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Bill	CRIM CD-HATE CRIME-ELECTRONIC	Amends the Criminal Code of 1961. Provides that a person commits a hate crime if by reason of the actual or perceived race, color, creed, religion, ancestry, gender, sexual orientation, physical or mental disability, or national origin of another individual or group of individuals, regardless of the existence of any other motivating factor or factors, he or she commits any form of harassment through electronic communications as defined in the Harassing and Obscene Communications Act (rather than just threatening injury to the person or to the property of the person to whom the electronic communication is directed). Effective immediately.	us/states/il	Illinois General Assembly	94th	SB 287	Illinois SB 287 (94th)	bill		enacted		3	42	2	2005-02-03	2005-06-27	openstates	ocd-bill/952ac75a-60af-4986-98ca-e108d21a29b5	http://ilga.gov/legislation/BillStatus.asp?DocNum=287&GAID=8&DocTypeID=SB&LegId=15620&SessionID=50&GA=94	59bf229943ba73cfd04afa047f5934087bd4496e7c1050c1cb606f86d462488d	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-il

Illinois SB 287 (94th) — CRIM CD-HATE CRIME-ELECTRONIC

Amends the Criminal Code of 1961. Provides that a person commits a hate crime if by reason of the actual or perceived race, color, creed, religion, ancestry, gender, sexual orientation, physical or mental disability, or national origin of another individual or group of individuals, regardless of the existence of any other motivating factor or factors, he or she commits any form of harassment through electronic communications as defined in the Harassing and Obscene Communications Act (rather than just threatening injury to the person or to the property of the person to whom the electronic communication is directed). 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 — 116–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Ira I. Silverstein — primary (person)
• Kurt M. Granberg — cosponsor (person)
• Milton Patterson — cosponsor (person)
• Sara Feigenholtz — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2005-02-03 Filed with Secretary by Sen. Ira I. Silverstein filing
• 2005-02-03 First Reading reading-1
• 2005-02-03 Referred to Rules referral-committee
• 2005-02-17 Assigned to Judiciary referral-committee
• 2005-02-24 Held in Judiciary
• 2005-03-01 Added as Chief Co-Sponsor Sen. Jeffrey M. Schoenberg
• 2005-03-02 Postponed - Judiciary
• 2005-03-09 Postponed - Judiciary
• 2005-03-14 Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 Filed with Secretary by Sen. Ira I. Silverstein amendment-introduction
• 2005-03-14 Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 Referred to Rules referral-committee
• 2005-03-15 Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 Rules Refers to Judiciary
• 2005-03-15 Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 Adopted amendment-passage
• 2005-03-16 Do Pass as Amended Judiciary; 010-000-000 committee-passage
• 2005-03-16 Placed on Calendar Order of 2nd Reading March 17, 2005
• 2005-04-11 Second Reading reading-2
• 2005-04-11 Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading April 12, 2005
• 2005-04-14 Added as Chief Co-Sponsor Sen. Jacqueline Y. Collins
• 2005-04-14 Added as Chief Co-Sponsor Sen. Carol Ronen
• 2005-04-14 Third Reading - Passed; 056-000-000 reading-3, passage
• 2005-04-14 Arrived in House introduction
• 2005-04-14 Placed on Calendar Order of First Reading reading-1
• 2005-04-15 Chief House Sponsor Rep. Lou Lang
• 2005-04-15 First Reading reading-1
• 2005-04-15 Referred to Rules Committee referral-committee
• 2005-04-20 Assigned to Judiciary II - Criminal Law Committee referral-committee
• 2005-04-26 Added Alternate Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Edward J. Acevedo
• 2005-04-26 Added Alternate Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Linda Chapa LaVia
• 2005-04-28 Do Pass / Short Debate Judiciary II - Criminal Law Committee; 013-000-000 committee-passage
• 2005-04-28 Placed on Calendar 2nd Reading - Short Debate
• 2005-04-28 Added Alternate Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Jack D. Franks
• 2005-04-28 Added Alternate Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Elizabeth Coulson
• 2005-05-02 Added Alternate Co-Sponsor Rep. Sara Feigenholtz
• 2005-05-10 Second Reading - Short Debate reading-2
• 2005-05-10 Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading - Short Debate
• 2005-05-17 Added Alternate Co-Sponsor Rep. Milton Patterson
• 2005-05-17 Added Alternate Co-Sponsor Rep. Kurt M. Granberg
• 2005-05-17 Third Reading - Short Debate - Passed 116-000-000 reading-3, passage
• 2005-05-17 Passed Both Houses
• 2005-06-15 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2005-06-27 Governor Approved executive-signature
• 2005-06-27 Effective Date June 27, 2005
• 2005-06-27 Public Act . . . . . . . . . 94-0080 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/952ac75a-60af-4986-98ca-e108d21a29b5. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Illinois legislature records).