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type: "Bill"
title: "HEALTHCARE SURROGATE-AUTH CONT"
description: "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."
jurisdiction: "us/states/il"
legislature: "Illinois General Assembly"
session: "96th"
identifier: "SB 2258"
citation: "Illinois SB 2258 (96th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 3
action_count: 27
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2009-02-20"
last_action: "2009-08-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a4eb8972-dac9-4705-a4dd-215e12bf53f8"
source_url: "http://ilga.gov/legislation/BillStatus.asp?DocNum=2258&GAID=10&DocTypeID=SB&LegId=45217&SessionID=76&GA=96"
source_hash: "d6d9c448a037637afd90182f12269d9a70a243623206f49244e8c8c93c655240"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["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](http://ilga.gov/legislation/fulltext.asp?DocName=09600SB2258&GA=96&SessionId=76&DocTypeId=SB&LegID=45217&DocNum=2258&GAID=10&Session=&print=true)
2. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://ilga.gov/legislation/fulltext.asp?DocName=09600SB2258eng&GA=96&SessionId=76&DocTypeId=SB&LegID=45217&DocNum=2258&GAID=10&Session=&print=true)
3. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://ilga.gov/legislation/fulltext.asp?DocName=09600SB2258enr&GA=96&SessionId=76&DocTypeId=SB&LegID=45217&DocNum=2258&GAID=10&Session=&print=true)
## Votes
- Third Reading — **572** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **1140** (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](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a4eb8972-dac9-4705-a4dd-215e12bf53f8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Illinois legislature records).