republic-os/legislation/us/states/il/104th/sb-1555.md

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Bill	SCH CD-SPEC ED ADVIS COUNCIL	Amends the Children with Disabilities Article of the School Code. Adds the Secretary of Early Childhood or his or her designee as a member of the Advisory Council on the Education of Children with Disabilities. Provides that the Council shall establish a committee charged with ensuring that all children aged 3 to 5 with disabilities have access to high-quality, inclusive, early-childhood services, provided in the least restrictive environment, across all early learning settings. Effective immediately.	us/states/il	Illinois General Assembly	104th	SB 1555	Illinois SB 1555 (104th)	bill		enacted	Maura Hirschauer Meg Loughran Cappel	4	31	5	2025-02-04	2025-08-01	openstates	ocd-bill/07c2fb09-57d7-4206-8261-a58716127e5d	https://ilga.gov/Legislation/BillStatus?DocNum=1555&GAID=18&DocTypeID=SB&LegId=160255&SessionID=114	d684f82b8faaeec6c96ebbb214f5025b7590af1bc19f1e16d2d656e390005ed1	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-il

Illinois SB 1555 (104th) — SCH CD-SPEC ED ADVIS COUNCIL

Amends the Children with Disabilities Article of the School Code. Adds the Secretary of Early Childhood or his or her designee as a member of the Advisory Council on the Education of Children with Disabilities. Provides that the Council shall establish a committee charged with ensuring that all children aged 3 to 5 with disabilities have access to high-quality, inclusive, early-childhood services, provided in the least restrictive environment, across all early learning settings. 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. Senate Amendment 001 (committee substitute) — source
4. Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Education — 14–0 (pass) · upper
• Third Reading — 55–0 (pass) · upper
• Education — 14–0 (pass) · upper
• Education Policy — 12–0 (pass) · lower
• Third Reading — 108–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Maura Hirschauer — primary (person)
• Meg Loughran Cappel — primary (person)
• Lakesia Collins — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-02-04 Filed with Secretary by Sen. Meg Loughran Cappel filing
• 2025-02-04 First Reading reading-1
• 2025-02-04 Referred to Assignments
• 2025-02-11 Assigned to Education referral-committee
• 2025-02-19 Postponed - Education
• 2025-02-21 Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 Filed with Secretary by Sen. Meg Loughran Cappel amendment-introduction
• 2025-02-21 Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 Referred to Assignments
• 2025-02-25 Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 Assignments Refers to Education
• 2025-02-25 Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 Adopted amendment-passage
• 2025-02-26 Do Pass as Amended Education; 014-000-000
• 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
• 2025-04-03 Third Reading - Passed; 055-000-000 passage, reading-3
• 2025-04-03 Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Lakesia Collins
• 2025-04-04 Arrived in House introduction
• 2025-04-08 Chief House Sponsor Rep. Maura Hirschauer
• 2025-04-09 First Reading reading-1
• 2025-04-09 Referred to Rules Committee
• 2025-04-17 Assigned to Education Policy Committee referral-committee
• 2025-04-23 Do Pass / Short Debate Education Policy Committee; 012-000-000
• 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
• 2025-05-23 Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading - Short Debate
• 2025-05-23 Third Reading - Short Debate - Passed 108-000-000 passage, reading-3
• 2025-05-23 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 . . . . . . . . . 104-0109 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/07c2fb09-57d7-4206-8261-a58716127e5d. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Illinois legislature records).