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Bill	PARK DIST - COMPETITIVE BIDS	Amends the Park District Code. Provides that all competitive bids for contracts involving an expenditure in excess of $50,000 (rather than $30,000), or a lower amount if required by board policy, must be sealed by the bidder and must be opened by a member or employee of the park board at a public bid opening at which the contents of the bids must be announced. Amends the Conservation District Act and the Downstate Forest Preserve District Act. Provides that specified contracts related to supplies, materials, or work involving an expenditure in excess of $50,000 (rather than $30,000), or a lower amount if required by board policy, must be competitively bid. Effective immediately.	us/states/il	Illinois General Assembly	104th	SB 1612	Illinois SB 1612 (104th)	bill		enacted	Debbie Meyers-Martin Laura M. Murphy	4	35	7	2025-02-04	2025-08-01	openstates	ocd-bill/195541cc-d1e1-4f84-9b95-f709163c0a2f	https://ilga.gov/Legislation/BillStatus?DocNum=1612&GAID=18&DocTypeID=SB&LegId=160405&SessionID=114	1cbcb3ea41b325dc09acf36b207f90da28e9806403befbf01ce0353ab28bbaad	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-il

Illinois SB 1612 (104th) — PARK DIST - COMPETITIVE BIDS

Amends the Park District Code. Provides that all competitive bids for contracts involving an expenditure in excess of $50,000 (rather than $30,000), or a lower amount if required by board policy, must be sealed by the bidder and must be opened by a member or employee of the park board at a public bid opening at which the contents of the bids must be announced. Amends the Conservation District Act and the Downstate Forest Preserve District Act. Provides that specified contracts related to supplies, materials, or work involving an expenditure in excess of $50,000 (rather than $30,000), or a lower amount if required by board policy, must be competitively bid. 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

• Procurement — 3–0 (pass) · upper
• Procurement — 3–0 (pass) · upper
• State Government Administration — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• Executive — 12–0 (pass) · upper
• Executive — 12–0 (pass) · upper
• Third Reading — 98–13 (pass) · lower
• Third Reading — 55–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Debbie Meyers-Martin — primary (person)
• Laura M. Murphy — primary (person)
• Paul Faraci — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-02-04 Filed with Secretary by Sen. Laura M. Murphy filing
• 2025-02-04 First Reading reading-1
• 2025-02-04 Referred to Assignments
• 2025-02-11 Assigned to Executive referral-committee
• 2025-02-19 To Procurement
• 2025-03-04 Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Paul Faraci
• 2025-03-07 Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 Filed with Secretary by Sen. Laura M. Murphy amendment-introduction
• 2025-03-07 Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 Referred to Assignments
• 2025-03-12 Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 Assignments Refers to Executive
• 2025-03-19 Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 To Procurement
• 2025-03-21 Rule 2-10 Committee Deadline Established As April 11, 2025
• 2025-04-03 Reported Back To Executive; 003-000-000
• 2025-04-03 Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 Sub-Procurement
• 2025-04-03 Reported Back To Executive; 003-000-000
• 2025-04-03 Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 Adopted amendment-passage
• 2025-04-03 Do Pass as Amended Executive; 012-000-000
• 2025-04-03 Placed on Calendar Order of 2nd Reading April 4, 2025 reading-2
• 2025-04-08 Second Reading reading-2
• 2025-04-08 Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading April 9, 2025
• 2025-04-09 Third Reading - Passed; 055-000-000 passage, reading-3
• 2025-04-09 Arrived in House introduction
• 2025-04-10 Chief House Sponsor Rep. Debbie Meyers-Martin
• 2025-04-10 First Reading reading-1
• 2025-04-10 Referred to Rules Committee
• 2025-04-17 Assigned to State Government Administration Committee referral-committee
• 2025-04-30 Do Pass / Short Debate State Government Administration Committee; 008-000-000
• 2025-05-01 Placed on Calendar 2nd Reading - Short Debate reading-2
• 2025-05-14 Second Reading - Short Debate reading-2
• 2025-05-14 Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading - Short Debate
• 2025-05-21 Third Reading - Short Debate - Passed 098-013-000 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 August 1, 2025
• 2025-08-01 Public Act . . . . . . . . . 104-0114 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/195541cc-d1e1-4f84-9b95-f709163c0a2f. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Illinois legislature records).