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Bill	HEALTH FACILITIES-VARIOUS	Amends the Illinois Health Facilities Planning Act. Reorganizes the provisions concerning definitions. Authorizes the Health Facilities and Services Review Board ("State Board") to prescribe and provide forms pertaining to the State Board Staff Report. Provides that a State Board Staff Report shall pertain to applications that include, but are not limited to, applications for permit or exemption, applications for permit renewal, applications for extension of the obligation period, applications requesting a declaratory ruling, and applications under the Health Care Worker Self-Referral Act. Further provides that the State Board staff shall submit its State Board Staff Report to the State Board for its approval or denial of a permit. Provides that the State Board shall transcribe each State Board meeting using a certified court reporter and the transcript shall contain the record of the findings and decisions of the State Board. Further provides that State Board members shall provide their rationale when voting on an item before the State Board at a State Board meeting and that the transcript of the State Board meeting shall be incorporated into the Board's final decision. Deletes references to the Department of Public Health and replaces those references with the State Board. Makes other changes. Effective immediately.	us/states/il	Illinois General Assembly	98th	HB 5968	Illinois HB 5968 (98th)	bill		enacted		3	31	2	2014-02-14	2014-08-26	openstates	ocd-bill/6c196b8a-bd7a-4345-b5b7-98a285759901	http://ilga.gov/legislation/BillStatus.asp?DocNum=5968&GAID=12&DocTypeID=HB&LegId=81276&SessionID=85&GA=98	f75c59f73eb9688f9ecc4cf9cabd5b16474d47ae5e70f0ab2bebaad26a431ec9	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-il

Illinois HB 5968 (98th) — HEALTH FACILITIES-VARIOUS

Amends the Illinois Health Facilities Planning Act. Reorganizes the provisions concerning definitions. Authorizes the Health Facilities and Services Review Board ("State Board") to prescribe and provide forms pertaining to the State Board Staff Report. Provides that a State Board Staff Report shall pertain to applications that include, but are not limited to, applications for permit or exemption, applications for permit renewal, applications for extension of the obligation period, applications requesting a declaratory ruling, and applications under the Health Care Worker Self-Referral Act. Further provides that the State Board staff shall submit its State Board Staff Report to the State Board for its approval or denial of a permit. Provides that the State Board shall transcribe each State Board meeting using a certified court reporter and the transcript shall contain the record of the findings and decisions of the State Board. Further provides that State Board members shall provide their rationale when voting on an item before the State Board at a State Board meeting and that the transcript of the State Board meeting shall be incorporated into the Board's final decision. Deletes references to the Department of Public Health and replaces those references with the State Board. Makes other changes. 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 — 54–0 (pass) · upper
• Third Reading — 86–27 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Donne E. Trotter — cosponsor (person)
• William Davis — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2014-02-14 Filed with the Clerk by Rep. William Davis filing
• 2014-02-14 First Reading reading-1
• 2014-02-14 Referred to Rules Committee referral-committee
• 2014-03-03 Assigned to Human Services Committee referral-committee
• 2014-03-19 Added Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Mary E. Flowers
• 2014-03-20 Do Pass / Short Debate Human Services Committee; 014-000-000 committee-passage
• 2014-03-20 Placed on Calendar 2nd Reading - Short Debate
• 2014-03-21 Second Reading - Short Debate reading-2
• 2014-03-21 Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading - Short Debate
• 2014-04-01 Chair placed the bill on Standard Debate
• 2014-04-01 Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading - Standard Debate
• 2014-04-01 Third Reading - Standard Debate - Passed 086-027-000 reading-3, passage
• 2014-04-01 Arrive in Senate introduction
• 2014-04-01 Placed on Calendar Order of First Reading April 2, 2014 reading-1
• 2014-04-04 Chief Senate Sponsor Sen. John J. Cullerton
• 2014-04-07 First Reading reading-1
• 2014-04-07 Referred to Assignments referral-committee
• 2014-04-30 Assigned to Judiciary referral-committee
• 2014-05-07 Do Pass Judiciary; 010-000-000 committee-passage
• 2014-05-07 Placed on Calendar Order of 2nd Reading May 8, 2014
• 2014-05-22 Second Reading reading-2
• 2014-05-22 Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading May 23, 2014
• 2014-05-23 Rule 2-10 Committee/3rd Reading Deadline Established As May 31, 2014
• 2014-05-30 Alternate Chief Sponsor Changed to Sen. Kwame Raoul
• 2014-05-30 Added as Alternate Co-Sponsor Sen. Donne E. Trotter
• 2014-05-30 Third Reading - Passed; 054-000-000 reading-3, passage
• 2014-05-30 Passed Both Houses
• 2014-06-27 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2014-08-26 Governor Approved executive-signature
• 2014-08-26 Effective Date August 26, 2014
• 2014-08-26 Public Act . . . . . . . . . 98-1086 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/6c196b8a-bd7a-4345-b5b7-98a285759901. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Illinois legislature records).