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type: "Bill"
title: "COUNTY JAIL GOOD BEHAVIOR"
description: "Amends the County Jail Good Behavior Allowance Act. Adds definition of \"committed person\" to the Act. Provides that \"committed person\" means a person confined in a county jail whether serving a term of imprisonment or confined pending trial or sentencing. Provides that \"good behavior\" means the compliance by a person with all rules and regulations of the institution and all laws of the State while confined in a county jail whether serving a sentence of imprisonment or confined in the county jail pending trial or sentencing. Provides that no committed person may be penalized more than 30 days of good behavior allowance for any one infraction unless the infraction is the second or subsequent infraction within any 30-day period in which case the committed person may not be penalized more than 60 days of good behavior allowance."
jurisdiction: "us/states/il"
legislature: "Illinois General Assembly"
session: "99th"
identifier: "HB 3785"
citation: "Illinois HB 3785 (99th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 3
action_count: 34
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2015-02-26"
last_action: "2015-08-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/da3b01d0-6533-4981-b229-57b065220468"
source_url: "http://ilga.gov/legislation/BillStatus.asp?DocNum=3785&GAID=13&DocTypeID=HB&LegId=89995&SessionID=88&GA=99"
source_hash: "237dc3f2b727835ff2a1cf88a28499a88eef407d5f0c0cebc490bb555c89a4b7"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-il"]
---
# Illinois HB 3785 (99th) — COUNTY JAIL GOOD BEHAVIOR
Amends the County Jail Good Behavior Allowance Act. Adds definition of "committed person" to the Act. Provides that "committed person" means a person confined in a county jail whether serving a term of imprisonment or confined pending trial or sentencing. Provides that "good behavior" means the compliance by a person with all rules and regulations of the institution and all laws of the State while confined in a county jail whether serving a sentence of imprisonment or confined in the county jail pending trial or sentencing. Provides that no committed person may be penalized more than 30 days of good behavior allowance for any one infraction unless the infraction is the second or subsequent infraction within any 30-day period in which case the committed person may not be penalized more than 60 days of good behavior allowance.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](http://ilga.gov/legislation/fulltext.asp?DocName=09900HB3785&GA=99&SessionId=88&DocTypeId=HB&LegID=89995&DocNum=3785&GAID=13&Session=&print=true)
2. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://ilga.gov/legislation/fulltext.asp?DocName=09900HB3785eng&GA=99&SessionId=88&DocTypeId=HB&LegID=89995&DocNum=3785&GAID=13&Session=&print=true)
3. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://ilga.gov/legislation/fulltext.asp?DocName=09900HB3785enr&GA=99&SessionId=88&DocTypeId=HB&LegID=89995&DocNum=3785&GAID=13&Session=&print=true)
## Votes
- Third Reading — **1120** (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — **510** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Ann M. Williams — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2015-02-26** Filed with the Clerk by Rep. Ann M. Williams `filing`
- **2015-02-27** First Reading `reading-1`
- **2015-02-27** Referred to Rules Committee `referral-committee`
- **2015-03-12** Assigned to Judiciary - Criminal Committee `referral-committee`
- **2015-03-24** Do Pass / Short Debate Judiciary - Criminal Committee; 015-000-000 `committee-passage`
- **2015-03-25** Placed on Calendar 2nd Reading - Short Debate
- **2015-03-26** Added Co-Sponsor Rep. John D. Anthony
- **2015-04-14** Second Reading - Short Debate `reading-2`
- **2015-04-14** Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading - Short Debate
- **2015-04-21** Third Reading - Short Debate - Passed 112-000-000 `reading-3, passage`
- **2015-04-21** Added Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Kenneth Dunkin
- **2015-04-21** Added Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Eddie Lee Jackson, Sr.
- **2015-04-21** Added Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Esther Golar
- **2015-04-21** Chief Co-Sponsor Changed to Rep. Kenneth Dunkin
- **2015-04-21** Chief Co-Sponsor Changed to Rep. Esther Golar
- **2015-04-21** Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Cynthia Soto
- **2015-04-21** Added Co-Sponsor Rep. La Shawn K. Ford
- **2015-04-21** Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Will Guzzardi
- **2015-04-22** Arrive in Senate `introduction`
- **2015-04-22** Placed on Calendar Order of First Reading April 23, 2015 `reading-1`
- **2015-04-23** Chief Senate Sponsor Sen. Bill Cunningham
- **2015-04-28** First Reading `reading-1`
- **2015-04-28** Referred to Assignments `referral-committee`
- **2015-04-29** Assigned to Criminal Law `referral-committee`
- **2015-05-13** Do Pass Criminal Law; 008-000-000 `committee-passage`
- **2015-05-13** Placed on Calendar Order of 2nd Reading May 14, 2015
- **2015-05-18** Second Reading `reading-2`
- **2015-05-18** Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading May 19, 2015
- **2015-05-20** Third Reading - Passed; 051-000-000 `reading-3, passage`
- **2015-05-20** Passed Both Houses
- **2015-06-18** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2015-08-04** Governor Approved `executive-signature`
- **2015-08-04** Effective Date January 1, 2016
- **2015-08-04** Public Act . . . . . . . . . 99-0259 `became-law`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/da3b01d0-6533-4981-b229-57b065220468`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Illinois legislature records).