Illinois Senator Mike Simmons [D]

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ILSB3559Intro
25%
Amends the Nursing Home Care Act. Provides that a facility shall not take any retaliatory action against a resident of the facility because the resident (1) complains, discloses, or threatens to disclose to a supervisor, a public body, or any other p...
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2024-05-21
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB3323Engross
50%
Creates the Accessible Electric Vehicle Charging Station Act. Requires the Department of Transportation to ensure that charging stations in the State are sufficiently accessible to allow independent use by drivers with disabilities, including people ...
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2024-05-21
To House Rules Committee
ILSB2643Engross
50%
Amends the Funeral Directors and Embalmers Licensing Code. Defines "chain of custody record" and "uniquely identified". Provides that the examination to qualify as an embalmer or funeral director shall embrace the subject of identification rules and ...
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2024-05-21
Placed on Calendar Order of Concurrence House Amendment(s) 1 - May 21, 2024
ILSB2968Engross
50%
Reinserts the provisions of the introduced bill with the following changes. Provides that reports issued under the provisions shall be issued by October 31 of each year (rather than September 30 of each year). Provides that the Department of Human Se...
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2024-05-21
Held on Calendar Order of Second Reading - Short Debate
ILHB5431Enroll
75%
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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2024-05-21
Passed Both Houses
ILHB4475Engross
50%
Reinserts the provisions of the bill, as amended by House Amendment No. 1, with the following changes. Provides that for all group or individual policies of accident and health insurance or managed care plans that are amended, delivered, issued, or r...
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2024-05-21
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILHB5394Engross
50%
Amends the Critical Health Problems and Comprehensive Health Education Act. Provides that no later than 30 days after the first day of each school year, the school board of each public elementary and secondary school in the State shall provide all te...
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2024-05-21
Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 Motion to Concur Recommends Be Adopted Rules Committee; 005-000-000
ILHB4409Enroll
75%
Amends the Illinois Crime Reduction Act of 2009. Changes references from "offenders" to "justice-impacted individuals". Provides that funds shall be distributed via a grant program (rather than allotment of funds shall be based on a formula). Provide...
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2024-05-21
Added as Alternate Co-Sponsor Sen. Adriane Johnson
ILSB3310Engross
50%
Amends the Illinois Human Rights Act. Extends the date to file a charge from 300 calendar days to 3 years for an alleged violation under the Act except for the Real Estate Transactions Article.
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2024-05-20
Added Alternate Co-Sponsor Rep. Bob Morgan
ILHB3158Engross
50%
Reinserts the provisions of the introduced bill, with the changes proposed in House Amendment No. 1 and House Amendment No. 2, and the following additional changes. Requires the vessels used for natural organic reduction to be made of stainless steel...
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2024-05-20
Senate Committee Amendment No. 2 Assignments Refers to Executive
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
ILSB3652Engross
50%
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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2024-05-20
Added Alternate Co-Sponsor Rep. Janet Yang Rohr
ILSB0727Engross
50%
Amends the Comprehensive Lead Education, Reduction, and Window Replacement Program Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
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2024-05-20
To House Energy & Environment Committee
ILSB3451Enroll
75%
Amends the Transportation Cooperation Act of 1971, the Department of Transportation Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois, the Bi-State Development Agency Act, and the Regional Transportation Authority Act. Provides that a railroad passeng...
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2024-05-20
Passed Both Houses
ILSB3762Engross
50%
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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2024-05-20
Added Alternate Co-Sponsor Rep. La Shawn K. Ford
ILSB3420Enroll
75%
Creates the Prohibition of Unfair Service Agreements Act. Provides for the characteristics of unfair service agreements and sets forth exceptions to the Act. Provides that if a service agreement is unfair under the Act, it is unenforceable and shall ...
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2024-05-20
Passed Both Houses
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
ILSB0207Intro
25%
Amends the Legislative Commission Reorganization Act of 1984. Provides that newsletters and printed material printed on behalf of a member of the General Assembly may include autobiographical or biographical information about a member as long as the ...
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2024-05-17
To Senate Ethics Committee
ILSB1481Intro
25%
Amends the Election Code. Allows the State Board of Elections to receive voter registration information provided by applicants using electronic voter registration portals (rather than the Board's website). Provides that, notwithstanding any other pro...
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2024-05-17
To Senate Elections 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
ILSB1893Intro
25%
Amends the Local Records Act. Provides that a municipality must compile and maintain a list of each contract it enters into for $5,000,000 or more for public infrastructure projects. Provides that the list shall be available for public inspection or ...
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2024-05-17
To Senate Procurement Committee
ILHB2376Engross
50%
Amends the Environmental Protection Act. Defines terms. Provides that, beginning January 1, 2025, a retail establishment may not sell or distribute in this State a disposable food service container that is composed in whole or in part of polystyrene ...
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2024-05-17
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB2840Intro
25%
Amends the Election Code. Creates the Access to Candidacy and Feasibility of Holding Public Office for Non-Wealthy Persons Task Force. Provides that the purpose of the Task Force is to analyze the financial barriers that exist for non-wealthy candida...
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2024-05-17
To Senate Elections Committee
ILSB3784Engross
50%
Amends the Illinois Sexually Transmissible Disease Control Act. Changes the short title of the Act to the Illinois Sexually Transmitted Infection Control Act. Changes references to "sexually transmissible diseases" to "sexually transmitted infections...
