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Bill	DISSOL-VIRTUAL CHILD VISITATON	Amends the Illinois Marriage and Dissolution of Marriage Act. Provides for reasonable visitation between a child and a non-custodial parent through electronic communication such as telephone, e-mail, instant messaging, and other modes of electronic communication. Provides that the court may not use time spent in electronic communication to affect child support, custody, visitation, or removal of a child from the State. Provides for the custodial parent to provide any new e-mail address of the child to the noncustodial parent within 24 hours of the change. Makes other changes concerning electronic communication between a parent and a child and between a grandparent, great-grandparent, or sibling and a child.	us/states/il	Illinois General Assembly	96th	SB 1590	Illinois SB 1590 (96th)	bill		enacted		3	29	2	2009-02-19	2009-08-11	openstates	ocd-bill/8f81dc19-1dbb-4726-bd8c-6bd7ca04358e	http://ilga.gov/legislation/BillStatus.asp?DocNum=1590&GAID=10&DocTypeID=SB&LegId=44208&SessionID=76&GA=96	763990793d8e149e858c03e63845397ff8cf0ebe806a755fc4ba05adec86f58d	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-il

Illinois SB 1590 (96th) — DISSOL-VIRTUAL CHILD VISITATON

Amends the Illinois Marriage and Dissolution of Marriage Act. Provides for reasonable visitation between a child and a non-custodial parent through electronic communication such as telephone, e-mail, instant messaging, and other modes of electronic communication. Provides that the court may not use time spent in electronic communication to affect child support, custody, visitation, or removal of a child from the State. Provides for the custodial parent to provide any new e-mail address of the child to the noncustodial parent within 24 hours of the change. Makes other changes concerning electronic communication between a parent and a child and between a grandparent, great-grandparent, or sibling and a child.

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 — 113–0 (pass) · lower
• Third Reading — 54–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Jack D. Franks — cosponsor (person)
• Pamela J. Althoff — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2009-02-19 Filed with Secretary by Sen. Pamela J. Althoff filing
• 2009-02-19 First Reading reading-1
• 2009-02-19 Referred to Assignments referral-committee
• 2009-02-25 Assigned to Judiciary referral-committee
• 2009-03-05 Do Pass Judiciary; 010-000-000 committee-passage
• 2009-03-05 Placed on Calendar Order of 2nd Reading March 6, 2009
• 2009-03-10 Added as Chief Co-Sponsor Sen. Iris Y. Martinez
• 2009-03-24 Second Reading reading-2
• 2009-03-24 Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading March 25, 2009
• 2009-03-31 Third Reading - Passed; 054-000-000 reading-3, passage
• 2009-03-31 Arrived in House introduction
• 2009-03-31 Placed on Calendar Order of First Reading reading-1
• 2009-04-01 Chief House Sponsor Rep. Sandra M. Pihos
• 2009-04-01 Added Alternate Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Sidney H. Mathias
• 2009-04-01 First Reading reading-1
• 2009-04-01 Referred to Rules Committee referral-committee
• 2009-04-14 Assigned to Judiciary I - Civil Law Committee referral-committee
• 2009-04-21 Added Alternate Co-Sponsor Rep. Jack D. Franks
• 2009-04-22 Do Pass / Short Debate Judiciary I - Civil Law Committee; 010-000-000 committee-passage
• 2009-04-22 Placed on Calendar 2nd Reading - Short Debate
• 2009-04-23 Second Reading - Short Debate reading-2
• 2009-04-23 Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading - Short Debate
• 2009-05-14 Added Alternate Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Paul D. Froehlich
• 2009-05-14 Third Reading - Short Debate - Passed 113-000-000 reading-3, passage
• 2009-05-14 Passed Both Houses
• 2009-06-12 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2009-08-11 Governor Approved executive-signature
• 2009-08-11 Effective Date January 1, 2010
• 2009-08-11 Public Act . . . . . . . . . 96-0331 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/8f81dc19-1dbb-4726-bd8c-6bd7ca04358e. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Illinois legislature records).