Illinois Representative Barbara Hernandez [D]

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ILHB3791Intro
25%
Amends the Firearm Concealed Carry Act. Provides that nothing in the Act prohibits a forest preserve district from prohibiting persons from carrying a firearm into any botanic garden, campground, aquatic center, grounds of an aquatic center, boat lau...
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2024-03-18
To House Judiciary - Criminal Committee
ILHB4600Intro
25%
Amends the Illinois Estate and Generation-Skipping Transfer Tax Act. Makes certain changes concerning estates that contain qualified farm property. Provides that, for the purposes of calculating the State Death Tax Credit, those estates are subject t...
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2024-03-18
To House Revenue & Finance Committee
ILHB5451Intro
25%
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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2024-03-18
[Hearing: Mar 22 @ 11:30 am]
To House Child Care Accessibility & Early Childhood Education Committee
ILHB5060Intro
25%
Appropriates $9,000,000 from the General Revenue Fund to the Department of Public Health for continued funding to the Illinois Association of Free and Charitable Clinics. Effective July 1, 2024.
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2024-03-15
To House Appropriations-Health & Human Services Committee
ILHR0606Intro
25%
Declares March 12, 2024 as "Equal Pay Day". 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 specific groups experience.
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2024-03-15
To House Rules Committee
ILHB4589Intro
25%
Amends the Illinois Vehicle Hijacking and Motor Vehicle Theft Prevention and Insurance Verification Act. Eliminates the provision that provided for the repeal of the Act on January 1, 2025. Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Includes "catalytic conver...
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2024-03-15
[Hearing: Mar 21 @ 4:00 pm]
To House Judiciary - Criminal Committee
ILHB5382Intro
25%
Amends the Illinois Insurance Code. Provides that a group or individual policy of accident and health insurance or a managed care plan that is amended, delivered, issued, or renewed on or after January 1, 2025 shall provide coverage for continuous gl...
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2024-03-15
[Hearing: Mar 20 @ 2:00 pm]
To House Insurance Committee
ILHB5418Intro
25%
Amends the School Construction Law. In provisions concerning school maintenance project grants, provides that the State Board of Education is authorized to make grants to school districts, regional offices of education, intermediate service centers, ...
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2024-03-14
To House Approp-Elementary & Secondary Education Committee
ILHB4966Intro
25%
Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Allows the Secretary of State to issue specialty plates to motorcycles. Makes corresponding changes.
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2024-03-14
Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Tom Weber
ILHB4139Intro
25%
Amends the Illinois Municipal Retirement Fund (IMRF) Article of the Illinois Pension Code. With regard to disability benefits, provides that a determination of disability may be made by a licensed and practicing medical professional with the authorit...
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2024-03-14
Placed on Calendar 2nd Reading - Short Debate
ILHB5457Intro
25%
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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2024-03-14
[Hearing: Mar 21 @ 2:00 pm]
To House Labor & Commerce Committee
ILHB5267Intro
25%
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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2024-03-14
To House Appropriations-Health & Human Services Committee
ILHB4629Intro
25%
Amends the Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act. Provides that it is an unlawful practice under the Act for a person to: (1) offer, display, or advertise an amount a consumer may pay for merchandise without clearly and conspicuously di...
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2024-03-14
Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Dagmara Avelar
ILHB4919Intro
25%
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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2024-03-14
To House Appropriations-Health & Human Services Committee
ILHB5518Intro
25%
Amends the Illinois Insurance Code. Provides that "State-regulated health plan" means any health insurance plan issued by an insurer regulated by the State or health insurance plan operated and administered by the State, including, but not limited to...
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2024-03-14
[Hearing: Mar 20 @ 2:00 pm]
To House Insurance Committee
ILHB4045Intro
25%
Amends the Illinois Municipal Code and the Fire Protection District Act. Provides that an individual who is not a citizen but is legally authorized to work in the United States under federal law is authorized to apply for the position of firefighter,...
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2024-03-13
[Hearing: Mar 22 @ 10:30 am]
To House Police & Fire Committee
ILHB4416Intro
25%
Amends the Illinois Architecture Practice Act of 1989. Removes the 5-year cap an applicant has to successfully complete all examinations required by rule of the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation.
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2024-03-13
Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Travis Weaver
ILHB4863Intro
25%
Authorizes the Department of Military Affairs to convey described real estate in Kane County. Effective immediately.
