# Illinois HB0871: STATE GOVERNMENT-TECH Illinois HB0871, STATE GOVERNMENT-TECH, is a 104th General Assembly (2025–2026) House bill sponsored by no sponsor on record; status signed, last action 2025-08-15 (Public Act . . . . . . . . . 104-0165); PRIA reads it as touching household money (as of 2026-11-01). - Canonical: https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/IL-HB0871-2025-2026 - As of: 2026-11-01 - Plain-text twin of the page above; the HTML and this file carry the same facts. ## Facts - Bill: Illinois HB0871 - State: Illinois - Session: 104th General Assembly (2025–2026) - Title: STATE GOVERNMENT-TECH - Status: signed - Chamber: House - Introduced: 2024-12-17 - Last action: 2025-08-15, Public Act . . . . . . . . . 104-0165 - Sponsors: no sponsor on record - Cosponsors: 17 - Subjects: executive, adoption & child welfare, assignments, child welfare - Touches household money: yes - Roll calls: 6 (308 yes, 3 no in all) - Economic provisions PRIA read: 9 ## Summary Amends the Attorney General Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title. ## Bill overview: provisions PRIA read - Continued help for eligible former foster youth: benefit, medium. Illinois must provide or authorize services helping eligible youth become self-supporting adults, with their consent. Youth must qualify for reinstatement of court wardship under the Juvenile Court Act, even without seeking or obtaining reinstatement. Services end at age 21, when consent is withdra… - Stronger appeal rights for foster families: benefit, medium. Youth placed by private child welfare agencies and their caregivers get the same procedural and appeal rights as state placements. Private-agency complaints start with agency review; Illinois child welfare officials must then accept covered complaints for administrative review. Appeals over placeme… - Easier adoption and guardianship for relatives: benefit, medium. Beginning July 1, 2025, Illinois must remove adoption and guardianship assistance requirements that go beyond federal requirements. Certified relative caregiver homes must have access to adoption or subsidized guardianship when children cannot safely return to their parents. The child welfare agenc… - Higher payment floors for relative caregivers: benefit, medium. Beginning July 1, 2025, certified relative caregiver homes qualify for at least 100% of licensed foster homes' maintenance payments. Payments cover care from the time of placement. Other relative homes caring for children placed by Illinois child welfare officials qualify for at least 90%. The 90%… - More help for emergency relative placements: benefit, medium. Illinois child welfare officials must work to secure goods, safety changes, or services when resource shortages mainly block emergency relative placements. Rules defining required efforts and support were due July 1, 2025, along with rules for a relative support program. That program may prepay or… - More support for adoptive and guardian families: benefit, medium. Illinois must maintain accessible adoption and subsidized guardianship support services for eligible children under 18. Children must have been in state child welfare custody or guardianship under Article II immediately before adoption or guardianship. A toll-free line must respond within one busin… - Residential providers must report children's care capacity: benefit, low. Illinois child welfare officials must set rules requiring covered licensed residential providers to report capacity, staffing, and occupancy data. Covered providers contract with or receive payment from state human services, juvenile justice, or health coverage agencies. Their covered services addr… - Correctional placements face a coverage exception: cost, low. The law excludes children subject to placement in a covered correctional facility from subsection (m-1). The exclusion does not apply when both conditions hold: prior Illinois child welfare care and a court order for secure care. The supplied text does not explain subsection (m-1), so no specific l… - Child placement safeguards limit caregiver approvals: mixed, low. Background checks protect children but block foster or adoptive approval for specified felonies, including violent crimes such as human and sex trafficking. Certified relative homes also face felony bars for child abuse or neglect, spousal abuse, crimes against children, and violence. Violent-crime… ## Sponsors