Illinois Senator Mike Simmons [D]

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ILSB3325Intro
25%
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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2024-04-19
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB2818Intro
25%
Amends the Illinois Human Rights Act. Provides that it is a civil rights violation: (1) to inquire into a person's conviction record before making a conditional offer to sell, lease, or rent real property; (2) for an owner or any other person engagin...
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2024-04-19
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB3630Intro
25%
Reinserts the provisions of the introduced bill with the following changes. 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 Childr...
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2024-04-19
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB3794Intro
25%
Creates the Powering Up Illinois Act. Provides that an electrical corporation which operates in the State shall upgrade the State's electrical distribution systems in order to achieve the State's decarbonization standards. Provides that an electrical...
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2024-04-19
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB2425Intro
25%
Amends the Firearm Concealed Carry Act. Provides that nothing in the Act prohibits a forest preserve district from prohibiting persons from carrying a firearm into any botanic garden, campground, aquatic center, grounds of an aquatic center, boat lau...
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2024-04-18
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB2257Intro
25%
Provides that the Act may be referred to as the Nelson Mandela Act. Creates the Isolated Confinement Restriction Act. Provides that, except for a committed person in protective custody who opts out of that status by providing informal, voluntary, wri...
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2024-04-16
Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Karina Villa
ILSB3914Intro
25%
Makes various appropriations from the General Revenue Fund to the Department of Human Services, the Department of Early Childhood, and the Illinois State Board of Education for early childhood and related purposes. Effective July 1, 2024.
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2024-04-16
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB1478Engross
50%
Amends the Children and Family Services Act. Creates the Due Process for Youth Oversight Commission (Commission) to oversee the creation and implementation of a youth's statutory right to counsel in abuse and neglect proceedings conducted in accordan...
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2024-04-15
To House Rules Committee
ILSB1763Intro
25%
Amends the Hospital Services Trust Fund Article of the Illinois Public Aid Code. Increases by 20% hospital reimbursement rates for dates of service on and after January 1, 2024, for specified services, including, but not limited to: inpatient general...
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2024-04-15
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB1321Intro
25%
Amends the Property Tax Code. Provides that owners of income-producing properties shall file physical descriptions of their properties with the chief county assessor in the form and format determined by the chief county assessor. Effective immediatel...
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2024-04-15
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB1816Intro
25%
Amends the Medical Assistance Article of the Illinois Public Aid Code. Requires the Department of Healthcare and Family Services to develop policies and procedures with the goal of increasing the capacity of behavioral health services provided by fed...
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2024-04-15
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB3809Intro
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Provides legislative findings. Appropriates specified amounts to the Department of Public Health for grants, expenses, and administrative costs of programs relating to acquired immunodeficiency syndrome and human immunodeficiency virus; the Getting t...
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2024-04-11
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB3464Intro
25%
Creates the Work Without Fear Act. Provides that it is unlawful for any person to engage in, or to direct another person to engage in, immigration-related retaliation against any person or his or her family member or household member for the purpose ...
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2024-03-27
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB1294Intro
25%
Amends the Department of Human Services Act. Provides that a person is eligible for a diaper allowance in the amount of $70 per month per eligible child if all of the following conditions are met: (1) the person's household income is at or below 100%...
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2024-03-22
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB3329Intro
25%
Amends the Illinois Income Tax Act. Creates a child tax credit in an amount equal to the product of a specified credit amount multiplied by the number of qualifying children of the taxpayer. Effective immediately.
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2024-03-22
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILHB3418Engross
50%
Creates the Securing All Futures through Equitable Reinvestment (SAFER) Communities Act. Provides that the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity shall create a program to award grants to Navigators for specified purposes, including wage rei...
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2024-03-22
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB1282PassReinserts the provisions of the introduced bill with the following changes. Provides that a group or individual policy of accident and health insurance or a managed care plan that is amended, delivered, issued, or renewed on or after January 1, 2025 ...
