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ILSB3215Intro
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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, to encourage students to pursue te...
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2024-05-03
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB2656Intro
25%
Amends the Illinois Income Tax Act. Creates a credit for certain small businesses in an amount equal to the lesser of (i) 10% of the property taxes paid by the qualified small business during the taxable year for eligible real property or (ii) $1,500...
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2024-05-03
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB2639Engross
50%
Reinserts the provisions of the introduced bill with the following changes. Provides that, for a group policy of accident and health insurance that provides pregnancy related benefits (rather than providing coverage for more than 25 employees that pr...
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2024-05-03
To House Rules Committee
ILSB2535Intro
25%
Amends the Illinois Criminal Justice Information Act. Creates the Youth Nonviolent Crimes Resource Program. Provides that the Criminal Justice Information Authority shall provide resources to people under the age of 18 who have committed a nonviolent...
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2024-05-03
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB2629Intro
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Amends the Open Space Lands Acquisition and Development Act. Provides that a local government that has submitted a distressed location project as defined by Department of Natural Resources rule shall be eligible for assistance up to 100% for the acqu...
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2024-05-03
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB3387Intro
25%
Amends the Illinois Public Aid Code. Expands the categories of families and individuals eligible for child care assistance to include: early childhood assistants or aides, qualified assistants, early childhood teachers, and school-age workers who wor...
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2024-05-03
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB3441Intro
25%
Creates the Safety Moratorium on Carbon Dioxide Pipelines Act. Establishes a temporary statewide moratorium on construction of carbon dioxide pipelines until certain studies at the federal and State levels are conducted. Details requirements for the ...
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2024-05-03
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB2790Intro
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Amends the Medical Assistance Article of the Illinois Public Aid Code. Provides that the Department of Healthcare and Family Services shall not enter into a contract with a managed care organization that relies on a pharmacy benefit manager that does...
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2024-05-02
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSR0946PassMourns the death of John F. Early of Elgin.
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2024-05-02
Resolution Adopted
ILSB2653Intro
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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, 2026 shall meet specified educational, certification, or experiential requirements. Provides ...
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2024-04-26
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB3932Intro
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Amends the Illinois Procurement Code. Provides that construction agencies may procure construction and construction-related professional services via job order contracting through the use of competitive sealed proposals. Provides that proposal docume...
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2024-04-24
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB3630Intro
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Reinserts the provisions of the introduced bill with the following changes. Sets forth certain protections that must be provided to the parent or guardian of a child at the center of an abuse or neglect investigation whenever the Department of Childr...
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2024-04-19
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB0103Intro
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Amends the Open Meetings Act. Modifies the conditions by which an open or closed meeting may be conducted by audio or video conference without the physical presence of a quorum of the members. Provides that a meeting may be held without the physical ...
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2024-04-18
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB3301Intro
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Appropriates $ 10,000,000 from the General Revenue Fund to the Department of Public Health for local health protection grants for health protection programs. Effective July 1,2024.
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2024-04-17
Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Patrick J. Joyce
ILSB1478Engross
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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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2024-04-15
To House Rules Committee
ILSR0875PassMourns the passing of Alan L. "Al" Larson, the former and longest-serving Mayor of the Village of Schaumburg.
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2024-04-12
Resolution Adopted
ILSB3497Intro
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Creates the Illinois Home Buyer Savings Accounts Act. Provides that a first-time and second-chance home buyer may open an account with a financial institution designated in its entirety by the financial institution as a first-time and second-chance h...
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2024-04-11
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB3927Intro
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Amends the Police Officers' Pension Investment Fund and the Firefighters' Investment Fund Articles of the Illinois Pension Code. Provides that meetings of committees of the board may be conducted by audio or video conference, without the physical pre...
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2024-04-11
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB2670Intro
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Amends the Community Mental Health Act. Provides that in any county with a county executive form of government, if applicable, the county executive shall appoint the community mental health board with the advice and consent of the county board.
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2024-04-11
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB3262Intro
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Creates the Mink Facility Disease Prevention Act. Provides that, beginning January 1, 2025, a person may not own or operate a mink enterprise in the State. Specifies that a person who violates the Act is guilty of a Class C misdemeanor. Defines terms...
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2024-04-09
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB3329Intro
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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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2024-03-22
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB0104Intro
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Amends the Electric Vehicle Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
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2024-03-15
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB1255Intro
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Amends the Illinois Insurance Code. Provides that a health benefit plan amended, delivered, issued, or renewed on or after January 1, 2024 that provides prescription drug coverage or its contracted pharmacy benefit manager shall not engage in or requ...
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2024-03-15
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB2564Intro
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Creates the Short-Term Rental Occupation Tax Act. Imposes taxes upon short-term rental transactions facilitated by a hosting platform. Provides that one tax is imposed at the rate of 5% of 94% of the gross rental receipts from the transaction. Provid...
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2024-03-15
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB2572Intro
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Amends the Illinois Insurance Code. In provisions concerning infertility coverage, provides that no group policy of accident and health insurance providing coverage for more than 25 employees that provides pregnancy related benefits may be issued, am...