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2024-03-13
Placed on Calendar 2nd Reading - Short Debate
ILHB5563Intro
25%
Creates the Child Labor Law of 2024. Reinserts provisions of the Child Labor Law. Sets forth additional provisions concerning definitions; exemptions; employer requirements; restrictions on employment of minors; employment certificates; civil penalti...
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2024-03-13
[Hearing: Mar 21 @ 2:00 pm]
To House Labor & Commerce Committee
ILHB5549Intro
25%
Amends the Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Systems Act. Provides for the re-designation of trauma centers to include Level III Trauma Centers and for designation of Acute Injury Stabilization Centers. Sets forth minimum standard requirements for tra...
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2024-03-13
House Floor Amendment No. 1 Referred to Rules Committee
ILHB4431Intro
25%
Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Removes language providing that the examination of an applicant for a driver's license or permit who is 75 years of age or older or, if the Secretary of State adopts rules to raise the age requirement for actual demo...
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2024-03-13
[Hearing: Mar 21 @ 10:00 am]
To House Transportation: Vehicles & Safety Committee
ILHB2900Intro
25%
Amends the Wildlife Code. Prohibits contests or competitions with the objective of taking any fur-bearing mammal. Provides an exception for field trials. Provides that a violation is a Class A misdemeanor and subject to a fine of no less than $500 an...
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2024-03-13
Placed on Calendar 2nd Reading - Short Debate
ILHB4209Intro
25%
Amends the Department of Natural Resources Act. Provides that the Department of Natural Resources may lease land on property of which the Department has jurisdiction for the purpose of creating, operating, or maintaining a commercial solar energy sys...
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2024-03-13
Placed on Calendar 2nd Reading - Short Debate
ILHB4639Intro
25%
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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2024-03-13
[Hearing: Mar 20 @ 4:00 pm]
To House Energy & Environment Committee
ILHB4153Intro
25%
Amends the Election Code. Modifies the statement of candidacy requirements to include an email address for the candidate. Provides that an election authority may not reject a statement of candidacy, and a person may not file an objection to a candida...
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2024-03-13
[Hearing: Mar 20 @ 2:00 pm]
To House Ethics & Elections Committee
ILHB4652Intro
25%
Amends the Board of Higher Education Act. Provides that, subject to appropriation, the Board of Higher Education shall create a student teaching stipend program to alleviate the financial burden of student teaching and to encourage students to pursue...
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2024-03-13
[Hearing: Mar 21 @ 4:00 pm]
To House Higher Education Committee
ILHB5386Intro
25%
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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2024-03-13
Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Ann M. Williams
ILHB5064Intro
25%
Amends the State Comptroller Act. Provides an exception for vendors to receive payment by non-electronic means. Provides that outstanding liabilities as of June 30, payable from appropriations which have otherwise expired and interest penalties payab...
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2024-03-13
To House Executive Committee
ILHB4619Intro
25%
Amends the Homeowners' Energy Policy Statement Act. Prohibits a homeowners' association, common interest community association, or condominium unit owners' association from adopting a bylaw or exercising any power that prohibits the installation of a...
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2024-03-13
[Hearing: Mar 20 @ 4:00 pm]

Placed on Calendar 2nd Reading - Short Debate
ILHB5373Intro
25%
Amends the Illinois Controlled Substances Act. Provides that decisions regarding the treatment of patients experiencing chronic pain shall be made by the prescriber with dispensing by the pharmacist in accordance with the corresponding responsibility...
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2024-03-13
[Hearing: Mar 21 @ 8:30 am]
To House Property Tax Committee
ILHB1533Engross
50%
Amends the Humane Care for Animals Act. Reinserts the provisions of the introduced bill. Deletes that these provisions do not apply to a person who performs a procedure solely for a therapeutic purpose. Provides that surgical claw removal, declawing,...
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2024-03-12
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILHB3901Intro
25%
Amends the Unified Code of Corrections. Provides that a prisoner who is serving a sentence for first degree murder, other than serving a term of natural life imprisonment, shall receive no more than 4.5 days of sentence credit for each month of his o...
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2024-03-12
To House Judiciary - Criminal Committee
ILHB4597Intro
25%
Appropriates $24,591,400 from the Education Assistance Fund to the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy to meet its ordinary and contingent expenses for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2025. Appropriates $5,925,000 from the IMSA Income Fund to th...
