Bill Text: IL HB4485 | 2025-2026 | 104th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Provides that each applicant for issuance or renewal of a driver's license or identification card who is 16 years of age or older shall have his or her name included in the First Person Consent organ and tissue donor registry. Requires the Secretary of State to offer, to each applicant for issuance or renewal of a driver's license or identification card who is 16 years of age or older, the opportunity to have his or her name removed from (rather than included in) the First Person Consent organ and tissue donor registry. Makes conforming changes. Effective immediately.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2026-03-27 - Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB4485 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2025-HB4485-Introduced.html

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104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2025 and 2026HB4485 Introduced , by Rep. Travis Weaver SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
625 ILCS 5/6-117 from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 6-117
Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Provides that each applicant for issuance or renewal of a driver's license or identification card who is 16 years of age or older shall have his or her name included in the First Person Consent organ and tissue donor registry. Requires the Secretary of State to offer, to each applicant for issuance or renewal of a driver's license or identification card who is 16 years of age or older, the opportunity to have his or her name removed from (rather than included in) the First Person Consent organ and tissue donor registry. Makes conforming changes. Effective immediately.
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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 6-117 as follows:
(625 ILCS 5/6-117) (from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 6-117)
Sec. 6-117. Records to be kept by the Secretary of State.
(a) The Secretary of State shall file every application
for a license or permit accepted under this Chapter, and shall
maintain suitable indexes thereof. The records of the
Secretary of State shall indicate the action taken with
respect to such applications.
(b) The Secretary of State shall maintain appropriate
records of all licenses and permits refused, cancelled,
disqualified, revoked, or suspended and of the revocation,
suspension, and disqualification of driving privileges of
persons not licensed under this Chapter, and such records
shall note the reasons for such action.
(c) The Secretary of State shall maintain appropriate
records of convictions reported under this Chapter. Records of
conviction may be maintained in a computer processible medium.
(d) The Secretary of State may also maintain appropriate
records of any crash reports received.

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(e) The Secretary of State shall also maintain appropriate
records of any disposition of supervision or records relative
to a driver's referral to a driver remedial or rehabilitative
program, as required by the Secretary of State or the courts.
Such records shall only be available for use by the Secretary,
the driver licensing administrator of any other state, law
enforcement agencies, the courts, and the affected driver or,
upon proper verification, such affected driver's attorney.
(f) The Secretary of State shall also maintain or contract
to maintain appropriate records of all photographs and
signatures obtained in the process of issuing any driver's
license, permit, or identification card. The record shall be
confidential and shall not be disclosed except to those
entities listed under Section 6-110.1 of this Code.
(g) The Secretary of State may establish a First Person
Consent organ and tissue donor registry in compliance with
subsection (b-1) of Section 5-20 of the Illinois Anatomical
Gift Act, as follows:
(1) Each applicant for issuance or renewal of a
driver's license or identification card who is 16 years of
age or older shall have his or her name included in the
First Person Consent organ and tissue donor registry. The
Secretary shall offer, to each applicant for issuance or
renewal of a driver's license or identification card who
is 16 years of age or older, the opportunity to have his or
her name removed from included in the First Person Consent

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organ and tissue donor registry. The Secretary must advise
the applicant or licensee that he or she is under no
compulsion to have his or her name included in the
registry. An individual who agrees to having his or her
name remain on included in the First Person Consent organ
and tissue donor registry has given full legal consent to
the donation of any of his or her organs or tissue upon his
or her death. A brochure explaining this method of
executing an anatomical gift must be given to each
applicant for issuance or renewal of a driver's license or
identification card. The brochure must advise the
applicant or licensee (i) that he or she is under no
compulsion to have his or her name included in this
registry and (ii) that he or she may wish to consult with
family, friends, or clergy before doing so.
(2) The Secretary of State may establish additional
methods by which an individual may have his or her name
included in or removed from the First Person Consent organ
and tissue donor registry.
(3) When an individual has agreed to have his or her
name included in the First Person Consent organ and tissue
donor registry, the Secretary of State shall note that
agreement in the First Person consent organ and tissue
donor registry. Representatives of federally designated
organ procurement agencies and tissue banks and the
offices of Illinois county coroners and medical examiners

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may inquire of the Secretary of State whether a potential
organ donor's name is included in the First Person Consent
organ and tissue donor registry, and the Secretary of
State may provide that information to the representative.
(4) An individual may withdraw his or her consent to
be listed in the First Person Consent organ and tissue
donor registry maintained by the Secretary of State by
notifying the Secretary of State in writing, or by any
other means approved by the Secretary, of the individual's
decision to have his or her name removed from the
registry.
(5) The Secretary of State may undertake additional
efforts, including education and awareness activities, to
promote organ and tissue donation.
(6) In the absence of gross negligence or willful
misconduct, the Secretary of State and his or her
employees are immune from any civil or criminal liability
in connection with an individual's consent to be listed in
the organ and tissue donor registry.
(h) The Secretary of State may destroy a driving record
created 20 or more years ago for a person who was convicted of
an offense and who did not have an Illinois driver's license if
the record no longer contains any convictions or withdrawal of
driving privileges due to the convictions.
(Source: P.A. 104-260, eff. 8-15-25.)
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon

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becoming law.