Illinois Senator David Koehler [D]

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ILHB4838Enroll
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Makes changes concerning the powers and duties of the Illinois State Museum. Repeals a provision which specifies that the Board of the Illinois State Museum is the governing board for the State Museum. Replaces the Board of the Illinois State Museum ...
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2024-05-23
Passed Both Houses
ILSB3762Enroll
75%
Creates the Language Equity and Access Act. Requires the Governor's Office of New Americans, in partnership with the Department of Human Services, to: prepare a Language Needs Assessment Report that identifies the languages spoken throughout the Stat...
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2024-05-23
Added Alternate Co-Sponsor Rep. Carol Ammons
ILSB3479Enroll
75%
Amends provisions of the Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act concerning deceptive practices targeting veterans and military members. Changes the definition of "veteran or military benefits services" to any services offered or provided...
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2024-05-23
Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Rachel Ventura
ILSB3501Enroll
75%
Creates the Responsible Outdoor Lighting Control Act. Includes legislative findings. Defines terms. Provides that all new, renovated, or retrofitted luminaires purchased with State funds after the effective date of the Act or installed after the effe...
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2024-05-23
Passed Both Houses
ILHB3556Engross
50%
Reinserts the provisions of the introduced bill with the following changes. Deletes provisions creating the Black Farmer Restoration Program. Provides that fee title acquisition grants to private landowners, socially disadvantaged farmers, and limite...
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2024-05-22
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB3687Enroll
75%
Amends the Illinois Credit Union Act. Provides that a credit union regulated by the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation that is a covered financial institution under the Illinois Community Reinvestment Act shall pay an examination fee...
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2024-05-22
Passed Both Houses
ILSB2940Intro
25%
Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Provides that a person who is convicted of obscene depiction of a purported child is ineligible to receive a school bus driver permit. Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. Provides that "child pornography" includes the ...
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2024-05-22
Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Omar Aquino
ILSB3509Intro
25%
Amends the Whistleblower Act. Changes the definitions of "employer" and "employee". Defines "adverse employment action", "public body", "retaliatory action", and "supervisor". Provides that an employer may not take retaliatory action against an emplo...
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2024-05-22
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB2781Enroll
75%
Creates the Forests, Wetlands, and Prairies Act. Provides that the Department of Natural Resources shall prepare and maintain a comprehensive Forests, Wetlands, and Prairies Grant plan for the preservation and enhancement of forests, prairies, and we...
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2024-05-22
Added Alternate Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Kimberly Du Buclet
ILSB3203Enroll
75%
Amends the Illinois Insurance Code. Provides that a group or individual policy of accident and health insurance or managed care plan amended, delivered, issued, or renewed on or before December 31, 2025 that provides coverage for prescription drugs m...
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2024-05-22
Added Alternate Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Harry Benton
ILSB0693Enroll
75%
Amends the Illinois Waterway Ports Commission Act. Provides that each chairperson of the Seneca Regional Port District, the Ottawa Port District, the Illinois Valley Regional Port District, the Heart of Illinois Regional Port District, and the Havana...
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2024-05-22
Passed Both Houses
ILSB2697Enroll
75%
Reinserts the provisions of the bill, as amended by Senate Amendment No. 1, with the following changes. Removes language concerning coverage for any cancer risk management strategy, as recommended by a health care professional. Requires, for individu...
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2024-05-22
Added Alternate Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Marcus C. Evans, Jr.
ILSB3237Enroll
75%
Amends the School Construction Law. In provisions concerning grant award amounts and required local matches, provides that the required local match and grant award amount are calculated by multiplying the required local match percentage and the grant...
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2024-05-22
Passed Both Houses
ILSB2743Enroll
75%
Creates the Water Plan Task Force Act. Establishes the State Water Plan Task Force. Provides that the Task Force shall be chaired by the Director of the Office of Water Resources of the Department of Natural Resources and composed of the directors, o...
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2024-05-22
Added Alternate Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Anna Moeller
ILSB0378Engross
50%
Amends the Abused and Neglected Child Reporting Act. Sets forth certain protections that must be provided to the parent or guardian of a child at the center of an abuse or neglect investigation whenever the Department of Children and Family Services ...
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2024-05-22
Added Alternate Co-Sponsor Rep. Amy L. Grant
ILSB3455Enroll
75%
Reinserts the provisions of the introduced bill. Provides that the Department of Revenue may determine the scope of the historical data necessary to complete the study, but in no event shall the scope or time period be less than the 10 most recent ta...
