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Bill	MH/DD RECORD DISCLOSURE-SCOPE	Amends the Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Confidentiality Act. Provides that unless otherwise expressly provided for in the Act, records and communications made or created in the course of providing mental health or developmental disabilities services shall be protected from disclosure regardless of whether the records and communications are made or created in the course of a therapeutic relationship.	us/states/il	Illinois General Assembly	99th	SB 818	Illinois SB 818 (99th)	bill		enacted		3	33	2	2015-02-05	2015-07-10	openstates	ocd-bill/df46d43a-0f65-4bae-a8df-c6026f9c4a7b	http://ilga.gov/legislation/BillStatus.asp?DocNum=818&GAID=13&DocTypeID=SB&LegId=86160&SessionID=88&GA=99	96363ae324ab54d740b7e227afdecbfd15a0c9bdce71dd9dcd5476fd1a416f59	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-il

Illinois SB 818 (99th) — MH/DD RECORD DISCLOSURE-SCOPE

Amends the Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Confidentiality Act. Provides that unless otherwise expressly provided for in the Act, records and communications made or created in the course of providing mental health or developmental disabilities services shall be protected from disclosure regardless of whether the records and communications are made or created in the course of a therapeutic relationship.

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 — 111–0 (pass) · lower
• Third Reading — 53–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Chris Nybo — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2015-02-05 Filed with Secretary by Sen. Chris Nybo filing
• 2015-02-05 First Reading reading-1
• 2015-02-05 Referred to Assignments referral-committee
• 2015-02-17 Assigned to Judiciary referral-committee
• 2015-03-03 Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Thomas Cullerton
• 2015-03-10 Added as Chief Co-Sponsor Sen. Pamela J. Althoff
• 2015-03-10 Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 Filed with Secretary by Sen. Chris Nybo amendment-introduction
• 2015-03-10 Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 Referred to Assignments referral-committee
• 2015-03-11 Postponed - Judiciary
• 2015-03-17 Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 Assignments Refers to Judiciary
• 2015-03-17 Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 Adopted amendment-passage
• 2015-03-18 Do Pass as Amended Judiciary; 009-000-000 committee-passage
• 2015-03-18 Placed on Calendar Order of 2nd Reading March 19, 2015
• 2015-03-19 Second Reading reading-2
• 2015-03-19 Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading March 24, 2015
• 2015-03-26 Third Reading - Passed; 053-000-000 reading-3, passage
• 2015-03-27 Arrived in House introduction
• 2015-03-27 Chief House Sponsor Rep. Will Guzzardi
• 2015-04-14 First Reading reading-1
• 2015-04-14 Referred to Rules Committee referral-committee
• 2015-04-20 Assigned to Judiciary - Civil Committee referral-committee
• 2015-04-28 Do Pass / Short Debate Judiciary - Civil Committee; 011-000-000 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
• 2015-05-07 Third Reading - Short Debate - Passed 111-000-000 reading-3, passage
• 2015-05-07 Added Alternate Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Carol Ammons
• 2015-05-07 Added Alternate Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Robert Martwick
• 2015-05-07 Passed Both Houses
• 2015-06-05 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2015-07-10 Governor Approved executive-signature
• 2015-07-10 Effective Date January 1, 2016
• 2015-07-10 Public Act . . . . . . . . . 99-0028 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/df46d43a-0f65-4bae-a8df-c6026f9c4a7b. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Illinois legislature records).