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Bill	CHILD ABUSE-RETAIN REPORT INFO	Amends the Abused and Neglected Child Reporting Act. Provides that identifying information in indicated reports involving the sexual abuse of a child, the death of a child, or serious physical injury to a child must be retained after the report is indicated or after the subsequent case or report is closed (instead of may be retained longer than 5 years after that time).	us/states/il	Illinois General Assembly	94th	HB 172	Illinois HB 172 (94th)	bill		enacted		3	38	2	2005-01-11	2005-07-11	openstates	ocd-bill/88ed33df-a87b-42d8-8d4d-c018bd0c7155	http://ilga.gov/legislation/BillStatus.asp?DocNum=172&GAID=8&DocTypeID=HB&LegId=14351&SessionID=50&GA=94	c3d4cb2031aa3eb5a0d808962ea09b713067d0c3b2cd569d2ee33092a9997db0	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-il

Illinois HB 172 (94th) — CHILD ABUSE-RETAIN REPORT INFO

Amends the Abused and Neglected Child Reporting Act. Provides that identifying information in indicated reports involving the sexual abuse of a child, the death of a child, or serious physical injury to a child must be retained after the report is indicated or after the subsequent case or report is closed (instead of may be retained longer than 5 years after that time).

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 — 57–0 (pass) · upper
• Third Reading — 114–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Arthur J. Wilhelmi — cosponsor (person)
• Debbie DeFrancesco Halvorson — cosponsor (person)
• Gary Forby — cosponsor (person)
• Ira I. Silverstein — cosponsor (person)
• Jacqueline Y. Collins — cosponsor (person)
• James F. Clayborne, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
• Jim Watson — primary (person)
• John M. Sullivan — cosponsor (person)
• Mattie Hunter — cosponsor (person)
• Terry Link — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2005-01-11 Prefiled with Clerk by Rep. Jim Watson filing
• 2005-01-12 First Reading reading-1
• 2005-01-12 Referred to Rules Committee referral-committee
• 2005-01-26 Assigned to Judiciary II - Criminal Law Committee referral-committee
• 2005-02-18 House Committee Amendment No. 1 Filed with Clerk by Judiciary II - Criminal Law Committee amendment-introduction
• 2005-02-18 House Committee Amendment No. 1 Adopted in Judiciary II - Criminal Law Committee; by Voice Vote amendment-passage
• 2005-02-18 Do Pass as Amended / Short Debate Judiciary II - Criminal Law Committee; 016-000-000 committee-passage
• 2005-02-18 Placed on Calendar 2nd Reading - Short Debate
• 2005-02-25 Second Reading - Short Debate reading-2
• 2005-02-25 Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading - Short Debate
• 2005-03-01 Third Reading - Short Debate - Passed 114-000-000 reading-3, passage
• 2005-03-01 Added Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Patrick J Verschoore
• 2005-03-01 Added Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Jack McGuire
• 2005-03-02 Arrive in Senate introduction
• 2005-03-02 Placed on Calendar Order of First Reading March 3, 2005 reading-1
• 2005-03-10 Chief Senate Sponsor Sen. Deanna Demuzio
• 2005-03-15 First Reading reading-1
• 2005-03-15 Referred to Rules referral-committee
• 2005-04-13 Assigned to Health & Human Services referral-committee
• 2005-04-20 Do Pass Health & Human Services; 010-000-000 committee-passage
• 2005-04-20 Placed on Calendar Order of 2nd Reading April 21, 2005
• 2005-05-04 Second Reading reading-2
• 2005-05-04 Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading May 5, 2005
• 2005-05-11 Third Reading - Passed; 057-000-000 reading-3, passage
• 2005-05-11 Passed Both Houses
• 2005-05-27 Added as Alternate Co-Sponsor Sen. John M. Sullivan
• 2005-05-28 Added as Alternate Co-Sponsor Sen. Gary Forby
• 2005-05-28 Added as Alternate Co-Sponsor Sen. James F. Clayborne, Jr.
• 2005-05-28 Added as Alternate Co-Sponsor Sen. Terry Link
• 2005-05-28 Added as Alternate Co-Sponsor Sen. Jacqueline Y. Collins
• 2005-05-28 Added as Alternate Co-Sponsor Sen. Ira I. Silverstein
• 2005-05-29 Added as Alternate Co-Sponsor Sen. Mattie Hunter
• 2005-05-29 Added as Alternate Co-Sponsor Sen. Arthur J. Wilhelmi
• 2005-05-29 Added as Alternate Co-Sponsor Sen. Debbie DeFrancesco Halvorson
• 2005-06-09 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2005-07-11 Governor Approved executive-signature
• 2005-07-11 Effective Date July 11, 2005
• 2005-07-11 Public Act . . . . . . . . . 94-0160 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/88ed33df-a87b-42d8-8d4d-c018bd0c7155. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Illinois legislature records).