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Bill	BOATS-ENGINE CUT-OFF SWITCH	Amends the Boat Registration and Safety Act. Provides that no person may operate any motorboat equipped with an engine cut-off switch while the engine is running and the motorboat is underway without verifying that the engine cut-off switch is operational and fully-functional and attaching the engine cut-off switch link to the operator or activating the wireless cut-off system (rather than only requiring that a lanyard engine cut-off switch be attached to the operator on motorboats equipped with a lanyard cut-off switch). Effective immediately.	us/states/il	Illinois General Assembly	96th	HB 4775	Illinois HB 4775 (96th)	bill		enacted		3	25	2	2010-01-12	2010-07-14	openstates	ocd-bill/551355ac-14b4-4578-995a-6f2da2e764ef	http://ilga.gov/legislation/BillStatus.asp?DocNum=4775&GAID=10&DocTypeID=HB&LegId=49162&SessionID=76&GA=96	ca2d7f4d71a2286023a43db043b84efb87fdefb737218666541a5bc21a911de2	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-il

Illinois HB 4775 (96th) — BOATS-ENGINE CUT-OFF SWITCH

Amends the Boat Registration and Safety Act. Provides that no person may operate any motorboat equipped with an engine cut-off switch while the engine is running and the motorboat is underway without verifying that the engine cut-off switch is operational and fully-functional and attaching the engine cut-off switch link to the operator or activating the wireless cut-off system (rather than only requiring that a lanyard engine cut-off switch be attached to the operator on motorboats equipped with a lanyard cut-off switch). 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 — 101–9 (pass) · lower
• Third Reading — 50–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Lou Lang — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2010-01-12 Filed with the Clerk by Rep. Lou Lang filing
• 2010-01-12 First Reading reading-1
• 2010-01-12 Referred to Rules Committee referral-committee
• 2010-01-27 Assigned to Agriculture & Conservation Committee referral-committee
• 2010-02-09 Do Pass / Short Debate Agriculture & Conservation Committee; 011-000-000 committee-passage
• 2010-02-09 Placed on Calendar 2nd Reading - Short Debate
• 2010-02-10 Second Reading - Short Debate reading-2
• 2010-02-10 Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading - Short Debate
• 2010-02-11 Third Reading - Short Debate - Passed 101-009-000 reading-3, passage
• 2010-02-16 Arrive in Senate introduction
• 2010-02-16 Placed on Calendar Order of First Reading February 17, 2010 reading-1
• 2010-02-18 Chief Senate Sponsor Sen. Ira I. Silverstein
• 2010-02-18 First Reading reading-1
• 2010-02-18 Referred to Assignments referral-committee
• 2010-03-17 Assigned to Agriculture and Conservation referral-committee
• 2010-04-14 Do Pass Agriculture and Conservation; 009-000-000 committee-passage
• 2010-04-14 Placed on Calendar Order of 2nd Reading April 15, 2010
• 2010-04-21 Second Reading reading-2
• 2010-04-21 Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading April 22, 2010
• 2010-04-27 Third Reading - Passed; 050-000-000 reading-3, passage
• 2010-04-27 Passed Both Houses
• 2010-05-26 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2010-07-14 Governor Approved executive-signature
• 2010-07-14 Effective Date July 14, 2010
• 2010-07-14 Public Act . . . . . . . . . 96-1033 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/551355ac-14b4-4578-995a-6f2da2e764ef. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Illinois legislature records).