Verification record
How current is Illinois’s pharmacy staffing rule, and how does RxShift know?
Last verified 2026-10-05. Read from the issuing body's own page and recorded on the date above; the weekly re-check is not yet set up for this state, so it rests on its dated read.
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Passages captured from the issuing body
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Official sources
ilga.gov
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Dated reads on file
captures taken 2026-10-05
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Automatic re-checks
newest 2026-10-19
The rule on file
225 ILCS 85/15.1. No pharmacist-to-technician ratio. Instead a working-conditions law: a pharmacy may not require a pharmacist, student pharmacist, or technician to work more than 12 continuous hours in a day including breaks, and a pharmacist working 6 or more hours must be allowed a 30-minute meal break plus a 15-minute break (one more 15-minute break at 12 hours). The pharmacy may stay open during the break.
That is the sentence the Illinois page states. The passages below are what the issuing body served when RxShift read it, kept as a dated record so a pharmacy and its counsel can check the sentence against the source. How a rule is read is decided by people and recorded with its date; no automated check can change a reading. RxShift reports deficiencies against this reading; it does not certify compliance, and nothing here is legal advice.
The recorded passages
Recorded word for word on the read of 2026-10-05. Each week an automated re-check opens every official source named here and confirms each passage is still on the page as served; the mark on each passage is what the newest re-check (2026-10-19) found.
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The record on file for Illinois holds no passage the automated re-check can match word for word, so this state rests on its dated read of the issuing body’s own page. A matchable record is added on the next full read.
Every read and every re-check, newest first
A dated read is RxShift reading the issuing body’s text and recording it in a dated report; its public note is repeated here word for word from the updates log. A re-check is the weekly automated comparison of the recorded passages against the live page. People decide every reading; a re-check never changes one. Illinois's issuing body does not allow automated re-checks, so this state rests on its dated reads.
2026-10-19
Re-check: nothing to match
The record on file holds no passage the automated re-check can match against the issuing body's page, so this state rests on its dated read.
2026-10-19
Currency screen
A check for any amendment, repeal or proposal since the last full read.
No change found to Illinois pharmacy hours or staffing rules as of October 19, 2026: Illinois sets no pharmacist-to-technician ratio, and 225 ILCS 85/15.1 still limits a pharmacist, student pharmacist or pharmacy technician to 12 continuous hours a day including breaks, with a 30-minute meal break and a 15-minute break for a pharmacist working 6 continuous hours or more and another 15 minutes at 12 hours. The state's pharmacy regulator lists no proposed change to its pharmacy rules.
Confidence recorded: medium. This entry on the updates log
2026-10-16
Re-check: nothing to match
The record on file holds no passage the automated re-check can match against the issuing body's page, so this state rests on its dated read.
2026-10-15
Re-check: nothing to match
The record on file holds no passage the automated re-check can match against the issuing body's page, so this state rests on its dated read.
2026-10-05
Full read
Read in full from the issuing body's own text and recorded word for word.
No change to Illinois pharmacy hours or staffing law as of October 5, 2026. Illinois sets no pharmacist-to-technician ratio, and under 225 ILCS 85/15.1 a pharmacy may not require a pharmacist, student pharmacist or pharmacy technician to work more than 12 continuous hours a day including breaks, while a pharmacist who works 6 continuous hours or more must be allowed a 30-minute meal break and a 15-minute break, with one more 15-minute break at 12 hours. None of the laws passed by the General Assembly in 2025 and 2026 changes these limits.
Confidence recorded: high. This entry on the updates log
2026-09-28
Report
A dated report on file for this state.
No change to Illinois pharmacy hours or staffing law as of September 28, 2026. Illinois still sets no pharmacist-to-technician ratio, and under 225 ILCS 85/15.1 a pharmacy may not require a pharmacist, student pharmacist or pharmacy technician to work more than 12 continuous hours a day including breaks, while a pharmacist who works 6 continuous hours or more must be allowed a 30-minute meal break plus a 15-minute break, with one more 15-minute break at 12 hours. Separately, a 2026 law (Senate Bill 3223, Public Act 104-0530) takes effect January 1, 2027 and requires every Illinois pharmacy to post a sign with a QR code near the counter and drive-up window telling patients how to sign up for FDA medication recall alerts. It does not change hours, breaks or staffing.
Confidence recorded: medium. This entry on the updates log
2026-09-21
Report
A dated report on file for this state.
No change to Illinois law. There is still no pharmacist to technician ratio in Illinois, and under 225 ILCS 85/15.1 a pharmacy still may not require a pharmacist, student pharmacist or pharmacy technician to work more than 12 continuous hours in a day including breaks, while a pharmacist who works 6 continuous hours or more must still be allowed a 30 minute uninterrupted meal break plus a 15 minute break, with one more 15 minute break at 12 hours. HB4243, the only 2026 bill that would have set on site staffing requirements for busy retail pharmacies, never got a floor vote and is now tracked as dead, so nothing new is coming for Illinois pharmacies to prepare for. Two other 2026 amendments to the Pharmacy Practice Act, on pharmacist examination scheduling and on adding a missing device to a prescription, do not change hours, breaks or staffing.
Confidence recorded: medium. This entry on the updates log
2026-09-07
Report
A dated report on file for this state.
No change in Illinois. There is still no pharmacist to technician ratio in Illinois law. Under 225 ILCS 85/15.1 a pharmacy still may not require a pharmacist, student pharmacist or pharmacy technician to work more than 12 continuous hours in a day including breaks, and a pharmacist who works 6 continuous hours or more must still be allowed a 30 minute uninterrupted meal break plus a 15 minute break, with one more 15 minute break at 12 hours. The pharmacy may stay open during that break if the pharmacist stays on the premises and available. The separate requirement to keep a record of pharmacists' daily break periods remains repealed, effective January 1, 2024.
Confidence recorded: high. This entry on the updates log
2026-09-04
Report
A dated report on file for this state.
Illinois does not set a pharmacist to technician ratio. It limits the shift instead: under 225 ILCS 85/15.1 a pharmacy may not require a pharmacist, student pharmacist or pharmacy technician to work more than 12 continuous hours in a day including breaks, and a pharmacist who works 6 continuous hours or more must be allowed a 30 minute uninterrupted meal break plus a 15 minute break, with one more 15 minute break at 12 hours. Two points are often reported incorrectly: the break entitlement in subsection (b) covers pharmacists only, and the separate requirement that a pharmacy keep a record of its pharmacists' daily break periods was repealed effective January 1, 2024.
Confidence recorded: high. This entry on the updates log
What the re-check results mean
- Confirmed: every recorded passage was still on the issuing body’s page as served that day.
- Mismatch: at least one passage was not found. It is reported as it stands, a person looks, and the rows after it show what followed.
- Not allowed: the issuing body’s site does not permit automated reading, so the rule rests on its dated read, by a person where the page can only be opened in a browser.
- Nothing to match, no baseline: the record on file held no passage the re-check can match, or no report yet qualified as its baseline.