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Bill	ELECTIONS-HOMEBOUND ABSENTEE	Amends the Election Code. With respect to a voter entitled to personal delivery of a ballot due to admission to a hospital, nursing home, or rehabilitation center not more than 5 days before an election, includes persons who, if released before or on the day of the election, are expected to be homebound and unable to travel to the polling place.	us/states/il	Illinois General Assembly	95th	SB 2314	Illinois SB 2314 (95th)	bill		enacted		3	37	2	2008-02-14	2008-08-21	openstates	ocd-bill/687636db-058e-497d-9cbc-1aec60eac95b	http://ilga.gov/legislation/BillStatus.asp?DocNum=2314&GAID=9&DocTypeID=SB&LegId=36271&SessionID=51&GA=95	b96b5b3fe2024b0b7c2fa73a18746f1ec862a61598c123f54453b56457aba1a8	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-il

Illinois SB 2314 (95th) — ELECTIONS-HOMEBOUND ABSENTEE

Amends the Election Code. With respect to a voter entitled to personal delivery of a ballot due to admission to a hospital, nursing home, or rehabilitation center not more than 5 days before an election, includes persons who, if released before or on the day of the election, are expected to be homebound and unable to travel to the polling place.

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 — 53–0 (pass) · upper
• Third Reading — 114–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Susan Garrett — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2008-02-14 Filed with Secretary by Sen. Susan Garrett filing
• 2008-02-14 First Reading reading-1
• 2008-02-14 Referred to Rules referral-committee
• 2008-02-20 Assigned to Local Government referral-committee
• 2008-02-26 Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 Filed with Secretary by Sen. Susan Garrett amendment-introduction
• 2008-02-26 Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 Referred to Rules referral-committee
• 2008-02-27 Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 Rules Refers to Local Government
• 2008-02-28 Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 Adopted amendment-passage
• 2008-02-28 Do Pass as Amended Local Government; 008-000-000 committee-passage
• 2008-02-28 Placed on Calendar Order of 2nd Reading March 5, 2008
• 2008-03-06 Second Reading reading-2
• 2008-03-06 Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading March 11, 2008
• 2008-03-11 Added as Chief Co-Sponsor Sen. Pamela J. Althoff
• 2008-04-01 Added as Chief Co-Sponsor Sen. Jacqueline Y. Collins
• 2008-04-01 Added as Chief Co-Sponsor Sen. Mattie Hunter
• 2008-04-01 Third Reading - Passed; 053-000-000 reading-3, passage
• 2008-04-01 Arrived in House introduction
• 2008-04-01 Placed on Calendar Order of First Reading reading-1
• 2008-04-01 Chief House Sponsor Rep. Sidney H. Mathias
• 2008-04-01 First Reading reading-1
• 2008-04-01 Referred to Rules Committee referral-committee
• 2008-05-19 Committee Deadline Extended-Rule 9(b) May 23, 2008
• 2008-05-19 Assigned to Elections & Campaign Reform Committee referral-committee
• 2008-05-23 Final Action Deadline Extended-9(b) May 31, 2008
• 2008-05-27 Do Pass / Short Debate Elections & Campaign Reform Committee; 006-000-000 committee-passage
• 2008-05-27 Placed on Calendar 2nd Reading - Short Debate
• 2008-05-27 Second Reading - Short Debate reading-2
• 2008-05-27 Held on Calendar Order of Second Reading - Short Debate reading-2
• 2008-05-28 Second Reading - Short Debate reading-2
• 2008-05-28 Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading - Short Debate
• 2008-05-28 Added Alternate Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Joseph M. Lyons
• 2008-05-30 Third Reading - Short Debate - Passed 114-000-000 reading-3, passage
• 2008-05-30 Passed Both Houses
• 2008-06-27 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2008-08-21 Governor Approved executive-signature
• 2008-08-21 Effective Date January 1, 2009
• 2008-08-21 Public Act . . . . . . . . . 95-0878 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/687636db-058e-497d-9cbc-1aec60eac95b. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Illinois legislature records).