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ILHB4951Engross
50%
Amends the Chicago Park District Act. Makes a technical change in a Section creating the Chicago Park District.
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2024-05-16
Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading May 17, 2024
ILHB2900Engross
50%
Amends the Wildlife Code. Prohibits contests or competitions with the objective of taking any fur-bearing mammal. Provides an exception for field trials. Provides that a violation is a Class A misdemeanor and subject to a fine of no less than $500 an...
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2024-05-16
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILHB5643Enroll
75%
Reinserts the provisions of the bill, as amended by House Amendment No. 2, with the following changes. Amends the Illinois Public Aid Code. Provides that, beginning January 1, 2025, the medical assistance program shall provide coverage for at-home, u...
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2024-05-16
Passed Both Houses
ILHB5602Engross
50%
Amends the State Commemorative Dates Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
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2024-05-16
Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading May 17, 2024
ILHB0793Intro
25%
Amends the Department of Human Services Act. Requires the Department of Human Services, in partnership with other specified State agencies, to eliminate on July 1, 2027 the use of active or pending 14(c) certificates authorized under the federal Fair...
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2024-05-16
[Hearing: May 20 @ 3:00 pm]

House Floor Amendment No. 3 Rules Refers to Labor & Commerce Committee
ILHB4910Engross
50%
Amends the State Commemorative Dates Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
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2024-05-16
Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading May 17, 2024
ILHB4171Engross
50%
Amends the Illinois Highway Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
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2024-05-16
Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading May 17, 2024
ILHB4412Engross
50%
Provides that a child care facility may authorize the Department of Children and Family Services or a third-party vendor to collect fingerprints for the criminal background investigation. Defines "third-party vendor".
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2024-05-16
Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading May 17, 2024
ILHB4219Engross
50%
Amends the School Code and the Critical Health Problems and Comprehensive Health Education Act. Removes provisions concerning fentanyl education from the School Code. Provides that the Comprehensive Health Education Program shall include disaster pre...
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2024-05-16
Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 Motion to Concur Referred to Rules Committee
ILHB4834Intro
25%
Amends the Criminal Identification Act concerning records eligible for sealing. Provides that records of arrests or charges not initiated by arrest resulting in orders of supervision, including orders of supervision for municipal ordinance violations...
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2024-05-16
House Floor Amendment No. 1 Recommends Be Adopted Judiciary - Criminal Committee; 010-003-000
ILHB0681Intro
25%
Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
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2024-05-16
Added Co-Sponsor Rep. John M. Cabello
ILHB5450Engross
50%
Reinserts the contents of the introduced bill with the following changes. With respect to the Section concerning reports on cost reduction in the Illinois Pension Code, provides that, on and after December 31, 2026, the provisions concerning the repo...
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2024-05-16
Placed on Calendar Order of Concurrence Senate Amendment(s) 1
ILHB5395Engross
50%
Reinserts the provisions of the bill, as amended by House Amendment No. 1, with changes that include the following. Provides that the amendatory Act may be referred to as the Health Care Protection Act. In the Network Adequacy and Transparency Act, p...
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2024-05-16
[Hearing: May 21 @ 4:30 pm]
To Senate Insurance Committee
ILHB5354Enroll
75%
Amends the Customized Employment for Individuals with Disabilities Act. Changes the name of the Customized Employment Pilot Program to the Customized Employment Demonstration Program. Provides that the program shall consist of components consistent w...
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2024-05-16
Passed Both Houses
ILHB1287Intro
25%
Amends the Property Tax Code. Provides that, in counties in which the county board so provides, by ordinance or resolution, owners of income-producing properties in the county shall file physical descriptions of their properties with the chief county...
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2024-05-16
To House Revenue & Finance Committee
ILHB4806Intro
25%
Amends the Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Administrative Act. Provides that, for community-based providers serving persons with intellectual/developmental disabilities, subject to federal approval of any relevant Waiver Amendment, the r...
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2024-05-16
To House Appropriations-Health & Human Services Committee
ILHB5057Engross
50%
Amends the Educator Licensure Article of the School Code. Provides that the State Board of Education shall make available a content area test for applicants seeking a State license to teach in any of grades one through 6. Provides that the test shall...
