Illinois Senator David Koehler [D]

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ILSB3165Engross
50%
Amends the Statewide Recycling Needs Assessment Act. Requires the competitive solicitation issued by the Environmental Protection Agency for the statewide needs assessment, as well as the contract executed for that purpose by the Agency and the consu...
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2024-04-15
To House Rules Committee
ILSB3686Engross
50%
Reinserts the provisions of the introduced bill with the following changes. Creates the Portable and Medium-Format Battery Stewardship Act (rather than the Portable Battery Stewardship Act). Requires those who sell, offer for sale, or distribute (rat...
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2024-04-15
To House Rules Committee
ILSB3687Engross
50%
Amends the Illinois Credit Union Act. Provides that a credit union regulated by the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation that is a covered financial institution under the Illinois Community Reinvestment Act shall pay an examination fee...
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2024-04-15
To House Rules Committee
ILSB3678Engross
50%
Reinserts the provisions of the bill as amended by Senate Amendment No. 1 as follows. Removes provisions concerning refunds, if an event is cancelled or postponed, and advertisements. Makes other changes.
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2024-04-15
To House Rules Committee
ILSB2665Engross
50%
Amends the Open Meetings Act. Provides that, if a quorum of the members of the public body is physically present, a majority of the public body may allow a member of that body to attend the meeting by other means if the member is prevented from physi...
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2024-04-15
To House Rules Committee
ILSB2876Engross
50%
Reinsert the provisions of the introduced bill with the following changes. Excludes from the definition of "event facility" school stadiums and hotels (rather than only school stadiums). Makes technical and other changes.
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2024-04-15
To House Rules Committee
ILSB0001Engross
50%
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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2024-04-15
To House Rules Committee
ILSB0693Engross
50%
Amends the Illinois Waterway Ports Commission Act. Provides that each chairperson of the Seneca Regional Port District, the Ottawa Port District, the Illinois Valley Regional Port District, the Heart of Illinois Regional Port District, and the Havana...
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2024-04-15
To House Rules Committee
ILSB3265Engross
50%
Amends the Department of Agriculture Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Provides that the Department of Agriculture shall conduct an access to nutritious food program to establish and operate projects and strategies within food deserts...
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2024-04-15
To House Agriculture & Conservation Committee
ILSB2643Engross
50%
Amends the Funeral Directors and Embalmers Licensing Code. Defines "chain of custody record" and "uniquely identified". Provides that the examination to qualify as an embalmer or funeral director shall embrace the subject of identification rules and ...
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2024-04-15
To House Rules Committee
ILSB3501Engross
50%
Creates the Responsible Outdoor Lighting Control Act. Includes legislative findings. Defines terms. Provides that all new, renovated, or retrofitted luminaires purchased with State funds after the effective date of the Act or installed after the effe...
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2024-04-15
To House Rules Committee
ILSB3597Engross
50%
Creates the Climate Bank Loan Financing Act. Allows a governmental unit (i) to own, construct, equip, manage, control, erect, improve, extend, maintain, and operate new or existing clean energy infrastructure projects, to purchase real estate and any...
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2024-04-15
To House Rules Committee
ILSB2609Intro
25%
Amends the School Code. Requires a school board to include information on how a parent or guardian can safely store any firearms at home where other policies, rules, and standards concerning student conduct are posted and made available to parents an...
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2024-04-12
To Senate Firearms Committee
ILSB3079Intro
25%
Amends the Election Code. Provides that, except during the 27 days immediately preceding any election, the State Board of Elections may furnish electronic voter registration records at a reasonable cost to any person who makes a sworn affidavit. Sets...
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2024-04-12
To Senate Elections 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
ILSB2781Engross
50%
Creates the Forests, Wetlands, and Prairies Act. Provides that the Department of Natural Resources shall prepare and maintain a comprehensive Forests, Wetlands, and Prairies Grant plan for the preservation and enhancement of forests, prairies, and we...
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2024-04-12
To House Rules 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
ILSB1373Intro
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Amends the Clerks of Courts Act. Removes language providing for the compensation of Clerks of the Circuit Court. Provides instead that the salary of a clerk of the circuit court elected or appointed after the effective date of the amendatory Act shal...
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2024-04-10
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSJR0047Intro
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Urges the United States Congress to pass H.R. 4052 to create a new national infrastructure bank to finance urgently needed infrastructure projects.
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2024-04-10
Placed on Calendar Order of Secretary's Desk Resolutions April 11, 2024
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
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
ILSB3699Intro
25%
Amends the State Finance Act. In provisions concerning the State Aviation Program Fund, provides that grant moneys in excess of $30,000,000 shall be distributed by the Department of Transportation to airports for capital development purposes for proj...
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2024-04-10
To Senate Revenue Committee
ILSB3703Intro
25%
Amends the Higher Education Student Assistance Act. Provides that, subject to appropriation, beginning with the 2025-2026 academic year, the Illinois Student Assistance Commission shall establish a nursing student stipend program to reimburse eligibl...