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2024-03-20
Added as Chief Co-Sponsor Sen. Mattie Hunter
ILSB3018Intro
25%
Amends the School Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
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2024-03-20
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB2863Intro
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Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Requires the authority having maintenance jurisdiction over a publicly owned paved bicycle trail in the State to erect permanent regulatory or warning signage alerting pedestrians or cyclists of highway crossings unl...
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2024-03-18
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB1284Intro
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Amends the Property Tax Code. Provides that the county board may designate a geographic area within the county as a flood zone. Provides that homestead property that is located within a flood zone is entitled to a reduction of $5,000 from the propert...
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2024-03-15
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB1444Intro
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Amends the Illinois Income Tax Act. Creates an income tax credit for dependents of the taxpayer. Provides that the maximum amount of the credit is $700 per qualified dependent of the taxpayer. Provides that the maximum amount shall be reduced by $24 ...
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2024-03-15
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB1501Intro
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Amends the General Not For Profit Corporation Act of 1986. Provides that in its annual report filed with the Secretary of State, a domestic or foreign corporation shall include the aggregated demographic information of its directors and officers, inc...
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2024-03-15
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB2421Intro
25%
Creates the Carbon Dioxide Transport and Storage Protections Act. Defines terms. Provides that (i) title to pore space belongs to and is vested in the surface owner of the overlying surface estate, (ii) a conveyance of title to a surface estate conve...
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2024-03-15
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB3791Intro
25%
Amends the Humane Euthanasia in Animal Shelters Act. Provides that, beginning July 1, 2024, an animal shelter may not euthanize any dog, cat, or other domesticated animal. Effective July 1, 2024.
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2024-03-15
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB1578Intro
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Amends the Environmental Protection Act. Provides that owners and operators of CCR surface impoundments at electric generating plants that are within 4,000 feet of Lake Michigan shall close the CCR surface impoundment by removal and off-site disposal...
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2024-03-15
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB3777Intro
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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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2024-03-15
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB3108Intro
25%
Creates the Health Care Availability and Access Board Act. Establishes the Health Care Availability and Access Board to protect State residents, State and local governments, commercial health plans, health care providers, pharmacies licensed in the S...
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2024-03-12
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSR0552Intro
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Expresses strong support for the initiative to reprogram USDA funds allocated to Puerto Rico toward purchasing locally grown items in Puerto Rico. Urges the United States Congress to endorse and implement this initiative in recognition of its potenti...
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2024-03-07
To Senate Agriculture Committee
ILSB0160Engross
50%
Amends the Telephone Solicitations Act. Provides that a person, business, or organization may not spoof a caller's information or otherwise misrepresent the origin of a telemarketing call unless the person, business, or organization has the right to ...
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2024-03-06
To House Rules Committee
ILSB2990Intro
25%
Amends the Illinois Human Rights Act. Makes it a violation of the Real Estate Transactions Article of the Act to unlawfully discriminate using credit score and history, including insufficient credit history. Limits these provisions to landlord and te...
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2024-03-05
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB2839Intro
25%
Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Sets forth the General Assembly's intentions. Requires the Environmental Protection Agency to adopt rules to implement the motor vehicle emission standards of the State of California and the advanced clean cars II pr...
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2024-02-29
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSR0801Intro
25%
Recognizes the Black and African-American communities of the 7th Senate District and expresses a deep appreciation and respect for the myriad of Black communities that currently reside in and have lived in the 7th District. Celebrates the history, ac...
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2024-02-28
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB3717Intro
25%
Amends the General Provisions Article of the Illinois Pension Code. Provides that the amendatory Act may be referred to as the Fossil Fuel Divestment Act. With regard to the pension funds and retirement systems established under the General Assembly,...
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2024-02-26
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILHB2347Engross
50%
Reinserts the provisions of the bill as amended by House Amendment No. 1. Further amends the Children and Family Services Act. Provides that the Illinois Juvenile Justice Commission shall study and make recommendations to the General Assembly regardi...
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2024-02-22
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB3792Intro
25%
Amends the Equitable Restrooms Act. Provides that any multiple-occupancy restroom must be identified as an all-gender multiple-occupancy restroom and designated for use by any person of any gender. Removes the requirement that any newly constructed m...
