Illinois Representative Carol Ammons [D]

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ILHB4571Intro
25%
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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2024-03-18
To House Executive 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
ILHB5758Intro
25%
Appropriates $2,000,000 from the General Revenue Fund to the Department of Transportation for the Statewide Railway Program for salaries and other expenses related to adding the professional staff in the rail division of the Office of Intermodal Proj...
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2024-03-15
To House Rules Committee
ILHB4917Intro
25%
Amends the Illinois Income Tax Act. Creates a child tax credit in an amount equal to the product of a specified credit amount multiplied by the number of qualifying children of the taxpayer. Effective immediately.
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2024-03-14
To House Rules Committee
ILHB5295Intro
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 in this State shall provide coverage for medically necessary hormone...
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2024-03-14
[Hearing: Mar 20 @ 2:00 pm]
To House Insurance Committee
ILHB5268Intro
25%
Amends the University of Illinois Act. Provides that the Board of Trustees shall direct the University of Illinois Foundation, in accordance with sound investment criteria and consistent with fiduciary obligations, to not invest the assets of any end...
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2024-03-14
[Hearing: Mar 21 @ 4:00 pm]
To House Higher Education Committee
ILHB5450Intro
25%
Amends the State Universities Retirement System Article of the Illinois Pension Code. With respect to a Section concerning reports on cost reduction, removes provisions requiring that on or before November 15th of each year, the Board of Higher Educa...
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2024-03-14
Placed on Calendar 2nd Reading - Short Debate
ILHR0453Intro
25%
Urges support for the Family Roots Genealogy Pilot Program as it provides African American descendants of enslaved individuals the opportunity to trace their roots back to their ancestral homelands, to reconnect with their ancestral heritage, and to ...
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2024-03-13
House Floor Amendment No. 2 Recommends Be Adopted Immigration & Human Rights Committee; 007-004-000
ILHB5250Intro
25%
Amends the Gifted and Talented Children and Children Eligible for Accelerated Placement Article of the School Code. Provides that a school district's accelerated placement policy may allow for the waiver of a course or unit of instruction completion ...
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2024-03-13
[Hearing: Mar 21 @ 8:30 am]
To House Elementary & Secondary Education: School Curriculum & Policies Committee
ILHB5414Intro
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 reduce financial barriers into the teaching profession and increase the quality of the...
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2024-03-13
[Hearing: Mar 21 @ 4:00 pm]
To House Higher Education Committee
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
ILHR0552Intro
25%
Recognizes February 18, 2024 as being World Cholangiocarcinoma Day.
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2024-03-12
[Hearing: Mar 22 @ 10:30 am]
To House Public Health Committee
ILHB4471Intro
25%
Amends the Energy Assistance Act. Removes the January 1, 2025 repealer date for the Supplemental Low-Income Energy Assistance Fund. Effective immediately.
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2024-03-12
To House Appropriations-General Service Committee
ILHB4731Intro
25%
Appropriates $1,444,500 from the General Revenue Fund to the State Universities Civil Service System for its operational expenses for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2025. Effective July 1, 2024.
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2024-03-12
To House Appropriations-Higher Education Committee
ILHB5665Intro
25%
Appropriates funds to the University of Illinois for operational expenses and other specified purposes. Effective July 1, 2024.
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2024-03-12
To House Appropriations-Higher Education Committee
ILHB4635Intro
25%
Amends the Data Governance and Organization to Support Equity and Racial Justice Act. Provides that, when the State Board of Education and specified Departments report demographic data, they shall use the same classifications as the Governor's Office...
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2024-03-12
[Hearing: Mar 21 @ 2:00 pm]
To House Economic Opportunity & Equity Committee
ILHB5454Intro
25%
Amends the Personal Information Protection Act. Provides protections for social media users and creates a private cause of action for them if their accounts have been hacked and not restored by social media websites under certain circumstances. Defin...
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2024-03-12
[Hearing: Mar 21 @ 8:30 am]
To House Judiciary - Civil Committee
ILHB5621Intro
25%
Amends the Build Illinois Act. Provides that the amount of small business loans made to minority persons, veterans, females, or persons with a disability under the Act shall not exceed $2,000,000 (rather than $400,000) or 50% of the business project ...
