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Bill	AMBULANCE SERVICE UPGRADE-PHRN	Amends the Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Systems Act. Provides that if the Department of Public Health approves a service upgrade for an ambulance service provider that serves a rural population of 7,500 or fewer inhabitants, then the ambulance service provider is authorized to operate at the highest level of EMT license or Pre-Hospital RN certification (currently, highest level of EMT license) held by any person staffing the ambulance.	us/states/il	Illinois General Assembly	98th	HB 4523	Illinois HB 4523 (98th)	bill		enacted		3	35	2	2014-02-03	2014-08-13	openstates	ocd-bill/fd7bb462-efc5-49df-a742-a8b6f75b99d4	http://ilga.gov/legislation/BillStatus.asp?DocNum=4523&GAID=12&DocTypeID=HB&LegId=78969&SessionID=85&GA=98	46cebb11e7cb82cc1452ad8ba98ebf8fa6bd6fd9e62ae1d1b547adfc4c7febb8	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-il

Illinois HB 4523 (98th) — AMBULANCE SERVICE UPGRADE-PHRN

Amends the Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Systems Act. Provides that if the Department of Public Health approves a service upgrade for an ambulance service provider that serves a rural population of 7,500 or fewer inhabitants, then the ambulance service provider is authorized to operate at the highest level of EMT license or Pre-Hospital RN certification (currently, highest level of EMT license) held by any person staffing the ambulance.

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 — 112–0 (pass) · lower
• Third Reading — 57–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Donald L. Moffitt — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2014-02-03 Filed with the Clerk by Rep. Donald L. Moffitt filing
• 2014-02-03 First Reading reading-1
• 2014-02-03 Referred to Rules Committee referral-committee
• 2014-02-11 Assigned to Health Care Licenses Committee referral-committee
• 2014-02-18 Added Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Robert W. Pritchard
• 2014-02-19 Do Pass / Short Debate Health Care Licenses Committee; 008-000-000 committee-passage
• 2014-02-19 Placed on Calendar 2nd Reading - Short Debate
• 2014-02-19 Added Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Lawrence M. Walsh, Jr.
• 2014-02-19 Added Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Ron Sandack
• 2014-02-26 Second Reading - Short Debate reading-2
• 2014-02-26 Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading - Short Debate
• 2014-03-04 Third Reading - Short Debate - Passed 112-000-000 reading-3, passage
• 2014-03-04 Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Rich Brauer
• 2014-03-04 Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Tom Demmer
• 2014-03-04 Added Co-Sponsor Rep. David R. Leitch
• 2014-03-04 Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Patricia R. Bellock
• 2014-03-04 Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Cynthia Soto
• 2014-03-04 Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Ann Williams
• 2014-03-04 Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Edward J. Acevedo
• 2014-03-04 Arrive in Senate introduction
• 2014-03-04 Placed on Calendar Order of First Reading March 5, 2014 reading-1
• 2014-03-04 Chief Senate Sponsor Sen. John M. Sullivan
• 2014-03-05 First Reading reading-1
• 2014-03-05 Referred to Assignments referral-committee
• 2014-04-23 Assigned to Human Services referral-committee
• 2014-04-29 Do Pass Human Services; 008-000-000 committee-passage
• 2014-04-29 Placed on Calendar Order of 2nd Reading April 30, 2014
• 2014-04-30 Second Reading reading-2
• 2014-04-30 Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading May 1, 2014
• 2014-05-21 Third Reading - Passed; 057-000-000 reading-3, passage
• 2014-05-21 Passed Both Houses
• 2014-06-19 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2014-08-13 Governor Approved executive-signature
• 2014-08-13 Effective Date January 1, 2015
• 2014-08-13 Public Act . . . . . . . . . 98-0880 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/fd7bb462-efc5-49df-a742-a8b6f75b99d4. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Illinois legislature records).