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Bill	SCH CD-ADMIN CERT-ENDORSEMENT	Amends the School Code. With respect to administrative certificates, provides that a candidate (i) who has enrolled and began coursework prior to August 1, 2011 in an Illinois program approved by the State Board of Education for the preparation of administrators and (ii) who successfully completes that program prior to January 1, 2013 may apply for the general administrative endorsement until January 1, 2013 without his or her 2 years of full-time teaching or school service personnel experience having been accrued while the individual held a valid early childhood, elementary, secondary, special K through 12, special pre-school through age 21, or school service personnel certificate. Effective immediately.	us/states/il	Illinois General Assembly	97th	HB 4993	Illinois HB 4993 (97th)	bill		enacted		3	28	2	2012-02-06	2012-06-25	openstates	ocd-bill/46383c28-da6b-413a-9bf4-2e4b44b87fb4	http://ilga.gov/legislation/BillStatus.asp?DocNum=4993&GAID=11&DocTypeID=HB&LegId=64918&SessionID=84&GA=97	c9cb3aee62be6ab4e6fcdbee502ab0a4a96ffe87872058dc5497e6a0e683dd07	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-il

Illinois HB 4993 (97th) — SCH CD-ADMIN CERT-ENDORSEMENT

Amends the School Code. With respect to administrative certificates, provides that a candidate (i) who has enrolled and began coursework prior to August 1, 2011 in an Illinois program approved by the State Board of Education for the preparation of administrators and (ii) who successfully completes that program prior to January 1, 2013 may apply for the general administrative endorsement until January 1, 2013 without his or her 2 years of full-time teaching or school service personnel experience having been accrued while the individual held a valid early childhood, elementary, secondary, special K through 12, special pre-school through age 21, or school service personnel certificate. 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 — 57–0 (pass) · upper
• Third Reading — 117–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Dave Syverson — cosponsor (person)
• Tom Cross — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2012-02-06 Filed with the Clerk by Rep. Tom Cross filing
• 2012-02-06 First Reading reading-1
• 2012-02-06 Referred to Rules Committee referral-committee
• 2012-02-15 Assigned to Elementary & Secondary Education Committee referral-committee
• 2012-02-21 Added Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Roger L. Eddy
• 2012-02-22 Do Pass / Short Debate Elementary & Secondary Education Committee; 023-000-000 committee-passage
• 2012-02-22 Placed on Calendar 2nd Reading - Short Debate
• 2012-02-23 Second Reading - Short Debate reading-2
• 2012-02-23 Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading - Short Debate
• 2012-02-23 Added Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Kay Hatcher
• 2012-02-28 Third Reading - Short Debate - Passed 117-000-000 reading-3, passage
• 2012-02-29 Arrive in Senate introduction
• 2012-02-29 Placed on Calendar Order of First Reading reading-1
• 2012-02-29 Chief Senate Sponsor Sen. Linda Holmes
• 2012-02-29 First Reading reading-1
• 2012-02-29 Referred to Assignments referral-committee
• 2012-04-11 Assigned to Education referral-committee
• 2012-04-18 Do Pass Education; 008-000-000 committee-passage
• 2012-04-18 Placed on Calendar Order of 2nd Reading April 19, 2012
• 2012-05-02 Second Reading reading-2
• 2012-05-02 Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading May 3, 2012
• 2012-05-15 Added as Alternate Co-Sponsor Sen. Dave Syverson
• 2012-05-17 Third Reading - Passed; 057-000-000 reading-3, passage
• 2012-05-17 Passed Both Houses
• 2012-06-15 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2012-06-25 Governor Approved executive-signature
• 2012-06-25 Effective Date June 25, 2012
• 2012-06-25 Public Act . . . . . . . . . 97-0701 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/46383c28-da6b-413a-9bf4-2e4b44b87fb4. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Illinois legislature records).