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| Bill | SERVICE MEMBER EMPLOYMT TENURE | Amends the Service Member's Employment Tenure Act. Provides that each person scheduled to begin employment with a private employer or with the State of Illinois or a political subdivision who, for the purpose of entering the military service, has left or leaves such scheduled-to-begin-employment status and actually entered the military service and who thereafter (1) receives a certificate or other evidence of honorable discharge or satisfactory completion of military service, (2) is, at the time of such discharge or completion of military service, still qualified to perform the duties of the position of employment which he or she was scheduled to begin, and (3) makes application for re-employment within 90 days after being relieved from such military service, or from hospitalization continuing after discharge for a period of not more than one year, shall be restored by the employer to the position of scheduled-to-begin-employment status which he or she left with the same increases in status, seniority, and wages that were earned during his or her term of military service by employees in like positions who were on the job at the time the returning service member entered the service, or to a position of like seniority, status, and pay, unless the employer's circumstances have so changed as to make it impossible or unreasonable to do so. Extends other protections of the Act to service members who were scheduled to begin employment at the time they entered military service. Effective immediately. | us/states/il | Illinois General Assembly | 94th | HB 593 | Illinois HB 593 (94th) |
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enacted | 3 | 54 | 2 | 2005-01-27 | 2005-07-11 | openstates | ocd-bill/dc9dd825-23ea-4106-b843-9df7ecb9615c | http://ilga.gov/legislation/BillStatus.asp?DocNum=593&GAID=8&DocTypeID=HB&LegId=14986&SessionID=50&GA=94 | f7070e48908f4c7e070363e4c660e9e60fbc7dc2358ca379c54ae968b4a2dfcf | 2026-07-01 | https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump | 2026-07-06 | reported |
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Illinois HB 593 (94th) — SERVICE MEMBER EMPLOYMT TENURE
Amends the Service Member's Employment Tenure Act. Provides that each person scheduled to begin employment with a private employer or with the State of Illinois or a political subdivision who, for the purpose of entering the military service, has left or leaves such scheduled-to-begin-employment status and actually entered the military service and who thereafter (1) receives a certificate or other evidence of honorable discharge or satisfactory completion of military service, (2) is, at the time of such discharge or completion of military service, still qualified to perform the duties of the position of employment which he or she was scheduled to begin, and (3) makes application for re-employment within 90 days after being relieved from such military service, or from hospitalization continuing after discharge for a period of not more than one year, shall be restored by the employer to the position of scheduled-to-begin-employment status which he or she left with the same increases in status, seniority, and wages that were earned during his or her term of military service by employees in like positions who were on the job at the time the returning service member entered the service, or to a position of like seniority, status, and pay, unless the employer's circumstances have so changed as to make it impossible or unreasonable to do so. Extends other protections of the Act to service members who were scheduled to begin employment at the time they entered military service. Effective immediately.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
Votes
- Third Reading — 110–0 (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — 59–0 (pass) · upper
Sponsors
- Arthur J. Wilhelmi — cosponsor (person)
- Deanna Demuzio — cosponsor (person)
- Debbie DeFrancesco Halvorson — cosponsor (person)
- Donald L. Moffitt — primary (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- 2005-01-27 Filed with the Clerk by Rep. Donald L. Moffitt
filing - 2005-01-27 First Reading
reading-1 - 2005-01-27 Referred to Rules Committee
referral-committee - 2005-02-02 Assigned to Labor Committee
referral-committee - 2005-02-09 Do Pass / Short Debate Labor Committee; 020-000-000
committee-passage - 2005-02-10 Placed on Calendar 2nd Reading - Short Debate
- 2005-02-10 Added Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. William B. Black
- 2005-02-10 Added Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Mike Bost
- 2005-02-10 Added Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Linda Chapa LaVia
- 2005-02-10 Added Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Jim Watson
- 2005-02-10 Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Bill Mitchell
- 2005-02-10 Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Ron Stephens
- 2005-02-10 Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Jim Sacia
- 2005-02-10 Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Paul D. Froehlich
- 2005-02-10 Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Sidney H. Mathias
- 2005-02-10 Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Aaron Schock
- 2005-02-17 House Floor Amendment No. 1 Filed with Clerk by Rep. Donald L. Moffitt
amendment-introduction - 2005-02-17 House Floor Amendment No. 1 Referred to Rules Committee
referral-committee - 2005-02-25 House Floor Amendment No. 1 Recommends Be Adopted Rules Committee; 004-000-000
committee-passage-favorable - 2005-02-25 Second Reading - Short Debate
reading-2 - 2005-02-25 House Floor Amendment No. 1 Adopted by Voice Vote
amendment-passage - 2005-02-25 Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading - Short Debate
- 2005-03-01 Recalled to Second Reading - Short Debate
reading-2 - 2005-03-01 Held on Calendar Order of Second Reading - Short Debate
reading-2 - 2005-03-01 House Floor Amendment No. 2 Filed with Clerk by Rep. Donald L. Moffitt
amendment-introduction - 2005-03-01 House Floor Amendment No. 2 Referred to Rules Committee
referral-committee - 2005-03-09 House Floor Amendment No. 2 Recommends Be Adopted Rules Committee; 004-000-000
committee-passage-favorable - 2005-04-05 Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Daniel V. Beiser
- 2005-04-05 Second Reading - Short Debate
reading-2 - 2005-04-05 House Floor Amendment No. 2 Adopted by Voice Vote
amendment-passage - 2005-04-05 Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading - Short Debate
- 2005-04-05 Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Patrick J Verschoore
- 2005-04-05 Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Jack McGuire
- 2005-04-05 Third Reading - Short Debate - Passed 110-000-000
reading-3, passage - 2005-04-06 Arrive in Senate
introduction - 2005-04-06 Placed on Calendar Order of First Reading April 7, 2005
reading-1 - 2005-04-07 Chief Senate Sponsor Sen. John M. Sullivan
- 2005-04-08 Added as Alternate Chief Co-Sponsor Sen. Dale E. Risinger
- 2005-04-11 First Reading
reading-1 - 2005-04-11 Referred to Rules
referral-committee - 2005-04-13 Assigned to Labor
referral-committee - 2005-04-21 Do Pass Labor; 008-000-000
committee-passage - 2005-04-21 Placed on Calendar Order of 2nd Reading May 3, 2005
- 2005-05-05 Added as Alternate Co-Sponsor Sen. Debbie DeFrancesco Halvorson
- 2005-05-05 Second Reading
reading-2 - 2005-05-05 Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading May 10, 2005
- 2005-05-11 Third Reading - Passed; 059-000-000
reading-3, passage - 2005-05-11 Passed Both Houses
- 2005-05-26 Added as Alternate Co-Sponsor Sen. Deanna Demuzio
- 2005-05-29 Added as Alternate Co-Sponsor Sen. Arthur J. Wilhelmi
- 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 . . . . . . . . . 94-0162
became-law
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/dc9dd825-23ea-4106-b843-9df7ecb9615c. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Illinois legislature records).