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Bill	HEALTHCARE SURROGATE-AUTH CONT	Amends the Health Care Surrogate Act. Provides that each health care facility shall maintain any advance directives proffered by the patient or other authorized person in the patient's records (instead of patient's records for the duration of the patient's stay). Provides that any surrogate shall have the authority to make decisions until removed by the patient who no longer lacks decision making capacity, appointment of a guardian of the person, or the patient's death. Effective immediately.	us/states/il	Illinois General Assembly	96th	SB 2258	Illinois SB 2258 (96th)	bill		enacted		3	27	2	2009-02-20	2009-08-14	openstates	ocd-bill/a4eb8972-dac9-4705-a4dd-215e12bf53f8	http://ilga.gov/legislation/BillStatus.asp?DocNum=2258&GAID=10&DocTypeID=SB&LegId=45217&SessionID=76&GA=96	d6d9c448a037637afd90182f12269d9a70a243623206f49244e8c8c93c655240	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-il

Illinois SB 2258 (96th) — HEALTHCARE SURROGATE-AUTH CONT

Amends the Health Care Surrogate Act. Provides that each health care facility shall maintain any advance directives proffered by the patient or other authorized person in the patient's records (instead of patient's records for the duration of the patient's stay). Provides that any surrogate shall have the authority to make decisions until removed by the patient who no longer lacks decision making capacity, appointment of a guardian of the person, or the patient's death. 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 — 57–2 (pass) · upper
• Third Reading — 114–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• A. J. Wilhelmi — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2009-02-20 Filed with Secretary by Sen. A. J. Wilhelmi filing
• 2009-02-20 First Reading reading-1
• 2009-02-20 Referred to Assignments referral-committee
• 2009-03-04 Assigned to Public Health referral-committee
• 2009-03-11 Do Pass Public Health; 009-000-000 committee-passage
• 2009-03-11 Placed on Calendar Order of 2nd Reading March 12, 2009
• 2009-03-24 Second Reading reading-2
• 2009-03-24 Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading March 25, 2009
• 2009-04-01 Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading ** April 2, 2009
• 2009-04-02 Third Reading - Passed; 057-002-000 reading-3, passage
• 2009-04-03 Arrived in House introduction
• 2009-04-03 Placed on Calendar Order of First Reading reading-1
• 2009-04-03 Chief House Sponsor Rep. Kathleen A. Ryg
• 2009-04-06 First Reading reading-1
• 2009-04-06 Referred to Rules Committee referral-committee
• 2009-04-20 Assigned to Judiciary I - Civil Law Committee referral-committee
• 2009-04-29 Do Pass / Short Debate Judiciary I - Civil Law Committee; 013-000-000 committee-passage
• 2009-04-29 Placed on Calendar 2nd Reading - Short Debate
• 2009-05-12 Second Reading - Short Debate reading-2
• 2009-05-12 Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading - Short Debate
• 2009-05-19 Third Reading - Short Debate - Passed 114-000-000 reading-3, passage
• 2009-05-19 Passed Both Houses
• 2009-05-19 Added Alternate Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Elizabeth Coulson
• 2009-06-17 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2009-08-14 Governor Approved executive-signature
• 2009-08-14 Effective Date August 14, 2009
• 2009-08-14 Public Act . . . . . . . . . 96-0492 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/a4eb8972-dac9-4705-a4dd-215e12bf53f8. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Illinois legislature records).