republic-os/legislation/us/states/il/104th/sb-2351.md

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Bill	ONLINE AUCTION AND ESTATE SALE	Amends the Auction License Act. Adds definitions for "estate sale", "estate sale service", and "online auction". Provides that "Internet auction listing service" does not include an online auction. Adds an online auction, an estate sale, and providing an estate service to events that are unlawful for any person, corporation, limited liability company, partnership, or other entity to conduct in the State of Illinois without a licensed issued by the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation. Adds online auctions and estate sales with certain conditions to exemptions to the license requirement. Provides that nothing in the Act shall be construed to apply to a sale conducted by an individual of his or her own property if such an individual is not engaged in the business of selling such property or if the individual did not acquire such goods for resale. Provides that nothing in provisions regarding the license requirement shall be construed to apply to any person as a receiver, trustee in bankruptcy, guardian, administrator, or executor or any such person acting under order of any court, nor shall the provisions regarding the license requirement apply to a trustee acting under a trust agreement, deed of trust, or will, or sales at auction conducted by or under the direction of any public authority or pursuant to any judicial order or decree. Effective January 1, 2026.	us/states/il	Illinois General Assembly	104th	SB 2351	Illinois SB 2351 (104th)	bill		enacted	Dan Swanson Michael W. Halpin	4	30	5	2025-02-07	2025-08-01	openstates	ocd-bill/6d4dbbe4-e2b5-4209-a31b-54f8500ea10b	https://ilga.gov/Legislation/BillStatus?DocNum=2351&GAID=18&DocTypeID=SB&LegId=162315&SessionID=114	ca4f65072d46d572e3fd9f2e31ab252fa57bd82cd35d4159672e836cf608b2d5	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-il

Illinois SB 2351 (104th) — ONLINE AUCTION AND ESTATE SALE

Amends the Auction License Act. Adds definitions for "estate sale", "estate sale service", and "online auction". Provides that "Internet auction listing service" does not include an online auction. Adds an online auction, an estate sale, and providing an estate service to events that are unlawful for any person, corporation, limited liability company, partnership, or other entity to conduct in the State of Illinois without a licensed issued by the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation. Adds online auctions and estate sales with certain conditions to exemptions to the license requirement. Provides that nothing in the Act shall be construed to apply to a sale conducted by an individual of his or her own property if such an individual is not engaged in the business of selling such property or if the individual did not acquire such goods for resale. Provides that nothing in provisions regarding the license requirement shall be construed to apply to any person as a receiver, trustee in bankruptcy, guardian, administrator, or executor or any such person acting under order of any court, nor shall the provisions regarding the license requirement apply to a trustee acting under a trust agreement, deed of trust, or will, or sales at auction conducted by or under the direction of any public authority or pursuant to any judicial order or decree. Effective January 1, 2026.

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

• Judiciary — 9–0 (pass) · upper
• Third Reading — 56–0 (pass) · upper
• Third Reading — 113–0 (pass) · lower
• Third Reading — 17–0 (pass) · lower
• Judiciary — 9–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Dan Swanson — primary (person)
• Michael W. Halpin — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-02-07 Filed with Secretary by Sen. Michael W. Halpin filing
• 2025-02-07 First Reading reading-1
• 2025-02-07 Referred to Assignments
• 2025-03-04 Assigned to Judiciary referral-committee
• 2025-03-11 Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 Filed with Secretary by Sen. Michael W. Halpin 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
• 2025-04-04 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 Swanson
• 2025-04-09 First Reading reading-1
• 2025-04-09 Referred to Rules Committee
• 2025-04-17 Assigned to Judiciary - Civil Committee referral-committee
• 2025-04-23 Do Pass / Short Debate Judiciary - Civil Committee; 017-000-000
• 2025-04-23 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
• 2025-05-22 Third Reading - Short Debate - Passed 113-000-000 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 January 1, 2026
• 2025-08-01 Public Act . . . . . . . . . 104-0145 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/6d4dbbe4-e2b5-4209-a31b-54f8500ea10b. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Illinois legislature records).