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Bill	CRIM CD-HATE CRIME	Amends the Criminal Code of 1961. Provides that harassment through electronic communications by reason of the harassed person's actual or perceived race, color, creed, religion, ancestry, gender, sexual orientation, physical or mental disability, or national origin is a hate crime. Effective immediately.	us/states/il	Illinois General Assembly	93rd	SB 407	Illinois SB 407 (93rd)	bill		enacted		3	40	2	2003-02-18	2003-08-08	openstates	ocd-bill/2ca0f5e6-7dbc-41b6-a909-a0fc1b8ba3e4	http://ilga.gov/legislation/BillStatus.asp?DocNum=407&GAID=3&DocTypeID=SB&LegId=2994&SessionID=3&GA=93	715974f5bbe97d53a21abe4d54b450701f068ed981c40f639f5a663963b6f012	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-il

Illinois SB 407 (93rd) — CRIM CD-HATE CRIME

Amends the Criminal Code of 1961. Provides that harassment through electronic communications by reason of the harassed person's actual or perceived race, color, creed, religion, ancestry, gender, sexual orientation, physical or mental disability, or national origin is a hate crime. Effective immediately.

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 — 115–0 (pass) · lower
• Third Reading — 56–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Charles E. Jefferson — cosponsor (person)
• Harry Osterman — cosponsor (person)
• Ira I. Silverstein — primary (person)
• Monique D. Davis — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2003-02-18 Filed with Secretary by Sen. Ira I. Silverstein filing
• 2003-02-18 First Reading reading-1
• 2003-02-18 Referred to Rules referral-committee
• 2003-02-19 Assigned to Judiciary referral-committee
• 2003-02-26 Added as Chief Co-Sponsor Sen. Jeffrey M. Schoenberg
• 2003-02-27 Postponed - Judiciary
• 2003-02-28 Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 Filed with Secretary by Sen. Ira I. Silverstein amendment-introduction
• 2003-02-28 Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 Referred to Rules referral-committee
• 2003-03-04 Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 Rules Refers to Judiciary
• 2003-03-04 Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 Adopted amendment-passage
• 2003-03-05 Do Pass as Amended Judiciary; 009-000-000 committee-passage
• 2003-03-05 Placed on Calendar Order of 2nd Reading March 6, 2003
• 2003-03-13 Second Reading reading-2
• 2003-03-13 Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading March 18, 2003
• 2003-03-19 Third Reading - Passed; 056-000-000 reading-3, passage
• 2003-03-19 Arrived in House introduction
• 2003-03-19 Chief House Sponsor Rep. Sara Feigenholtz
• 2003-03-19 First Reading reading-1
• 2003-03-19 Referred to Rules Committee referral-committee
• 2003-03-31 Assigned to Judiciary II - Criminal Law Committee referral-committee
• 2003-04-02 Added Alternate Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Robin Kelly
• 2003-04-10 Do Pass / Short Debate Judiciary II - Criminal Law Committee; 012-000-000 committee-passage
• 2003-04-10 Placed on Calendar 2nd Reading - Short Debate
• 2003-04-10 Added Alternate Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Kathleen A. Ryg
• 2003-04-15 Added Alternate Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. David E. Miller
• 2003-05-07 Added Alternate Co-Sponsor Rep. Deborah L. Graham
• 2003-05-07 Sponsor Removed Rep. Deborah L. Graham
• 2003-05-08 Second Reading - Short Debate reading-2
• 2003-05-08 Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading - Short Debate
• 2003-05-13 Added Alternate Co-Sponsor Rep. Charles E. Jefferson
• 2003-05-13 Added Alternate Co-Sponsor Rep. Monique D. Davis
• 2003-05-16 Committee/3rd Reading Deadline Extended-Rule 9(b); May 23, 2003
• 2003-05-20 Added Alternate Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Deborah L. Graham
• 2003-05-20 Added Alternate Co-Sponsor Rep. Harry Osterman
• 2003-05-20 Third Reading - Short Debate - Passed 115-000-000 reading-3, passage
• 2003-05-20 Passed Both Houses
• 2003-06-18 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2003-08-08 Governor Approved executive-signature
• 2003-08-08 Effective Date August 8, 2003
• 2003-08-08 Public Act . . . . . . . . . 93-0463 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/2ca0f5e6-7dbc-41b6-a909-a0fc1b8ba3e4. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Illinois legislature records).