Sponsored by Esther Golar - Illinois (Current)
| State | Bill | Summary/Title | Last Action![]() |
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| IL | SB0063 | Amends the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Changes the composition of the State Rehabilitation Council. Authorizes the Governor, by executive order, to delegate to the Council his authority to make Council appointments. Makes changes in provis... [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-03 Passed Both Houses |
| IL | SB1323 | Amends the Illinois Youth and Young Adult Employment Act of 1986. Relocates the Community Youth Employment Program to the Illinois Youth and Young Adult Employment Act of 1986. Provides that the Department of Natural Resources instead of the Departme... [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-03 |
| IL | SB1191 | Amends the Child Care Act of 1969. Provides that the Department of Children and Family Services shall adopt rules to maintain data on child care facilities without Internet access and shall ensure the child care facilities without Internet access reg... [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-03 Added Alternate Co-Sponsor Rep. Al Riley |
| IL | HB0129 | Amends the School Code. Requires all school boards to designate the first Monday in October of each year "Bring Your Parents to School Day" to promote parental involvement and student success. Provides that on this day, a school board shall permit th... [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-08 Placed on Calendar Order of 2nd Reading May 9, 2013 |
| IL | HB2535 | Amends the Community-Integrated Living Arrangements Licensure and Certification Act. Provides that the Director of the Division of Developmental Disabilities within the Department of Human Services shall appoint a Community Regulatory Advisory Board ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-08 Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading May 9, 2013 |
| IL | HB1529 | Amends the State Finance Act and Illinois Vehicle Code to provide for the issuance of Retired Law Enforcement license plates to residents of Illinois who meet eligibility requirements prescribed by the Secretary of State. Creates the Illinois Sheriff... [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-08 Placed on Calendar Order of 2nd Reading May 9, 2013 |
| IL | SB1623 | Amends the Pertussis Vaccine Act. Provides that parents or guardians and immediate family members of a newborn child in a neonatal intensive care unit shall be offered an opportunity to receive the pertussis vaccine to minimize the chances that the d... [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-08 Added Alternate Co-Sponsor Rep. Camille Y. Lilly |
| IL | HB0099 | Amends the Mortgage Foreclosure Article of the Code of Civil Procedure. Provides that a Section concerning homeowner protection is repealed July 1, 2023 (instead of July 1, 2013). Effective immediately. [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-09 Passed Both Houses |
| IL | HB2586 | Amends the Energy Assistance Act. Provides that a provision concerning the Supplemental Low-Income Energy Assistance Fund and the Energy Assistance Charge is repealed effective December 31, 2018 (rather than December 31, 2013) unless renewed by actio... [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-09 Added as Alternate Chief Co-Sponsor Sen. Iris Y. Martinez |
| IL | HB0576 | Amends the Public Utilities Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning consumer education. [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-09 Passed Both Houses |
| IL | SB1814 | Amends the Code of Criminal Procedure of 1963. Adds child abduction involving luring of a child to the list of offenses for which evidence of the prior commission of that offense or other listed offense may be introduced in the trial or retrial of th... [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-09 Added Alternate Co-Sponsor Rep. Jerry F. Costello, II |
| IL | HB2453 | Amends the Regional Transportation Authority Act. Requires both the Mass Transit Committee in the House of Representatives and the Transportation Committee in the Senate to hold a public hearing regarding any increase in the revenue recovery ratio or... [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-10 |
| IL | HB2631 | Amends the Transportation Article of the School Code. Provides that any 2 or more school districts that share the same boundaries may combine transportation activities to achieve savings to these school districts as well as this State. Provides that ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-10 |
| IL | HB2675 | Amends the School Code and the Critical Health Problems and Comprehensive Health Education Act. Makes changes to provide that each class or course in comprehensive sex education offered in any of grades 6 through 12 shall include instruction on both ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-10 Added as Alternate Co-Sponsor Sen. William Delgado |
| IL | SB2320 | Amends the Business Enterprise for Minorities, Females, and Persons with Disabilities Act. Provides that a business owned and controlled by females shall be certified as a "Female owned business". A business owned and controlled by females who are al... [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-10 Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading - Short Debate |
| IL | HB1292 | Authorizes the Director of Natural Resources to convey real and personal property to the Forest Park Foundation and the Pleasure Driveway and Park District of Peoria. Effective immediately. [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-13 Public Act . . . . . . . . . 98-0013 |