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2024-02-09
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB3750Intro
25%
Creates the Low-Income Tenant's Right to Eviction Counsel Act. Provides that a tenant who financially qualifies under the Act has a right to full representation by counsel to be appointed by the court for eviction proceedings or for proceedings termi...
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2024-02-09
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB3381Intro
25%
Creates the Censorship in Correctional Facilities Act. Provides that a law enforcement agency or law enforcement official shall not refuse to approve the use or prohibit the use of books, including, but not limited to, memoirs, autobiographies, and b...
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2024-02-08
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB3450Intro
25%
Creates the Safe Public Drinking Water Act. Provides that, as soon as practicable after the effective date of the Act, the Department of Public Health shall propose, and the Illinois Pollution Control Board shall adopt, amendments to the Board rules ...
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2024-02-08
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB2008Intro
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Amends the Environmental Protection Act. Provides that no person or organization shall organize a gathering that causes the release of balloons into the air unless the balloons are (1) used by an institution of higher education or a governmental agen...
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2024-02-07
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILHB3375Engross
50%
Amends the Code of Criminal Procedure of 1963. Provides that the provision of the Post-Conviction Hearing Article of the Code that a prisoner shows cause by identifying an objective factor that impeded his or her ability to raise a specific claim dur...
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2024-02-07
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB3298Intro
25%
Amends the Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act. Provides that a person shall not report to a consumer reporting agency any medical debt incurred by a consumer or any collection action against the consumer to collect medical debt. Prov...
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2024-02-07
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB3271Intro
25%
Amends the Illinois Human Rights Act. Defines "source of income" as the lawful manner by which an individual supports himself or herself and his or her dependents including, but not limited to, any lawful source of income or rental assistance from an...
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2024-02-06
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB2843Intro
25%
Amends the Regional Transportation Authority Act. Provides that, beginning with the 2024 calendar year, the Regional Transportation Authority shall issue an annual report on or before December 31 of each year containing all rail safety recommendation...
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2024-01-19
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB2015Intro
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Amends the Electric Vehicle Rebate Act. Provides that, beginning July 1, 2024, and continuing as long as funds are available, a person may apply for a rebate in specified amounts following the purchase of an electric bicycle in Illinois. Prohibits th...
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2024-01-17
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB2135Intro
25%
Amends the Credit Services Organizations Act. Changes the name of the Act to the Credit Repair Organizations Act. Provides that the Director of Financial and Professional Regulation shall oversee the activities of credit repair organizations and comp...
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2023-12-19
Sponsor Removed Sen. Meg Loughran Cappel
ILSB1559PassAmends the Cannabis Regulation and Tax Act. Provides that from January 1, 2023 through January 1, 2027, the Department of Agriculture shall not make the application available for transporting organization licenses. Provides that entities awarded a tr...
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2023-12-08
Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0578
ILSB1769PassReinserts the provisions of the introduced bill with the following changes. Removes language providing that any vehicle owned by a governmental unit must either be a manufactured zero-emissions vehicle or converted into a zero-emissions vehicle no la...
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2023-12-08
Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0581
ILSB1515VetoReinserts the provisions of the introduced bill with the following changes: Amends the Right to Privacy in the Workplace Act. Removes a provision prohibiting an employer from voluntarily enrolling in the E-Verify program or a similar Electronic Emplo...
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2023-11-08
Total Veto Stands
ILSR0551Intro
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Urges the United States Congress to take immediate action to clarify and amend the U.S. tax code to prevent the misuse of Puerto Rican tax incentives. Urges any amendments to the tax code to preserve the original intent of promoting economic growth i...
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2023-11-07
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILHB3222Engross
50%
Makes changes to the Language Equity and Access Act. Creates the Division of Language Equity and Access within the Governor's Office of New Americans to lead Statewide efforts in the implementation of the State's language equity and access policy for...
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2023-10-26
To Senate Assignments Committee
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