Illinois Senator Michael Halpin [D] | Enrolled

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ILHB4757Enroll
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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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2024-06-05
Added as Alternate Co-Sponsor Sen. Craig Wilcox
ILHB4500Enroll
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Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. Changes the names of the offenses of unlawful use of weapons, unlawful use of weapons by felons or persons in the custody of the Department of Corrections facilities, aggravated unlawful use of a weapon, being an arm...
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2024-06-03
Added as Alternate Co-Sponsor Sen. Laura M. Murphy
ILHB5370Enroll
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Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Requires that upon approaching an emergency scene, a stationary authorized emergency vehicle, or a construction or maintenance area or zone, a person who drives a vehicle shall, proceeding with due caution, yield the...
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2024-06-03
Added as Alternate Co-Sponsor Sen. Laura M. Murphy
ILSB2682Enroll
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Reinserts the provisions of the engrossed bill with the following changes. Modifies the membership of the Task Force, including adding the Director of the Governor's Office of Management and Budget (rather than one member representing the Governor's ...
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2024-05-26
Passed Both Houses
ILSB3156Enroll
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Reinserts the contents of the bill as engrossed with the following changes. Removes changes concerning alternative school programs. Makes changes to the definitions of "local capacity percentage" and "low-income count". Effective immediately.
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2024-05-26
Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Mary Edly-Allen
ILSB2573Enroll
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Amends the Accident and Health Article of the Illinois Insurance Code. Provides that a group or individual plan of accident and health insurance or managed care plan amended, delivered, issued, or renewed after the effective date of the amendatory Ac...
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2024-05-26
Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Julie A. Morrison
ILHB4108Enroll
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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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2024-05-26
Added as Alternate Co-Sponsor Sen. Meg Loughran Cappel
ILHB4623Enroll
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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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2024-05-26
Added as Alternate Co-Sponsor Sen. Sally J. Turner
ILSB0773Enroll
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Amends the State Employees Group Insurance Act of 1971. Provides that provisions concerning infertility coverage apply only to coverage provided on or after January 1, 2024 and before July 1, 2026. Amends the Illinois Insurance Code. Provides that no...
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2024-05-26
Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Mike Simmons
ILHB0612Enroll
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Amends the Property Tax Code. In a Section granting a homestead exemption to veterans with disabilities, provides that property that is used as a qualified residence by a veteran who was a member of the United States Armed Forces during World War II ...
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2024-05-25
Added as Alternate Co-Sponsor Sen. Emil Jones, III
ILHB5189Enroll
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Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Provides that personally identifying information of train crew members contained in reports involving railroad fatalities and contained in communications between police officers and train crew members involved in tho...
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2024-05-25
Passed Both Houses
ILSB3132Enroll
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Amends the Regional Superintendent of Schools Article of the School Code. Makes changes concerning high school equivalency testing. Amends the Postsecondary and Workforce Readiness Act. Removes provisions concerning funding transitional mathematics i...
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2024-05-24
Passed Both Houses
ILSB3538Enroll
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Reinserts the provisions of the engrossed bill with the following changes. Provides that the mental health counseling shall be included in the health insurance coverage for employees on and after June 1, 2025. Provides that the first responders eligi...
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2024-05-24
Passed Both Houses
ILSB3646Enroll
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Reinserts the provisions of the engrossed bill with the following changes. Provides for the amount of time a child performer who works in a television, motion picture, or related entertainment production may be permitted to be at the place of employm...
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2024-05-24
Added as Chief Co-Sponsor Sen. Lakesia Collins
ILSB3136Enroll
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Creates the Family Recovery Plans Implementation Task Force Act. Provides that it is the General Assembly's intent to require a coordinated, public health, and service-integrated response by various agencies within the State's health and child welfar...
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2024-05-24
Passed Both Houses
ILSB2737Enroll
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Reinserts the provisions of the engrossed bill with the following changes. Provides that the enforcement of a covenant not to compete or covenant not to solicit described in the amendatory Act shall not be enforceable if it is likely to result in an ...