and cosponsors - Cosponsor: Amy Briel (Democratic), House - Cosponsor: Dagmara Avelar (Democratic), House - Cosponsor: Diane Blair-Sherlock (Democratic), House - Cosponsor: Gregg Johnson (Democratic), House - Cosponsor: Harry Benton (Democratic), House - Cosponsor: Jason R. Bunting (Republican), House - Cosponsor: Julie A. Morrison (Democratic), Senate - Cosponsor: Li Arellano, Jr. (Republican), Senate - Cosponsor: Lisa Davis (Democratic), House - Cosponsor: Martha Deuter (Democratic), House - Cosponsor: Matt Hanson (Democratic), House - Cosponsor: Patrick Sheehan (Republican), House - Cosponsor: Sharon Chung (Democratic), House - Cosponsor: Stephanie A. Kifowit (Democratic), House - Cosponsor: Sue Scherer (Democratic), House - Cosponsor: Suzy Glowiak Hilton (Democratic), Senate - Cosponsor: Tom Weber (Republican), House ## Roll call votes | Date | Chamber | Motion | Result | Yes | No | Other | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 2025-05-30 | House | Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 House Concurs | pass | 115 | 0 | | | 2025-05-29 | House | Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 Motion to Concur Recommends Be Adopted Adoption & Child Welfare Committee; | pass | 8 | 0 | | | 2025-05-21 | Senate | Third Reading - Passed; | pass | 58 | 0 | | | 2025-05-14 | Senate | Do Pass as Amended Child Welfare; | pass | 7 | 0 | | | 2025-04-10 | House | Third Reading - Short Debate - Passed | pass | 112 | 0 | | | 2025-03-18 | House | Do Pass as Amended / Short Debate Adoption & Child Welfare Committee; | pass | 8 | 3 | | ## Actions (64) - 2025-08-15: Public Act . . . . . . . . . 104-0165 (House) - 2025-08-15: Effective Date August 15, 2025 (House) - 2025-08-15: Governor Approved (House) - 2025-06-24: Sent to the Governor (House) - 2025-05-30: Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Jason R. Bunting (House) - 2025-05-30: Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Patrick Sheehan (House) - 2025-05-30: Passed Both Houses (House) - 2025-05-30: House Concurs (House) - 2025-05-30: Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 House Concurs 115-000-000 (House) - 2025-05-30: Added Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Sue Scherer (House) - 2025-05-30: Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Lisa Davis (House) - 2025-05-30: Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Diane Blair-Sherlock (House) - 2025-05-30: Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Martha Deuter (House) - 2025-05-30: Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Gregg Johnson (House) - 2025-05-30: Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Dagmara Avelar (House) - 2025-05-30: Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Harry Benton (House) - 2025-05-30: Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Sharon Chung (House) - 2025-05-30: Added Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Stephanie A. Kifowit (House) - 2025-05-29: Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 Motion to Concur Recommends Be Adopted Adoption & Child Welfare Committee; 008-000-000 (House) - 2025-05-28: Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 Motion to Concur Rules Referred to Adoption & Child Welfare Committee (House) - 2025-05-21: Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 Motion to Concur Referred to Rules Committee (House) - 2025-05-21: Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 Motion Filed Concur Rep. Amy Briel (House) - 2025-05-21: Placed on Calendar Order of Concurrence Senate Amendment(s) 1 (House) - 2025-05-21: Arrived in House (House) - 2025-05-21: Added as Alternate Co-Sponsor Sen. Julie A. Morrison (Senate) - 2025-05-21: Third Reading - Passed; 058-000-000 (Senate) - 2025-05-21: Added as Alternate Co-Sponsor Sen. Li Arellano, Jr. (Senate) - 2025-05-15: Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading May 20, 2025 (Senate) - 2025-05-15: Second Reading (Senate) - 2025-05-14: Placed on Calendar Order of 2nd Reading May 15, 2025 (Senate) - 2025-05-14: Do Pass as Amended Child Welfare; 007-000-000 (Senate) - 2025-05-13: Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 Adopted (Senate) - 2025-05-13: Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 Assignments Refers to Child Welfare (Senate) - 2025-05-12: Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 Referred to Assignments (Senate) - 