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2024-04-09
To Senate Appropriations Education Committee
ILSB2800Intro
25%
Amends the Medical Assistance Article of the Illinois Public Aid Code. Provides that beginning January 1, 2025, renal dialysis services provided within a skilled nursing facility by a certified home dialysis provider shall receive a per-claim add-on ...
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2024-04-05
To Senate Appropriations - Health and Human Services Committee
ILSB2922Intro
25%
Amends the Illinois Income Tax Act. Provides a tax credit for certain developers of single-family residences that incur development costs and that sell or rent qualified residences to individuals who meet certain income thresholds. Sets forth the amo...
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2024-04-05
To Senate Revenue Committee
ILSB3162Intro
25%
Amends the Department of Human Services Act. Provides that subject to appropriation, the Department of Human Services shall establish a diaper allowance program for eligible families with children 3 years of age or younger. Requires the Department to...
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2024-04-05
To Senate Appropriations - Health and Human Services 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
ILSB0333Engross
50%
Reinserts the provisions of the introduced bill with the following changes. Provides that the language applies to sexual assault survivors age 13 or older (rather than all sexual assault survivors). In the new procedures for a medical facility, physi...
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2024-04-04
To House Rules Committee
ILSB1960Engross
50%
Reinserts the provisions of the introduced bill with the following changes: Provides that a municipality or park district may authorize and regulate the operation of low-speed electric scooters within the unit of local government on any or all highwa...
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2024-04-02
To House Transportation: Vehicles & Safety 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
ILSB0078Intro
25%
Amends the Substance Use Disorder Act. Requires the Department of Human Services to (i) establish a new intervention license category entitled "OPS Harm Reduction Services", (ii) establish standards for entities to become licensed under the OPS Harm ...
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2024-03-22
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
ILSR0861PassMourns the death of Wilfred David "Bill" Corum of Frankfort, Kentucky, formerly of Pekin and Peoria.
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2024-03-22
Resolution Adopted
ILSR0862PassMourns the passing of John Raymond Peters of Pekin.
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2024-03-22
Resolution Adopted
ILSR0863PassMourns the passing of Patrick L. "Pat" Ward of Peoria.
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2024-03-22
Resolution Adopted
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
ILHB3556Engross
50%
Reinserts the provisions of the introduced bill with the following changes. Deletes provisions creating the Black Farmer Restoration Program. Provides that fee title acquisition grants to private landowners, socially disadvantaged farmers, and limite...
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2024-03-21
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB3486Intro
25%
Amends the Medical Assistance Article of the Illinois Public Aid Code. Requires the Department of Healthcare and Family Services to enter into one or more cooperative arrangements with safety-net providers to provide primary, secondary, or tertiary m...
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2024-03-21
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
ILSR0038Intro
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Urges the United States Congress to enact federal legislation granting statehood to the people of Washington, D.C.
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2024-03-18
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB1444Intro
25%
Amends the Illinois Income Tax Act. Creates an income tax credit for dependents of the taxpayer. Provides that the maximum amount of the credit is $700 per qualified dependent of the taxpayer. Provides that the maximum amount shall be reduced by $24 ...
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2024-03-15
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB1587Intro
25%
Amends the Illinois Power Agency Act. Makes legislative declarations and findings regarding the deployment of energy storage systems. Makes it a goal of the Illinois Power Agency to include implementing procurement of energy storage credits to cost-e...
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2024-03-15
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB2829Intro
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Amends the Educator Licensure Article of the School Code. Provides that the operating procedures of the State Educator Preparation and Licensure Board may provide for the inclusion of nonvoting, ex officio members on the Board. With respect to a for-...
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2024-03-15
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB2877Intro
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Amends the Illinois Administrative Procedure Act. Specifies that the notice in contested case hearings must include an enclosure that notifies the recipient of the ability to request interpretive assistance for the hearing and to receive language ass...
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2024-03-15
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB3754Intro
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Amends the Illinois Power Agency Act. Makes changes to "brownfield site photovoltaic project" definition. Deletes provision that requires the Agency to develop a method to optimize procurement of the renewable energy credits from proposed utility-sca...
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2024-03-15
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB3777Intro
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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2024-03-15
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILHB3557Engross
50%
Reinserts provisions of the introduced bill. Makes a technical change in the introductory clause of a provision amending the Local Food, Farms, and Jobs Act.
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2024-03-14
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILHB2557Engross
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Creates the Farmer Equity and Innovation Act. Reinserts the provisions of the introduced bill but eliminates all references to "ranches", "ranchers", and "ranching".
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2024-03-14
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB2940Intro
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Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Provides that a person who is convicted of obscene depiction of a purported child is ineligible to receive a school bus driver permit. Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. Provides that "child pornography" includes the ...
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2024-03-14
Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Julie A. Morrison
ILSB1636Intro
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Amends the Medical Assistance Article of the Illinois Public Aid Code. Provides that for the purpose of removing barriers to the timely treatment of serious mental illnesses, prior authorization mandates and utilization management controls shall not ...
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2024-03-13
To Senate Assignments Committee
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