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ILHB5407Enroll
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Amends the Education for Homeless Children Act. In provisions concerning the Education of Homeless Children and Youth State Grant Program, provides that grants shall be awarded to applicant school districts based on the percentage of students experie...
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2024-05-25
Added as Alternate Chief Co-Sponsor Sen. Kimberly A. Lightford
ILHB5395Enroll
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Reinserts the provisions of the engrossed bill with changes that include the following. Requires the issuer of a network plan to submit a self-audit of its provider directory and a summary to the Department of Insurance, which the Department shall ma...
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2024-05-25
Passed Both Houses
ILHB4409Enroll
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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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2024-05-25
Added as Alternate Co-Sponsor Sen. Emil Jones, III
ILHB5561Enroll
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Amends the Whistleblower Act. Changes the definitions of "employer" and "employee". Defines "adverse employment action", "public body", "retaliatory action", and "supervisor". Provides that an employer may not take retaliatory action against an emplo...
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2024-05-25
Added as Alternate Co-Sponsor Sen. Emil Jones, III
ILSB1996Enroll
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Amends the Illinois Insurance Code. Provides for increases in the rate of the annual Illinois Workers' Compensation Commission Operations Fund Surcharge. Amends the Workers' Compensation Act. Provides for increases in the rate of the Illinois Workers...
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2024-05-24
Passed Both Houses
ILSB3784Enroll
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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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2024-05-24
Passed Both Houses
ILSB2960Enroll
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Creates the Small Single-Use Plastic Bottle Act. Provides that, beginning July 1, 2025, hotels with 50 rooms or more and, beginning January 1, 2026, hotels with less than 50 rooms may not provide small single-use plastic bottles containing personal c...
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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
ILSB2740Enroll
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Amends the Condominium Property Act. Provides that the board of managers of a condominium must adopt a policy to reasonably accommodate a unit owner who is a person with a disability. Provides that the board of managers must make reasonable efforts t...
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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
ILSB2662Enroll
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Amends the Preventing Youth Vaping Act. Restricts a manufacturer, distributor, or retailer from advertising, marketing, or promoting an electronic cigarette in a manner that is likely to cause a parent, legal guardian, teacher, or other adult to mist...
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2024-05-24
Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Cristina Castro
ILSB2643Enroll
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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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2024-05-24
Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Cristina Castro
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
ILSB2876Enroll
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Reinsert the provisions of the introduced bill with the following changes. Excludes from the definition of "event facility" school stadiums and hotels (rather than only school stadiums). Makes technical and other changes.
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2024-05-24
Passed Both Houses
ILSB3137Enroll
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Reinserts the provisions of the bill, as amended by Senate Amendments numbers 1 and 2 with the following change, in the amendatory changes to the Substance Use Disorder Act, provides that the notice shall be provided for persons whose death occurred ...
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2024-05-24
Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Mary Edly-Allen
ILSB3081Enroll
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Amends various Acts relating to the governance of public universities in Illinois. Provides that the governing board of each public university shall provide all Illinois students transferring from a public community college in this State with the uni...
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2024-05-24
Passed Both Houses
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
ILHB5097Enroll
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Amends the Children and Family Services Act. Provides that every case plan shall include a Haircare Plan for each youth in care that is developed in consultation with the youth based upon the youth's developmental abilities, as well as with the youth...
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2024-05-24
Added as Alternate Co-Sponsor Sen. Celina Villanueva
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
ILHB5457Enroll
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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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2024-05-24
Added as Alternate Co-Sponsor Sen. Adriane Johnson
ILSB3201Enroll
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Reinserts the provisions of the introduced bill with the following changes. Provides that the Illinois Law Enforcement Training Standards Board shall develop or approve a course (rather than in-service training programs) to assist law enforcement off...
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2024-05-24
Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Kimberly A. Lightford
ILHB4592Enroll
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Amends the Illinois Identification Card Act and the Illinois Vehicle Code. Allows the Secretary of State to issue a mobile Illinois Identification Card or mobile driver's license to an individual who is otherwise eligible to hold a physical credentia...
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2024-05-24
Added as Alternate Co-Sponsor Sen. Tom Bennett
ILSB2442Enroll
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Amends the Fair Patient Billing Act. Provides that a hospital may not bill an uninsured patient that requires health care services if it determines, through its financial assistance screening process, that the patient has a household income that qual...
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2024-05-23
Added Alternate Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Debbie Meyers-Martin
ILSB3310Enroll
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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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2024-05-23
Passed Both Houses
ILSB3182Enroll
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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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2024-05-23
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
ILSB3751Enroll
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Reinserts the provisions of the introduced bill with changes. Removes provisions related to data collection requirements. Provides that the Health Outcomes Review Board is tasked with recommending (rather than facilitating adoption of) solutions that...
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2024-05-23
Added Alternate Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Carol Ammons
ILSB3235Enroll
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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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2024-05-23
Passed Both Houses
ILSB3762Enroll
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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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2024-05-23
Added Alternate Co-Sponsor Rep. Carol Ammons
ILHB5507Enroll
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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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2024-05-23
Passed Both Houses
ILHB4911Enroll
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Reinserts the provisions of the introduced bill with the following changes. Provides that every contract for physical fitness services shall provide that notice of cancellation be made in writing and delivered by certified or registered mail (rather ...
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2024-05-23
Added as Alternate Co-Sponsor Sen. Mike Simmons
ILSB2968Enroll
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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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2024-05-23
Passed Both Houses
ILHB5239Enroll
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Reinserts the provisions of the introduced bill with the following changes. Amends the Freedom of Information Act to prohibit disclosure of information protected by the Lawful Health Care Activity Act. Amends the Illinois Public Aid Code. Allows a mi...
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2024-05-23
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
ILSB2743Enroll
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Creates the Water Plan Task Force Act. Establishes the State Water Plan Task Force. Provides that the Task Force shall be chaired by the Director of the Office of Water Resources of the Department of Natural Resources and composed of the directors, o...
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2024-05-22
Added Alternate Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Anna Moeller
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
ILSB0859Enroll
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Amends the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Creates the Office of Economic Equity and Empowerment within the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity. Provides that the Office sh...
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2024-05-22
Added Alternate Co-Sponsor Rep. Debbie Meyers-Martin
ILSB3451Enroll
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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
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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
ILSB3297Enroll
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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
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
ILSB2872Enroll
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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
ILHB5238Enroll
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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
ILHB4891Enroll
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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
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
ILSB2654Enroll
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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
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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