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2024-03-12
To House Appropriations-Higher Education Committee
ILHB5383Intro
25%
Amends the State Employees Group Insurance Act. Requires the State Employees Group Insurance Program to provide coverage for all FDA-approved treatments or medications prescribed to slow the progression of Alzheimer's Disease or another related demen...
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2024-03-12
[Hearing: Mar 20 @ 2:00 pm]
To House Insurance Committee
ILHB4371Intro
25%
Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Provides that the Secretary of State shall, at the request of a licensee, print on each driver's license the licensee's blood type and RH factor.
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2024-03-12
[Hearing: Mar 21 @ 10:00 am]
To House Transportation: Vehicles & Safety Committee
ILHB4207Intro
25%
Amends the Rivers, Lakes, and Streams Act. Provides that all State agencies engaged in any development within a special flood hazard area shall comply with all requirements of applicable federal and State law. Requires additional specified requiremen...
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2024-03-12
[Hearing: Mar 21 @ 2:00 pm]
To House State Government Administration Committee
ILHB4782Intro
25%
Amends the Illinois Exotic Weed Act. Changes the title of the Act to the Illinois Exotic Weeds Act. Provides that the Department of Natural Resources shall determine the plants that are exotic weeds for the purposes of the Act and shall compile and k...
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2024-03-12
[Hearing: Mar 20 @ 2:00 pm]

House Floor Amendment No. 1 Rules Refers to Agriculture & Conservation Committee
ILHB5041Intro
25%
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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2024-03-12
[Hearing: Mar 20 @ 2:00 pm]
To House Adoption & Child Welfare Committee
ILHB4715Intro
25%
Amends the Illinois Aeronautics Act. Allows a unit of local government to adopt reasonable rules related to the use of the first 150 feet of airspace that is above ground level of public property owned or controlled by that unit of local government. ...
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2024-03-12
[Hearing: Mar 21 @ 10:00 am]
To House Executive Committee
ILHB4644Intro
25%
Amends the Election Code. Provides that a person shall not distribute, or enter into an agreement with another person to distribute, materially deceptive media if: (1) the person knows the media falsely represents a depicted individual; (2) the distr...
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2024-03-12
[Hearing: Mar 20 @ 2:00 pm]
To House Ethics & Elections Committee
ILHB5766Intro
25%
Amends the Chicago School District Article of the School Code. Prohibits, until February 1, 2027, the Chicago Board of Education from closing any attendance center within the school district that has selective admission requirements that are approved...
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2024-03-12
To House Rules Committee
ILHB5463Intro
25%
Amends the State Parks Act. Provides that the Department of Natural Resources, in consultation with representatives of federally recognized indigenous tribes, shall create land acknowledgments for each of the State parks. Provides that these land ack...
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2024-03-11
[Hearing: Mar 20 @ 2:00 pm]
To House Agriculture & Conservation Committee
ILHB4806Intro
25%
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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2024-03-11
To House Appropriations-Health & Human Services Committee
ILHB3812Intro
25%
Amends the Accident and Health Article of 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 after the effective date of the amend...
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2024-03-11
To House Rules Committee
ILHB1377Intro
25%
Amends the Property Tax Code. Creates a residential new construction homestead exemption. Provides that the county board of a county with more than 3,000,000 inhabitants, or any other county that elects to be a qualified county, may designate one or ...
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2024-03-08
To House Property Tax Committee
ILHB4909Intro
25%
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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2024-03-08
To House Tax Credit and Incentives Committee
ILHB3338Intro
25%
Creates the Safe Patient Limits Act. Provides the maximum number of patients that may be assigned to a registered nurse in specified situations. Provides that nothing shall preclude a facility from assigning fewer patients to a registered nurse than ...
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2024-03-07
To House Labor & Commerce Committee
ILHR0561Intro
25%
Declares the week of May 12 through May 18, 2024 as Home Fire Sprinkler Week in the State of Illinois.
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2024-03-07
Placed on Calendar Order of Resolutions
ILSB0064Engross
50%
Reinserts the provisions of the introduced bill with the following changes: Provides that the definition of "sign" means any outdoor sign, display, device, notice, figure painting, drawing, message, placard, poster, billboard, or other thing, which i...
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2024-03-07
House Committee Amendment No. 1 Motion Held in Executive
ILHB4632Intro
25%
Amends the Secretary of State Act. Provides that the Secretary of State shall establish an electronic registry, to be known as the Advance Directive Registry, through which residents of the State of Illinois may deposit, with the Secretary of State, ...
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2024-03-07
To House Rules Committee
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