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ILHB5407Enroll
75%
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
75%
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
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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2024-05-24
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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2024-05-24
To Senate Elections 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
ILSB0125Engross
50%
Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Requires the Secretary of State to include in the Illinois Rules of the Road publication and in adult driver education courses information advising drivers of the laws and best practices for safely sharing the roadwa...
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2024-05-24
Placed on Calendar Order of Concurrence House Amendment(s) 2 - May 24, 2024
ILSB2371Engross
50%
Amends the Illinois Public Labor Relations Act. Provides that, beginning on the effective date of the amendatory Act, Assistant State's Attorneys, Assistant Public Defenders, and Assistant Appellate Defenders are not managerial employees for purposes...
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2024-05-24
House Floor Amendment No. 2 Motion to Concur Referred to Assignments
ILSB0333Engross
50%
Amends the Criminal Identification Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
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2024-05-24
Third Reading/Final Action Deadline Extended-9(b) May 27, 2024
ILSB1996Enroll
75%
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
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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2024-05-24
To Senate Elections Committee
ILSB2277Engross
50%
Amends the Property Tax Code. Provides that the interest penalty for the delinquent payment of taxes shall be waived if the county treasurer determines that: (i) the delinquency occurred because the subject tax bill was mailed to an incorrect address...
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2024-05-24
To House Revenue & Finance Committee
ILSB3784Enroll
75%
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
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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2024-05-24
Rule 2-10 Committee/3rd Reading Deadline Established As May 25, 2024
ILHB3046Engross
50%
Amends the Environmental Protection Act. Provides that, by January 1, 2024, the Environmental Protection Agency shall propose and, within one year after receipt of the Agency's proposal, the Board shall adopt (1) amendments to the Board's primary dri...
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2024-05-24
Rule 2-10 Third Reading Deadline Established As May 25, 2024
ILSB2960Enroll
75%
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
ILSB0771Intro
25%
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
ILSB3646Enroll
75%
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
ILSB2665Engross
50%
Amends the Open Meetings Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
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2024-05-24
Third Reading/Final Action Deadline Extended-9(b) May 27, 2024
ILSB2662Enroll
75%
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
ILSB2876Enroll
75%
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
75%
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
ILSB3473Engross
50%
Reinserts the contents of the bill as introduced with the following changes. Provides that each school district and charter school shall post the informational materials on the school district's or charter school's website, if any. Removes the provis...
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2024-05-24
House Floor Amendment No. 2 Motion To Concur Recommended Do Adopt Education; 013-000-000
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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2024-05-24
To House Energy & Environment Committee
ILHB4875Enroll
75%
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
ILHB4206Engross
50%
Amends the Landlord and Tenant Act. Provides that if a landlord uses a third-party payment portal to collect rental payments from tenants and if a transaction fee or other charge is imposed through the portal on rental payments made by e-check or oth...
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2024-05-24
Added as Alternate Co-Sponsor Sen. Kimberly A. Lightford
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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2024-05-24
Rule 2-10 Third Reading Deadline Established As May 25, 2024
ILHB4867Engross
50%
Amends the Illinois Human Rights Act. Declares the public policy of this State that a person has freedom from unlawful discrimination in making reproductive health decisions and such discrimination is unlawful. Defines "reproductive health decisions"...
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2024-05-24
Rule 2-10 Third Reading Deadline Established As May 25, 2024
ILSB0863Engross
50%
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 House Rules Committee
ILHB5290Engross
50%
Amends the Illinois Health and Hazardous Substances Registry Act. 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
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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2024-05-24
To Senate Executive Committee
ILSB3538Enroll
75%
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
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
ILSB2234Engross
50%
Creates the Small Business Financing Transparency Act. Sets forth provisions concerning registration requirements for persons providing commercial financing; additional registration information; registration expiration; functions, power, and duties; ...
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2024-05-24
To House Financial Institutions and Licensing Committee
ILSB2740Enroll
75%
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
ILSB2878Engross
50%
Amends the Property Tax Code. In provisions concerning the senior citizens homestead exemption, permanently removes the requirement to reapply for the exemption in counties with 3,000,000 or more inhabitants (currently, that requirement was eliminate...
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2024-05-24
Third Reading/Final Action Deadline Extended-9(b) May 27, 2024
ILSB2643Enroll
75%
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
75%
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
ILSB3081Enroll
75%
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
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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2024-05-24
Rule 2-10 Third Reading Deadline Established As May 25, 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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2024-05-24
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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2024-05-24
Third Reading/Final Action Deadline Extended-9(b) May 27, 2024
ILHB5097Enroll
75%
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
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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2024-05-24
Added as Alternate Co-Sponsor Sen. Celina Villanueva
ILSB3527Intro
25%
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
25%
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
ILHB3713Engross
50%
Amends the State Board of Education Article of the School Code. Provides that the State Board shall require all school districts to supply all active classroom instructors, all school staff and administration, and district leadership with an educatio...
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2024-05-24
Rule 2-10 Committee/3rd Reading Deadline Established As May 25, 2024
ILHB5142Engross
50%
Reinserts the provisions of the bill as amended by House Amendment No. 1 with changes. Further amends the Illinois Insurance Code. Provides that coverage for abortion care may not impose any deductible, coinsurance, waiting period, or other cost-shar...
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2024-05-24
Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 Motion to Concur Recommends Be Adopted Health Care Availability & Accessibility Committee; 007-003-000
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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2024-05-24
Added as Alternate Co-Sponsor Sen. Adriane Johnson
ILSB3201Enroll
75%
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
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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2024-05-24
Added as Alternate Co-Sponsor Sen. Mary Edly-Allen
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