| IL | HB1538 | Creates the Illinois Mental Health First Aid Training Act. Provides that the Department of Human Services shall establish and administer the Illinois Mental Health First Aid training program so that certified trainers can provide Illinois residents, ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-14 Passed Both Houses |
| IL | HB2591 | Creates the Illinois Employment First Act. Provides that: it is the policy of this State that competitive and integrated employment shall be considered the first option when serving persons with disabilities of working age; the policy applies to prog... [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-14 Passed Both Houses |
| IL | HB2615 | Creates the Illinois Hydraulic Fracturing Regulatory Act. Prohibits high volume horizontal hydraulic fracturing operations performed without a permit. Regulates where high volume horizontal hydraulic fracturing operations are proposed, planned, or oc... [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-14 Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Christian L Mitchell |
| IL | HB2353 | Amends various Acts relating to the governance of public universities in Illinois to provide that beginning with the 2013-2014 academic year, if a person is utilizing benefits under the federal Post-9/11 Veterans Educational Assistance Act of 2008 or... [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-14 Passed Both Houses |
| IL | HB2369 | Amends the State Comptroller Act. Requires the Comptroller to post certain financial reports on its website (rather than delivering them to the legislative leaders and the chairpersons of the appropriation committees). Authorizes the Comptroller to p... [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-14 Passed Both Houses |
| IL | HB2404 | Amends the Juvenile Court Act of 1987. Changes the definition of delinquent minor to include a person who was under 18 (rather than 17) years of age when he or she committed an offense classified as a felony. Also changes the age concerning confident... [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-14 Passed Both Houses |
| IL | SB1210 | Creates the Bill of Rights for the Homeless Act. Sets forth certain rights of homeless persons. Provides that in any civil action alleging a violation of the Act, the court may award appropriate injunctive and declaratory relief, actual damages, and ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-14 |
| IL | HB2502 | Creates the Complex Needs Patient Act. Requires the Department of Healthcare and Family Services to provide separate recognition within the State's Medicaid program for individually configured complex rehabilitation technology products and services f... [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-15 |
| IL | HB0167 | Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Provides for the issuance of Prince Hall Freemasonry license plates. Provides that in addition to the appropriate registration fees, an applicant for the special plate shall be charged a fee of $25 at original issuan... [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-15 Passed Both Houses |
| IL | HB0194 | Creates the Lincoln Promise Zone Act. Allows the city councils of Rockford, Aurora, and East St. Louis to each create a promise zone. Provides that the promise zone shall raise funds from private sources at least sufficient to provide each eligible s... [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-15 Passed Both Houses |
| IL | HB2321 | Appropriates $12,500,000 from the General Revenue Fund to the State Board of Education for the textbook block grant program, which provides secular textbooks listed for use by the State Board of Education free of charge to any student in the State wh... [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-15 |
| IL | HB1063 | Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. Provides that a prosecution for any sex offense may be commenced at any time if the victim was under 18 years of age at the time of the offense. [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-15 Postponed - Criminal Law |
| IL | HB2262 | Amends the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Article of the Illinois Public Aid Code. In a provision concerning eligibility for benefits under the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program, provides that the Department of Human Services s... [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-15 Added as Alternate Co-Sponsor Sen. Emil Jones, III |
| IL | HB2661 | Amends the Alternative Health Care Delivery Act and the Hospital Licensing Act. Sets forth the General Assembly's findings concerning the screening of newborns for congenital heart defects. Provides that all birth centers and hospitals must test ever... [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-15 Added as Alternate Co-Sponsor Sen. Emil Jones, III |
| IL | HB3086 | Amends the Illinois Oil and Gas Act. Provides that no person shall conduct high volume horizontal hydraulic fracturing operations without express legislative authorization, which shall not be granted until after receipt of the findings and recommenda... [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-15 |
| IL | HR0101 | Shows our support for the re-introduction and passage of the Inclusive Prosperity Act, otherwise known as the Robin Hood Tax (H.R. 6411 of the 112th Congress) and encourage the people of this State to show their support for the Inclusive Prosperity A... [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-15 To Sales and Other Taxes Subcommittee |