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2024-03-12
[Hearing: Mar 22 @ 10:30 am]
To House Small Business, Tech Innovation, and Entrepreneurship Committee
ILHB5767Intro
25%
Appropriates $250,000 from the General Revenue Fund to the University of Illinois to fund the Family Roots Genealogy Pilot Program. Effective July 1, 2024.
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2024-03-07
To House Rules Committee
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
ILHB5071Intro
25%
Creates the Work Without Fear Act. Provides that it is unlawful for any person to engage in, or to direct another person to engage in, immigration-related retaliation against any person or his or her family member or household member for the purpose ...
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2024-03-07
[Hearing: Mar 21 @ 8:30 am]
To House Judiciary - Civil Committee
ILHB4570Intro
25%
Amends the Barber, Cosmetology, Esthetics, Hair Braiding, and Nail Technology Act of 1985. Provides that a licensed cosmetology teacher who submits to the Department an application for licensure as a barber teacher must meet all requirements of this ...
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2024-03-06
Placed on Calendar 2nd Reading - Short Debate
ILHB2381Intro
25%
Appropriates $1,500,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, from the General Revenue Fund to the Department of Natural Resources for a comprehensive study of the Kaskaskia River watershed in coordination with the United States Army Corps of Engi...
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2024-02-29
To House Appropriations-Public Safety Committee
ILHB3373Intro
25%
Amends the Unified Code of Corrections. Provides that notwithstanding to the contrary, any provision of the Code, the Post-Conviction Hearing Article of the Code of Criminal Procedure of 1963, or the Habeas Corpus Article or the relief from judgments...
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2024-02-22
To House Rules Committee
ILHB2347Engross
50%
Reinserts the provisions of the bill as amended by House Amendment No. 1. Further amends the Children and Family Services Act. Provides that the Illinois Juvenile Justice Commission shall study and make recommendations to the General Assembly regardi...
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2024-02-22
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILHB5453Intro
25%
Amends the Public University Uniform Admission Pilot Program Act. Changes the short title of the Act to the Public University Direct Admission Program Act. Repeals the provisions concerning the uniform admission system pilot program on December 31, 2...
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2024-02-09
To House Rules Committee
ILHJR0046Intro
25%
Urges all agencies in the State of Illinois, in particular those concerned with the economic opportunity, education, health care, housing, justice, nutrition, protection, and recreation of children, to ensure their policies and programs comply with t...
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2024-02-08
Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Sonya M. Harper
ILHB3375Engross
50%
Amends the Code of Criminal Procedure of 1963. Provides that the provision of the Post-Conviction Hearing Article of the Code that a prisoner shows cause by identifying an objective factor that impeded his or her ability to raise a specific claim dur...
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2024-02-07
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILHR0549Intro
25%
Declares March 10-16, 2024 as "MS Awareness Week" in the State of Illinois and encourages all Illinoisans to learn more about multiple sclerosis and what they can do to support individuals with MS and their families. Recognizes the importance of find...
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2024-02-06
To House Rules Committee
ILHB2504Intro
25%
Appropriates $1,000,000 from the General Revenue Fund for deposit into the Hunger-Free Campus Grant Fund. Effective July 1, 2023.
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2024-01-31
To House Appropriations-Higher Education Committee
ILHB4198Intro
25%
Amends the Election Code. Provides that an election authority may elect to mail a vote by mail ballot to all qualified voters instead of sending notices and applications for permanent vote by mail status. Requires the election authority to make a lis...
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2024-01-31
[Hearing: Mar 20 @ 2:00 pm]
To House Ethics & Elections Committee
ILHB1568Intro
25%
Amends the Rivers, Lakes, and Streams Act. Provides that the public right to access and use navigable waters includes all rights recognized by State or federal law, including the rights set forth in the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 and the federal nav...
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2024-01-16
To House Rules Committee
ILHB3037Intro
25%
Amends the General Provisions Article of the Illinois Pension Code. Provides that the amendatory Act may be referred to as the Fossil Fuel Divestment Act. With regard to the pension funds and retirement systems established under the General Assembly,...
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2023-12-19
To House Rules Committee
ILHB2088Engross
50%
Amends the Illinois Insurance Code. Provides that every company authorized to do business in the State or accredited by the State with assets of at least $50,000,000 shall submit a report on its voluntary supplier diversity program, or the company's ...
