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Bill	HOSPITAL LICENSE-SAFE PATIENT	Amends the Hospital Licensing Act. In the list of provisions to be incorporated into hospital policies regarding the risk of injury to patients and nurses and other health care workers associated with the lifting, transferring, repositioning, or movement of a patient, includes (1) the primacy of maintaining patient dignity, self-determination, and choice and (2) consideration of the feasibility of incorporating patient handling equipment or the physical space and construction design needed to incorporate that equipment in conjunction with federal handling equipment or the physical space and construction design needed to incorporate that equipment and federal guidelines known as Access to Medical Care for Individuals With Mobility Disabilities. Makes other changes. Effective on January 1, 2012.	us/states/il	Illinois General Assembly	97th	HB 1684	Illinois HB 1684 (97th)	bill		enacted		3	44	2	2011-02-15	2011-07-14	openstates	ocd-bill/b43e93d6-ecba-4847-95b4-72f05af06b42	http://ilga.gov/legislation/BillStatus.asp?DocNum=1684&GAID=11&DocTypeID=HB&LegId=58848&SessionID=84&GA=97	00ef333f73e6f32d0f2e3322ebe73befbc1486cf8266ed404c2860ce5dc20885	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-il

Illinois HB 1684 (97th) — HOSPITAL LICENSE-SAFE PATIENT

Amends the Hospital Licensing Act. In the list of provisions to be incorporated into hospital policies regarding the risk of injury to patients and nurses and other health care workers associated with the lifting, transferring, repositioning, or movement of a patient, includes (1) the primacy of maintaining patient dignity, self-determination, and choice and (2) consideration of the feasibility of incorporating patient handling equipment or the physical space and construction design needed to incorporate that equipment in conjunction with federal handling equipment or the physical space and construction design needed to incorporate that equipment and federal guidelines known as Access to Medical Care for Individuals With Mobility Disabilities. Makes other changes. Effective on January 1, 2012.

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 — 58–0 (pass) · upper
• Third Reading — 110–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Esther Golar — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2011-02-15 Filed with the Clerk by Rep. Lou Lang filing
• 2011-02-16 First Reading reading-1
• 2011-02-16 Referred to Rules Committee referral-committee
• 2011-02-22 Assigned to Health Care Licenses Committee referral-committee
• 2011-02-23 Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Barbara Flynn Currie
• 2011-03-01 Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Ann Williams
• 2011-03-03 Added Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Thomas Holbrook
• 2011-03-03 Chief Co-Sponsor Changed to Rep. Thomas Holbrook
• 2011-03-16 Recommends Do Pass Subcommittee/ Health Care Licenses Committee; 003-000-000 committee-passage
• 2011-03-16 Remains in Health Care Licenses Committee
• 2011-03-16 Do Pass / Short Debate Health Care Licenses Committee; 007-000-000 committee-passage
• 2011-03-16 Placed on Calendar 2nd Reading - Short Debate
• 2011-03-23 Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Elaine Nekritz
• 2011-03-30 Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Rich Brauer
• 2011-03-30 Added Co-Sponsor Rep. William Cunningham
• 2011-03-31 House Floor Amendment No. 1 Filed with Clerk by Rep. Lou Lang amendment-introduction
• 2011-03-31 House Floor Amendment No. 1 Referred to Rules Committee referral-committee
• 2011-03-31 Chief Sponsor Changed to Rep. Esther Golar
• 2011-03-31 Added Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Lou Lang
• 2011-04-04 House Floor Amendment No. 1 Recommends Be Adopted Rules Committee; 004-000-000 committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-04-05 Second Reading - Short Debate reading-2
• 2011-04-05 House Floor Amendment No. 1 Adopted by Voice Vote amendment-passage
• 2011-04-05 Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading - Short Debate
• 2011-04-05 Added Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Patricia R. Bellock
• 2011-04-07 Third Reading - Short Debate - Passed 110-000-000 reading-3, passage
• 2011-04-07 Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Sandy Cole
• 2011-04-07 Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Al Riley
• 2011-04-07 Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Eddie Lee Jackson, Sr.
• 2011-04-07 Arrive in Senate introduction
• 2011-04-07 Placed on Calendar Order of First Reading April 8, 2011 reading-1
• 2011-04-07 Chief Senate Sponsor Sen. Linda Holmes
• 2011-04-08 First Reading reading-1
• 2011-04-08 Referred to Assignments referral-committee
• 2011-04-27 Assigned to Public Health referral-committee
• 2011-05-04 Do Pass Public Health; 007-000-000 committee-passage
• 2011-05-04 Placed on Calendar Order of 2nd Reading May 5, 2011
• 2011-05-05 Second Reading reading-2
• 2011-05-05 Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading May 6, 2011
• 2011-05-17 Third Reading - Passed; 058-000-000 reading-3, passage
• 2011-05-17 Passed Both Houses
• 2011-06-15 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2011-07-14 Governor Approved executive-signature
• 2011-07-14 Effective Date January 1, 2012
• 2011-07-14 Public Act . . . . . . . . . 97-0122 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/b43e93d6-ecba-4847-95b4-72f05af06b42. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Illinois legislature records).