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Bill	GOOD SAMARTN-EMERGENCY SCENE	Amends the Good Samaritan Act. Provides that any person, who is not an emergency responder, who in good faith provides care or assistance at the scene of an emergency without fee or compensation to any person shall not, as a result of his or her act or omissions, except willful and wanton misconduct on the part of the person in providing the care or assistance, be liable to a person to whom such care or assistance is provided for civil damages. Effective immediately.	us/states/il	Illinois General Assembly	96th	HB 5918	Illinois HB 5918 (96th)	bill		enacted		3	39	2	2010-02-10	2010-07-22	openstates	ocd-bill/089b42c5-708c-44ca-a3cf-7ba0fc815182	http://ilga.gov/legislation/BillStatus.asp?DocNum=5918&GAID=10&DocTypeID=HB&LegId=51581&SessionID=76&GA=96	7871c1fbdcb19adbdbe7578d548430274f95f3c4b3e66a7c5c787e0f66088e22	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-il

Illinois HB 5918 (96th) — GOOD SAMARTN-EMERGENCY SCENE

Amends the Good Samaritan Act. Provides that any person, who is not an emergency responder, who in good faith provides care or assistance at the scene of an emergency without fee or compensation to any person shall not, as a result of his or her act or omissions, except willful and wanton misconduct on the part of the person in providing the care or assistance, be liable to a person to whom such care or assistance is provided for civil damages. 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 — 54–0 (pass) · upper
• Third Reading — 105–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Esther Golar — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2010-02-10 Filed with the Clerk by Rep. Esther Golar filing
• 2010-02-10 First Reading reading-1
• 2010-02-10 Referred to Rules Committee referral-committee
• 2010-02-22 Assigned to Judiciary I - Civil Law Committee referral-committee
• 2010-03-10 House Committee Amendment No. 1 Filed with Clerk by Judiciary I - Civil Law Committee amendment-introduction
• 2010-03-10 House Committee Amendment No. 1 Adopted in Judiciary I - Civil Law Committee; by Voice Vote amendment-passage
• 2010-03-10 Do Pass as Amended / Short Debate Judiciary I - Civil Law Committee; 016-000-000 committee-passage
• 2010-03-10 Placed on Calendar 2nd Reading - Short Debate
• 2010-03-11 Second Reading - Short Debate reading-2
• 2010-03-11 Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading - Short Debate
• 2010-03-11 Recalled to Second Reading - Short Debate reading-2
• 2010-03-11 Held on Calendar Order of Second Reading - Short Debate reading-2
• 2010-03-18 Second Reading - Short Debate reading-2
• 2010-03-18 Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading - Short Debate
• 2010-03-23 House Floor Amendment No. 2 Filed with Clerk by Rep. Esther Golar amendment-introduction
• 2010-03-23 House Floor Amendment No. 2 Referred to Rules Committee referral-committee
• 2010-03-23 Recalled to Second Reading - Short Debate reading-2
• 2010-03-23 Held on Calendar Order of Second Reading - Short Debate reading-2
• 2010-03-24 House Floor Amendment No. 2 Recommends Be Adopted Rules Committee; 004-000-000 committee-passage-favorable
• 2010-03-24 Held on Calendar Order of Second Reading - Short Debate reading-2
• 2010-03-24 House Floor Amendment No. 2 Adopted by Voice Vote amendment-passage
• 2010-03-24 Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading - Short Debate
• 2010-03-26 Third Reading - Short Debate - Passed 105-000-000 reading-3, passage
• 2010-04-06 Arrive in Senate introduction
• 2010-04-06 Placed on Calendar Order of First Reading reading-1
• 2010-04-06 Chief Senate Sponsor Sen. Kwame Raoul
• 2010-04-06 First Reading reading-1
• 2010-04-06 Referred to Assignments referral-committee
• 2010-04-06 Assigned to Judiciary referral-committee
• 2010-04-14 Do Pass Judiciary; 009-000-000 committee-passage
• 2010-04-14 Placed on Calendar Order of 2nd Reading April 15, 2010
• 2010-04-22 Second Reading reading-2
• 2010-04-22 Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading April 23, 2010
• 2010-04-30 Third Reading - Passed; 054-000-000 reading-3, passage
• 2010-04-30 Passed Both Houses
• 2010-05-28 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2010-07-22 Governor Approved executive-signature
• 2010-07-22 Effective Date July 22, 2010
• 2010-07-22 Public Act . . . . . . . . . 96-1169 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/089b42c5-708c-44ca-a3cf-7ba0fc815182. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Illinois legislature records).