Illinois Senator Mike Simmons [D]

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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
ILSB0001Enroll
75%
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
ILSB3399Intro
25%
Amends the Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Administrative Act. Requires the Department of Human Services to establish reimbursement rates that build toward livable wages for front-line personnel in residential and day programs and servic...
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2024-05-15
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB2687Intro
25%
Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. Provides that, in addition to other elements of the offense, a person commits a hate crime when the person displays or causes to be displayed, on public or private property, a burning cross, a Nazi swastika, a noose,...
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2024-05-14
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB2035Intro
25%
Creates the Ensuring Essential Services Act. Provides that the purpose of the Act is to ensure the State meets its obligation to provide certain essential services for individuals with developmental disabilities at consistent quality levels in accord...
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2024-05-14
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB3183Intro
25%
Amends the Juvenile Court Act of 1987. Changes all references in the General Provisions Article and the Abused, Neglected or Dependent Minors Article of the Act from "reasonable efforts" to "active efforts" in cases that involve reunification by the ...
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2024-05-14
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB3511Intro
25%
Creates the Let America Read Act. Provides that an entity or an entity's staff with oversight over the books, instructional materials, or curriculum used in a public school may not refuse to approve or prohibit the use of books, instructional materia...
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2024-05-14
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB2654Enroll
75%
Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Provides that personal medicine and health care devices, including hearing instruments; social security cards; passbooks; and higher education textbooks and study materials shall not be subject to a lien. Provides th...
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2024-05-14
Passed Both Houses
ILSB3704Intro
25%
Authorizes the Director of Natural Resources to execute and deliver a quit claim deed to Shabbonna Lake State Park in DeKalb County to the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation. Effective immediately.
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2024-05-13
To Senate Assignments 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
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
ILSB2608Intro
25%
Amends the Illinois State Police Act and the Illinois Police Training Act. Provides that an applicant's credit history may not be used to prevent the appointment or employment of a law enforcement officer, including an Illinois State Police officer. ...
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2024-05-10
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB2626Enroll
75%
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
ILSB0086Enroll
75%
Reinserts the provisions of the introduced bill with the following changes. Moves specified provisions regarding cosigner release, cosigner rights, what happens in the event of the bankruptcy or death of a cosigner, the total and permanent disability...
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2024-05-09
Passed Both Houses
ILSR0882PassDeclares May 17, 2024 as Take Break from Social Media Day in the State of Illinois.
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2024-05-09
Chief Co-Sponsor Changed to Sen. Willie Preston
ILSR0811PassDeclares May of 2024 as "BPD Month".
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2024-05-09
Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Mike Simmons
ILSB2943Intro
25%
Appropriates $50,000,000 from the General Revenue Fund to the State Board of Education for grants to community learning centers under the Nita M. Lowey 21st Century Community Learning Centers program. Effective immediately.
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2024-05-07
To Senate Appropriations Education 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
ILSB2006Intro
25%
Amends the evidence-based funding provisions of the School Code. Provides that the Minimum Funding Level is equal to $550,000,000 (instead of $350,000,000). Effective July 1, 2023.
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2024-05-03
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB1796Intro
25%
Amends the Illinois Public Aid Code. In a provision concerning the child care assistance program, provides that beginning in State Fiscal Year 2024, the specified income threshold shall be no less than 250% of the then-current federal poverty level f...
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2024-05-03
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB2844Intro
25%
Amends the Regional Transportation Authority Act. Provides that, by December 31, 2025, the Regional Transportation Authority, the Board of the Commuter Rail Division of the Authority, the Board of the Suburban Bus Division of the Authority, and the B...
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2024-05-03
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB2689Engross
50%
Amends the Educator Licensure Article of the School Code. By June 1, 2025, requires the State Board of Education, in consultation with the State Educator Preparation and Licensure Board, to establish, by rule, a Montessori education endorsement to be...
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2024-05-03
To House Rules Committee
ILSB2883Intro
25%
Amends the Illinois Income Tax Act. Creates an income tax credit for qualified businesses that install solar canopies or permeable surfaces in their parking areas during the taxable year. Effective immediately.
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2024-05-03
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB3300Intro
25%
Amends the Illinois Act on the Aging. Requires the Department on Aging to develop and implement, by January 1, 2025, a Senior Corps Program to assist Illinois residents aged 55 and older find volunteer opportunities or meaningful service employment o...
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2024-05-03
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB3309Intro
25%
Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Provides that the authority having maintenance jurisdiction over publicly owned paved bicycle trails in the State shall erect permanent regulatory or warning signage alerting pedestrians or cyclists of highway crossi...
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2024-05-03
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB3664Intro
25%
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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2024-05-03
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB2639Engross
50%
Reinserts the provisions of the introduced bill with the following changes. Provides that, for a group policy of accident and health insurance that provides pregnancy related benefits (rather than providing coverage for more than 25 employees that pr...
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2024-05-03
To House Rules Committee
ILSB2158Intro
25%
Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. Provides that it is unlawful for a child sex offender with the duty to register under the Sex Offender Registration Act to knowingly reside within 250 (rather than 500) feet of a school building or the real property ...
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2024-05-02
Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Natalie Toro
ILSB3226Intro
25%
Appropriates $10,000,000 from the General Revenue Fund to the Illinois Criminal Justice Information Agency for grants to Community Resource Healing Centers (CHRC)for their operational expenses. Effective July 1, 2024.
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2024-05-01
To Senate Appropriations - Public Safety and Infrastructure Committee
ILHB5541Engross
50%
Amends the Sex Offender Registration Act. Reinserts the provisions of the introduced bill with the following changes. Provides that moneys in the Offender Registration Fund shall be allocated pursuant to the Sex Offender Registration Act and the Murd...
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2024-04-24
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB1441Intro
25%
Amends the Real Estate Transactions Article of the Illinois Human Rights Act. Provides that it is a civil rights violation for an owner or any other person engaging in a real estate transaction, or for a real estate broker or salesman, because of a c...
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2024-04-19
To Senate Assignments Committee
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