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ILSB3727Intro
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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2024-04-15
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB1656Intro
25%
Creates the Internet Gaming Act. Authorizes an Internet gaming operator to offer Internet gaming in accordance with the provisions of the Act. Provides that Internet gaming shall only be offered by an Internet gaming license or an Internet management...
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2024-04-12
To Senate Gaming, Wagering, and Racing Committee
ILSB3361Intro
25%
Amends the Governmental Joint Purchasing Act. Provides that a governmental unit may award contracts based on its own ranking of the offerors without regard to whether or not a cooperative purchasing program has ranked the offerors. Effective immediat...
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2024-04-12
To Senate Procurement Committee
ILSB3731Intro
25%
Amends the Illinois Procurement Code. Provides that a construction business with annual sales and receipts in excess of $45,000,000 but not over $67,500,000.00 is a mid-size business. Provides that each chief procurement officer has authority to desi...
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2024-04-12
To Senate Procurement Committee
ILSB3733Intro
25%
Amends the Liquor Control Act of 1934. Removes language authorizing a distributor to hold a beer showcase permit.
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2024-04-12
To Senate Liquor Committee
ILSB3496Intro
25%
Amends the Hotel Operators' Occupation Tax Act. Provides that re-renters of hotel rooms who meet certain criteria related to gross receipts or number of transactions are required to collect and remit the tax under the Act. Effective immediately.
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2024-04-12
Rule 2-10 Third Reading Deadline Established As April 19, 2024
ILSB2635Intro
25%
Amends the Paid Leave for All Workers Act. Provides that the definition of "employee" does not include: (1) an employee who is employed by an institution of higher education (i) for less than 2 consecutive calendar quarters during a calendar year and...
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2024-04-12
To Senate Paid Leave Committee
ILSB2623Intro
25%
Amends the Illinois Insurance Code. Requires an individual or group policy of accident and health insurance amended, delivered, issued, or renewed in the State after June 1, 2024 to provide coverage for expenses for standard fertility preservation se...
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2024-04-12
To Senate Insurance Committee
ILSB3245Intro
25%
Amends the Liquor Control Act of 1934. Provides that any person licensed as a brewer, class 1 brewer, or class 2 brewer shall be permitted to sell on the licensed premises to non-licensees for on-premises or off-premises consumption (instead of for o...
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2024-04-12
To Senate Liquor Committee
ILSB3161Intro
25%
Amends the Liquor Control Act of 1934. Provides that the amendatory Act may be referred to as the Uniform Alcohol Direct-Shipping Compliance Act. Provides for the registration of third-party providers that ship wine to residents of this State on beha...
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2024-04-12
To Senate Liquor Committee
ILSB1556Intro
25%
Amends the Environmental Protection Act. Provides that, to the extent allowed by federal law, the Environmental Protection Agency shall propose, within 12 months after the amendatory Act's effective date, and the Pollution Control Board shall adopt, ...
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2024-04-12
Rule 2-10 Third Reading Deadline Established As May 3, 2024
ILSB3412Intro
25%
Creates the Uniform Money Transmission Modernization Act. Provides that the provisions supersede the Transmitters of Money Act. Provides that a person may not engage in the business of money transmission or advertise, solicit, or hold oneself out as ...
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2024-04-12
Rule 2-10 Third Reading Deadline Established As April 19, 2024
ILSB0807Intro
25%
Amends the Illinois Income Tax Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
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2024-04-12
Rule 2-10 Third Reading Deadline Established As April 19, 2024
ILSB0771Intro
25%
Amends the Public Utilities Act. Makes a technical change in the short title Section.
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2024-04-12
Rule 2-10 Third Reading Deadline Established As April 19, 2024
ILSB3730Intro
25%
Amends the Liquor Control Act of 1934. Provides that a licensee with a combined on-premises and off-premises license may make purchases for on-premises use only through an on-premises cooperative purchase group and may make purchases for off-premises...
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2024-04-12
To Senate Liquor Committee
ILSB3732Intro
25%
Amends the Prior Authorization Reform Act. Provides that the Act applies to the program of group health benefits under the State Employees Group Insurance Act of 1971. Provides that a health insurance issuer shall not require prior authorization: whe...
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2024-04-12
Rule 2-10 Third Reading Deadline Established As April 19, 2024
ILSB3800Intro
25%
Amends the Compassionate Use of Medical Cannabis Program Act. Provides that the Department of Agriculture shall follow specified requirements of the Cannabis Regulation and Tax Act regarding the administration of cultivation center agent identificati...
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2024-04-12
To Senate Cannabis Committee
ILSB3669Intro
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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2024-04-12
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB3499Intro
25%
Creates the End-of-Life Options for Terminally Ill Patients Act. Authorizes a qualified patient with a terminal disease to request that a physician prescribe aid-in-dying medication that will allow the patient to end the patient's life in a peaceful ...
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2024-04-12
To Senate End of Life Issues Committee
ILSB2724Intro
25%
Amends the Illinois Procurement Code. Provides that, if a public institution of higher education or a State agency uses a value-added reseller for the purchase of any information technology hardware under the Code, then that public institution of hig...
