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Bill	CRIM PRO-JOINDER	Amends the Code of Criminal Procedure of 1963. Provides that 2 or more acts or transactions involving public assistance fraud, theft, retail theft, library theft, unlawful sale of household appliances, and certain other deceptive practices may be charged as a single offense in a single count of the same indictment, information, or complaint, if such acts or transactions by one or more defendants are in furtherance of a single intention and design or (rather than and) if the property, labor, or services obtained are of the same person or are of several persons having a common interest in such property, labor, or services.	us/states/il	Illinois General Assembly	95th	SB 711	Illinois SB 711 (95th)	bill		enacted		3	26	2	2007-02-08	2007-08-23	openstates	ocd-bill/e4b31ca2-e0d0-409a-9802-c8f100cd9258	http://ilga.gov/legislation/BillStatus.asp?DocNum=711&GAID=9&DocTypeID=SB&LegId=28597&SessionID=51&GA=95	2a73332eae6de27b62a8506bc42c887dfe4b72c401fbb15926a1e331ffb2ffae	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-il

Illinois SB 711 (95th) — CRIM PRO-JOINDER

Amends the Code of Criminal Procedure of 1963. Provides that 2 or more acts or transactions involving public assistance fraud, theft, retail theft, library theft, unlawful sale of household appliances, and certain other deceptive practices may be charged as a single offense in a single count of the same indictment, information, or complaint, if such acts or transactions by one or more defendants are in furtherance of a single intention and design or (rather than and) if the property, labor, or services obtained are of the same person or are of several persons having a common interest in such property, labor, or services.

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 — 116–0 (pass) · lower
• Third Reading — 57–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Randall M. Hultgren — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2007-02-08 Filed with Secretary by Sen. Randall M. Hultgren filing
• 2007-02-08 First Reading reading-1
• 2007-02-08 Referred to Rules referral-committee
• 2007-02-21 Assigned to Judiciary Criminal Law referral-committee
• 2007-03-07 Postponed - Judiciary Criminal Law
• 2007-03-14 Do Pass Judiciary Criminal Law; 006-000-000 committee-passage
• 2007-03-14 Placed on Calendar Order of 2nd Reading March 15, 2007
• 2007-03-20 Second Reading reading-2
• 2007-03-20 Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading March 21, 2007
• 2007-03-30 Third Reading - Passed; 057-000-000 reading-3, passage
• 2007-03-30 Arrived in House introduction
• 2007-03-30 Placed on Calendar Order of First Reading reading-1
• 2007-05-01 Chief House Sponsor Rep. Jim Durkin
• 2007-05-01 First Reading reading-1
• 2007-05-01 Referred to Rules Committee referral-committee
• 2007-05-07 Assigned to Judiciary II - Criminal Law Committee referral-committee
• 2007-05-17 Do Pass / Short Debate Judiciary II - Criminal Law Committee; 013-000-000 committee-passage
• 2007-05-17 Placed on Calendar 2nd Reading - Short Debate
• 2007-05-24 Second Reading - Short Debate reading-2
• 2007-05-24 Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading - Short Debate
• 2007-05-29 Third Reading - Short Debate - Passed 116-000-000 reading-3, passage
• 2007-05-29 Passed Both Houses
• 2007-06-27 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2007-08-23 Governor Approved executive-signature
• 2007-08-23 Effective Date January 1, 2008
• 2007-08-23 Public Act . . . . . . . . . 95-0384 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/e4b31ca2-e0d0-409a-9802-c8f100cd9258. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Illinois legislature records).