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2023-12-10
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILHB1440Engross
50%
Amends the Unified Code of Corrections. Extends the repeal date of specified sentencing guidelines for individuals with prior felony firearm-related or other specified convictions from January 1, 2024 to January 1, 2025. Effective immediately.
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2023-12-08
To House Rules Committee
ILSB0382PassAmends the Civil Remedies for Nonconsensual Dissemination of Private Sexual Images Act. Changes the definition of "depicted individual" to mean an individual whose face or body (rather than only body) is shown, in whole or in part, in a private sexua...
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2023-12-08
Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0571
ILHB2376Engross
50%
Amends the Environmental Protection Act. Defines terms. Provides that, beginning January 1, 2025, a retail establishment may not sell or distribute in this State a disposable food service container that is composed in whole or in part of polystyrene ...
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2023-11-27
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB0457Engross
50%
Amends the School Code. Provides that, subject to appropriation, including funding for any administrative costs reasonably incurred by the State Board of Education, upon the execution of one or more required statewide master contracts entered by the ...
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2023-11-08
To House Rules Committee
ILHB2547Engross
50%
Reinserts the provisions of the introduced bill with changes that include the following. Removes a provision establishing a civil penalty for failing to disclose a quota. Provides that each employer shall establish, maintain, and preserve for 3 years...
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2023-11-06
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILHR0429PassCommends the Reverend Jesse Lewis Jackson on founding the Rainbow PUSH Coalition and for all of the work the Coalition has accomplished for the betterment of marginalized communities and our State and nation as a whole.
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2023-10-24
Resolution Adopted
ILHB3537Intro
25%
Amends the Illinois Income Tax Act and the Invest in Kids Act. Provides that the Invest in Kids credit applies for taxable years ending before January 1, 2034 (currently, January 1, 2024). Effective immediately.
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2023-10-04
To House Rules Committee
ILHB2718Intro
25%
Amends the Illinois Act on the Aging. Provides that rates for homemaker services shall be increased to $29.64 beginning July 1, 2023 to sustain a minimum wage of $18 per hour for direct service workers. Requires rates in subsequent State fiscal years...
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2023-10-03
To House Rules Committee
ILSB1478Engross
50%
Amends the Children and Family Services Act. Creates the Due Process for Youth Oversight Commission (Commission) to oversee the creation and implementation of a youth's statutory right to counsel in abuse and neglect proceedings conducted in accordan...
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2023-10-02
To House Rules Committee
ILHB3303Intro
25%
Creates the Business Improvement District Law. Provides for the establishment of business improvement districts by a county or municipality by ordinance after petition of a percentage of property owners or business owners, creation of a district plan...
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2023-09-11
To House Rules Committee
ILSB0850PassReinserts the provisions of the engrossed bill with changes. Provides that the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity may designate an area as a food desert even if the area does not meet the qualifications set forth in the engrossed bill as...
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2023-08-18
Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0561
ILHB2352PassAmends the Illinois Pension Code. In the General Provisions Article, provides that beginning on January 1, 2024, the annual earnings, salary, or wages of a Tier 2 participant under the Cook County Article shall track with the Social Security wage bas...
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2023-08-15
Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0529
ILHB2086PassAmends the Illinois Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act. In provisions allowing the filling or refilling of personal containers with bulk food, refers to restaurants and retailers (rather than just retailers). Allows restaurants and retailers to fill or refi...
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2023-08-15
Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0524
ILHB2222PassAmends the Illinois Antitrust Act. Provides that documentary material, transcripts of oral testimony, or answers to interrogatories obtained in an investigation of a violation of the Act may be used by the Attorney General in any administrative or ju...
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2023-08-15
Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0526
ILHB3648PassCreates the Higher Education in Prison Act. Provides that on or before September 1 of the year following the effective date of the Act and each subsequent September 1, the Department of Corrections shall release a report, to be published on the Depar...
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2023-08-11
Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0541
ILHB2898PassAmends the Private College Act. Provides that, if a for-profit, post-secondary educational institution that received monetary award program funds at a time the institution was found to have been using an unfair, misleading, or deceptive practice and ...
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2023-08-11
Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0536
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