republic-os/legislation/us/states/il/97th/sb-2069.md

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Bill	CIV PRO-PROCESS SERVERS	Amends the Criminal Code of 1961. Creates the offense of false personation of a peace officer while serving process. Provides that a person commits the offense when he or she, not being a peace officer, knowingly wears a coat, hat, or other clothing while serving process that reasonably creates the impression that the person is a peace officer. Amends the Code of Civil Procedure. With respect to the requirement that a person who is a licensed or registered private detective or a registered employee of a private detective agency must supply the sheriff of any county in which the person serves process with a copy of the person's license or certificate, deletes language providing that the failure of a person to supply a copy of the license or certificate to the sheriff does not impair the validity of process served by the person. In a provision that allows a court to appoint a certified private detective agency as a special process server, deletes language allowing any employee of the private detective agency to serve the process under the appointment.	us/states/il	Illinois General Assembly	97th	SB 2069	Illinois SB 2069 (97th)	bill		enacted		3	34	2	2011-02-10	2011-08-16	openstates	ocd-bill/c53cafee-9d93-42e9-8143-326bb91c25dc	http://ilga.gov/legislation/BillStatus.asp?DocNum=2069&GAID=11&DocTypeID=SB&LegId=58254&SessionID=84&GA=97	39f92676e9643f72388bf0b88f8ce48c8e074a5511fe54d36745a34fd9a4f3b6	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-il

Illinois SB 2069 (97th) — CIV PRO-PROCESS SERVERS

Amends the Criminal Code of 1961. Creates the offense of false personation of a peace officer while serving process. Provides that a person commits the offense when he or she, not being a peace officer, knowingly wears a coat, hat, or other clothing while serving process that reasonably creates the impression that the person is a peace officer. Amends the Code of Civil Procedure. With respect to the requirement that a person who is a licensed or registered private detective or a registered employee of a private detective agency must supply the sheriff of any county in which the person serves process with a copy of the person's license or certificate, deletes language providing that the failure of a person to supply a copy of the license or certificate to the sheriff does not impair the validity of process served by the person. In a provision that allows a court to appoint a certified private detective agency as a special process server, deletes language allowing any employee of the private detective agency to serve the process under the appointment.

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 — 116–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Jacqueline Y. Collins — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2011-02-10 Filed with Secretary by Sen. Jacqueline Y. Collins filing
• 2011-02-10 First Reading reading-1
• 2011-02-10 Referred to Assignments referral-committee
• 2011-03-02 Assigned to Criminal Law referral-committee
• 2011-03-09 To Criminal Law Subcommittee on Special Issues
• 2011-03-17 Reported Back To Criminal Law; 003-000-000
• 2011-03-17 Do Pass Criminal Law; 008-000-000 committee-passage
• 2011-03-17 Placed on Calendar Order of 2nd Reading March 29, 2011
• 2011-04-08 Second Reading reading-2
• 2011-04-08 Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading April 11, 2011
• 2011-04-11 Senate Floor Amendment No. 1 Filed with Secretary by Sen. Jacqueline Y. Collins amendment-introduction
• 2011-04-11 Senate Floor Amendment No. 1 Referred to Assignments referral-committee
• 2011-04-12 Senate Floor Amendment No. 1 Assignments Refers to Criminal Law
• 2011-04-13 Senate Floor Amendment No. 1 Recommend Do Adopt Criminal Law; 007-000-000
• 2011-04-14 Recalled to Second Reading reading-2
• 2011-04-14 Senate Floor Amendment No. 1 Adopted; J. Collins amendment-passage
• 2011-04-14 Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading
• 2011-04-14 Third Reading - Passed; 058-000-000 reading-3, passage
• 2011-04-15 Arrived in House introduction
• 2011-04-15 Placed on Calendar Order of First Reading reading-1
• 2011-04-15 Chief House Sponsor Rep. William Cunningham
• 2011-04-15 First Reading reading-1
• 2011-04-15 Referred to Rules Committee referral-committee
• 2011-04-25 Assigned to Judiciary II - Criminal Law Committee referral-committee
• 2011-05-12 Do Pass / Short Debate Judiciary II - Criminal Law Committee; 007-000-000 committee-passage
• 2011-05-12 Placed on Calendar 2nd Reading - Short Debate
• 2011-05-16 Second Reading - Short Debate reading-2
• 2011-05-16 Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading - Short Debate
• 2011-05-19 Third Reading - Short Debate - Passed 116-000-000 reading-3, passage
• 2011-05-19 Passed Both Houses
• 2011-06-17 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2011-08-16 Governor Approved executive-signature
• 2011-08-16 Effective Date January 1, 2012
• 2011-08-16 Public Act . . . . . . . . . 97-0427 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/c53cafee-9d93-42e9-8143-326bb91c25dc. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Illinois legislature records).