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2024-05-22
Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. David Koehler
ILSB3241Intro
25%
Amends the Department of Natural Resources Act. Makes changes concerning the powers and duties of the Illinois State Museum. Repeals a provision which specifies that the Board of the Illinois State Museum is the governing board for the State Museum. ...
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2024-05-21
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB2637Engross
50%
Amends the Illinois Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act. Provides that, beginning January 1, 2027, a person or entity shall not manufacture, sell, deliver, distribute, hold, or offer for sale a food product for human consumption that contains brominated vege...
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2024-05-21
To House Rules Committee
ILHB4652Engross
50%
Reinserts the contents of the bill as amended by House Amendment No. 1 with the following changes. Amends the Downstate Teacher Article of the Illinois Pension Code. Provides that "salary" includes stipends paid to an eligible cooperating teacher und...
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2024-05-21
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB3436Intro
25%
Amends the Aid to the Aged, Blind or Disabled Article of the Illinois Public Aid Code. Provides that the General Assembly finds it necessary to take measures to increase the amount of cash assistance provided to qualifying Illinoisans under the Aid t...
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2024-05-20
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB3274Intro
25%
Appropriates $2,500,000 from the General Revenue Fund to the Department of Human Services for the Illinois Farm to Food Bank Program. Effective July 1, 2024.
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2024-05-20
To Senate Appropriations - Health and Human Services Committee
ILSB1556Intro
25%
Amends the Environmental Protection Act. Provides that, to the extent allowed by federal law, the Environmental Protection Agency shall propose, within 12 months after the amendatory Act's effective date, and the Pollution Control Board shall adopt, ...
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2024-05-17
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB0078Intro
25%
Amends the Substance Use Disorder Act. Requires the Department of Human Services to (i) establish a new intervention license category entitled "OPS Harm Reduction Services", (ii) establish standards for entities to become licensed under the OPS Harm ...
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2024-05-17
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB3174Enroll
75%
Amends the Illinois Underground Railroad Task Force Act. Requires the Task Force to submit a report of its findings and recommendations to the General Assembly and the Governor on or before December 31, 2024 (rather than July 1, 2024).
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2024-05-17
Passed Both Houses
ILSB3165Enroll
75%
Amends the Statewide Recycling Needs Assessment Act. Requires the competitive solicitation issued by the Environmental Protection Agency for the statewide needs assessment, as well as the contract executed for that purpose by the Agency and the consu...
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2024-05-17
Passed Both Houses
ILSB2209Intro
25%
Amends the Childhood Hunger Relief Act. Provides that, subject to appropriation, the State Board of Education shall award grants of up to $5,000 per school site on a competitive basis to eligible school districts, regional superintendents of schools,...
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2024-05-17
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB3699Intro
25%
Amends the State Finance Act. In provisions concerning the State Aviation Program Fund, provides that grant moneys in excess of $30,000,000 shall be distributed by the Department of Transportation to airports for capital development purposes for proj...
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2024-05-17
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILHB4897Engross
50%
Amends the Children and Family Services Act. Removes a provision permitting the Department of Children and Family Services to fund outside agencies that contract with the Department to operate child abuse prevention shelters and service programs if t...
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2024-05-17
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSR0965PassCongratulates the Peoria Rivermen hockey team on winning the 2023 - 2024 SPHL championship.
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2024-05-17
Resolution Adopted
ILSR0988PassMourns the death of James R. "Jim" Sullivan of Peoria.
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2024-05-17
Resolution Adopted
ILHB5164Engross
50%
Amends the Clerks of the Court Act. Provides that filing fees for a petition for change name may not exceed $25, and the court may waive this fee for good cause shown. Amends Name Change Article of the Code of Civil Procedure. Deletes the requirement...
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2024-05-17
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB3470Intro
25%
Creates the Pretrial Success Act. Provides that the Department of Human Services has grant making, operational, and procurement authority to distribute funds to local government health and human services agencies, community-based organizations, and o...
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2024-05-17
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB2936Enroll
75%
Amends the Property Tax Code. Provides that the abatement for property located in an area of urban decay also applies to newly remodeled single-family or duplex residential dwelling units (currently, only newly constructed single-family or duplex dwe...
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2024-05-16
Passed Both Houses
ILSB3077Enroll
75%
Creates the Local Food Infrastructure Grant Act. Requires the Department of Agriculture to develop and administer a Local Food Infrastructure Grant Program to enhance local food processing, aggregation, and distribution within the State through the a...