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2024-05-24
Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Cristina Castro
ILHB4875Enroll
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Amends the Right of Publicity Act. Grants additional enforcement rights and remedies to recording artists. Provides for the liability of any person who materially contributes to, induces, or otherwise facilitates a violation of a specified provision ...
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2024-05-24
Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Janet Yang Rohr
ILHB5431Enroll
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Reinserts the provisions of the introduced bill with the following changes. Further amends the County Department of Corrections Law, the Health Care Violence Prevention Act, and the County Jail Act to replace use of "prisoner" with "committed person"...
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2024-05-24
Added as Alternate Co-Sponsor Sen. Celina Villanueva
ILHB5450Enroll
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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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2024-05-24
Passed Both Houses
ILSB3696Enroll
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Amends the Uniform Commercial Code to adopt changes recommended by the Uniform Law Commission with respect to the addition of a Controllable Electronic Records Article and transitional provisions and the amendment of other provisions of the Code. Mak...
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2024-05-23
Passed Both Houses
ILSB3652Enroll
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Creates the Summary of Rights for Safer Homes Act. Requires the Department of Human Rights to create a summary form advising tenants who have suffered domestic violence or sexual violence of the rights that they have under Illinois law that provide p...
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2024-05-23
Added Alternate Co-Sponsor Rep. Elizabeth "Lisa" Hernandez
ILSB3606Enroll
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Amends the Children with Disabilities Article of the School Code. Provides that the term "special educational facilities and services" includes private special schools (instead of special schools) and separate public special education day schools. Pr...
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2024-05-23
Added Alternate Co-Sponsor Rep. Matt Hanson
ILSB3479Enroll
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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
ILHB5086Enroll
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Amends the Nurse Practice Act. Provides that when a health care facility is found liable for an injury to a patient or resident because of a negligent act performed by a nurse or certified nurse aide employed, assigned, or referred by the nurse agenc...
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2024-05-23
Passed Both Houses
ILHB4426Enroll
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Amends the Regulatory Sunset Act. Provides that the Illinois Certified Shorthand Reporters Act of 1984 is repealed on January 1, 2030 (rather than January 1, 2025). Amends the Illinois Certified Shorthand Reporters Act of 1984. Provides that all appl...
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2024-05-23
Passed Both Houses
ILSB3284Enroll
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Amends the Illinois Marriage and Dissolution of Marriage Act. Removes language providing that no maintenance shall accrue while a party is imprisoned for failure to comply with the court's order for the payment of the maintenance. Adds criteria for d...
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2024-05-22
Passed Both Houses
ILSB2850Enroll
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Amends the River Conservancy Districts Act. Provides that a member of a board may not receive more than $6,000 per annum (instead of $3,000 per annum). Provides that at its discretion, a board may adjust the compensation amounts for inflation as dete...
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2024-05-22
Passed Both Houses
ILSB2781Enroll
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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
ILSB2690Enroll
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Amends the Public Higher Education Act. Provides that each public institution of higher education shall pay on behalf of a refugee or reimburse a refugee for payment of any transcript evaluation fees that are required by the public institution of hig...
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2024-05-22
Passed Both Houses
ILSB2764Enroll
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Amends the Automatic Contract Renewal Act. Provides that any person, firm, partnership, association, or corporation that sells or offers to sell any products or services to a consumer pursuant to a contract that includes a free gift or a trial period...
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2024-05-22
Added Alternate Co-Sponsor Rep. Matt Hanson
ILSB3203Enroll
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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
ILSB3460Enroll
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Amends the Self-Service Storage Facility Act. Provides that a rental agreement may be delivered and accepted by electronic mail. Provides that if the occupant does not sign a written rental agreement that the owner has tendered to the occupant, the o...
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2024-05-20
Passed Both Houses
ILSB3353Enroll
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Reinserts the provisions of the bill as amended by Senate Amendment No. 1. Provides that the Community-Based Corrections Task Force shall study and develop innovative ways to introduce community-based corrections and rehabilitation into the State's c...