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2024-05-16
[Hearing: May 21 @ 1:30 pm]
To Senate Education Committee
ILHB0305Engross
50%
Amends the Trustees of Schools Article of the School Code. Provides that, notwithstanding any other provision of law, any school district that forms a part of a Class II county school unit may, by a resolution adopted by at least two-thirds of the me...
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2024-05-16
Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading May 17, 2024
ILHB5371Engross
50%
Amends the Illinois Human Rights Act. Provides that an employer is responsible for harassment and sexual harassment of its employees by the employer's nonmanagerial and nonsupervisory employees, nonemployees, and third parties only if the employer be...
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2024-05-16
[Hearing: May 22 @ 2:00 pm]
To Senate Executive Committee
ILHB5495Enroll
75%
Reinserts the provisions of the introduced bill with the following changes. Further amends the Illinois State Police Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Provides that the Division of Criminal Investigation shall cooperate and liaise wit...
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2024-05-16
Passed Both Houses
ILHB4189Intro
25%
Amends the Open Space Lands Acquisition and Development Act. Provides that a local government that has submitted a distressed location project as defined by Department of Natural Resources rule shall be eligible for assistance up to 100% for the acqu...
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2024-05-15
To House Appropriations-General Service Committee
ILHB4108Enroll
75%
Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Allows the Secretary of State to issue Air Force Combat Action Medal license plates to a resident who was awarded the Air Force Combat Action Medal. Makes other conforming changes.
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2024-05-15
Passed Both Houses
ILHB4813Engross
50%
Amends the Information Technology Accessibility Act. Provides that the Department of Innovation and Technology (currently, the Department of Human Services) shall review certain accessibility standards. Removes a specific reference to the Department ...
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2024-05-15
Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading
ILHB4491Engross
50%
Amends the Child Care Act of 1969. Provides that either a qualified child care director or a qualified early childhood teacher with a minimum of 2,880 hours of experience as an early childhood teacher, must be present for the first and last hour of t...
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2024-05-15
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILHB4757Enroll
75%
Amends the Department of Veterans' Affairs Act. Provides that the Department of Veterans Affairs shall create, and the Department of Labor shall make available, at no cost, a veterans and service members' benefits, services, and protections poster. R...
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2024-05-15
Added as Alternate Chief Co-Sponsor Sen. Paul Faraci
ILHB5556Intro
25%
Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. Provides that a person commits the offense of trafficking in persons when the person knowingly: (1) maintains by any means, or attempts to recruit, entice, harbor, transport, provide, obtain, advertise or maintain by...
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2024-05-15
To House Rules Committee
ILHB5355Engross
50%
Creates the Nonopioid Alternatives for Pain Act. Requires the Department of Public Health to develop and publish an educational pamphlet regarding the use of nonopioid alternatives for pain treatment. Provides that a health care practitioner shall ex...
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2024-05-15
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILHB5417Engross
50%
Reinserts the provisions of the introduced bill with the following changes. Deletes references to the role of HIV Treatment Innovation Coordinator. Amends the Illinois Insurance Code. Provides that an individual or group policy of accident and health...
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2024-05-14
To Senate Appropriations - Health and Human Services Committee
ILHB4895Engross
50%
Amends the Courses of Study Article of the School Code. Provides that, beginning with the 2026-2027 school year, every public school shall provide instruction on climate change, which shall include, but not be limited to, identifying the environmenta...
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2024-05-14
Added as Alternate Co-Sponsor Sen. David Koehler
ILHB4677Engross
50%
Creates the Illinois Caregiver Assistance and Resource Portal Act. Requires the Department on Aging, in consultation with the Department of Healthcare and Family Services, the Department of Public Health, and the Department of Veterans' Affairs, to b...
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2024-05-14
To Senate Appropriations - Health and Human Services Committee
ILHB4934Engross
50%
Amends the Cemetery Protection Act. Defines "veteran" and "veterans' organization". Provides that if a veterans' organization has identified human remains of a veteran that are more than 100 years old and wishes to have a marker placed to designate t...
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2024-05-14
Senate Floor Amendment No. 1 Assignments Refers to Veterans Affairs
ILHB5653Engross
50%
Amends the Department of Veterans' Affairs Act. Reenacts a provision concerning the Veterans' Service-Related Ailments Task Force repealed by Public Act 102-417. Changes the name of the Veterans' Service-Related Ailments Task Force to the Veterans' S...
