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Bill	SOS-CORPORATIONS-RECORDER	Amends the Business Corporation Act of 1983 and the General Not For Profit Corporation Act of 1986. Eliminates requirements for filing copies of certain documents in the office of the county recorder, including articles of amendment reflecting an election to become a close corporation, an application for an assumed corporate name, a change of registered office or registered agent, articles of merger of a domestic corporation and a limited liability company, a certificate of administrative dissolution of a corporation, a court order of dissolution, and a certificate of revocation of authority of a foreign corporation to transact business in this State. Eliminates, as a ground for revocation of authority of a foreign corporation to transact business in this State, the corporation's failure to file for record an appointment of registered agent.	us/states/il	Illinois General Assembly	96th	SB 3211	Illinois SB 3211 (96th)	bill		enacted		3	26	2	2010-02-09	2010-07-20	openstates	ocd-bill/3e11091a-a8d6-4765-96b1-96b6ebd86332	http://ilga.gov/legislation/BillStatus.asp?DocNum=3211&GAID=10&DocTypeID=SB&LegId=50969&SessionID=76&GA=96	8dcb02aa50652474850cd1d92746ca4dc32eb416222bf4932fa8da73dd4c84d3	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-il

Illinois SB 3211 (96th) — SOS-CORPORATIONS-RECORDER

Amends the Business Corporation Act of 1983 and the General Not For Profit Corporation Act of 1986. Eliminates requirements for filing copies of certain documents in the office of the county recorder, including articles of amendment reflecting an election to become a close corporation, an application for an assumed corporate name, a change of registered office or registered agent, articles of merger of a domestic corporation and a limited liability company, a certificate of administrative dissolution of a corporation, a court order of dissolution, and a certificate of revocation of authority of a foreign corporation to transact business in this State. Eliminates, as a ground for revocation of authority of a foreign corporation to transact business in this State, the corporation's failure to file for record an appointment of registered agent.

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 — 55–0 (pass) · upper
• Third Reading — 111–2 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Jeffrey M. Schoenberg — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2010-02-09 Filed with Secretary by Sen. Jeffrey M. Schoenberg filing
• 2010-02-09 First Reading reading-1
• 2010-02-09 Referred to Assignments referral-committee
• 2010-02-24 Assigned to Judiciary referral-committee
• 2010-03-03 Do Pass Judiciary; 009-000-000 committee-passage
• 2010-03-03 Placed on Calendar Order of 2nd Reading March 4, 2010
• 2010-03-12 Second Reading reading-2
• 2010-03-12 Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading March 15, 2010
• 2010-03-17 Third Reading - Passed; 055-000-000 reading-3, passage
• 2010-03-18 Arrived in House introduction
• 2010-03-18 Chief House Sponsor Rep. Jack D. Franks
• 2010-03-18 Placed on Calendar Order of First Reading reading-1
• 2010-03-18 First Reading reading-1
• 2010-03-18 Referred to Rules Committee referral-committee
• 2010-04-08 Assigned to Judiciary I - Civil Law Committee referral-committee
• 2010-04-14 Do Pass / Short Debate Judiciary I - Civil Law Committee; 013-001-000 committee-passage
• 2010-04-14 Placed on Calendar 2nd Reading - Short Debate
• 2010-04-14 Added Alternate Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. JoAnn D. Osmond
• 2010-04-20 Second Reading - Short Debate reading-2
• 2010-04-20 Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading - Short Debate
• 2010-04-22 Third Reading - Short Debate - Passed 111-002-000 reading-3, passage
• 2010-04-22 Passed Both Houses
• 2010-05-21 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2010-07-20 Governor Approved executive-signature
• 2010-07-20 Effective Date January 1, 2011
• 2010-07-20 Public Act . . . . . . . . . 96-1121 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/3e11091a-a8d6-4765-96b1-96b6ebd86332. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Illinois legislature records).