republic-os/legislation/us/states/il/93rd/hb-4402.md

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type: "Bill" title: "WILDLIFE CD-DEER HUNT PERMITS" description: "Amends the Wildlife Code. Defines “bona fide equity partner”. Provides that bona fide equity partners of a general partnership or limited partnership that owns at least 40 acres of land in a county in Illinois may obtain one free deer hunting permit for every 40 acres of land owned by the partnership in that county for the purpose of deer hunting on the partnership's land." jurisdiction: "us/states/il" legislature: "Illinois General Assembly" session: "93rd" identifier: "HB 4402" citation: "Illinois HB 4402 (93rd)" classification: ["bill"] subjects: [] status: "enacted" primary_sponsors: [] version_count: 3 action_count: 30 vote_count: 2 first_action: "2004-02-03" last_action: "2004-07-28" source: "openstates" source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7d909f2d-b442-4655-a387-7799221597c2" source_url: "http://ilga.gov/legislation/BillStatus.asp?DocNum=4402&GAID=3&DocTypeID=HB&LegId=8811&SessionID=3&GA=93" source_hash: "e9115cbb939f21407fbe632aeb365a482df504f99cee27b3d3bd97995d175fe6" vintage: "2026-07-01" source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump" retrieved_at: "2026-07-06" confidence: "reported" tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-il"]

Illinois HB 4402 (93rd) — WILDLIFE CD-DEER HUNT PERMITS

Amends the Wildlife Code. Defines “bona fide equity partner”. Provides that bona fide equity partners of a general partnership or limited partnership that owns at least 40 acres of land in a county in Illinois may obtain one free deer hunting permit for every 40 acres of land owned by the partnership in that county for the purpose of deer hunting on the partnership's land.

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. Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Third Reading — 55–2 (pass) · upper
• Third Reading — 116–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Keith P. Sommer — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2004-02-03 Filed with the Clerk by Rep. Keith P. Sommer filing
• 2004-02-03 First Reading reading-1
• 2004-02-03 Referred to Rules Committee referral-committee
• 2004-02-19 Assigned to Agriculture and Conservation Committee referral-committee
• 2004-03-03 Do Pass / Short Debate Agriculture and Conservation Committee; 018-000-000 committee-passage
• 2004-03-03 Placed on Calendar 2nd Reading - Short Debate
• 2004-03-26 House Floor Amendment No. 1 Filed with Clerk by Rep. Keith P. Sommer amendment-introduction
• 2004-03-26 House Floor Amendment No. 1 Referred to Rules Committee referral-committee
• 2004-03-29 House Floor Amendment No. 1 Recommends Be Adopted Rules Committee; 004-000-000 committee-passage-favorable
• 2004-03-29 Second Reading - Short Debate reading-2
• 2004-03-29 House Floor Amendment No. 1 Adopted by Voice Vote amendment-passage
• 2004-03-29 Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading - Short Debate
• 2004-03-30 Third Reading - Short Debate - Passed 116-000-000 reading-3, passage
• 2004-03-30 Added Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Shane Cultra
• 2004-03-31 Arrive in Senate introduction
• 2004-03-31 Placed on Calendar Order of First Reading April 1, 2004 reading-1
• 2004-03-31 Chief Senate Sponsor Sen. Dan Rutherford
• 2004-03-31 First Reading reading-1
• 2004-03-31 Referred to Rules referral-committee
• 2004-04-15 Assigned to Agriculture & Conservation referral-committee
• 2004-04-21 Do Pass Agriculture & Conservation; 009-000-000 committee-passage
• 2004-04-21 Placed on Calendar Order of 2nd Reading April 22, 2004
• 2004-04-28 Second Reading reading-2
• 2004-04-28 Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading April 29, 2004
• 2004-05-05 Third Reading - Passed; 055-002-000 reading-3, passage
• 2004-05-05 Passed Both Houses
• 2004-06-03 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2004-07-28 Governor Approved executive-signature
• 2004-07-28 Effective Date January 1, 2005
• 2004-07-28 Public Act . . . . . . . . . 93-0823 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/7d909f2d-b442-4655-a387-7799221597c2. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Illinois legislature records).