Illinois Senator Mike Simmons [D] | Introduced

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ILSB0207Intro
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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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2024-05-24
To Senate Ethics 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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2024-05-24
To Senate Procurement 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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2024-05-24
To Senate Elections Committee
ILSR0733Intro
25%
Urges the Illinois Supreme Court and relevant authorities to require, as a consistent part of continuing education, LGBTQ+ and HIV cultural competency education for all attorneys, judges, and courtroom staff in the State of Illinois.
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2024-05-24
Placed on Calendar Order of Secretary's Desk Resolutions
ILSB0771Intro
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Amends the Public Utilities Act. Makes a technical change in the short title Section.
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2024-05-24
Rule 2-10 Third Reading Deadline Established As May 25, 2024
ILSB3695Intro
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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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2024-05-24
To Senate Executive Committee
ILSB0648Intro
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Amends the Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
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2024-05-24
Rule 2-10 Third Reading Deadline Established As May 25, 2024
ILSJR0064Intro
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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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2024-05-24
Placed on Calendar Order of Secretary's Desk Resolutions
ILSR1033Intro
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Recognizes the Black and African American communities of the 7th Senate District and expresses our deep appreciation and respect for the myriad of Black communities that currently reside in and have lived in the 7th District. Celebrates the history, ...
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2024-05-24
Referred to Congratulatory Consent Calendar
ILSR0825Intro
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Urges CDOT and IDOT to transform Du Sable Lake Shore Drive into a true boulevard and to be creative and forward-thinking in their redesign of Du Sable Lake Shore Drive, to incorporate safe and efficient multimodal transportation throughout Du Sable L...
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2024-05-24
Placed on Calendar Order of Secretary's Desk Resolutions
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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2024-05-24
To Senate Firearms Committee
ILSB3680Intro
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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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2024-05-24
Rule 2-10 Third Reading Deadline Established As May 25, 2024
ILSB2864Intro
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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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2024-05-24
To Senate Firearms Committee
ILSB3527Intro
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Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. Provides that it is unlawful for any person to store or leave a firearm outside of that person's immediate possession or control unless the firearm is unloaded and secured in a lock box or container in a manner that ...
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2024-05-24
To Senate Firearms Committee
ILSB3737Intro
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Amends the Firearm Owners Identification Card Act. Provides that the Internet-based system for determining the validity of a Firearm Owner's Identification Card shall include a written notice, in both English and Spanish, of a firearm owner's obligat...
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2024-05-24
To Senate Firearms Committee
ILSB3948Intro
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Amends the Missing Persons Identification Act. Removes a provision allowing a law enforcement agency to attempt to obtain a DNA sample from the missing person or a DNA reference sample created from family members' DNA samples for submission before 30...
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2024-05-24
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB3925Intro
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Appropriates $519,000 from the General Revenue Fund to the Department of Corrections for cost and administrative expenses associated with the Healing Beyond Harm program. Effective July 1, 2024.
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2024-05-23
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB3924Intro
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Appropriates $578,000 from the General Revenue Fund to the Department of Corrections for costs and administrative expenses associated with the Creating Healing of Inside Community Educators program. Effective July 1, 2024.
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2024-05-23
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB3764Intro
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Amends the Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Administrative Act. Provides that, for community-based providers serving persons with intellectual/developmental disabilities, subject to federal approval of any relevant Waiver Amendment, the r...
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2024-05-23
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB3509Intro
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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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2024-05-22
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB2940Intro
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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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2024-05-22
Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Omar Aquino
ILSB3559Intro
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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
ILSB3274Intro
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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
ILSB3436Intro
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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
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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
ILSB2840Intro
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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
ILSB3299Intro
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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
ILSB2791Intro
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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
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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
ILSB3470Intro
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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
ILSB3233Intro
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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
ILSB3214Intro
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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
ILSB3804Intro
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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
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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
ILSB3399Intro
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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
ILSB2035Intro
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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
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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
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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
ILSB2687Intro
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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
ILSB3704Intro
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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
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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
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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
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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
ILSB2943Intro
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
ILSB3300Intro
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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
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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
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