republic-os/legislation/us/states/il/104th/hb-24.md

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Bill	HOME REPAIR-ATTORNEY FEES	Amends the Home Repair and Remodeling Act. Provides that, if a home repair and remodeling contract that is subject to the Act contains a provision allowing attorney's fees to be awarded to any party to the contract, then, notwithstanding any terms in the contract to the contrary, that provision shall be deemed and construed to permit the award of reasonable attorney's fees to all parties to the contract. Effective immediately.	us/states/il	Illinois General Assembly	104th	HB 24	Illinois HB 24 (104th)	bill		enacted	Martha Deuter Michael W. Halpin	4	43	5	2024-12-05	2025-08-01	openstates	ocd-bill/e13fb12a-299d-47dc-abd2-237fd6b5c9a1	https://ilga.gov/Legislation/BillStatus?DocNum=24&GAID=18&DocTypeID=HB&LegId=155680&SessionID=114	a4b38d3af7099e578525e7ba95fdbaaccc69a8dd1bd188b46a7e2c866f5df6c3	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-il

Illinois HB 24 (104th) — HOME REPAIR-ATTORNEY FEES

Amends the Home Repair and Remodeling Act. Provides that, if a home repair and remodeling contract that is subject to the Act contains a provision allowing attorney's fees to be awarded to any party to the contract, then, notwithstanding any terms in the contract to the contrary, that provision shall be deemed and construed to permit the award of reasonable attorney's fees to all parties to the contract. 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. House Amendment 001 (committee substitute) — source
4. Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Third Reading, Amendment 1 — 18–0 (pass) · lower
• Judiciary — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Third Reading — 58–0 (pass) · upper
• Third Reading — 18–0 (pass) · lower
• Third Reading — 112–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Martha Deuter — primary (person)
• Michael W. Halpin — primary (person)
• Bradley Fritts — cosponsor (person)
• Daniel Didech — cosponsor (person)
• Hoan Huynh — cosponsor (person)
• Jed Davis — cosponsor (person)
• Jennifer Gong-Gershowitz — cosponsor (person)
• Linda Holmes — cosponsor (person)
• Margaret Croke — cosponsor (person)
• Nicolle Grasse — cosponsor (person)
• Rick Ryan — cosponsor (person)
• Terra Costa Howard — cosponsor (person)
• Tracy Katz Muhl — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-12-05 Prefiled with Clerk by Rep. Daniel Didech filing
• 2024-12-05 Chief Sponsor Changed to Rep. Martha Deuter
• 2025-01-09 First Reading reading-1
• 2025-01-09 Referred to Rules Committee
• 2025-02-04 Assigned to Judiciary - Civil Committee referral-committee
• 2025-02-19 Do Pass / Short Debate Judiciary - Civil Committee; 018-000-000
• 2025-02-19 Placed on Calendar 2nd Reading - Short Debate reading-2
• 2025-02-21 House Floor Amendment No. 1 Filed with Clerk by Rep. Daniel Didech amendment-introduction
• 2025-02-21 House Floor Amendment No. 1 Referred to Rules Committee
• 2025-02-25 House Floor Amendment No. 1 Rules Refers to Judiciary - Civil Committee
• 2025-02-26 House Floor Amendment No. 1 Recommends Be Adopted Judiciary - Civil Committee; 018-000-000 committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-03-18 Second Reading - Short Debate reading-2
• 2025-03-18 House Floor Amendment No. 1 Adopted amendment-passage
• 2025-03-18 Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading - Short Debate
• 2025-03-25 Added Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Daniel Didech
• 2025-04-07 Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Jennifer Gong-Gershowitz
• 2025-04-07 Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Margaret Croke
• 2025-04-07 Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Tracy Katz Muhl
• 2025-04-07 Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Rick Ryan
• 2025-04-07 Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Nicolle Grasse
• 2025-04-07 Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Terra Costa Howard
• 2025-04-07 Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Jed Davis
• 2025-04-07 Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Bradley Fritts
• 2025-04-08 Third Reading - Short Debate - Passed 112-000-000 passage, reading-3
• 2025-04-08 Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Hoan Huynh
• 2025-04-09 Arrive in Senate introduction
• 2025-04-09 Placed on Calendar Order of First Reading April 10, 2025 reading-1
• 2025-04-14 Chief Senate Sponsor Sen. Michael W. Halpin
• 2025-04-14 First Reading reading-1
• 2025-04-14 Referred to Assignments
• 2025-04-23 Assigned to Judiciary referral-committee
• 2025-05-01 Do Pass Judiciary; 007-000-000
• 2025-05-01 Placed on Calendar Order of 2nd Reading May 6, 2025 reading-2
• 2025-05-07 Second Reading reading-2
• 2025-05-07 Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading May 8, 2025
• 2025-05-07 Added as Alternate Chief Co-Sponsor Sen. Linda Holmes
• 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 August 1, 2025
• 2025-08-01 Public Act . . . . . . . . . 104-0033 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/e13fb12a-299d-47dc-abd2-237fd6b5c9a1. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Illinois legislature records).