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ILHB2750Intro
25%
Amends the Administration Article of the Illinois Public Aid Code. Provides that any program of study at a public institution of higher education improves employability and shall be considered equivalent to an acceptable SNAP Employment and Training ...
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2025-04-28
To House Rules Committee
ILHB1189Engross
50%
Amends the Prevailing Wage Act. Provides that the definition of "public works" includes all federal construction projects administered or controlled by a public body if the prevailing rate of wages is equal to or greater than the prevailing wage dete...
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2025-04-28
[Hearing: Apr 30 @ 11:00 am]
To Senate Labor Committee
ILHB1715Engross
50%
Amends the Department of Children and Family Services Powers Law. Repeals a provision that grants the Department of Children and Family Services the power to appoint members of a police and security force to act as peace officers and have all powers ...
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2025-04-28
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
ILHB1806Engross
50%
Creates the Wellness and Oversight for Psychological Resources Act. Defines terms. Provides that an individual, corporation, or entity may not provide, advertise, or otherwise offer therapy or psychotherapy services to the public in the State unless ...
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2025-04-28
To Senate Executive Committee
ILHB1598Engross
50%
Creates the Operating Room Patient Safety Act. Provides that each surgical technologist hired or contracted by a health care facility on or after January 1, 2027 shall meet specified educational, certification, or experiential requirements. Provides ...
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2025-04-25
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILHB3097Engross
50%
Amends the School Code. Provides that, beginning with the 2025-2026 school year, a school district shall provide appropriate support to each high school student to assist with education about and the completion of a Free Application for Federal Stude...
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2025-04-25
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILHB3096Engross
50%
Amends the School Code. Provides that, beginning with the 2025-2026 school year, each high school must designate at least one member of its staff as a contact for matters related to the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA), annually provi...
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2025-04-25
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILHB3350Intro
25%
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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2025-04-24
To House Rules Committee
ILSB1241Engross
50%
Amends the Township Code. Provides that, if a township owns or controls a cemetery lying within or without, or partly within and partly without, the territory of the township, and if the township has no township collector, then the township superviso...
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2025-04-24
Placed on Calendar 2nd Reading - Short Debate
ILHB2948Intro
25%
Creates the Transparent, Inclusive, and Competitively Neutral Energy Policy Act. Sets forth findings. Provides that the energy procurement process shall be transparent, inclusive, and competitively neutral and shall provide due consideration to the u...
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2025-04-24
To House Rules Committee
ILHB2998Intro
25%
Amends the Election Code. Provides that all local election authorities shall post requirements and qualifications for running for local offices and petition filing deadlines on the website of the local election authority.
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2025-04-24
To House Rules Committee
ILHB1433Intro
25%
Creates the Educational Credit for Election Judges Act. Provides that each institution of higher education may adopt a policy regarding its awarding of academic credit or a non-credit alternative for election judges. Provides that the policy may appl...
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2025-04-24
To House Rules Committee
ILHR0039Intro
25%
Declares April 2025 as Autism Awareness and Acceptance Month in the State of Illinois to help increase public awareness of the need to support individuals with autism and the family members, medical professionals, and human services professionals who...
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2025-04-23
Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Janet Yang Rohr
ILHB1575Engross
50%
Amends the Counties Code. Provides that a county recorder may not impose a fee for filing a restrictive covenant modification to an unlawful restrictive covenant (currently a county recorder may impose a fee for filing a restrictive covenant modifica...
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2025-04-23
[Hearing: Apr 30 @ 4:30 pm]
To Senate Judiciary Committee
ILHB1375Engross
50%
Amends the Illinois Administrative Procedure Act. Creates emergency rulemaking procedures for the student teaching stipend program. Amends the Downstate Teacher Article of the Illinois Pension Code. Authorizes a person to establish optional credit fo...
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2025-04-23
To Senate Appropriations Education Committee
ILHB3522Engross
50%
Creates the Public University Direct Admission Program Act. Provides that, beginning with the 2027-2028 academic year, the Board of Higher Education, in collaboration with the Illinois Community College Board, the Illinois Student Assistance Commissi...
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2025-04-23
To Senate Higher Education Committee
ILHB2418Engross
50%
Reinserts the provisions of the introduced bill with the following changes. Makes changes to the membership of the Commission on Youth Sports. Provides that the Department of Human Services may delay the implementation of provisions concerning admini...
