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Bill	CANNABIS-PRESERVE EVIDENCE	Amends the Cannabis Control Act. Provides that before or after the trial in a prosecution for certain enumerated violations of the Act, a law enforcement agency or an agent acting on behalf of the law enforcement agency must preserve, subject to a continuous chain of custody, not less than 5,001 grams of any substance containing cannabis and not less than 51 cannabis sativa plants with respect to the enumerated offenses and must maintain sufficient documentation to locate that evidence. Provides that the court may before trial transfer excess quantities of any substance containing cannabis or cannabis sativa plants with respect to a prosecution for any enumerated offense to the sheriff of the county, or may in its discretion transfer such evidence to the Department of State Police, for destruction. Effective immediately.	us/states/il	Illinois General Assembly	94th	HB 804	Illinois HB 804 (94th)	bill		enacted		3	35	2	2005-02-02	2005-07-12	openstates	ocd-bill/4fa3183f-06d1-4d2e-8bb8-76f43cbde7c9	http://ilga.gov/legislation/BillStatus.asp?DocNum=804&GAID=8&DocTypeID=HB&LegId=15392&SessionID=50&GA=94	0252c4c792fffac8a8ff3e96b1d4878260e0cd57e8a06dc6ffb72e94365ced81	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-il

Illinois HB 804 (94th) — CANNABIS-PRESERVE EVIDENCE

Amends the Cannabis Control Act. Provides that before or after the trial in a prosecution for certain enumerated violations of the Act, a law enforcement agency or an agent acting on behalf of the law enforcement agency must preserve, subject to a continuous chain of custody, not less than 5,001 grams of any substance containing cannabis and not less than 51 cannabis sativa plants with respect to the enumerated offenses and must maintain sufficient documentation to locate that evidence. Provides that the court may before trial transfer excess quantities of any substance containing cannabis or cannabis sativa plants with respect to a prosecution for any enumerated offense to the sheriff of the county, or may in its discretion transfer such evidence to the Department of State Police, for destruction. 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 — 56–0 (pass) · upper
• Third Reading — 113–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Joseph M. Lyons — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2005-02-02 Filed with the Clerk by Rep. Joseph M. Lyons filing
• 2005-02-02 First Reading reading-1
• 2005-02-02 Referred to Rules Committee referral-committee
• 2005-02-08 Assigned to Judiciary II - Criminal Law Committee referral-committee
• 2005-02-25 House Committee Amendment No. 1 Filed with Clerk by Judiciary II - Criminal Law Committee amendment-introduction
• 2005-02-25 Added Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Dave Winters
• 2005-02-25 Added Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. John D'Amico
• 2005-02-25 House Committee Amendment No. 1 Adopted in Judiciary II - Criminal Law Committee; by Voice Vote amendment-passage
• 2005-02-25 Do Pass as Amended / Short Debate Judiciary II - Criminal Law Committee; 015-000-000 committee-passage
• 2005-02-28 Placed on Calendar 2nd Reading - Short Debate
• 2005-03-01 House Floor Amendment No. 2 Filed with Clerk by Rep. Joseph M. Lyons amendment-introduction
• 2005-03-01 House Floor Amendment No. 2 Referred to Rules Committee referral-committee
• 2005-03-08 House Floor Amendment No. 2 Recommends Be Adopted Rules Committee; 004-000-000 committee-passage-favorable
• 2005-03-15 Second Reading - Short Debate reading-2
• 2005-03-15 House Floor Amendment No. 2 Adopted by Voice Vote amendment-passage
• 2005-03-15 Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading - Short Debate
• 2005-03-17 Third Reading - Short Debate - Passed 113-000-000 reading-3, passage
• 2005-03-17 Arrive in Senate introduction
• 2005-03-17 Placed on Calendar Order of First Reading April 6, 2005 reading-1
• 2005-04-08 Chief Senate Sponsor Sen. George P. Shadid
• 2005-04-11 Added as Alternate Chief Co-Sponsor Sen. Antonio Munoz
• 2005-04-11 First Reading reading-1
• 2005-04-11 Referred to Rules referral-committee
• 2005-04-13 Assigned to Judiciary referral-committee
• 2005-04-20 Postponed - Judiciary
• 2005-05-05 Do Pass Judiciary; 010-000-000 committee-passage
• 2005-05-05 Placed on Calendar Order of 2nd Reading May 10, 2005
• 2005-05-11 Second Reading reading-2
• 2005-05-11 Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading May 12, 2005
• 2005-05-18 Third Reading - Passed; 056-000-000 reading-3, passage
• 2005-05-18 Passed Both Houses
• 2005-06-16 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2005-07-12 Governor Approved executive-signature
• 2005-07-12 Effective Date July 12, 2005
• 2005-07-12 Public Act . . . . . . . . . 94-0180 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/4fa3183f-06d1-4d2e-8bb8-76f43cbde7c9. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Illinois legislature records).