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2024-05-10
To Senate Veterans Affairs Committee
ILHB5527Engross
50%
Amends the County Department of Corrections Division of the Counties Code, the Unified Code of Corrections, and the County Jail Act. Provides that, upon the release of a prisoner or committed person from a county correctional institution, county jail...
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2024-05-10
To Senate Special Committee on Criminal Law and Public Safety
ILHB5537Engross
50%
Amends the Illinois Health Facilities Planning Act. Removes an exception for skilled and intermediate long-term care facilities licensed under the Nursing Home Care Act from providing a Safety Net Impact Statement as part of its general review criter...
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2024-05-10
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
ILHB5367Engross
50%
Amends the Video Gaming Act. Provides that the Illinois Gaming Board may waive the requirement that a licensed establishment, licensed truck stop establishment, licensed large truck stop establishment, licensed fraternal establishment, or licensed ve...
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2024-05-10
To Senate Executive Committee
ILHB0001Intro
25%
Creates the Compassionate Use and Research of Entheogens Act. Establishes the Illinois Psilocybin Advisory Board within the Department of Public Health for the purpose of advising and making recommendations to the Department regarding the provision o...
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2024-05-09
To House Rules Committee
ILHB5008Intro
25%
Amends the Chicago School District Article of the School Code. Provides that a local school council shall have and exercise the power and duty to contract with the Chicago Police Department to have police officers or school resource officers on schoo...
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2024-05-09
Third Reading Deadline Extended-Rule May 24, 2024
ILHB5757Intro
25%
Appropriates $3,100,000 from the General Revenue Fund to the Department of Agriculture for costs associated with the Crop Insurance Rebate Initiative to provide incentives for at least 500,000 acres of eligible land. Effective July 1, 2024.
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2024-05-09
To House Appropriations-General Service Committee
ILHB5640Engross
50%
Amends the Statute on Statutes. Provides that whenever there is a reference in any Act to "armed forces", "armed forces of the United States", "U.S. Armed Forces", "United States Armed Forces", or "uniformed services", these terms shall be construed ...
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2024-05-09
Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading
ILHB4919Intro
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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2024-05-07
To House Appropriations-Health & Human Services Committee
ILHB4909Intro
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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2024-05-06
To House Rules Committee
ILHB4623Engross
50%
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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2024-05-03
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILHB5011Engross
50%
Amends the Governmental Account Audit Act. Modifies the audit procedures for governmental units under the Act for the governmental units fiscal years 2026 and after, including: (1) modifying the definitions of "audit report" and "report"; (2) requiri...
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2024-05-03
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILHB1241Intro
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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2024-05-02
To House Rules Committee
ILHB5003Intro
25%
Appropriates $6,000,000 from the General Revenue Fund to the Department of Human Services for a grant to the Neighborhood Housing Services of Chicago for costs associated with funding equitable mortgage lending, homeownership rehabilitation and devel...
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2024-05-01
To House Appropriations-Health & Human Services Committee
ILHB4753Intro
25%
Creates the Homicide Victims' Families' Rights Act. Provides for the review of the case file of open unresolved murders. Defines "open unresolved murder" as any criminal activity in which death occurred more than 3 years prior to the date of the appl...
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2024-05-01
To House Rules Committee
ILHB4754Intro
25%
Amends the Uniform Crime Reporting Act. Provides that a law enforcement agency shall publish monthly on its website, and submit to the Illinois State Police in a form, manner, and frequency as required by the Illinois State Police, the following info...
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2024-05-01
To House Rules Committee
ILHB5809Intro
25%
Amends the Compassionate Use of Medical Cannabis Program Act. In the definition of "excluded offense", specifies that the registering Department shall (instead of may) waive the restriction if the person demonstrates to the registering Department's s...
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2024-05-01
To House Rules Committee
ILHB5491Engross
50%
Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. The Secretary of State shall adopt rules to reimburse an applicant's registration fees for the 2023 registration year in which an applicant received a citation for expired registration as a result of a misprinted reg...
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2024-04-30
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILHB2838Intro
25%
Amends the Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Administrative Act. Provides that, beginning with the 2023-2024 academic year, the Department of Human Services shall establish and administer the Behavioral Health Scholarship Program for the p...
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2024-04-30
To House Rules Committee
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