Bill Text: IL HB1747 | 2025-2026 | 104th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Requires every applicant for the registration of a motor vehicle to present, at the time of submission of an application for registration, a valid driver's license.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-28 - Referred to Rules Committee [HB1747 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2025-HB1747-Introduced.html

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104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2025 and 2026 HB1747 Introduced , by Rep. Joe C. Sosnowski SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
625 ILCS 5/3-405 from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 3-405
Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Requires every applicant for the registration of a motor vehicle to present, at the time of submission of an application for registration, a valid driver's license.
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning transportation.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Illinois Vehicle Code is amended by
changing Section 3-405 as follows:
(625 ILCS 5/3-405) (from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 3-405)
Sec. 3-405. Application for registration.
(a) Every owner of a vehicle subject to registration under
this Code shall make application to the Secretary of State for
the registration of such vehicle upon the appropriate form or
forms furnished by the Secretary. Every such original
application shall bear the signature of the owner written with
pen and ink and contain:
1. The name, domicile address, as defined in Section
1-115.5 of this Code, (except as otherwise provided in
this paragraph 1), mail address of the owner or business
address of the owner if a firm, association, or
corporation, and, if available, email address of the
owner. If the mailing address is a post office box number,
the address listed on the driver license record may be
used to verify residence. A police officer, a deputy
sheriff, an elected sheriff, a law enforcement officer for
the Illinois State Police, a fire investigator, a state's

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attorney, an assistant state's attorney, a state's
attorney special investigator, or a judicial officer may
elect to furnish the address of the headquarters of the
governmental entity, police district, or business address
where he or she works instead of his or her domicile
address, in which case that address shall be deemed to be
his or her domicile address for all purposes under this
Chapter 3. The spouse and children of a person who may
elect under this paragraph 1 to furnish the address of the
headquarters of the government entity, police district, or
business address where the person works instead of the
person's domicile address may, if they reside with that
person, also elect to furnish the address of the
headquarters of the government entity, police district, or
business address where the person works as their domicile
address, in which case that address shall be deemed to be
their domicile address for all purposes under this Chapter
3. In this paragraph 1: (A) "police officer" has the
meaning ascribed to "policeman" in Section 10-3-1 of the
Illinois Municipal Code; (B) "deputy sheriff" means a
deputy sheriff appointed under Section 3-6008 of the
Counties Code; (C) "elected sheriff" means a sheriff
commissioned pursuant to Section 3-6001 of the Counties
Code; (D) "fire investigator" means a person classified as
a peace officer under the Peace Officer Fire Investigation
Act; (E) "state's attorney", "assistant state's attorney",

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and "state's attorney special investigator" mean a state's
attorney, assistant state's attorney, and state's attorney
special investigator commissioned or appointed under
Division 3-9 of the Counties Code; and (F) "judicial
officer" has the meaning ascribed to it in Section 1-10 of
the Judicial Privacy Act.
2. A description of the vehicle, including such
information as is required in an application for a
certificate of title, determined under such standard
rating as may be prescribed by the Secretary.
3. (Blank).
3.5. A space for a voluntary disclosure of a condition
that impedes effective communication under Section
3-405.5.
4. Such further information as may reasonably be
required by the Secretary to enable him to determine
whether the vehicle is lawfully entitled to registration
and the owner entitled to a certificate of title.
5. An affirmation by the applicant that all
information set forth is true and correct. If the
application is for the registration of a motor vehicle,
the applicant also shall affirm that the motor vehicle is
insured as required by this Code, that such insurance will
be maintained throughout the period for which the motor
vehicle shall be registered, and that neither the owner,
nor any person operating the motor vehicle with the

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