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Bill	ABUSED CHILD-ATTORNY PRIVILGED	Amends the Abused and Neglected Child Reporting Act. In a provision stating that the privileged quality of communication between a professional person required to report suspected child abuse or neglect and his or her patient or client shall not apply to situations involving abused or neglected children and shall not constitute grounds for failure to report as required by the Act or constitute grounds for failure to share information or documents with the Department of Children and Family Services during the course of a child abuse or neglect investigation, creates an exception for privileged communication between an attorney and his or her client. Effective immediately.	us/states/il	Illinois General Assembly	98th	HB 2771	Illinois HB 2771 (98th)	bill		enacted		3	34	2	2013-02-21	2013-07-15	openstates	ocd-bill/82cb8e1a-0dba-4853-8dca-76057eeddb9f	http://ilga.gov/legislation/BillStatus.asp?DocNum=2771&GAID=12&DocTypeID=HB&LegId=74585&SessionID=85&GA=98	357a3c676443da3423f4a4344aeb0fee39cf81f1614cbb228a97f24355c14afa	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-il

Illinois HB 2771 (98th) — ABUSED CHILD-ATTORNY PRIVILGED

Amends the Abused and Neglected Child Reporting Act. In a provision stating that the privileged quality of communication between a professional person required to report suspected child abuse or neglect and his or her patient or client shall not apply to situations involving abused or neglected children and shall not constitute grounds for failure to report as required by the Act or constitute grounds for failure to share information or documents with the Department of Children and Family Services during the course of a child abuse or neglect investigation, creates an exception for privileged communication between an attorney and his or her client. 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 — 56–0 (pass) · upper
• Third Reading — 108–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Dwight Kay — primary (person)
• Kirk W. Dillard — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2013-02-21 Filed with the Clerk by Rep. Dwight Kay filing
• 2013-02-21 First Reading reading-1
• 2013-02-21 Referred to Rules Committee referral-committee
• 2013-03-04 Assigned to Judiciary referral-committee
• 2013-03-07 House Committee Amendment No. 1 Filed with Clerk by Rep. Dwight Kay amendment-introduction
• 2013-03-07 House Committee Amendment No. 1 Referred to Rules Committee referral-committee
• 2013-03-11 House Committee Amendment No. 1 Rules Refers to Judiciary
• 2013-03-12 Added Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Elgie R. Sims, Jr.
• 2013-03-12 Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Lou Lang
• 2013-03-13 House Committee Amendment No. 1 Adopted in Judiciary; by Voice Vote amendment-passage
• 2013-03-13 Do Pass as Amended / Short Debate Judiciary; 016-000-000 committee-passage
• 2013-03-13 Placed on Calendar 2nd Reading - Short Debate
• 2013-03-15 Second Reading - Short Debate reading-2
• 2013-03-15 Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading - Short Debate
• 2013-03-22 Third Reading - Short Debate - Passed 108-000-000 reading-3, passage
• 2013-03-22 Arrive in Senate introduction
• 2013-03-22 Placed on Calendar Order of First Reading reading-1
• 2013-03-22 Chief Senate Sponsor Sen. William R. Haine
• 2013-03-22 First Reading reading-1
• 2013-03-22 Referred to Assignments referral-committee
• 2013-04-03 Assigned to Judiciary referral-committee
• 2013-04-10 Added as Alternate Chief Co-Sponsor Sen. Ira I. Silverstein
• 2013-04-10 Added as Alternate Chief Co-Sponsor Sen. John G. Mulroe
• 2013-04-10 Added as Alternate Co-Sponsor Sen. Kirk W. Dillard
• 2013-04-11 Do Pass Judiciary; 008-000-000 committee-passage
• 2013-04-11 Placed on Calendar Order of 2nd Reading April 12, 2013
• 2013-04-24 Second Reading reading-2
• 2013-04-24 Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading April 25, 2013
• 2013-05-15 Third Reading - Passed; 056-000-000 reading-3, passage
• 2013-05-15 Passed Both Houses
• 2013-06-05 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2013-07-15 Governor Approved executive-signature
• 2013-07-15 Effective Date July 15, 2013
• 2013-07-15 Public Act . . . . . . . . . 98-0067 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/82cb8e1a-0dba-4853-8dca-76057eeddb9f. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Illinois legislature records).