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2025-04-23
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILHB1330Intro
25%
Amends the Illinois Act on the Aging. In provisions concerning the Community Care Program, provides that, subject to federal approval, on and after January 1, 2026, rates for in-home services shall be increased to $32.75 to sustain a minimum wage of ...
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2025-04-23
To House Rules Committee
ILHB3637Engross
50%
Amends the Behavior Analyst Licensing Act, the Clinical Psychologist Licensing Act, the Clinical Social Work and Social Work Practice Act, the Marriage and Family Therapy Licensing Act, the Medical Practice Act of 1987, the Licensed Certified Profess...
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2025-04-23
To Senate Executive Committee
ILHB3140Engross
50%
Creates the Care for Retired Police Dogs Program Act. Creates the Care for Retired Police Dogs Program within the University of Illinois System to provide a stable funding source for the veterinary care of retired police dogs. Provides that the Board...
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2025-04-23
To Senate Appropriations - Public Safety and Infrastructure Committee
ILHB1367Engross
50%
Amends the Township Open Space Article of the Township Code. Reduces the acreage that constitutes open land or open space under the Article to 25 acres (currently, 50 acres). Provides, in the definition of "open space purposes", that development incl...
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2025-04-23
To Senate Executive Committee
ILHB3650Engross
50%
Amends the Energy Transition Act. Adds electrification industries to clean energy jobs. Amends the Public Utilities Act. Provides that a gas utility may cease providing service if the Illinois Commerce Commission determines that adequate substitute s...
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2025-04-23
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILHB2966Engross
50%
Amends the School Code. Authorizes the State Board of Education to award grants to school districts in the State for the purpose of incentivizing those districts to conduct reorganization feasibility studies. Provides that, to be eligible for a grant...
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2025-04-23
[Hearing: Apr 29 @ 2:00 pm]
To Senate Education Committee
ILHR0176Intro
25%
Declares March 15, 2025 as Latina Heritage Day.
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2025-04-22
[Hearing: Apr 30 @ 2:00 pm]
To House State Government Administration Committee
ILHR0170Intro
25%
Declares March 25, 2025 as Equal Pay Day in the State of Illinois. Encourages the citizens of this State to learn about the pay gap that women experience in society and to learn about these various dates that bring attention to the pay gap that speci...
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2025-04-22
[Hearing: Apr 30 @ 2:00 pm]
To House Labor & Commerce Committee
ILHJR0024Intro
25%
Creates the Child Welfare Agency Liability Task Force to develop and recommend a permanent solution to address the unavailability of liability insurance for child welfare agencies in the State.
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2025-04-22
[Hearing: Apr 30 @ 10:00 am]
To House Executive Committee
ILHB3466Intro
25%
Amends the Property Tax Code. Provides that a county opting out of the special assessment programs to reduce the assessed value of certain residential real property shall not disqualify or shorten the maximum eligibility periods for any property appr...
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2025-04-22
To House Rules Committee
ILHB1867Intro
25%
Amends the Property Tax Code. Provides that the maximum income limitation under the Low-Income Senior Citizens Assessment Freeze Homestead Exemption shall be adjusted each year by the annual cost of living increase, if any, in Social Security and Sup...
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2025-04-21
To House Rules Committee
ILSB2008Engross
50%
Amends the Grocery Initiative Act. Defines "independently owned" and "local ownership".
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2025-04-17
[Hearing: May 1 @ 8:00 am]
To House Revenue & Finance Committee
ILHB3614Intro
25%
Amends the Environmental Protection Act. Provides that no person shall conduct a carbon sequestration activity within a sequestration facility that overlies, underlies, or passes through a sole-source aquifer. Defines "sole-source aquifer". Effective...
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2025-04-16
To House Rules Committee
ILHB1075Engross
50%
Amends the State Commemorative Dates Act. Provides that, in accordance with the official day recognized by the government of the Republic of India, the 15th day of the Hindu lunisolar month of Kartika is designated as Diwali Day, to be observed throu...
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2025-04-15
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILHB3247Intro
25%
Amends the School Code. Prohibits a child from being denied a free public education through secondary school while in the State based on the child's or associated person's perceived or actual citizenship or immigration status. Prohibits a school from...
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2025-04-15
To House Rules Committee
ILHB3081Engross
50%
Amends the School Code. Creates the Out-of-School Time (OST) Advisory Council for the purpose of providing information and advice to the Governor and State agencies regarding State and federal policy and funding issues affecting out of school time pr...
