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Bill	ADOPTION ACT UNFIT PERSON	Amends the Adoption Act. Provides that there is a rebuttable presumption, which can be overcome only by clear and convincing evidence, that a parent is unfit if there are 2 or more findings of physical abuse by the juvenile court under the Juvenile Court Act of 1987 (deletes references to the former Juvenile Court Act), the parent has been convicted or found not guilty by reason of insanity in a case of the death of a child by physical abuse, or there is a finding of physical child abuse resulting from the death of a child under the Juvenile Court Act of 1987. Adds to the list of criminal convictions that create a presumption that a parent is depraved by including predatory criminal sexual assault of a child (deletes aggravated criminal sexual assault), heinous battery of a child, or aggravated battery of a child.	us/states/il	Illinois General Assembly	94th	SB 2738	Illinois SB 2738 (94th)	bill		enacted		3	32	2	2006-01-20	2006-06-26	openstates	ocd-bill/36b6b3ec-36af-4783-9baf-ac3c2b1c01ab	http://ilga.gov/legislation/BillStatus.asp?DocNum=2738&GAID=8&DocTypeID=SB&LegId=23716&SessionID=50&GA=94	c4b388a0e00ac496759f97834e079058d8d4acc84cf9a8848bef6507869bda81	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-il

Illinois SB 2738 (94th) — ADOPTION ACT UNFIT PERSON

Amends the Adoption Act. Provides that there is a rebuttable presumption, which can be overcome only by clear and convincing evidence, that a parent is unfit if there are 2 or more findings of physical abuse by the juvenile court under the Juvenile Court Act of 1987 (deletes references to the former Juvenile Court Act), the parent has been convicted or found not guilty by reason of insanity in a case of the death of a child by physical abuse, or there is a finding of physical child abuse resulting from the death of a child under the Juvenile Court Act of 1987. Adds to the list of criminal convictions that create a presumption that a parent is depraved by including predatory criminal sexual assault of a child (deletes aggravated criminal sexual assault), heinous battery of a child, or aggravated battery of a child.

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 — 113–0 (pass) · lower
• Third Reading — 58–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Edward D. Maloney — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2006-01-20 Filed with Secretary by Sen. Edward D. Maloney filing
• 2006-01-20 First Reading reading-1
• 2006-01-20 Referred to Rules referral-committee
• 2006-02-08 Assigned to Judiciary referral-committee
• 2006-02-14 Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 Filed with Secretary by Sen. Edward D. Maloney amendment-introduction
• 2006-02-14 Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 Referred to Rules referral-committee
• 2006-02-14 Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 Rules Refers to Judiciary
• 2006-02-14 Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 Adopted amendment-passage
• 2006-02-15 Do Pass as Amended Judiciary; 010-000-000 committee-passage
• 2006-02-15 Placed on Calendar Order of 2nd Reading February 16, 2006
• 2006-02-16 Second Reading reading-2
• 2006-02-16 Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading February 22, 2006
• 2006-02-22 Third Reading - Passed; 058-000-000 reading-3, passage
• 2006-02-22 Arrived in House introduction
• 2006-02-22 Placed on Calendar Order of First Reading reading-1
• 2006-02-23 Chief House Sponsor Rep. Patricia Reid Lindner
• 2006-02-23 Added Alternate Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Sara Feigenholtz
• 2006-02-23 First Reading reading-1
• 2006-02-23 Referred to Rules Committee referral-committee
• 2006-03-08 Assigned to Adoption Reform referral-committee
• 2006-03-23 Do Pass / Short Debate Adoption Reform; 005-000-000 committee-passage
• 2006-03-24 Placed on Calendar 2nd Reading - Short Debate
• 2006-03-24 Added Alternate Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Linda Chapa LaVia
• 2006-03-24 Added Alternate Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Naomi D. Jakobsson
• 2006-03-28 Second Reading - Short Debate reading-2
• 2006-03-28 Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading - Short Debate
• 2006-03-30 Third Reading - Short Debate - Passed 113-000-000 reading-3, passage
• 2006-03-30 Passed Both Houses
• 2006-04-28 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2006-06-26 Governor Approved executive-signature
• 2006-06-26 Effective Date January 1, 2007
• 2006-06-26 Public Act . . . . . . . . . 94-0939 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/36b6b3ec-36af-4783-9baf-ac3c2b1c01ab. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Illinois legislature records).