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| Bill | SMALL BUSINESS ADVISORY ACT | Creates the Small Business Advisory Act. Requires State agencies to create and make available on the World Wide Web a small business advisory page. Requires agencies to post a plain language explanation of proposed and adopted rules and legislation that the agency is designated to administer that affect small businesses on its small business advisory web page. Provides that the explanation must remain posted on the web page for 6 months after the effective date of the rule or legislation. Requires each agency to notify the Department of Commerce and Community Affairs when it updates its small business advisory web page. Requires the Department of Commerce and Community Affairs to serve as a clearinghouse for notifying the small business community of rulemakings and to seek input from the small business community on those rulemakings. Requires the Department of Commerce and Community Affairs to maintain a small business advisory web page that serves as a coordinated point of access to other agencies' small business advisory web pages. Requires State agencies to post plain language versions of advisory opinions and interpretations on their small business advisory web pages. | us/states/il | Illinois General Assembly | 93rd | HB 3209 | Illinois HB 3209 (93rd) |
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enacted | 3 | 34 | 2 | 2003-02-27 | 2003-07-23 | openstates | ocd-bill/192f3174-19bd-4f82-8b80-3cf36b5f7fe1 | http://ilga.gov/legislation/BillStatus.asp?DocNum=3209&GAID=3&DocTypeID=HB&LegId=5785&SessionID=3&GA=93 | 1c72add2a4fffa4f6a1349ecd6ef8656cfa570c17ec9d92810a67a20ac2f0640 | 2026-07-01 | https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump | 2026-07-06 | reported |
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Illinois HB 3209 (93rd) — SMALL BUSINESS ADVISORY ACT
Creates the Small Business Advisory Act. Requires State agencies to create and make available on the World Wide Web a small business advisory page. Requires agencies to post a plain language explanation of proposed and adopted rules and legislation that the agency is designated to administer that affect small businesses on its small business advisory web page. Provides that the explanation must remain posted on the web page for 6 months after the effective date of the rule or legislation. Requires each agency to notify the Department of Commerce and Community Affairs when it updates its small business advisory web page. Requires the Department of Commerce and Community Affairs to serve as a clearinghouse for notifying the small business community of rulemakings and to seek input from the small business community on those rulemakings. Requires the Department of Commerce and Community Affairs to maintain a small business advisory web page that serves as a coordinated point of access to other agencies' small business advisory web pages. Requires State agencies to post plain language versions of advisory opinions and interpretations on their small business advisory web pages.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
Votes
- Third Reading — 117–0 (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — 58–0 (pass) · upper
Sponsors
- Sidney H. Mathias — primary (person)
- Wendell E. Jones — cosponsor (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- 2003-02-27 Filed with the Clerk by Rep. Sidney H. Mathias
filing - 2003-02-27 First Reading
reading-1 - 2003-02-27 Referred to Rules Committee
referral-committee - 2003-02-28 Assigned to Commerce and Business Development Committee
referral-committee - 2003-03-13 Do Pass / Short Debate Commerce and Business Development Committee; 015-000-000
committee-passage - 2003-03-13 Placed on Calendar 2nd Reading - Short Debate
- 2003-03-18 Added Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Linda Chapa LaVia
- 2003-03-18 Added Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Frank Aguilar
- 2003-03-20 Second Reading - Short Debate
reading-2 - 2003-03-20 Held on Calendar Order of Second Reading - Short Debate
reading-2 - 2003-03-20 Added Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Elizabeth Coulson
- 2003-03-21 Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Sandra M. Pihos
- 2003-03-21 Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading - Short Debate
- 2003-03-21 Third Reading - Short Debate - Passed 117-000-000
reading-3, passage - 2003-03-25 Arrive in Senate
introduction - 2003-03-25 Placed on Calendar Order of First Reading March 26, 2003
reading-1 - 2003-03-27 Chief Senate Sponsor Sen. John M. Sullivan
- 2003-04-02 First Reading
reading-1 - 2003-04-02 Referred to Rules
referral-committee - 2003-04-02 Added as Alternate Co-Sponsor Sen. Wendell E. Jones
- 2003-04-10 Assigned to Labor & Commerce
referral-committee - 2003-05-01 Do Pass Labor & Commerce; 007-000-000
committee-passage - 2003-05-01 Placed on Calendar Order of 2nd Reading May 6, 2003
- 2003-05-05 Added as Alternate Chief Co-Sponsor Sen. Pamela J. Althoff
- 2003-05-06 Second Reading
reading-2 - 2003-05-06 Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading May 7, 2003
- 2003-05-13 Added as Alternate Chief Co-Sponsor Sen. Barack Obama
- 2003-05-13 Third Reading - Passed; 058-000-000
reading-3, passage - 2003-05-13 Passed Both Houses
- 2003-05-16 Added as Alternate Chief Co-Sponsor Sen. Susan Garrett
- 2003-06-11 Sent to the Governor
executive-receipt - 2003-07-23 Governor Approved
executive-signature - 2003-07-23 Effective Date January 1, 2004
- 2003-07-23 Public Act . . . . . . . . . 93-0318
became-law
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/192f3174-19bd-4f82-8b80-3cf36b5f7fe1. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Illinois legislature records).