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2024-04-12
To Senate Procurement Committee
ILSB3323Intro
25%
Creates the Accessible Electric Vehicle Charging Station Act. Requires the Department of Transportation to ensure that charging stations in the State are sufficiently accessible to allow independent use by drivers with disabilities, including people ...
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2024-04-12
Rule 2-10 Third Reading Deadline Established As April 19, 2024
ILSB3630Intro
25%
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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2024-04-12
To Senate Assignments 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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2024-04-12
Rule 2-10 Third Reading Deadline Established As April 19, 2024
ILSB3497Intro
25%
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
ILSB3301Intro
25%
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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2024-04-11
Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Michael W. Halpin
ILSB3927Intro
25%
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
25%
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
ILSB3645Intro
25%
Amends the School Code. In provisions concerning radon testing, provides that every school building of a school district that is occupied or will be occupied shall be tested by January 1, 2028 and shall be tested every 5 years thereafter for radon (i...
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2024-04-11
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB3906Intro
25%
Amends the Illinois Procurement Code. Provides that third parties may lease State-owned communications infrastructure, including dark fiber networks, conduit, and excess communication tower capacity (rather than State-owned dark fiber networks).
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2024-04-10
To Senate Procurement Committee
ILSB3907Intro
25%
Amends the Illinois Procurement Code. Provides that contracts for bond underwriting services entered into by the Illinois State Toll Highway Authority in connection with the competitive bid or negotiated sale of bonds in which the State is not obliga...
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2024-04-10
To Senate Procurement Committee
ILSB3274Intro
25%
Appropriates $2,500,000 from the General Revenue Fund to the Department of Human Services for the Illinois Farm to Food Bank Program. Effective July 1, 2024.
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2024-04-10
To Senate Appropriations - Health and Human Services Committee
ILSB2209Intro
25%
Amends the Childhood Hunger Relief Act. Provides that, subject to appropriation, the State Board of Education shall award grants of up to $5,000 per school site on a competitive basis to eligible school districts, regional superintendents of schools,...
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2024-04-10
Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Cristina Castro
ILSB3262Intro
25%
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
ILSB3436Intro
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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2024-04-09
To Senate Appropriations - Health and Human Services Committee
ILSB2370Intro
25%
Amends the Juvenile Court Act of 1987. Provides that the Department of Children and Family Services shall reimburse any county probation department for the costs of placement of any youth in care, whether the youth in care is in the custody of a coun...
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2024-04-05
Rule 2-10 Committee Deadline Established As May 3, 2024
ILSB2040Intro
25%
Amends the Higher Education Student Assistance Act with respect to the Minority Teachers of Illinois scholarship program. Provides that any money appropriated to the Illinois Student Assistance Commission for scholarship awards for a particular acade...
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2024-04-05
Rule 2-10 Committee Deadline Established As May 3, 2024
ILSB3159Intro
25%
Creates the Zero Emissions School Bus Funding Program Act. Provides that the Environmental Protection Agency shall administer a Zero Emissions School Bus Funding Program for public schools to acquire funding to transition their school bus fleets to z...
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2024-04-05
To Senate Appropriations - Public Safety and Infrastructure Committee
ILSB1800Intro
25%
Amends the Environmental Protection Act. Requires the Environmental Protection Agency to establish a Fleet Electrification Incentive Program to promote the use of electric trucks by fleet owners by offering a voucher of $200,000 per electric Class 6 ...
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2024-04-05
To Senate Appropriations Committee
ILSB2791Intro
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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2024-04-05
To Senate Appropriations Committee
ILSB3769Intro
25%
Amends the Reimagining Energy and Vehicles in Illinois Act. Provides that, subject to appropriation, the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity shall establish a pilot grant program to encourage the construction and rehabilitation of housing...
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2024-04-05
To Senate Appropriations Committee
ILSB3215Intro
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, to encourage students to pursue te...
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2024-04-05
To Senate Appropriations Education Committee
ILSB3739Intro
25%
Amends the Network Adequacy and Transparency Act. Adds definitions. Provides that the minimum ratio for each provider type shall be no less than any such ratio established for qualified health plans in Federally-Facilitated Exchanges by federal law o...
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2024-04-02
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB3695Intro
25%
Creates the Compassionate Use and Research of Entheogens Act. Establishes the Illinois Psilocybin Advisory Board within the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation for the purpose of advising and making recommendations to the Department r...
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2024-03-28
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB3273Intro
25%
Amends the Illinois Income Tax Act. Creates a deduction for an amount equal to the amount included in the taxpayer's federal adjusted gross income that is attributable to student loan repayment assistance received by the taxpayer during the taxable y...
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2024-03-25
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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2024-03-25
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB2790Intro
25%
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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2024-03-25
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB3329Intro
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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2024-03-22
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB3509Intro
25%
Amends the Whistleblower Act. Changes the definitions of "employer" and "employee". Defines "adverse employment action", "public body", "retaliatory action", and "supervisor". Provides that an employer may not take retaliatory action against an emplo...
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2024-03-22
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB2921Intro
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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2024-03-20
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB0104Intro
25%
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
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