The General Assembly offers the public a free service to track legislation and new public acts called My Legislation. See our quick guide to Using My Legislation below to get started.
This service can also be used to discover new public acts affecting your practice area. You can search by limiting your query to bills that have passed both chambers and find all of the amendments to the Motor Vehicle Code, Code of Criminal Procedure, Probate Act, Juvenile Court Act, etc.
David P. Eldridge, Legislative Counsel
Illinois State Bar Association
Using My Legislation
You can find My Legislation by clicking “log in” on the blue navigation menu at top of the General Assembly website.
Note: Your web browser must allow pop-ups for the General Assembly website for My Legislation to work.
You will need to set up an account to use My Legislation for the first time. If you need help, you can watch a video or view the Register Guide.
- Once signed in, hover over the “accounts” tab
- Once you are registered sign in.
To add bills to your My Legislation look to the right hand side of the screen.
- Click on “My Legislation Menu” dropdown menu.
- Select “Add Bills” from “My Legislation Menu” dropdown menu.
- Supply a Name in the “My Bills’ Title”. I would name it the topic of your bills (i.e., Business Advice and Financial Planning). Next time you log in to add bills click on “My Bills’ Title” and Business Advice and Financial Planning should be there already.
- Leave the Session set to Regular Session.
- Legislation Type change to House Bill or Senate Bill.
- Enter numbers (i.e. 5,8,10,15,20. No spaces, just commas between numbers. If you have a range of numbers (i.e. 1 to 100 you can use Enter number range).
- If you have a comment that you want added to every bill, you can type it in Apply Comment to Added Items.
- Hit Save.
To edit your saved bill list report, click on “My Legislation Menu”. Find the name of the report you wish to edit, then, under “Actions” click on the “edit” icon between the “view” and “delete” icons.
- To add comments to a bill, click on the Comments icon next to the bill. Click on the “Close” button and then the “Save” button.
- On this page you can delete your file, copy marked bills to another file and move bills to another file.
To view your saved bill list report, click on “My Legislation Menu”. Find the report, under “Actions” click on the “view” icon.
- Once you click on the “view” icon, the page that appears is the bill number and the status of each bill. From this page you can click on Options and create a detailed report of your bills.