2025-05-12: Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 Filed with Secretary by Sen. Suzy Glowiak Hilton (Senate) - 2025-05-09: Rule 2-10 Committee Deadline Established As May 23, 2025 (Senate) - 2025-05-06: Postponed - Child Welfare (Senate) - 2025-04-29: Alternate Chief Sponsor Changed to Sen. Suzy Glowiak Hilton (Senate) - 2025-04-29: Assigned to Child Welfare (Senate) - 2025-04-14: Referred to Assignments (Senate) - 2025-04-14: First Reading (Senate) - 2025-04-14: Chief Senate Sponsor Sen. Don Harmon (Senate) - 2025-04-14: Placed on Calendar Order of First Reading (Senate) - 2025-04-14: Arrive in Senate (Senate) - 2025-04-10: Removed Co-Sponsor Rep. Stephanie A. Kifowit (House) - 2025-04-10: Third Reading - Short Debate - Passed 112-000-000 (House) - 2025-04-10: Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading - Short Debate (House) - 2025-04-10: Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Stephanie A. Kifowit (House) - 2025-04-10: Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Matt Hanson (House) - 2025-03-26: Held on Calendar Order of Second Reading - Short Debate (House) - 2025-03-26: Second Reading - Short Debate (House) - 2025-03-19: Added Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Tom Weber (House) - 2025-03-19: Placed on Calendar 2nd Reading - Short Debate (House) - 2025-03-18: Chief Sponsor Changed to Rep. Amy Briel (House) - 2025-03-18: Do Pass as Amended / Short Debate Adoption & Child Welfare Committee; 008-003-000 (House) - 2025-03-18: House Committee Amendment No. 1 Adopted in Adoption & Child Welfare Committee; by Voice Vote (House) - 2025-03-11: House Committee Amendment No. 1 Rules Refers to Adoption & Child Welfare Committee (House) - 2025-03-11: Re-assigned to Adoption & Child Welfare Committee (House) - 2025-03-05: House Committee Amendment No. 1 Referred to Rules Committee (House) - 2025-03-05: House Committee Amendment No. 1 Filed with Clerk by Rep. Amy Briel (House) - 2025-03-04: Assigned to Executive Committee (House) - 2025-01-09: Referred to Rules Committee (House) - 2025-01-09: First Reading (House) - 2024-12-17: Prefiled with Clerk by Rep. Emanuel "Chris" Welch (House) ## Bill text - Engrossed: [PDF](https://www.ilga.gov/documents/legislation/104/HB/PDF/10400HB0871eng.pdf) - Enrolled: [PDF](https://www.ilga.gov/documents/legislation/104/HB/PDF/10400HB0871enr.pdf) - House Amendment 1: [PDF](https://www.ilga.gov/documents/legislation/104/HB/PDF/10400HB0871ham001.pdf) - Introduced: [PDF](https://www.ilga.gov/documents/legislation/104/HB/PDF/10400HB0871.pdf) - Senate Amendment 1: [PDF](https://www.ilga.gov/documents/legislation/104/HB/PDF/10400HB0871sam001.pdf) ## Related bills - HB5198: AFFORDABLE HOUSING-CILAS (passed house) - SB1937: PENSION CODE-VARIOUS (passed senate) - HB2563: CONDO-RESERVE STUDY (in committee) - HB4701: LIMITATIONS FACILITY FEES ACT (in committee) - SB3008: DHS-ABLE PROGRAM INFO MATERIAL (passed senate) - SB3484: VEH CD-PLATES-REGISTRATION (signed) ## Sources - [Engrossed (PDF)](https://www.ilga.gov/documents/legislation/104/HB/PDF/10400HB0871eng.pdf) - [Enrolled (PDF)](https://www.ilga.gov/documents/legislation/104/HB/PDF/10400HB0871enr.pdf) - [House Amendment 1 (PDF)](https://www.ilga.gov/documents/legislation/104/HB/PDF/10400HB0871ham001.pdf) - [Introduced (PDF)](https://www.ilga.gov/documents/legislation/104/HB/PDF/10400HB0871.pdf) - [Senate Amendment 1 (PDF)](https://www.ilga.gov/documents/legislation/104/HB/PDF/10400HB0871sam001.pdf) ## Related - [HB5198: AFFORDABLE HOUSING-CILAS](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/IL-HB5198-2025-2026) - [SB1937: PENSION CODE-VARIOUS](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/IL-SB1937-2025-2026) - [HB2563: CONDO-RESERVE STUDY](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/IL-HB2563-2025-2026) - [HB4701: LIMITATIONS FACILITY FEES ACT](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/IL-HB4701-2025-2026) - [SB3008: DHS-ABLE PROGRAM INFO MATERIAL](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/IL-SB3008-2025-2026) - [SB3484: VEH CD-PLATES-REGISTRATION](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/IL-SB3484-2025-2026) - [Illinois bills](https://policyrisk.com/states/illinois/bills) - [Illinois state hub](https://policyrisk.com/states/illinois) - [All state legislation](https://policyrisk.com/state-bills) Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/IL-HB0871-2025-2026 (as of 2026-11-01).