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2024-05-16
Added Alternate Co-Sponsor Rep. Matt Hanson
ILSB3233Intro
25%
Creates the Build Illinois Homes Tax Credit Act. Provides that owners of qualified low-income housing developments are eligible for credits against the taxes imposed by the Illinois Income Tax Act or taxes, penalties, fees, charges, and payments impo...
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2024-05-16
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB2933Enroll
75%
Amends the Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act. Provides that it is an unlawful practice within the meaning of the Act for a consumer reporting agency: (1) to make, create, or furnish any consumer report or credit report containing, i...
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2024-05-16
Added Alternate Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Sonya M. Harper
ILHB1375Engross
50%
Amends the School Code. Provides that pupils in the public schools in grades 9 through 12 shall be taught and be required to study courses which include instruction in the area of financial literacy and consumer education in alignment with the Illino...
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2024-05-16
Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 Motion Filed Non-Concur Rep. Curtis J. Tarver, II
ILHB3301PassAmends the Unemployment Insurance Act. In provisions concerning the directory of new hires, provides that the definition of "newly hired employee" includes an individual under an independent contractor arrangement. Effective January 1, 2024.
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2024-05-15
Added as Alternate Co-Sponsor Sen. Javier L. Cervantes
ILSB3665Intro
25%
Amends the Illinois Insurance Code. Provides that insurers shall cover all services for pregnancy, postpartum, and newborn care that are rendered by perinatal doulas or licensed certified professional midwives, including home births, home visits, and...
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2024-05-15
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILHB4055Enroll
75%
Amends the Prior Authorization Reform Act. Provides that notwithstanding any other provision of law, a health insurance issuer or a contracted utilization review organization may not require a prior authorization for drug therapies approved by the U....
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2024-05-15
Passed Both Houses
ILSB2984Intro
25%
Appropriates $9,000,000 from the General Revenue Fund to the Department of Public Health for continued funding to the Illinois Association of Free and Charitable Clinics. Effective July 1, 2024.
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2024-05-14
To Senate Appropriations - Health and Human Services Committee
ILSB3727Intro
25%
Creates the Patient Access to Pharmacy Protection Act. Defines terms. Provides that no person, including a pharmaceutical manufacturer, may deny, restrict, prohibit, condition, or otherwise interfere with, either directly or indirectly, the acquisiti...
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2024-05-13
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB3739Intro
25%
Amends the Network Adequacy and Transparency Act. Adds definitions. Provides that the minimum ratio for each provider type shall be no less than any such ratio established for qualified health plans in Federally-Facilitated Exchanges by federal law o...
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2024-05-13
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB3332Intro
25%
Amends the Illinois Act on the Aging. In a provision requiring the Department on Aging to require an annual audit from all personal assistant and home care aide vendors contracting with the Department, provides that the annual audit shall assure that...
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2024-05-13
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB2606Intro
25%
Amends the Mental Health Early Action on Campus Act. Provides that, beginning no later than the 2026-2027 academic year, the governing body of each public college or university shall adopt a student wellness day policy for each academic term that doe...
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2024-05-10
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB3166Engross
50%
Amends the Illinois School Student Records Act. Provides that the term "Student Permanent Record" may include a special education summary of performance form. Provides that representatives of the Department of Human Services, for the sole purpose of ...
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2024-05-10
To House Rules Committee
ILSB0172Intro
25%
Creates the Endow Illinois Tax Credit Act. Provides that the Department of Revenue shall award income tax credits to taxpayers who provide an endowment gift to a permanent endowment fund during the taxable year and receive a certificate of receipt fo...
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2024-05-09
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB3273Intro
25%
Amends the Illinois Income Tax Act. Creates a deduction for an amount equal to the amount included in the taxpayer's federal adjusted gross income that is attributable to student loan repayment assistance received by the taxpayer during the taxable y...
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2024-05-09
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB3384Intro
25%
Appropriates $20,000,000 from the General Revenue Fund to the Department of Human Services to implement Public Act 102-522 and provide grants to local school districts and community organizations for comprehensive personal health and safety education...
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2024-05-09
To Senate Appropriations - Health and Human Services Committee
ILSB3669Intro
25%
Creates the Wetlands and Small Streams Protection Act to restore protections for wetlands and small streams that were formerly protected from pollution and destruction by the Clean Water Act. Provides provisions concerning: exemptions; wetlands delin...
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2024-05-07
To Senate Assignments Committee
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