republic-os/legislation/us/states/il/99th/sb-689.md

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Bill	PHARMACY&CONT SUB-NURSE	Amends the Pharmacy Practice Act. Provides that a patient's agent for picking up prescription orders from the prescriber or delivering prescription drugs to a patient includes an advanced practice nurse, practical nurse, or registered nurse licensed under the Nurse Practice Act who provides hospice services to a hospice patient or who provides home health services to a person. Amends the Illinois Controlled Substances Act. Provides that an advanced practice nurse, practical nurse, or registered nurse licensed under the Nurse Practice Act who provides hospice services to a hospice patient or who provides home health services to a person may lawfully possess controlled substances prescribed for the patient under a lawful prescription of a practitioner.	us/states/il	Illinois General Assembly	99th	SB 689	Illinois SB 689 (99th)	bill		enacted		3	35	2	2015-02-03	2015-07-28	openstates	ocd-bill/1dc73e76-9831-4e88-85f3-552c5eaa3c6c	http://ilga.gov/legislation/BillStatus.asp?DocNum=689&GAID=13&DocTypeID=SB&LegId=84930&SessionID=88&GA=99	e5be814d128b0138602e48b8c00dcd6ce266a96b325275a8ab9c519245578f1d	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-il

Illinois SB 689 (99th) — PHARMACY&CONT SUB-NURSE

Amends the Pharmacy Practice Act. Provides that a patient's agent for picking up prescription orders from the prescriber or delivering prescription drugs to a patient includes an advanced practice nurse, practical nurse, or registered nurse licensed under the Nurse Practice Act who provides hospice services to a hospice patient or who provides home health services to a person. Amends the Illinois Controlled Substances Act. Provides that an advanced practice nurse, practical nurse, or registered nurse licensed under the Nurse Practice Act who provides hospice services to a hospice patient or who provides home health services to a person may lawfully possess controlled substances prescribed for the patient under a lawful prescription of a practitioner.

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 — 52–0 (pass) · upper
• Third Reading — 110–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Matt Murphy — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2015-02-03 Filed with Secretary by Sen. Matt Murphy filing
• 2015-02-03 First Reading reading-1
• 2015-02-03 Referred to Assignments referral-committee
• 2015-02-11 Assigned to Criminal Law referral-committee
• 2015-02-18 Do Pass Criminal Law; 011-000-000 committee-passage
• 2015-02-18 Placed on Calendar Order of 2nd Reading February 19, 2015
• 2015-03-04 Senate Floor Amendment No. 1 Filed with Secretary by Sen. Matt Murphy amendment-introduction
• 2015-03-04 Senate Floor Amendment No. 1 Referred to Assignments referral-committee
• 2015-03-10 Senate Floor Amendment No. 1 Assignments Refers to Criminal Law
• 2015-03-11 Senate Floor Amendment No. 1 Postponed - Criminal Law
• 2015-03-11 Added as Chief Co-Sponsor Sen. Pamela J. Althoff
• 2015-03-18 Senate Floor Amendment No. 1 Recommend Do Adopt Criminal Law; 009-000-000
• 2015-03-18 Second Reading reading-2
• 2015-03-18 Senate Floor Amendment No. 1 Adopted; Murphy amendment-passage
• 2015-03-18 Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading March 19, 2015
• 2015-03-18 Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Gary Forby
• 2015-03-26 Third Reading - Passed; 052-000-000 reading-3, passage
• 2015-03-27 Arrived in House introduction
• 2015-03-30 Chief House Sponsor Rep. Grant Wehrli
• 2015-04-14 First Reading reading-1
• 2015-04-14 Referred to Rules Committee referral-committee
• 2015-04-20 Assigned to Health Care Licenses Committee referral-committee
• 2015-04-23 Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Julie A. Morrison
• 2015-04-23 Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. David Koehler
• 2015-04-29 Do Pass / Short Debate Health Care Licenses Committee; 010-000-000 committee-passage
• 2015-04-29 Placed on Calendar 2nd Reading - Short Debate
• 2015-05-06 Second Reading - Short Debate reading-2
• 2015-05-06 Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading - Short Debate
• 2015-05-06 Added Alternate Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Frances Ann Hurley
• 2015-05-07 Third Reading - Short Debate - Passed 110-000-001 reading-3, passage
• 2015-05-07 Passed Both Houses
• 2015-06-05 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2015-07-28 Governor Approved executive-signature
• 2015-07-28 Effective Date January 1, 2016
• 2015-07-28 Public Act . . . . . . . . . 99-0163 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/1dc73e76-9831-4e88-85f3-552c5eaa3c6c. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Illinois legislature records).