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Bill	LANDLORD UTILITY DISCLOSURE	Amends the Tenant Utility Payment Disclosure Act. Requires a landlord to provide to the prospective tenant a separate statement detailing any utility services to be paid for by the landlord. Provides that failure of the landlord to provide the required statement does not invalidate the lease, but gives rise to a rebuttable presumption of the landlord's bad faith in any action against the landlord based in whole or in part on the landlord's failure to provide utility services.	us/states/il	Illinois General Assembly	93rd	HB 4856	Illinois HB 4856 (93rd)	bill		enacted		3	46	3	2004-02-04	2004-08-23	openstates	ocd-bill/048a89f9-dfc1-4f8d-9e8c-b859e5e05791	http://ilga.gov/legislation/BillStatus.asp?DocNum=4856&GAID=3&DocTypeID=HB&LegId=9518&SessionID=3&GA=93	9476972437725a0820150c58444e78c34c90904a74b9fefd52dd82175ea23b74	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-il

Illinois HB 4856 (93rd) — LANDLORD UTILITY DISCLOSURE

Amends the Tenant Utility Payment Disclosure Act. Requires a landlord to provide to the prospective tenant a separate statement detailing any utility services to be paid for by the landlord. Provides that failure of the landlord to provide the required statement does not invalidate the lease, but gives rise to a rebuttable presumption of the landlord's bad faith in any action against the landlord based in whole or in part on the landlord's failure to provide utility services.

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 — 110–0 (pass) · lower
• Concurrence, Amendment 1 — 115–0 (pass) · lower
• Third Reading — 57–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Charles G. Morrow, III — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2004-02-04 Filed with the Clerk by Rep. Charles G. Morrow, III filing
• 2004-02-04 First Reading reading-1
• 2004-02-04 Referred to Rules Committee referral-committee
• 2004-02-19 Assigned to Judiciary I - Civil Law Committee referral-committee
• 2004-03-04 House Committee Amendment No. 1 Filed with Clerk by Judiciary I - Civil Law Committee amendment-introduction
• 2004-03-04 House Committee Amendment No. 1 Adopted in Judiciary I - Civil Law Committee; by Voice Vote amendment-passage
• 2004-03-04 Do Pass as Amended / Short Debate Judiciary I - Civil Law Committee; 013-000-000 committee-passage
• 2004-03-04 Placed on Calendar 2nd Reading - Short Debate
• 2004-03-19 House Floor Amendment No. 2 Filed with Clerk by Rep. Charles G. Morrow, III amendment-introduction
• 2004-03-19 House Floor Amendment No. 2 Referred to Rules Committee referral-committee
• 2004-03-23 House Floor Amendment No. 2 Recommends Be Adopted Rules Committee; 005-000-000 committee-passage-favorable
• 2004-03-24 Second Reading - Short Debate reading-2
• 2004-03-24 House Floor Amendment No. 2 Adopted by Voice Vote amendment-passage
• 2004-03-24 Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading - Short Debate
• 2004-03-25 Third Reading - Short Debate - Passed 110-000-001 reading-3, passage
• 2004-03-25 Arrive in Senate introduction
• 2004-03-25 Placed on Calendar Order of First Reading March 26, 2004 reading-1
• 2004-03-26 Chief Senate Sponsor Sen. Jacqueline Y. Collins
• 2004-03-26 First Reading reading-1
• 2004-03-26 Referred to Rules referral-committee
• 2004-04-15 Assigned to Environment & Energy referral-committee
• 2004-04-21 Do Pass Environment & Energy; 009-000-000 committee-passage
• 2004-04-21 Placed on Calendar Order of 2nd Reading April 22, 2004
• 2004-05-11 Senate Floor Amendment No. 1 Filed with Secretary by Sen. Jacqueline Y. Collins amendment-introduction
• 2004-05-11 Senate Floor Amendment No. 1 Referred to Rules referral-committee
• 2004-05-11 Senate Floor Amendment No. 1 Rules Refers to Environment & Energy
• 2004-05-12 Senate Floor Amendment No. 1 Postponed - Environment & Energy
• 2004-05-12 Second Reading reading-2
• 2004-05-12 Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading May 13, 2004
• 2004-05-13 Senate Floor Amendment No. 1 Be Approved for Consideration Environment & Energy; 008-000-000
• 2004-05-13 Recalled to Second Reading reading-2
• 2004-05-13 Senate Floor Amendment No. 1 Adopted; Collins amendment-passage
• 2004-05-13 Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading
• 2004-05-13 Third Reading - Passed; 057-000-000 reading-3, passage
• 2004-05-14 Arrived in House introduction
• 2004-05-14 Placed on Calendar Order of Concurrence Senate Amendment(s) 1
• 2004-05-25 Senate Floor Amendment No. 1 Motion Filed Concur Rep. Charles G. Morrow, III
• 2004-05-25 Senate Floor Amendment No. 1 Motion to Concur Referred to Rules Committee referral-committee
• 2004-05-25 Senate Floor Amendment No. 1 Motion to Concur Rules Referred to Judiciary I - Civil Law Committee referral-committee
• 2004-05-27 Senate Floor Amendment No. 1 Motion to Concur Recommends be Adopted Judiciary I - Civil Law Committee; 014-000-000
• 2004-05-27 Senate Floor Amendment No. 1 House Concurs 115-000-000
• 2004-05-27 Passed Both Houses
• 2004-06-25 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2004-08-23 Governor Approved executive-signature
• 2004-08-23 Effective Date January 1, 2005
• 2004-08-23 Public Act . . . . . . . . . 93-0994 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/048a89f9-dfc1-4f8d-9e8c-b859e5e05791. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Illinois legislature records).