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2024-05-17
Third Reading/Final Action Deadline Extended-9(b) May 24, 2024
ILSB2791Intro
25%
Creates the Small Business Economic Incentive Act. Provides that at least 50% of the dollar value of all economic incentives awarded to businesses by the State or by any State agency on or after January 1, 2025 shall be awarded to businesses with 50 ...
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2024-05-17
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB0771Intro
25%
Amends the Public Utilities Act. Makes a technical change in the short title Section.
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2024-05-17
Rule 2-10 Third Reading Deadline Established As May 24, 2024
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
ILSB3297Enroll
75%
Amends the Housing is Recovery Pilot Program Act. Provides that an individual is eligible to receive a Housing is Recovery bridge rental subsidy for purposes of stabilizing his or her mental illness or substance use disorder if: (1) the individual is...
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2024-05-17
Passed Both Houses
ILSB0648Intro
25%
Amends the Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
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2024-05-17
Rule 2-10 Third Reading Deadline Established As May 24, 2024
ILSB3299Intro
25%
Amends the Arts Council Act. Requires the Illinois Arts Council, subject to appropriation, to establish a statewide arts and humanities initiative to capture current Illinois culture, values, and beauty. Specifies that the initiative shall begin on J...
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2024-05-17
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB3182Engross
50%
Amends the Hospital Licensing Act. Provides that a hospital having custody of a fetus following a spontaneous fetal death occurring during or after a gestation period of at least 20 completed weeks must notify the gestational parent of the parent's r...
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2024-05-17
Third Reading/Final Action Deadline Extended-9(b) May 24, 2024
ILHB5507Engross
50%
Amends the Code of Civil Procedure. Creates a process that an Illinois resident may use to seek an Illinois judicial order making findings of fact to change a birth certificate issued in another state or country so the Illinois resident may petition ...
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2024-05-17
Rule 2-10 Third Reading/Passage Deadline Established As May 24, 2024
ILSB3695Intro
25%
Creates the Compassionate Use and Research of Entheogens Act. Establishes the Illinois Psilocybin Advisory Board within the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation for the purpose of advising and making recommendations to the Department r...
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2024-05-17
To Senate Executive Committee
ILSB3235Engross
50%
Amends the Illinois Community Reinvestment Act. Requires the Commission on Equity and Inclusion to conduct studies to: (1) identify and delineate geographies in Illinois exhibiting significant disparities by protected classes as identified by the Hum...
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2024-05-17
Third Reading/Final Action Deadline Extended-9(b) May 24, 2024
ILSB2633Intro
25%
Amends the Firearms Restraining Order Act to include in the definition of "petitioner" an intimate partner. Amends the Protective Orders Article of the Code of Criminal Procedures of 1963 and the Illinois Domestic Violence Act of 1986. Provides that,...
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2024-05-17
To Senate Firearms 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
ILSB3680Intro
25%
Amends the Counties Code and the Illinois Municipal Code. Repeals provisions prohibiting ordinances penalizing tenants who contact the police or other emergency services. Adds provisions prohibiting a county or municipality from enacting a program, o...
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2024-05-17
Rule 2-10 Third Reading Deadline Established As May 24, 2024
ILSB2864Intro
25%
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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2024-05-17
To Senate Firearms Committee
ILSB2655Engross
50%
Creates the Medicaid Expansion of Network Providers for Persons with Disabilities Subcommittee Act. Establishes the Medicaid Expansion of Network Providers for Persons with Disabilities Subcommittee to develop and propose policies to increase the Sta...
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2024-05-17
Third Reading/Final Action Deadline Extended-9(b) May 24, 2024
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
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
ILSB2930Enroll
75%
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
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
ILHB5238Enroll
75%
Amends the Illinois Modular Dwelling and Mobile Structure Safety Act. Provides that an installer of manufactured homes must supply a weather radio with specified requirements in each manufactured home installed after 2023. Provides for an annual noti...
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2024-05-16
Passed Both Houses
ILSJR0064Intro
25%
Declares February 21, 2024 as John Lewis Day in the State of Illinois to serve as a reminder of the accomplishments of this civil rights icon and to honor his legacy and dedication to public service.
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2024-05-16
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB3214Intro
25%
Appropriates $16,358,900 from the General Revenue Fund to the Department of Human Services Rehabilitation Services Bureau for grants to independent living centers. Effective July 1, 2024.
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2024-05-16
To Senate Appropriations - Health and Human Services Committee
ILSB2872Enroll
75%
Amends the Courses of Study Article of the School Code. Provides that each school district shall provide to students, in addition to and not substituting recess, at least once a week, relaxation activities to enhance the mental and physical health of...
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2024-05-16
Added Alternate Co-Sponsor Rep. Lilian Jiménez
ILHB4891Enroll
75%
Amends the Illinois Dental Practice Act. Provides that a dentist, employee of a dentist, or agent of a dentist may not arrange for, broker, or establish financing extended by a third party for a patient. Provides that a dentist, employee of a dentist...
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2024-05-16
Passed Both Houses
ILHB5457Enroll
75%
Amends the Clinical Social Work and Social Work Practice Act. Provides that a license to practice under the Act shall not be denied an applicant because of the applicant's real or perceived immigration status. Provides that every application for an o...
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2024-05-16
Added as Alternate Co-Sponsor Sen. Mary Edly-Allen
ILSB3804Intro
25%
Amends the Adult Protective Services Act. Expands the list of mandated reporters under the Act to include broker-dealers and officers and employees of financial institutions. Provides that financial exploitation of an adult with disabilities or a per...
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2024-05-15
To Senate Assignments Committee
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