reading reading-1
• 2025-01-09 Referred to Rules Committee
• 2025-02-11 Assigned to Child Care Accessibility & Early Childhood Education referral-committee
• 2025-03-06 Do Pass / Short Debate Child Care Accessibility & Early Childhood Education; 013-000-000
• 2025-03-10 Placed on Calendar 2nd Reading - Short Debate reading-2
• 2025-03-26 Second Reading - Short Debate reading-2
• 2025-03-26 Held on Calendar Order of Second Reading - Short Debate reading-2
• 2025-04-02 House Floor Amendment No. 1 Filed with Clerk by Rep. Terra Costa Howard amendment-introduction
• 2025-04-02 House Floor Amendment No. 1 Referred to Rules Committee
• 2025-04-07 House Floor Amendment No. 1 Rules Refers to Child Care Accessibility & Early Childhood Education
• 2025-04-08 House Floor Amendment No. 1 Recommends Be Adopted Child Care Accessibility & Early Childhood Education; 013-000-000 committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-04-08 Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Nicole La Ha
• 2025-04-09 House Floor Amendment No. 1 Adopted amendment-passage
• 2025-04-09 Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading - Short Debate
• 2025-04-09 Third Reading - Short Debate - Passed 114-000-000 passage, reading-3
• 2025-04-10 Arrive in Senate introduction
• 2025-04-10 Placed on Calendar Order of First Reading reading-1
• 2025-04-10 Chief Senate Sponsor Sen. Laura Ellman
• 2025-04-10 First Reading reading-1
• 2025-04-10 Referred to Assignments
• 2025-04-23 Assigned to Health and Human Services referral-committee
• 2025-04-30 Do Pass Health and Human Services; 008-000-000
• 2025-04-30 Placed on Calendar Order of 2nd Reading May 1, 2025 reading-2
• 2025-05-01 Second Reading reading-2
• 2025-05-01 Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading May 6, 2025
• 2025-05-20 Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading **
• 2025-05-22 Third Reading - Passed; 058-000-000 passage, reading-3
• 2025-05-22 Passed Both Houses
• 2025-06-20 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2025-08-01 Governor Approved executive-signature
• 2025-08-01 Effective Date January 1, 2026
• 2025-08-01 Public Act . . . . . . . . . 104-0045 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/6163a6a6-6d24-40b2-81c7-70360f742800. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Illinois legislature records).