Illinois General Assembly - Bill Status for HB 536

Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Provides that the prohibition against tinted windshields and tinted side windows does not apply to vehicles owned and operated by persons afflicted with or suffering from a medical illness, ailment, or disease requiring that person to be shielded from the direct rays of the sun, including but not limited to systemic or discoid lupus erythematosus, disseminated superficial actinic porokeratosis, or albinism, or to vehicles used in transporting a person who lives at the same address as the registered owner and is afflicted with or suffers from such an illness, ailment, or disease, regardless of the date on which the tinted windows were installed or the tinting was applied. Deletes language providing that the exemption does not apply after January 1, 2008. Deletes language providing that a permanent exemption applies only to vehicles owned and operated by or used in transporting persons afflicted with or suffering from systemic or discoid lupus erythematosus or albinism. Provides that the Secretary of State shall issue distinctive registration plates or plate stickers for the exempted vehicles (as well as for vehicles owned and operated by, or used in transporting, persons afflicted with or suffering from systemic or discoid lupus erythematosus or albinism). Provides that the Secretary shall issue the plates immediately upon receiving a physician's certification that an applicant qualifies for the plates. Effective immediately.

Provides that the owner of the vehicle is responsible for obtaining the certification from a physician indicating that the owner or another person being transported in the vehicle has a condition that qualifies for the exemption. Provides that the owner is responsible for submitting a copy of the certification to the Secretary of State.

Date	Chamber	Action
8/16/2007	House	Public Act . . . . . . . . . 95-0202

Date	Chamber	Action
1/31/2007	House	Filed with the Clerk by Rep. David R. Leitch
2/1/2007	House	First Reading
2/1/2007	House	Referred to Rules Committee
2/6/2007	House	Added Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Sidney H. Mathias
2/7/2007	House	Assigned to Executive Committee
2/28/2007	House	Re-assigned to Disability Services Committee
3/7/2007	House	House Amendment No. 1 Filed with Clerk by Disability Services Committee
3/7/2007	House	House Amendment No. 1 Adopted in Disability Services Committee; by Voice Vote
3/7/2007	House	Do Pass as Amended / Short Debate Disability Services Committee; 008-000-000
3/8/2007	House	Placed on Calendar 2nd Reading - Short Debate
3/13/2007	House	Second Reading - Short Debate
3/13/2007	House	Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading - Short Debate
3/20/2007	House	Added Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Michael Tryon
3/20/2007	House	Third Reading - Short Debate - Passed 111-005-000
3/20/2007	Senate	Arrive in Senate
3/20/2007	Senate	Placed on Calendar Order of First Reading March 21, 2007
3/21/2007	Senate	Chief Senate Sponsor Sen. Dale E. Risinger
3/21/2007	Senate	Added as Alternate Chief Co-Sponsor Sen. Randall M. Hultgren
3/22/2007	Senate	First Reading
3/22/2007	Senate	Referred to Rules
3/30/2007	Senate	Assigned to Transportation
4/25/2007	Senate	Postponed - Transportation
5/1/2007	Senate	Alternate Chief Sponsor Changed to Sen. David Koehler
5/7/2007	Senate	Added as Alternate Chief Co-Sponsor Sen. Michael Noland
5/8/2007	Senate	Added as Alternate Chief Co-Sponsor Sen. Dale E. Risinger
5/15/2007	Senate	Do Pass Transportation; 008-000-000
5/15/2007	Senate	Placed on Calendar Order of 2nd Reading May 16, 2007
5/15/2007	Senate	Second Reading
5/15/2007	Senate	Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading May 16, 2007
5/16/2007	Senate	Added as Alternate Chief Co-Sponsor Sen. John O. Jones
5/22/2007	Senate	Third Reading - Passed; 057-000-000
5/22/2007	House	Passed Both Houses
6/20/2007	House	Sent to the Governor
8/16/2007	House	Governor Approved
8/16/2007	House	Effective Date August 16, 2007
8/16/2007	House	Public Act . . . . . . . . . 95-0202