republic-os/legislation/us/states/il/99th/sb-2440.md

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Bill	SCH CD-PRINCIPAL ENDORSEMENT	Amends the Educator Licensure Article of the School Code. Allows for a principal endorsement to be affixed to a Professional Educator License if a person has, among other qualifications, at least 4 total years of experience teaching or 4 total years of experience working in the capacity of school support personnel (instead of at least 4 total years of experience teaching or, until June 30, 2019, working in the capacity of school support personnel). Effective immediately.	us/states/il	Illinois General Assembly	99th	SB 2440	Illinois SB 2440 (99th)	bill		enacted		3	33	2	2016-02-09	2016-07-22	openstates	ocd-bill/6b8761e4-4ae4-41bd-8f10-b7952ce01017	http://ilga.gov/legislation/BillStatus.asp?DocNum=2440&GAID=13&DocTypeID=SB&LegId=94271&SessionID=88&GA=99	019b39d241678b04e3ec545584b416166e89d788d816aa73ef76500411cea855	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-il

Illinois SB 2440 (99th) — SCH CD-PRINCIPAL ENDORSEMENT

Amends the Educator Licensure Article of the School Code. Allows for a principal endorsement to be affixed to a Professional Educator License if a person has, among other qualifications, at least 4 total years of experience teaching or 4 total years of experience working in the capacity of school support personnel (instead of at least 4 total years of experience teaching or, until June 30, 2019, working in the capacity of school support personnel). 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 — 113–0 (pass) · lower
• Third Reading — 53–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Jennifer Bertino-Tarrant — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2016-02-09 Filed with Secretary by Sen. Jennifer Bertino-Tarrant filing
• 2016-02-09 First Reading reading-1
• 2016-02-09 Referred to Assignments referral-committee
• 2016-02-17 Assigned to Education referral-committee
• 2016-03-09 Postponed - Education
• 2016-03-10 Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 Filed with Secretary by Sen. Jennifer Bertino-Tarrant amendment-introduction
• 2016-03-10 Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 Referred to Assignments referral-committee
• 2016-03-10 Added as Chief Co-Sponsor Sen. Patricia Van Pelt
• 2016-03-16 Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 Assignments Refers to Education
• 2016-03-16 Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 Adopted amendment-passage
• 2016-03-16 Do Pass as Amended Education; 014-000-000 committee-passage
• 2016-03-16 Placed on Calendar Order of 2nd Reading March 17, 2016
• 2016-04-19 Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Michael Noland
• 2016-04-19 Second Reading reading-2
• 2016-04-19 Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading April 20, 2016
• 2016-04-20 Third Reading - Passed; 053-000-000 reading-3, passage
• 2016-04-20 Arrived in House introduction
• 2016-04-20 Chief House Sponsor Rep. Fred Crespo
• 2016-04-20 First Reading reading-1
• 2016-04-20 Referred to Rules Committee referral-committee
• 2016-04-26 Assigned to Elementary & Secondary Education: Licensing Oversight referral-committee
• 2016-05-03 Alternate Chief Sponsor Changed to Rep. Robert W. Pritchard
• 2016-05-03 Added Alternate Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Fred Crespo
• 2016-05-04 Do Pass / Short Debate Elementary & Secondary Education: Licensing Oversight; 005-000-000 committee-passage
• 2016-05-04 Placed on Calendar 2nd Reading - Short Debate
• 2016-05-17 Second Reading - Short Debate reading-2
• 2016-05-17 Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading - Short Debate
• 2016-05-19 Third Reading - Short Debate - Passed 113-000-000 reading-3, passage
• 2016-05-19 Passed Both Houses
• 2016-06-17 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2016-07-22 Governor Approved executive-signature
• 2016-07-22 Effective Date July 22, 2016
• 2016-07-22 Public Act . . . . . . . . . 99-0623 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/6b8761e4-4ae4-41bd-8f10-b7952ce01017. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Illinois legislature records).