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2025-04-14
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILHB3654Engross
50%
Amends the Open Space Lands Acquisition and Development Act. Provides that a distressed location project that is located within a distressed community shall be eligible for assistance of up to 100% for the acquisition of open space lands and for capi...
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2025-04-14
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILHB1437Engross
50%
Amends the State Treasurer Act. Provides that the State Treasurer may establish and administer a non-profit investment pool and an electronic payment processing program to supplement and enhance investment opportunities and secure electronic payment ...
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2025-04-14
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILHB3566Engross
50%
Amends the Eviction Article of the Code of Civil Procedure. Requires dismissal of a complaint in its entirety against all defendants if the complaint names a defendant who is a minor at the time of filing or was a minor at the time that the lease agr...
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2025-04-14
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILHB2757Engross
50%
Reinserts the provisions of the introduced bill with the following changes. Provides that the Director of Commerce and Economic Opportunity or the Director's designee shall serve as an ex officio, nonvoting, advisory member. Provides that the Departm...
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2025-04-14
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILHB3772Engross
50%
Amends the School Code. Provides that early childhood programs receiving State funds shall restrict suspensions. Provides that the decision to suspend a student in preschool for 3 or more days may only be made by the superintendent of the school dist...
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2025-04-14
Placed on Calendar Order of First Reading April 29, 2025
ILHB1927Engross
50%
Amends the Open Space Lands Acquisition and Development Act. Provides that, notwithstanding any other provision of law, moneys in the Open Space Lands Acquisition and Development Fund may not be appropriated, assigned, or transferred to another State...
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2025-04-14
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILHB2970Engross
50%
Amends the School Code. Allows a teacher to grieve the issuance of a warning regarding causes that are considered remediable pursuant to the applicable collective bargaining agreement to determine whether the school district had just cause in issuing...
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2025-04-14
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILHB2436Engross
50%
Amends the Counties Code. Provides that, in counties with a population over 3,000,000, representation by the public defender in immigration cases shall be limited to those arising or being heard within the geographical boundaries of the county where ...
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2025-04-14
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILHB2419Engross
50%
Amends the Environmental Protection Act. Provides that, when determining whether certain local siting review criteria have been met, the county board of the county or the governing body of the municipality, as applicable, shall consider, among other ...
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2025-04-14
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILHB3652Engross
50%
Sets forth requirements for installation of fuel gas alarms. Provides that all covered buildings must comply with the requirements of this Act on or before January 1, 2028. Provides for requirements for compliance and implementation. Sets forth requi...
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2025-04-14
Placed on Calendar Order of First Reading April 29, 2025
ILHB1582Intro
25%
Amends the Tobacco Products Manufacturers' Escrow Enforcement Act of 2003. Provides that, upon a distributor's failure to submit certain information, the Attorney General may send a notice of violation to the distributor and provide 10 days to cure t...
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2025-04-11
To House Rules Committee
ILHB3762Intro
25%
Creates the Workplace Extreme Temperature Safety Act. Provides that the Director of Labor shall adopt rules to establish excessive heat and excessive cold standards. Sets forth temporary excessive heat and excessive cold standards. Provides that, on ...
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2025-04-11
To House Rules Committee
ILHB1814Intro
25%
Amends the Zoning Division of the Illinois Municipal Code. Provides that, for all new development after January 1, 2026, each city with a population of 25,000 or more shall allow the development of all middle housing types on lots or parcels with a t...
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2025-04-11
To House Rules Committee
ILHB0460Intro
25%
Amends the Higher Education Fair Admissions Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
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2025-04-11
To House Rules Committee
ILHB3332Intro
25%
Amends the Unified Code of Corrections. Provides that a person under 21 years of age at the time of the commission of an offense or offenses, other than first degree murder, shall be eligible for sentencing review after serving 10 years or more of hi...
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2025-04-10
Motion to Reconsider Vote - Withdrawn Rep. Patrick Windhorst
ILHB3842Engross
50%
Amends the Township Code. Authorizes funds generated through a levy on property located in a special police district in an unincorporated area of a township in a county with a population of 1,000,000 or more inhabitants to be used to provide for publ...
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2025-04-10
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILHB3037Engross
50%
Creates the Right to Play Act. Provides that a student who is a member of a school athletic activity may participate in a nonschool athletic activity that is of the same sport as the school athletic activity during the season in which the student par...
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2025-04-10
To Senate Assignments Committee
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