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Bill	COLLECTION AGENCY ACT	Amends the Regulatory Sunset Act. Removes the Collection Agency Act from the list of Acts being repealed under the Act. Amends the Collection Agency Act. Makes changes concerning defined terms; exempt persons and entities under the Act; unlicensed practice; disciplinary actions; communication; informal conferences; penalties; investigations; the record of hearing; oaths; findings and recommendations; hearings; orders; and returned payments. Provides that the fee rate a collection agency can charge may be modified by rule to not less than 25% of the amount of child support actually collected by the collection agency but not greater than 35%. Repeals provisions concerning the Collection Agency Licensing and Disciplinary Board and provisions concerning when a person acts as a collection agency. Makes other changes.	us/states/il	Illinois General Assembly	104th	SB 2457	Illinois SB 2457 (104th)	bill		enacted	Margaret Croke Mark L. Walker	5	38	6	2025-02-07	2025-08-01	openstates	ocd-bill/5c4672ca-45ed-45f4-80cb-c6e3dae1b8cc	https://ilga.gov/Legislation/BillStatus?DocNum=2457&GAID=18&DocTypeID=SB&LegId=162538&SessionID=114	8d26d38ce322862787f0a476bff1463b661ee2048564844140e4ef86901b88f2	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-il

Illinois SB 2457 (104th) — COLLECTION AGENCY ACT

Amends the Regulatory Sunset Act. Removes the Collection Agency Act from the list of Acts being repealed under the Act. Amends the Collection Agency Act. Makes changes concerning defined terms; exempt persons and entities under the Act; unlicensed practice; disciplinary actions; communication; informal conferences; penalties; investigations; the record of hearing; oaths; findings and recommendations; hearings; orders; and returned payments. Provides that the fee rate a collection agency can charge may be modified by rule to not less than 25% of the amount of child support actually collected by the collection agency but not greater than 35%. Repeals provisions concerning the Collection Agency Licensing and Disciplinary Board and provisions concerning when a person acts as a collection agency. Makes other changes.

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 — 113–0 (pass) · lower
• Financial Institutions — 8–0 (pass) · upper
• Financial Institutions & Licensing — 12–0 (pass) · lower
• Third Reading — 56–0 (pass) · upper
• Financial Institutions, Amendment 2 — 8–0 (pass) · upper
• Financial Institutions — 8–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Margaret Croke — primary (person)
• Mark L. Walker — primary (person)
• Graciela Guzmán — cosponsor (person)
• Karina Villa — cosponsor (person)
• Mary Edly-Allen — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-02-07 Filed with Secretary by Sen. Mark L. Walker filing
• 2025-02-07 First Reading reading-1
• 2025-02-07 Referred to Assignments
• 2025-03-04 Assigned to Financial Institutions referral-committee
• 2025-03-17 Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 Filed with Secretary by Sen. Mark L. Walker amendment-introduction
• 2025-03-17 Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 Referred to Assignments
• 2025-03-18 Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 Assignments Refers to Financial Institutions
• 2025-03-18 Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Karina Villa
• 2025-03-19 Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 Adopted amendment-passage
• 2025-03-19 Do Pass as Amended Financial Institutions; 008-000-000
• 2025-03-19 Placed on Calendar Order of 2nd Reading March 20, 2025 reading-2
• 2025-04-01 Senate Floor Amendment No. 2 Filed with Secretary by Sen. Mark L. Walker amendment-introduction
• 2025-04-01 Senate Floor Amendment No. 2 Referred to Assignments
• 2025-04-01 Senate Floor Amendment No. 2 Assignments Refers to Financial Institutions
• 2025-04-03 Senate Floor Amendment No. 2 Recommend Do Adopt Financial Institutions; 008-000-000
• 2025-04-03 Second Reading reading-2
• 2025-04-03 Senate Floor Amendment No. 2 Adopted; Walker amendment-passage
• 2025-04-03 Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading April 4, 2025
• 2025-04-04 Added as Chief Co-Sponsor Sen. Graciela Guzmán
• 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. Margaret Croke
• 2025-04-09 First Reading reading-1
• 2025-04-09 Referred to Rules Committee
• 2025-04-17 Assigned to Financial Institutions and Licensing Committee referral-committee
• 2025-04-29 Do Pass / Short Debate Financial Institutions and Licensing Committee; 012-000-000
• 2025-04-30 Placed on Calendar 2nd Reading - Short Debate reading-2
• 2025-05-13 Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Mary Edly-Allen
• 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 . . . . . . . . . 104-0149 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/5c4672ca-45ed-45f4-80cb-c6e3dae1b8cc. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Illinois legislature records).