republic-os/legislation/us/states/il/104th/sb-1249.md

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Bill	VEH CD-EMERGENCY VEHICLES	Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Provides that, notwithstanding any other provision of the Code or any rule adopted under the Code, a nonresident who is employed as a public safety worker may operate in this State an authorized emergency vehicle if the nonresident possesses the license class required by the nonresident's state of residence to operate similar equipment and the nonresident has completed the Fire Service Vehicle Operator program of the Illinois State Fire Marshal.	us/states/il	Illinois General Assembly	104th	SB 1249	Illinois SB 1249 (104th)	bill		enacted	Dan Ugaste Donald P. DeWitte	4	32	5	2025-01-24	2025-08-01	openstates	ocd-bill/9f5d314f-d84d-44c2-bb11-c4e613fe35a4	https://ilga.gov/Legislation/BillStatus?DocNum=1249&GAID=18&DocTypeID=SB&LegId=159076&SessionID=114	13414db9810ebe7c26b4a2f4d4700da493447ba5649fac7117876b05bfcc63dd	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-il

Illinois SB 1249 (104th) — VEH CD-EMERGENCY VEHICLES

Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Provides that, notwithstanding any other provision of the Code or any rule adopted under the Code, a nonresident who is employed as a public safety worker may operate in this State an authorized emergency vehicle if the nonresident possesses the license class required by the nonresident's state of residence to operate similar equipment and the nonresident has completed the Fire Service Vehicle Operator program of the Illinois State Fire Marshal.

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

• Transportation — 13–0 (pass) · upper
• Transportation — 18–0 (pass) · upper
• Third Reading — 110–0 (pass) · lower
• Third Reading — 56–0 (pass) · upper
• Transportation: Vehicles & Safety — 12–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Dan Ugaste — primary (person)
• Donald P. DeWitte — primary (person)
• Li Arellano, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
• Suzanne M. Ness — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-01-24 Filed with Secretary by Sen. Donald P. DeWitte filing
• 2025-01-24 First Reading reading-1
• 2025-01-24 Referred to Assignments
• 2025-02-04 Assigned to Transportation referral-committee
• 2025-02-24 Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 Filed with Secretary by Sen. Donald P. DeWitte amendment-introduction
• 2025-02-24 Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 Referred to Assignments
• 2025-02-25 Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 Assignments Refers to Transportation
• 2025-02-25 Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 Adopted amendment-passage
• 2025-02-26 Do Pass as Amended Transportation; 018-000-000
• 2025-02-26 Placed on Calendar Order of 2nd Reading February 27, 2025 reading-2
• 2025-03-05 Second Reading reading-2
• 2025-03-05 Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading March 6, 2025
• 2025-04-02 Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Li Arellano, Jr.
• 2025-04-04 Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading **
• 2025-04-09 Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading
• 2025-04-09 Third Reading - Passed; 056-000-000 passage, reading-3
• 2025-04-09 Arrived in House introduction
• 2025-04-09 Chief House Sponsor Rep. Dan Ugaste
• 2025-04-09 First Reading reading-1
• 2025-04-09 Referred to Rules Committee
• 2025-04-17 Assigned to Transportation: Vehicles & Safety referral-committee
• 2025-04-23 Do Pass / Short Debate Transportation: Vehicles & Safety; 012-000-000
• 2025-04-23 Placed on Calendar 2nd Reading - Short Debate reading-2
• 2025-05-13 Second Reading - Short Debate reading-2
• 2025-05-13 Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading - Short Debate
• 2025-05-20 Added Alternate Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Suzanne M. Ness
• 2025-05-21 Third Reading - Short Debate - Passed 110-000-000 passage, reading-3
• 2025-05-21 Passed Both Houses
• 2025-06-18 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 . . . . . . . . . 104-0087 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/9f5d314f-d84d-44c2-bb11-c4e613fe35a4. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Illinois legislature records).