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2024-03-15
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB2939Intro
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Amends the One Day Rest In Seven Act. Provides that the calculation of required rest days does not include any time that the employee is on call. Provides that an employee who voluntarily agrees to work on a day of rest must be paid at his or her reg...
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2024-03-15
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB3225Intro
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Amends the Illinois Insurance Code. Provides that a health benefit plan amended, delivered, issued, or renewed on or after January 1, 2025 that provides prescription drug coverage through a medical or pharmacy health benefit or its contracted pharmac...
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2024-03-15
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB3777Intro
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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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2024-03-15
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB0064Engross
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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
ILSR0644PassCongratulates the Gail Borden Public Library District on its 150th anniversary. Wishes the library district continued success in its endeavors to best serve its community and visitors.
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2024-03-07
Resolution Adopted
ILSR0747PassCongratulates William E. "Bill" Cogley on his retirement from the City of Elgin. Thanks him for his outstanding service, leadership, and dedication throughout his 34-year career.
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2024-03-07
Resolution Adopted
ILSB3912Intro
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Amends the Illinois Health Benefits Exchange Law. Provides that the Director of Insurance shall have the authority to apply for and implement programs that increase the affordability of or access to health insurance coverage, including for population...
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2024-03-07
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB3905Intro
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Amends the Live Theater Production Tax Credit Act. Provides that a pre-Broadway production must be performed with the goal of having a presentation scheduled for Broadway's Theater District in New York City after its Illinois presentation (currently,...
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2024-02-28
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB2096Intro
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Amends the Agricultural Areas Conservation and Protection Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
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2024-02-22
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB3802Intro
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Amends the Governor Succession Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the line of succession for the office of Governor.
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2024-02-09
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB3801Intro
25%
Amends the Cannabis Regulation and Tax Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
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2024-02-09
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB3498Intro
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Creates the Short-Term Rental Occupation Tax Act. Imposes taxes upon short-term rental transactions facilitated by a hosting platform. Provides that one tax is imposed at the rate of 5% of 94% of the gross rental receipts from the transaction. Provid...
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2024-02-09
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB3224Intro
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Amends the State Finance Act. Provides that State travel reimbursement rates for, among other things, common carrier transportation shall be set at the maximum rates established by the federal government for travel expenses, subsistence expenses, and...
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2024-02-06
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB3160Intro
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Creates the Low Carbon Fuel Standards Program Act. Establishes the Low Carbon Standards Program to be administered by the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency. Provides that the Program shall establish declining carbon intensity standards, expres...
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2024-02-06
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB3117Intro
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Amends the School Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
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2024-02-02
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB2848Intro
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Amends the Illinois Articulation Initiative Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
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2024-01-19
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSR0691PassMourns the passing of Joseph McKinley "Joe" Wars of Elgin.
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2024-01-17
Resolution Adopted
ILSB2785Intro
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Amends the Property Tax Code. In provisions concerning notices of increased assessments, provides that the county assessor shall continue to accept appeals from the taxpayer for a period of not less than 30 days (currently, 30 business days) from the...
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2024-01-17
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB0689Engross
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Creates the Chicago Board of Education District Act. Divides the City of Chicago into 10 districts and 20 subdistricts for the purposes of identifying persons who will serve on the Chicago Board of Education. Amends the School Code. Provides that, by...
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2024-01-10
Placed on Calendar Order of Concurrence House Amendment(s) 1, 2 - January 10, 2024
ILSB1988PassAmends the Property Tax Code. Provides that, when a revision is made by the county assessor and that revision is not made on complaint of the property owner, the county assessor shall continue to accept appeals from the taxpayer for a period of not l...
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2023-12-08
Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0583
ILSB2287Engross
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Amends the Property Tax Code. In provisions concerning the Historic Residence Assessment Freeze Law, provides that the fair cash value of the property shall be based on the final determination by the assessment officer, board of review, Property Tax ...
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2023-12-08
To House Rules Committee
ILSB1559PassAmends the Cannabis Regulation and Tax Act. Provides that from January 1, 2023 through January 1, 2027, the Department of Agriculture shall not make the application available for transporting organization licenses. Provides that entities awarded a tr...
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2023-12-08
Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0578
ILSB0690PassAmends the Property Tax Code, the Community Care for Persons with Developmental Disabilities Act, the Counties Code, and the Community Mental Health Act. In provisions validating certain tax levies for community mental health boards, makes such provi...
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2023-11-17
Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0565
ILSR0382PassCongratulates Benjamin David "Ben" Jonen on achieving the coveted rank of Eagle Scout. Wishes him continued success in the future.
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2023-11-09
Resolution Adopted
ILSB1515VetoReinserts the provisions of the introduced bill with the following changes: Amends the Right to Privacy in the Workplace Act. Removes a provision prohibiting an employer from voluntarily enrolling in the E-Verify program or a similar Electronic Emplo...
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2023-11-08
Total Veto Stands
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