| IL | HB2905 | Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. Increases the penalty for unlawful clouding of title from a Class A misdemeanor to a Class 4 felony for a first offense, a Class 3 felony for a second offense, a Class 2 felony for a third offense, a Class 1 felony f... [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-15 Senate Floor Amendment No. 1 Recommend Do Adopt Criminal Law; 009-000-000 |
| IL | HB2762 | Amends the School Code. Lowers the compulsory school age from 7 years to 6 years; makes a related change. Effective July 1, 2013. [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-15 |
| IL | HR0279 | Urges the Governor to seek to empower and engage individuals and communities where behavioral healthcare disparities exist through the establishment of Behavioral Healthcare Enterprise Zones, Behavioral Healthcare Loan Repayment Assistance initiative... [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-15 To Sales and Other Taxes Subcommittee |
| IL | HB3628 | Appropriates specified amounts to the Department of Human Services for income assistance and related distributive purposes for the Child Care Assistance Program and for grants associated with employment and training programs. Effective July 1, 2013. [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-15 |
| IL | HB3626 | Appropriates specified amounts to the Department of Human Services for income assistance and related distributive purposes for the Home Services Program and for Rehabilitation Services Bureaus. Effective July 1, 2013. [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-15 |
| IL | HR0258 | Expresses support for appropriating $3.5 million to the State Board of Education for a grant to the Parent Mentor Program for Early Childhood Education. [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-15 |
| IL | HB2650 | Appropriates $1,500,000 from the General Revenue Fund to the Department of Corrections for grants to the Illinois YouthBuild Coalition. Effective July 1, 2013. [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-15 |
| IL | HB1290 | Appropriates $17,100,000 to the Department of Public Health from the General Revenue Fund for local health protection grants for health protection programs. Effective July 1, 2013. [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-16 |
| IL | HB1345 | Amends the Roadside Memorial Act. Re-enacts the fatal accident memorial marker program and extends the deadline until December 31, 2014. Effective immediately. [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-16 Passed Both Houses |
| IL | HB2428 | Amends the School Code. Provides that the State Board of Education shall establish the Task Force on Civic Education. Sets forth provisions concerning the members of the Task Force. Provides that the Task Force shall (1) analyze the current state of ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-16 Passed Both Houses |
| IL | HB2250 | Amends the Prevention of Tobacco Use by Minors and Sale and Distribution of Tobacco Products Act. Prohibits a person under 18 years of age from buying, possessing, being sold, bought for, distributed samples of, or furnished an electronic cigarette. ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-16 Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading May 17, 2013 |
| IL | HB0062 | Creates the No Representation Without Population Act. Provides that the Illinois Department of Corrections shall collect and maintain an electronic record of the legal residence, outside of the facility, and other demographic data, for any person ent... [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-16 |
| IL | HR0263 | Proclaims May 2013 as Asthma Awareness Month in the State of Illinois. [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-16 Placed on Calendar Order of Resolutions |
| IL | HB3625 | Appropriates specified amounts to the Department on Aging for grants and for administrative expenses associated with the purchase of services covered by the Community Care Program; for payment of Community Care Program costs incurred in prior years; ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-16 |
| IL | SB2202 | Creates the Smoke-Free Campus Act. Sets forth the General Assembly's findings. Provides that beginning on July 1, 2014, smoking is prohibited on each campus of a State-supported institution of higher education. Provides that on or before December 31,... [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-16 |
| IL | SB1790 | Amends the Affordable Housing Planning and Appeal Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title. [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-17 Passed Both Houses |
| IL | SB1872 | Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. Deletes provision that enhances the penalty for prostitution to a Class 4 felony if the offense is committed within 1,000 feet of real property comprising a school. Deletes provision that a second or subsequent prost... [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-17 Held on Calendar Order of Second Reading - Short Debate |
| IL | HB1191 | Amends the Illinois Act on the Aging. Grants the Department on Aging the power to hold conferences, trainings, and other programs for which the Department shall determine by rule a reasonable fee to cover related administrative costs. Rules to implem... [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-20 |


