Illinois Senate Bill 1756 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: Failed on January 9 2019 - 100% progression
Action: 2019-01-09 - Session Sine Die
Text: Latest bill text (Engrossed) [HTML]

Amends the Flag Display Act. Provides that in lieu of notice being provided by the Department of Veterans' Affairs, any other State or federal entity, agency, or person holding such information may notify the Governor of the death by hostile fire of an Illinois resident member of the United States armed forces. Provides that if such notice is provided to the Governor by an entity, agency, or person other than the Department of Veterans' Affairs, then the obligation to notify the Governor of an Illinois resident soldier's death shall be considered fulfilled.

FLAG DISPLAY-GOVERNOR NOTICE

Sen. Paul Schimpf [R]

Rep. Lindsay Parkhurst [R]

2017-04-27 - Senate - Third Reading in Senate (Y: 55 N: 0 NV: 4 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2019-01-09	Senate	Session Sine Die
2017-04-27	House	Referred to Rules Committee
2017-04-27	House	First Reading
2017-04-27	House	Chief House Sponsor Rep. Lindsay Parkhurst
2017-04-27	House	Arrived in House
2017-04-27	Senate	Third Reading - Passed; 055-000-000
2017-04-06	Senate	Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading April 25, 2017
2017-04-06	Senate	Second Reading
2017-03-08	Senate	Placed on Calendar Order of 2nd Reading March 9, 2017
2017-03-08	Senate	Do Pass Veterans Affairs; 008-000-000
2017-02-28	Senate	Assigned to Veterans Affairs
2017-02-09	Senate	Referred to Assignments
2017-02-09	Senate	First Reading
2017-02-09	Senate	Filed with Secretary by Sen. Paul Schimpf

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
5	465	10	Amended Code	Citation Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/BillStatus.asp?DocNum=1756&GAID=14&DocTypeID=SB&SessionID=91&GA=100
Text	https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/100/SB/10000SB1756.htm
Text	https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/100/SB/10000SB1756eng.htm
Roll Call	https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/votehistory/100/senate/10000SB1756_04272017_034000T.pdf