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Bill	HEALTH CARE SURROGATE-POLST	Amends the Health Care Surrogate Act. Provides that if an individual without decisional capacity has an operative and unrevoked living will and the attending physician, in accordance with Section 4 of the Illinois Living Will Act, determines that the individual has a terminal condition and records the condition in the individual's medical record, then the individual's surrogate decision maker, in the order of priority under subsection (a) of Section 25, is authorized to consent to a POLST on behalf of the individual to ensure that the individual's wishes are respected.	us/states/il	Illinois General Assembly	104th	SB 1411	Illinois SB 1411 (104th)	bill		enacted	Jennifer Gong-Gershowitz Laura Fine	5	41	6	2025-01-31	2025-08-15	openstates	ocd-bill/5af02eb2-65ae-41bd-955d-6e5872da4941	https://ilga.gov/Legislation/BillStatus?DocNum=1411&GAID=18&DocTypeID=SB&LegId=159525&SessionID=114	6cdd06e9b4262d9e3d2a7ec645dc6a551be24b167546d80de6b83e2afdc4e21d	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-il

Illinois SB 1411 (104th) — HEALTH CARE SURROGATE-POLST

Amends the Health Care Surrogate Act. Provides that if an individual without decisional capacity has an operative and unrevoked living will and the attending physician, in accordance with Section 4 of the Illinois Living Will Act, determines that the individual has a terminal condition and records the condition in the individual's medical record, then the individual's surrogate decision maker, in the order of priority under subsection (a) of Section 25, is authorized to consent to a POLST on behalf of the individual to ensure that the individual's wishes are respected.

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. Senate Amendment 002 (committee substitute) — source
5. Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Third Reading — 112–0 (pass) · lower
• Judiciary, Amendment 2 — 8–0 (pass) · upper
• Judiciary — 9–0 (pass) · upper
• Third Reading — 19–0 (pass) · lower
• Third Reading — 55–0 (pass) · upper
• Judiciary — 9–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Jennifer Gong-Gershowitz — primary (person)
• Laura Fine — primary (person)
• Bob Morgan — cosponsor (person)
• Daniel Didech — cosponsor (person)
• Margaret Croke — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-01-31 Filed with Secretary by Sen. Laura Fine filing
• 2025-01-31 First Reading reading-1
• 2025-01-31 Referred to Assignments
• 2025-02-11 Assigned to Judiciary referral-committee
• 2025-02-20 Postponed - Judiciary
• 2025-03-06 Postponed - Judiciary
• 2025-03-11 Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 Filed with Secretary by Sen. Laura Fine amendment-introduction
• 2025-03-11 Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 Referred to Assignments
• 2025-03-18 Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 Assignments Refers to Judiciary
• 2025-03-19 Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 Adopted amendment-passage
• 2025-03-19 Do Pass as Amended Judiciary; 009-000-000
• 2025-03-19 Placed on Calendar Order of 2nd Reading March 20, 2025 reading-2
• 2025-03-20 Second Reading reading-2
• 2025-03-20 Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading April 1, 2025
• 2025-04-03 Senate Floor Amendment No. 2 Filed with Secretary by Sen. Laura Fine amendment-introduction
• 2025-04-03 Senate Floor Amendment No. 2 Referred to Assignments
• 2025-04-08 Senate Floor Amendment No. 2 Assignments Refers to Judiciary
• 2025-04-09 Senate Floor Amendment No. 2 Recommend Do Adopt Judiciary; 008-000-000
• 2025-04-10 Recalled to Second Reading reading-2
• 2025-04-10 Senate Floor Amendment No. 2 Adopted; Fine amendment-passage
• 2025-04-10 Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading
• 2025-04-10 Third Reading - Passed; 055-000-000 passage, reading-3
• 2025-04-10 Arrived in House introduction
• 2025-04-10 Chief House Sponsor Rep. Jennifer Gong-Gershowitz
• 2025-04-11 First Reading reading-1
• 2025-04-11 Referred to Rules Committee
• 2025-04-17 Assigned to Judiciary - Civil Committee referral-committee
• 2025-04-23 Do Pass / Short Debate Judiciary - Civil Committee; 019-000-000
• 2025-04-23 Placed on Calendar 2nd Reading - Short Debate reading-2
• 2025-05-16 Second Reading - Short Debate reading-2
• 2025-05-16 Held on Calendar Order of Second Reading - Short Debate reading-2
• 2025-05-20 Added Alternate Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Bob Morgan
• 2025-05-20 Added Alternate Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Daniel Didech
• 2025-05-20 Added Alternate Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Margaret Croke
• 2025-05-22 Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading - Short Debate
• 2025-05-22 Third Reading - Short Debate - Passed 112-000-000 passage, reading-3
• 2025-05-22 Passed Both Houses
• 2025-06-20 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2025-08-15 Governor Approved executive-signature
• 2025-08-15 Effective Date January 1, 2026
• 2025-08-15 Public Act . . . . . . . . . 104-0378 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/5af02eb2-65ae-41bd-955d-6e5872da4941. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Illinois legislature records).