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Bill	NURSING HOME-ADVANCE DIRECTIVE	Amends the Nursing Home Care Act and the Health Care Surrogate Act. Provides that within 30 days after admission to a facility in the case of a new resident, and within one year after the effective date of the amendatory Act for all residents who were admitted before that date, residents, agents, and surrogates shall be given written information describing the facility's policies concerning DNR orders and shall be given the opportunity to execute a Living Will or Power of Attorney for Health Care, decline consent to life-sustaining treatment, and provide the facility with the name of a preferred surrogate. Provides that any such decision made by a resident, agent, or surrogate must be recorded in the resident's medical record and that any subsequent changes or modifications must also be recorded in the medical record. Provides that advance directives that a health care facility must maintain include a designation of a preferred surrogate should the person making the designation become incapacitated or impaired. Effective January 1, 2010.	us/states/il	Illinois General Assembly	96th	HB 748	Illinois HB 748 (96th)	bill		enacted		3	40	2	2009-02-06	2009-08-14	openstates	ocd-bill/5104e56c-6811-4b5e-aec5-db4c50584439	http://ilga.gov/legislation/BillStatus.asp?DocNum=748&GAID=10&DocTypeID=HB&LegId=42155&SessionID=76&GA=96	bc99fe41a1699e9755c61db6b9e00ad2744fa01d06e6bafc186445509f45ac0b	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-il

Illinois HB 748 (96th) — NURSING HOME-ADVANCE DIRECTIVE

Amends the Nursing Home Care Act and the Health Care Surrogate Act. Provides that within 30 days after admission to a facility in the case of a new resident, and within one year after the effective date of the amendatory Act for all residents who were admitted before that date, residents, agents, and surrogates shall be given written information describing the facility's policies concerning DNR orders and shall be given the opportunity to execute a Living Will or Power of Attorney for Health Care, decline consent to life-sustaining treatment, and provide the facility with the name of a preferred surrogate. Provides that any such decision made by a resident, agent, or surrogate must be recorded in the resident's medical record and that any subsequent changes or modifications must also be recorded in the medical record. Provides that advance directives that a health care facility must maintain include a designation of a preferred surrogate should the person making the designation become incapacitated or impaired. Effective January 1, 2010.

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 — 114–0 (pass) · lower
• Third Reading — 58–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Kathleen A. Ryg — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2009-02-06 Filed with the Clerk by Rep. Kathleen A. Ryg filing
• 2009-02-06 First Reading reading-1
• 2009-02-06 Referred to Rules Committee referral-committee
• 2009-02-11 Assigned to Human Services Committee referral-committee
• 2009-03-11 House Committee Amendment No. 1 Filed with Clerk by Human Services Committee amendment-introduction
• 2009-03-11 House Committee Amendment No. 1 Adopted in Human Services Committee; by Voice Vote amendment-passage
• 2009-03-11 Do Pass as Amended / Short Debate Human Services Committee; 007-000-000 committee-passage
• 2009-03-11 Placed on Calendar 2nd Reading - Short Debate
• 2009-03-23 Second Reading - Short Debate reading-2
• 2009-03-23 Held on Calendar Order of Second Reading - Short Debate reading-2
• 2009-03-24 Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading - Short Debate
• 2009-03-24 Added Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Elizabeth Coulson
• 2009-03-24 Added Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Sandra M. Pihos
• 2009-03-24 Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Franco Coladipietro
• 2009-03-24 Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Darlene J. Senger
• 2009-03-24 Added Co-Sponsor Rep. John D. Cavaletto
• 2009-03-24 Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Michael G. Connelly
• 2009-03-24 Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Ronald A. Wait
• 2009-03-24 Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Ron Stephens
• 2009-03-24 Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Kay Hatcher
• 2009-03-24 Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Rosemary Mulligan
• 2009-03-24 Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Dennis M. Reboletti
• 2009-03-24 Third Reading - Short Debate - Passed 114-000-000 reading-3, passage
• 2009-03-25 Arrive in Senate introduction
• 2009-03-25 Placed on Calendar Order of First Reading March 26, 2009 reading-1
• 2009-03-26 Fiscal Note Filed as amended by House Amendment No. 1, from the Illinois Department of Public Health-Office of Health Care Regulation.
• 2009-03-26 Chief Senate Sponsor Sen. Susan Garrett
• 2009-03-30 First Reading reading-1
• 2009-03-30 Referred to Assignments referral-committee
• 2009-04-15 Assigned to Public Health referral-committee
• 2009-04-22 Do Pass Public Health; 007-000-000 committee-passage
• 2009-04-22 Placed on Calendar Order of 2nd Reading April 23, 2009
• 2009-05-07 Second Reading reading-2
• 2009-05-07 Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading ** May 18, 2009
• 2009-05-19 Third Reading - Passed; 058-000-000 reading-3, passage
• 2009-05-19 Passed Both Houses
• 2009-06-17 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2009-08-14 Governor Approved executive-signature
• 2009-08-14 Effective Date January 1, 2010
• 2009-08-14 Public Act . . . . . . . . . 96-0448 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/5104e56c-6811-4b5e-aec5-db4c50584439. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Illinois legislature records).