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2024-05-17
Passed Both Houses
ILHB0478Enroll
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Authorizes the Adjutant General for Illinois to convey to the City of Chicago the described parcel of land in Cook County upon payment of $1.00, subject to specified conditions. Effective immediately.
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2024-05-17
Passed Both Houses
ILSB2930Enroll
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Reinserts the provisions of the introduced bill with the following changes: Provides that the aggregated demographic information of the corporation's directors and officers shall be accessible on the corporation's publicly available website for at le...
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2024-05-16
Added Alternate Co-Sponsor Rep. Maurice A. West, II
ILSB2933Enroll
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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
ILHB4417Enroll
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Amends the Course of Study Article of the School Code. Provides that all public high schools, including charter schools, shall designate and annually observe a week known as "Workplace Readiness Week". Provides that students shall be provided informa...
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2024-05-16
Passed Both Houses
ILHB4961Enroll
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Amends the Probate Act of 1975. For the appointment of a successor guardian, provides that notice of the time and place of the hearing on a petition for the appointment of a successor guardian shall be given not less than 3 days before the hearing fo...
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2024-05-16
Passed Both Houses
ILHB5418Enroll
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Reinserts the provisions of the introduced bill, but provides that the grants are to be used for school maintenance projects on publicly owned property (rather than providing that the grants are for school maintenance projects). Effective immediately...
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2024-05-16
Passed Both Houses
ILHB4954Enroll
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Reinserts the provisions of the introduced bill with the following changes: Reinserts language that provides that the 4 State mine rescue stations must be certified by the Mine Safety and Health Administration of the U.S. Department of Labor. Removes...
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2024-05-16
Passed Both Houses
ILSB2879Enroll
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Amends the Fire Protection District Act. Changes the requirement for competitive bidding for fire protection district contracts to contracts over $30,000 (currently, over $20,000).
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2024-05-15
Passed Both Houses
ILSB0001Enroll
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Creates the Department of Early Childhood Act. Creates the Department of Early Childhood to begin operation on July 1, 2024 and transfers to it certain rights, powers, duties, and functions currently exercised by various agencies of State Government....
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2024-05-15
Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Lakesia Collins
ILSB2751Enroll
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Reinserts the provisions of the introduced bill with the following changes. Requires a veteran or caregiver to provide proof of veteran status and attest to the fact that the improvements to the residence are required to accommodate the veteran's dis...
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2024-05-15
Added Alternate Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Debbie Meyers-Martin
ILHB4719Enroll
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Amends the Illinois Secure Choice Savings Program Act. Provides that participating employers may (rather than shall) designate an open enrollment period during which employees who previously opted out of the Secure Choice Savings Program may enroll i...
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2024-05-15
Added as Alternate Co-Sponsor Sen. Laura M. Murphy
ILHB4711Enroll
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Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Provides that if an applicant gives an incorrect response to a question on the written portion of the driver's license examination concerning driver responsibilities when approaching a stationary emergency vehicle, d...
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2024-05-15
Passed Both Houses
ILHB4738Enroll
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Amends the Private Business and Vocational Schools Act of 2012. Provides that the Board of Higher Education may issue a cease and desist order to any school operating without the required permit of approval and may impose a civil penalty. Sets forth ...
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2024-05-15
Added as Alternate Co-Sponsor Sen. Laura M. Murphy
ILSB0331Enroll
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Reinserts the contents of the introduced bill but removes provisions requiring the governing board of each public university and community college district to pay contractors their daily, regular rate of pay and benefits if a campus is closed due to ...
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2024-05-14
Passed Both Houses
ILSB2683Enroll
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Amends the Stalking No Contact Order Act. Defines a course of conduct to include using any electronic tracking system or acquiring tracking information to determine a targeted person's location, moment, or travel patterns. Requires an order under thi...
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2024-05-14
Passed Both Houses
ILSB2626Enroll
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Amends the Criminal Identification Act. Provides that, in anticipation of the successful completion of a diversion program, a petitioner may file a petition for expungement at least 61 days before the anticipated dismissal of the case. Provides that,...
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2024-05-10
Added Alternate Co-Sponsor Rep. Robert "Bob" Rita
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