republic-os/legislation/us/states/il/94th/sb-2345.md

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Bill	PROF COUNSELOR-RESTRICTIONS	Amends the Professional Counselor and Clinical Professional Counselor Licensing Act. Provides that no person shall, without a valid license as a professional counselor issued by the Department, offer to render or render professional counseling services to individuals, corporations, or the public (now, offer to render or render professional counseling services to individuals, corporations, or the public if the words "professional counselor" or "licensed professional counselor" are used to describe the person offering to render or rendering them, or "professional counseling" is used to describe the services rendered or offered to be rendered).	us/states/il	Illinois General Assembly	94th	SB 2345	Illinois SB 2345 (94th)	bill		enacted		3	32	2	2006-01-18	2006-05-12	openstates	ocd-bill/3c340ae3-dfd1-4868-98c5-564ecf518e3b	http://ilga.gov/legislation/BillStatus.asp?DocNum=2345&GAID=8&DocTypeID=SB&LegId=23180&SessionID=50&GA=94	3155607f40dc736358eb57f64a4d525fb863edc5306c927badd74a780557c3ae	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-il

Illinois SB 2345 (94th) — PROF COUNSELOR-RESTRICTIONS

Amends the Professional Counselor and Clinical Professional Counselor Licensing Act. Provides that no person shall, without a valid license as a professional counselor issued by the Department, offer to render or render professional counseling services to individuals, corporations, or the public (now, offer to render or render professional counseling services to individuals, corporations, or the public if the words "professional counselor" or "licensed professional counselor" are used to describe the person offering to render or rendering them, or "professional counseling" is used to describe the services rendered or offered to be rendered).

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

• Thomas Holbrook — cosponsor (person)
• William E. Peterson — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2006-01-18 Filed with Secretary by Sen. William E. Peterson filing
• 2006-01-18 Chief Co-Sponsor Sen. Pamela J. Althoff
• 2006-01-18 First Reading reading-1
• 2006-01-18 Referred to Rules referral-committee
• 2006-01-19 Assigned to Licensed Activities referral-committee
• 2006-02-01 Do Pass Licensed Activities; 007-000-000 committee-passage
• 2006-02-01 Placed on Calendar Order of 2nd Reading February 2, 2006
• 2006-02-07 Second Reading reading-2
• 2006-02-07 Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading February 8, 2006
• 2006-02-09 Third Reading - Passed; 056-000-000 reading-3, passage
• 2006-02-09 Arrived in House introduction
• 2006-02-09 Placed on Calendar Order of First Reading reading-1
• 2006-02-09 Chief House Sponsor Rep. Jack D. Franks
• 2006-02-09 First Reading reading-1
• 2006-02-09 Referred to Rules Committee referral-committee
• 2006-03-08 Assigned to Registration and Regulation Committee referral-committee
• 2006-03-14 Added Alternate Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Angelo Saviano
• 2006-03-14 Added Alternate Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Elizabeth Coulson
• 2006-03-15 Alternate Chief Sponsor Changed to Rep. Donald L. Moffitt
• 2006-03-15 Added Alternate Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Jack D. Franks
• 2006-03-15 Added Alternate Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Robert W. Pritchard
• 2006-03-15 Do Pass / Short Debate Registration and Regulation Committee; 023-000-000 committee-passage
• 2006-03-16 Placed on Calendar 2nd Reading - Short Debate
• 2006-03-16 Added Alternate Co-Sponsor Rep. Thomas Holbrook
• 2006-03-24 Second Reading - Short Debate reading-2
• 2006-03-24 Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading - Short Debate
• 2006-03-28 Third Reading - Short Debate - Passed 113-000-000 reading-3, passage
• 2006-03-28 Passed Both Houses
• 2006-04-26 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2006-05-12 Governor Approved executive-signature
• 2006-05-12 Effective Date January 1, 2007
• 2006-05-12 Public Act . . . . . . . . . 94-0765 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/3c340ae3-dfd1-4868-98c5-564ecf518e3b. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Illinois legislature records).